Author: Michael Troutman

Michael Troutman has an extensive background working in systems administration, networking, and technical support, and has worked with Linux since the early 2000s. Michael's interest in writing goes back to an avid reading filled childhood. Somewhere he still has the rejection letter from a publisher for a choose-your-own-adventure style novella, set in the world of a then popular science fiction role-playing game, cowritten with his grandmother (a romance novelist and travel writer) when at the tender age of 10. In the spirit of the open source community in which LINBIT thrives, Michael works as a Documentation Specialist to help LINBIT document its software and its many uses so that it may be widely understood and used.

The Benefits of Buying Support for Open Source Software

One of the enticing things about open source software is its almost universal price tag: free. Another enticement is your ability to start testing and

Open Source Innovations & Solutions at LINBIT

Perhaps there is a feeling that you might be making the world a better place by choosing to use open source software rather than other

Setting Up LINBIT SDS with OpenNebula for Resilient & Flexible Storage

Authors: Michael Troutman & Rene Peinthor — This post will guide you through integrating LINBIT SDS (LINSTOR® and DRBD®) with OpenNebula, to provide fast, scalable,

Making Nagios XI Highly Available on RHEL 9 by Using DRBD & Pacemaker Tech Guide

LINBIT® has an updated and expanded technical guide available with instructions for making a Nagios XI deployment highly available by using DRBD® and Pacemaker on

The Benefits of Hyperconverged Infrastructure

LINBIT VSAN and two servers

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is a computer systems architecture that abstracts the compute, storage, and networking components of the architecture by using their software-defined functional equivalents

An Introduction to LINBIT SDS Management

As part of ongoing efforts to make LINBIT® software-defined storage (SDS) solutions better understood and more widely used, the LINSTOR® Users Guide has undergone a major change.

Getting Started in Kubernetes for Persistent High-Availability Storage with LINBIT SDS

LINBIT® SDS is the product name for LINBIT’s LINSTOR® and DRBD® software, and the plugins, drivers, and utilities that work with them. Together, these combine

Deploy a Highly Available MariaDB Service Using LINSTOR & DRBD Reactor Tech Guide

You can quickly and easily deploy a high-availability (HA) MariaDB service by using LINBIT SDS components and DRBD Reactor as a cluster manager. Making your

Highly Available KVM Virtualization Using DRBD & Pacemaker Tech Guide

One of the many use cases for DRBD® replication technology is to replicate a device that backs a storage volume that is in a backing

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

As the world’s leading provider of Software-Defined Storage, High Availability, and Disaster Recovery software, LINBIT adds server clustering capabilities to any containerized, virtualized, or bare metal environment.

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Copyright © 2023 LINBIT

All rights reserved. The words LINSTOR®, DRBD®, LINBIT®, and the logo LINSTOR®, DRBD®, and LINBIT® are trademarks or registered trademarks of LINBIT HA-Solutions GmbH and LINBIT USA LLC.