Highly Available SCST & LIO iSCSI Clustering How-To Guide Update & Comparison

Companion Tech Guide Updated using Community Feedback on 3/21/24 LINBIT®️ has been building and supporting Highly Available (HA) iSCSI clusters using DRBD®️ and Pacemaker for over a decade. We recently updated our HA iSCSI how-to guides for RHEL 8 and RHEL 9 to include instructions for both the Linux-IO (LIO) and SCSI Target Subsystem for […]

Migrating Manually Created DRBD Resources to LINSTOR Software-Defined Storage

DRBD® has been a long-standing and proven solution for creating high-availability (HA) storage. LINSTOR®, the LINBIT®-developed software-defined storage (SDS) solution, is a relatively newer offering. You can use LINSTOR to make managing storage easier, and it pairs seamlessly with DRBD behind the scenes. LINSTOR also integrates with many platforms such as Kubernetes, CloudStack, Docker, OpenNebula, […]

The Continuous Increase in GDPR Conflicts with the Spirit of Open Source

When the EU introduced the GDPR, I initially thought that ‘rights for individuals’ could only be positive. Deleting an individual’s data upon request is something we can easily do in a small organization like LINBIT. Now, sometime later, I feel another consequence of the GDPR is emerging. The GDPR rules consider every e-mail address as […]