Meeting Your HA, DR, & SDS Goals with LINBIT Software
LINBIT® software covers DRBD® and LINSTOR®, together with DRBD Reactor and its promoter plugin, LINSTOR Gateway, WinDRBD, and LINBIT SDS for Windows. Teams evaluating high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), and software-defined storage (SDS) can use these tools to replicate block storage reliably across Linux and Windows nodes, automate failover with or without specialized fencing […]
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 by using DRBD® and Pacemaker. You can implement this solution 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 […]
Applying Per-Volume I/O Quality of Service Limits with LINSTOR in Kubernetes
Since the release of the LINSTOR Operator version 2.11.0 and the LINSTOR CSI driver version 1.11.3, both developed by LINBIT®, users can attach I/O Quality of Service (QoS) limits to the persistent volumes that LINSTOR® provisions. Users can specify read and write bandwidth and IOPS limits as StorageClass parameters, and every volume created from that […]
LINSTOR is Red Hat Certified for OpenShift Virtualization
LINSTOR® now lists OpenShift Virtualization under Infrastructure features in its Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog listing, next to Container Storage Interface (CSI). It is a single line, only two words on a catalog spec sheet. In this article, I elaborate on what the certification actually means. Red Hat’s own certification conformance suites were run against the LINSTOR […]
Digital Sovereignty’s Impact on Open Source Companies
‘Sovereignty’ is a word we borrowed from statecraft: a sovereign country is independent in its decisions. The term ‘Digital Sovereignty’ is a more recent invention that applies to organizations and even individuals. The European Commission published the EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework (CSF), which breaks sovereignty down into eight objectives: SOV-1: Strategic: ownership and governance are […]
Getting Started with the LINBIT Deployment Tool
The LINBIT® deployment tool is a graphical tool that steps you through the process of installing and configuring LINSTOR® in a cluster of nodes. LINSTOR is a software-defined storage (SDS) solution that you can use to build high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions for critical applications and data. By using the deployment tool, […]
