Red Hat Summit Conference – Trends Observed and Lessons Learned
In my previous newsletter, I wrote about how we’re changing our approach to events and conferences. I covered how we could aim to build better customer relationships with in-person interactions, the design of our booth, and how we might sift through many potential areas of focus to get what we want from events or conferences. These […]
Using minikube to Get Started With LINSTOR in Kubernetes
This article gives you step-by-step instructions for setting up a minikube virtual machine (VM) environment for testing and exploring LINSTOR® in Kubernetes. minikube is a local Kubernetes environment on a single host machine that people often use to get up and running quickly, usually for testing or proof-of-concept purposes. Because installing and setting up minikube […]
Webinar: Build Resilient Architectures with LINBIT SDS & Oracle Virtualization
Simon Coter Senior Director, Oracle Linux and Virtualization Product Management & Engineering Marcos Sungaila Senior Principal Technical Product Manager Join us at 9:00 a.m. PT on Wednesday, June 25 to explore how LINBIT software-defined storage (SDS) combined with the cost-effective, high-performance Oracle Virtualization offering can help you create an open, resilient virtualization and storage solution […]
Exploring LINSTOR Features for SDS, HA, & DR
This article itemizes and explores LINSTOR® notable features for software-defined storage (SDS), high availability (HA), and disaster recovery (DR). The intent behind writing this article is to help orient someone who might be unfamiliar with LINSTOR. However, even someone familiar with LINSTOR might find it helpful for either review, promoting LINSTOR to others, or perhaps […]
The Benefits of Using LINSTOR with CloudStack
While Apache CloudStack has open source roots going back over a decade and is currently on its fourth major version release, the platform has been gaining more attention as more businesses and organizations seek open source alternatives to commercial offerings such as VMware virtualization management solutions. Since early 2021, the LINBIT® team has actively developed […]
Setting Up Highly Available Storage for Proxmox Using LINSTOR & the LINBIT GUI
This article is a companion article to “How to Setup LINSTOR on Proxmox VE”. Instructions in this article will guide you through installing and integrating LINSTOR® with Proxmox VE. However, rather than using the LINSTOR client utility, within a CLI, to set up LINSTOR, you will use the open source LINBIT GUI. Some of the benefits […]
How to Set Up LINSTOR on Proxmox VE
Authors: Ryan Ronnander & Roland Kammerer — In this technical blog post, I will show you how to integrate the open source software-defined storage (SDS) solution, LINSTOR®, with Proxmox VE by using a storage plugin developed here at LINBIT®. The advantages of using LINSTOR with Proxmox VE include: Extremely fast live migrations of virtual machines […]
The Benefits of High Availability (HA)
This article describes the reasoning behind and the benefits of a high-availability (HA) solution for providing services and applications. This article is intended as a general overview and introduction to HA, with a nontechnical reader in mind. Because you are reading this article on the LINBIT® blog, you will also learn how LINBIT software can […]
