LINBIT Hosts the CloudStack European User Group 2025 Conference
On May 8th, 2025, LINBIT® will sponsor and host the CloudStack European User Group (CSEUG) 2025 community conference in LINBIT’s home city of Vienna, Austria. ShapeBlue and proIO are also sponsoring the event. This is a chance for people across the Apache CloudStack community to come together to share experiences, learn from experts, and grow together, through technical talks, […]
Shared-Nothing High-Availability Architecture with DRBD
You have likely been reading about high availability (HA) everywhere and all the time, which is perhaps fitting for its name. This post will briefly talk about how DRBD® and a complimentary cluster resource manager, such as DRBD Reactor, can help you create a shared-nothing HA cluster. The primary reason that you might want create a shared-nothing […]
Creating OpenShift Persistent Storage with HA & DR Capability by Using LINSTOR
Perhaps storage is not the first thought you have when thinking about adopting a container orchestration solution, such as OpenShift Container Platform. However, if the applications that you might run in containers are stateful, storage is an aspect that you will need to consider at some point. If you have containerized or virtualized applications that […]
LINSTOR GUI Improvements
As we lay out our plans for work on the new features on the DRBD and LINSTOR sides, there are some interesting improvements to share from LINSTOR GUI. First, the views on resource definitions, resources, and volumes were modeled along the data structures, which was not ideal. Now, it has a condensed view that combines […]
Abstracting Block Storage For Hybrid Clouds & Disaster Recovery Planning Using LINSTOR in AWS
Hybrid cloud strategies are critical for businesses seeking flexibility, cost efficiency, and robust disaster recovery (DR) solutions. By leveraging both on-premise data centers and cloud platforms such as AWS, organizations can design systems to meet specific workload demands, while remaining nimble should demand, or disaster, require a change of action. This article will discuss some […]
Load Balanced Replication with DRBD
Along with the ability to encrypt replication traffic, DRBD® version 9.2.6 gives you the ability to load balance replication traffic across multiple TCP sockets1. You can see a demo of the load balancing feature from LINBIT® founder and CEO Philipp Reisner during one of our community meetings. DRBD version 9 has supported replicating data over multiple paths in […]
