Thoughts on Red Hat’s Source Repository Changes
Recently, Red Hat’s change in how they distribute the source code of their distro caught my (and the open source world’s) attention. The Register has an excellent historical summary, and there is an article by Bradley M. Kuhn discussing how this move aligns with the GPL. A few days later, a follow-up blog post by Mike McGrath expressed that he sees no […]
The Benefits of Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is a computer systems architecture that abstracts the compute, storage, and networking components of the architecture by using their software-defined functional equivalents and is run from a single system, rather than across multiple systems. The LINBIT® software-defined storage (SDS) solution is often used in HCI to provide, as you might guess, the […]
DRBD 9.2 Updates
The eight-week cadence brings the new DRBD releases 9.1.15 and 9.2.2. The two releases contain roughly the same bug fixes. What these bug fixes have in common is that the underlying bugs trigger very seldom. We found one while using drbd-9.2 in our internal virtualization cluster for our lab infrastructure. Via the ‘eat your own dog […]
An Introduction to LINBIT SDS Management
As part of ongoing efforts to make LINBIT® software-defined storage (SDS) solutions better understood and more widely used, the LINSTOR® Users Guide has undergone a major change. The guide now has an introductory chapter that explains how the LINSTOR component of LINBIT SDS works and deploys storage. It also explains important concepts and terms that are used […]
LINBIT SDS is now on Xinnor xiRAID
LINBIT SDS and xiRAID have proven to work exceptionally well together, and with LINBIT SDS now on Xinnor xiRAID, I wanted to cover the subject on our blog. Linux is not short of software RAID options: Xinnor is a company from Israel that has spent a long time researching and optimizing software RAID. Their solution […]
