Exploring LINBIT Software Relationships for Building Resilient, Scalable, & Integrated Data Storage Solutions
LINBIT® has been a player in the world of highly available storage and data replication since 2001. At the heart of the LINBIT software ecosystem are DRBD® and LINSTOR®, two technologies that provide a foundation for building resilient, scalable, and integrated storage solutions. What makes LINBIT storage software truly powerful and unique is flexibility. I […]
Documenting a LINSTOR Automatic Resource Placement Feature: Ensuring a Number of Resources on Nodes of a Different Type
In this article, I will explore the LINSTOR® –x-replicas-on-different feature, and my efforts to document the feature for the LINSTOR User Guide. This was an incredible journey. An alternative title to this article might have been “Documentation Adventures in LINSTOR-land”. The –x-replicas-on-different feature, introduced with LINSTOR server version 1.28.0 and LINSTOR client version 1.23.0, expands on the automatic resource placement […]
The Time of Hardware RAID Controllers is Over
We recently received a support request from a user who believed that DRBD was causing high I/O latency. We quickly determined that DRBD was not to blame. The customer relied on his favorite hardware vendor for hardware raid controllers on his servers. This particular big-brand hardware raid controller presents the RAID volume as a SCSI […]
Introducing DRBD Proxy version 4
In January 2025, LINBIT® quietly released DRBD Proxy version 4 (or, DRBD Proxy v4, for short). For those who are not familiar with DRBD Proxy, it is a transparent proxy for DRBD® connections that buffers and compresses replicated data between DRBD hosts. It is often used by LINBIT customers who need to replicate their DRBD […]
