Perspectives on Retaining Customers of Free Software
In this first edition of what I intend to be a quarterly newsletter, I want to talk about a topic that I think about every day, as someone who helps run a profitable company based on open source software. That topic is how LINBIT® attracts and retains customers when its software is open source and […]
Implementing Disaster Recovery for Proxmox VE with a Stretched LINSTOR Cluster
In this blog, you will delve into the necessary steps and settings for creating a stretched LINSTOR® cluster to provide disaster recovery (DR) capabilities for Proxmox VE virtual machines (VMs). This setup involves two sites, each with a three-node Proxmox VE cluster, using the same LINSTOR storage cluster to manage DRBD® replicated volumes across both […]
DRBD Release & Upcoming Events
The newsletter this week coincides with a DRBD release. The changelog of the most recent DRBD releases – 9.1.22 and 9.2.11 – shows that each fix addresses bugs triggered only in rare corner cases. First, the described non-fatal signal during an auto-promote triggered at a customer with security scanning software installed, such as virus scanners or Endpoint […]
Where to Find LINBIT Documentation
This blog post aims to point to the various resources that document LINBIT open source software. Because some people might find this post after having an in-the-moment need and then searching for a specific type of documentation resource, LINBIT documentation resources are listed here and linked to the sections in this post that describe them: […]
Kubernetes CSI Plugin for LINSTOR
Much has changed in how LINSTOR® is typically deployed into Kubernetes clusters over the years. I’m referring to the LINSTOR Operator for Kubernetes which is now at a v2 release, but the CSI plugin is still the bridge between Kubernetes and LINSTOR’s replicated block storage. While LINBIT® encourages its customers and users to employ the LINSTOR Operator […]
