Software Roadmap News
This week, I want to share an update on LINBIT’s GUI for LINSTOR clusters. Since the recently released version 2.0, it nicely embeds Grapha graphs of Prometheus metrics in two places: in the node view and at the resource details. Prometheus/Graphana has become very popular in open-source metrics monitoring, so it makes sense to integrate […]
Exploring Homelabbing & Open Source Innovations
With a decent covering of snow on the ground here finally, and the end-of-year holiday season approaching, I’ve been thinking about some homelab maintenance tasks I want to try to knock out. Being thoughtful about maintaining systems is a critically important part of high availability, as I have written about before on the LINBIT blog. This […]
Reducing DRBD Memory Requirements
Over its more than 20 years of existence, DRBD® has earned some renown as data replication software with high performance. Put to the test on some potent hardware, the LINBIT® team has shown impressive benchmarking numbers1. Independent testing has also shown strong results on more conventional hardware2. Performance is one reason DRBD is often used […]
DRBD is a Great Fit for Hyperscalers
As we designed DRBD for applications with demanding I/O requirements, it is a perfect fit for databases. So it is not surprising that a global hyperscaler combined WinDRBD and Microsoft’s SQL Server Web edition to create one of its managed database offerings. Of course, we at LINBIT are proud of being a building block of […]
Dynamically Creating HA Persistent Volumes in Kubernetes by Using LINSTOR
If you need to run stateful applications and workloads in Kubernetes, you will need to make use of Kubernetes persistent volumes. Although Kubernetes might be more well known for and first associated with running stateless applications, infrastructure for persisting data in Kubernetes has been in its code from its early stages. When persisting data in […]
