2024 Reflections

As this is the final newsletter of 2024, I took the opportunity to review all the announcements we made this year. On the DRBD side, we fixed increasingly exotic bugs. That aligns with the observation that customers use it in larger installations and fleet sizes. The biggest we know of has about 8PB storage under […]

Building the Community at LINBIT

I’m going to share a bit about selecting a community communications platform, our updated company core values, and how goals have evolved over the years at LINBIT. Freenode → Slack → Discourse Forum It was mid May 2021 and the news that Freenode was being taken over was popping up on all of the news […]

Managing AWS EBS Volumes Using LINSTOR

Cloud storage is a critical component of running persistent workloads in the cloud, especially in hybrid cloud environments. LINSTOR®, the open source storage orchestration tool from LINBIT®, integrates seamlessly with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Block Store (EBS) to simplify the management of EBS volumes. LINSTOR also layers DRBD®, LINBIT’s block device replication driver, over EBS volumes […]

Open Source Innovations & Solutions at LINBIT

Perhaps there is a feeling that you might be making the world a better place by choosing to use open source software rather than other alternatives. Maybe this positive feeling spawns an action. If you get a benefit from using a particular open source project, sometimes you might support that project by making a donation […]

Comparing CloudStack, OpenNebula & OpenStack

This post is intended to help someone learn more about three of the most popular open source virtualization management platforms for large IaaS deployments (in alphabetical order): CloudStack, OpenNebula, and OpenStack. You are reading this article on the LINBIT® blog because LINBIT develops integrations for these platforms that you can use to provide software-defined storage […]