Using LINSTOR in Kubernetes to Create & Manage Persistent Storage for KubeVirt VMs
Kubernetes is best known as a container orchestrator. However, more and more businesses and organizations are using Kubernetes to also deploy and manage virtual machines (VMs). There are many reasons why this is a growing trend. One reason people are running and managing VMs in Kubernetes is to decompose legacy workloads running in VMs and […]
Highly Available NFS Exports with DRBD & Pacemaker
This blog post explains how to configure an NFS server instance in a 3-node high availability (HA) active/passive Linux cluster using DRBD® and Pacemaker. You can implement this solution easily with enterprise Linux distributions such as Ubuntu LTS, or Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The instructions in this article have been validated on both RHEL […]
AI at This Year’s Red Hat Summit
I am writing this week’s newsletter from Boston, MA, at Red Hat Summit. AI was central to this year’s keynote, with Red Hat announcing various infrastructure components for AI inference, which did not come as a surprise. Red Hat set the de facto standard for Linux in the enterprise environments. Their goal is to also set […]
Using LINSTOR with Storj S3 Storage for Disaster Recovery
Besides being able to ship storage snapshots internally to the same LINSTOR® cluster, or to a different “remote” LINSTOR cluster, LINSTOR administrators can also ship storage snapshots to S3 compatible storage. MinIO and Amazon S3 are examples of this that articles on this blog have explored before. Storj is an intriguing open source S3 compatible storage offering […]
Create a Highly Available iSCSI Target Using a LINSTOR Gateway Cluster
This tutorial will teach you how to set up a highly available iSCSI target by using LINSTOR Gateway. Here is the ideal starting point to help you get off the ground as a new LINSTOR Gateway user. The basic principles from this tutorial also apply to using LINSTOR Gateway to set up NVMe-oF or NFS […]
LINBIT SDS & SUSE Virtualization
A few newsletter editions ago, I wrote about the trend of using Kubernetes clusters for managing VMs and its original purpose of orchestrating containers. The commercial players’ products are OpenShift virtualization, SUSE Virtualization (formerly Harvester), alauda.io, Ænix’s Cozystack, and potentially more I am unaware of. I can now share that LINBIT SDS has become a formally […]
Comparing Open Source Virtualization Platforms
More and more, businesses and companies are seeking to repatriate services and infrastructure from the cloud to on-premise or hybrid solutions. This might be for a variety of reasons. Whether repatriating is for cost savings, performance, security, control, or other reasons, it is happening. Increasingly, companies are turning to open source solutions when repatriating services […]
Open Source VMware Alternatives That Can Integrate With LINBIT Storage Solutions
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 Broadcom VMware acquisition negatively impacts you, you might be looking around for possible VMware alternatives, especially if you have customers who are also affected. Or maybe you have not been […]
