Open Source VMware Alternatives That Can Integrate With LINBIT Storage Solutions
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This article contains content contributions from LINBIT team members: solutions architects Matt Kereczman and Joel Zhou, CEO Philipp Reisner, and developer Moritz Wanzenböck. If the
Using the Prometheus Operator for Monitoring LINBIT SDS in Kubernetes
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Prometheus is a popular solution for Kubernetes monitoring and alerting. The kube-prometheus-stack project is a collection of Kubernetes manifests, Grafana dashboards, and Prometheus rules that provides an
Monitoring & Performing Actions on DRBD Resources in Real-Time Using DRBDmon
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One convenient way to work with and check DRBD® and its resources is by using DRBDmon. DRBDmon is an open source utility included with the drbd-utils software
Using Fencing in Pacemaker Clusters on VirtualBox Hypervisors
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This blog post will describe how you can configure the fence_vbox fence agent in high-availability (HA) Pacemaker development clusters running on VirtualBox for Linux. Fencing is an
XZ Backdoor & LINBIT Updates
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Without question, the most drastic news event in the past two weeks was, of course, the backdoor in XZ Utils’ liblzma, which implements a backdoor
Disaster Recovery Is Not a Technology, It’s a Plan
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Disaster recovery (DR) is often perceived as a purely technological solution implemented within storage or virtualization environments, thanks to aggressive marketing by software vendors. However,
LINBIT Software Used In an Academic Research Clustering Project
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We at LINBIT® are pleased to learn about a collaborative research project between 45drives, a data storage solutions company built on open source, and Nova Scotia Community
Using the DRBD Quorum Feature as an Alternative to Fencing in a Pacemaker Cluster
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Implementing fencing is a way to ensure the consistency of your replicated data by avoiding “split-brain” scenarios. When communication between cluster nodes breaks, fencing prevents
Filling the Gap: LINBIT SDS in Amazon EKS
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Update: The full technical document described in this blog post has been updated to version 8.2 on 2024-04-06 to include enhancements made to the LINSTOR
Discussion with Our Partners after the VMware News
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We held our recent Community Meeting on March 14th, and decided to try something new. We gave our developers a break from the spotlight to invite partners