Ready-made CloudStack Deployment on Hyperconverged Infrastructure with SDS, HA, and DR Capabilities
In an exciting, possibly world-first offering, the LINBIT® team has created the LINBIT® CloudStack® HCI Appliance. The appliance, built on
Setting Up a Highly Available SMB Share for Windows by Using WinDRBD & DRBD
During my years as a system administrator, I have worked as much with Windows servers as I have with Linux
Striping LINSTOR Volumes Across Several Physical Devices
Introduction and considerations In a single sentence, striping can be described as a technique used in storage systems to spread
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
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Working on a More Straightforward Offering
The Broadcom shock still affects many VMWare users. Some might have initially accepted the higher cost in the short term, but that doesn’t mean they
The CAP theorem & LINBIT
I was recently asked which trade-offs LINBIT’s solution chose under the CAP theorem. The CAP theorem says that a distributed system can provide only two out of
Deploying Secure & Redundant Military Data Storage with LINSTOR
Many current software-defined storage (SDS) solutions hinge on the concept of redundant architectures and data center facilities, often relying on multiple systems to guarantee data
Managing DRBD By Using systemd Units
DRBD® is an important open source software component that can replicate data across multiple servers and can help make applications highly available. Traditionally, system administrators
A Loophole in the Open-Source License
Recently, a coworker brought to my attention an article titled ‘The messy WordPress drama, explained’. As you might know, my passion is with low-level software,
Performance Tuning for LINSTOR Persistent Storage in Kubernetes
LINBIT SDS, powered by LINSTOR® and DRBD®, is the SDS solution from LINBIT® for managing Linux block storage in Kubernetes. If you’ve used LINSTOR, you
Linux Foundation Events & Presentations
Since the last newsletter, I have been busy with conferences. First, I attended the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit in Vienna. Unfortunately, lower Austria was
Deploy Highly Available Data Stores Easily with LINBIT VSAN
LINBIT VSAN is a virtual storage area network (VSAN) appliance that you can use to easily create highly available data stores for your hypervisors. Originally,
Highly Available NFS Exports with DRBD & Pacemaker
Creating Highly Available NFS Targets with DRBD and Pacemaker This blog post explains how to configure a highly available (HA) active/passive NFS server on a
Scaling Jenkins for HA & DR using AWS, Kubernetes, & LINSTOR
Scaling Jenkins for high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) was not a primary driving force in the open source automation platform’s development history. “Developers
Independent Performance Testing of DRBD by E4
This is a guest post by Davide Obbi, Storage Specialist at E4. In 2024, the Italy-based E4 Computer Engineering company evaluated DRBD® for use in
RDMA & What It Means for Data Transfer & Replication
Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) is a data transport protocol that has changed the way data is transferred over networks. This article will discuss the
Open-Sourcing the LINBIT SDS GUI
One year ago, we announced the LINBIT SDS GUI, intending to add another benefit to the subscription products offered by LINBIT. A year later, we
Setting Up Highly Available Storage for Proxmox Using LINSTOR & the LINBIT GUI
This article is a companion article to the “How to Setup LINSTOR on Proxmox VE”. Instructions in this article will guide you through installing and integrating
Managing Software-Defined Storage with the LINBIT GUI
A Visual Approach to LINBIT SDS Here at LINBIT®, we live at the shell prompt, but on occasion, getting a graphical view of things can
Perspectives on Retaining Customers of Free Software
In this first edition of what I intend to be a quarterly newsletter, I want to talk about a topic that I think about every
