WAN Replication with DRBD Proxy & Booth Geo-Clustering
Pacemaker was never designed to operate across a WAN, or any high latency networks. However, there has always been a
Devin Vance
July 29, 2022
DRBD Read-Balancing
DRBD’s read-balancing feature has been available since version 8.4.1. This feature enables DRBD® to balance read requests between the Primary
Yusuf Yıldız
July 21, 2022
Best Practices for Kubernetes Storage Performance with LINSTOR
LINSTOR® is the LINBIT® SDS solution for managing Linux block storage. If you’ve used LINSTOR, you know how many knobs
Matt Kereczman
July 14, 2022
Backing Up Your Kubernetes Deployments With Velero & LINSTOR
Authors: Joel Zhou and Michael Troutman Introduction With a Kubernetes cluster backed by LINSTOR® managed persistent storage, you have a high-availability
Joel Zhou
July 7, 2022
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Comparing LINSTOR, Ceph, Mayastor, & Vitastor Storage Performance in Kubernetes
This is a guest post by Andrei Kvapil, Solutions Architect at Flant.
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June 24, 2022
DRBD Reactor – Recovering an Isolated DRBD Primary
This blog post will show how DRBD’s recently added support for secondary –force can be of great use when combined with DRBD Reactor. In short, secondary-force
Roland Kammerer
June 17, 2022
Kubernetes CSI Plugin for LINSTOR
It’s been over three years since LINBIT released the Kubernetes CSI plugin for LINSTOR. While much has changed in how LINSTOR is typically deployed into
Matt Kereczman
June 2, 2022
Multi-AZ Replication Using Automatic Placement Rules in LINSTOR
Multi-AZ Replication Are you looking to leverage multiple availability zones in Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure? LINSTOR can easily manage your block storage
Ryan Ronnander
April 7, 2022
Benchmarking DRBD
We often see people on #drbd or on drbd-user trying to measure the performance of their setup. Here are a few best practices to do this.
Yusuf Yıldız
April 4, 2022
Introducing the LINBIT GUI
An Enlightened Approach to LINSTOR Here at LINBIT®, we live at the command prompt, but on occasion, getting a graphical view of things can be
Dave
March 30, 2022
Minimize Downtime During System Maintenance
System maintenance, whether planned or in response to failure, is a necessary part of managing infrastructure. Everyone hopes for the former, rather than the latter.
Brian Hellman
March 26, 2022
TLS Security in the LINSTOR SDS & Piraeus Kubernetes Operator
LINSTOR has featured TLS and SSL security for some time. This security is for communication between the LINSTOR nodes and the client to the API.
Devin Vance
March 22, 2022
Highly available NFS exports with DRBD & Pacemaker
Create 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
Yusuf Yıldız
March 8, 2022
Solutions for Microservice Architectures
Over the past few years, microservice architectures and the cloud practices surrounding them have proliferated throughout the IT industry. As someone practicing IT in the
Matt Kereczman
March 8, 2022
DRBD Reactor & Pacemaker: A Side-by-Side Comparison
In this blog post, I want to expand a little bit further on Roland’s post, DRBD Reactor – Promotor. As Roland covered, the promoter plugin
Devin Vance
March 4, 2022
DRBD Reactor – Promoter
In this blog post, we discuss the Promoter plugin. For a more general introduction to ‘drbd-reactor,’ please read the overview blog post first. Motivation With
Roland Kammerer
February 24, 2022
20 Years of LINBIT
Block Storage and Open Source Developments since Nov 2001 In November 2021, we celebrated 20 years of LINBIT, and we wanted to take the opportunity
Samuel Burrows
February 8, 2022
LINBIT Launches WinDRBD 1.0.0
After almost 5 years in the making, LINBIT announces the official launch of WinDRBD 1.0.0. Vienna 8th of February 2022: LINBIT, the company behind the
Johannes Thoma
February 8, 2022
New Year, New LINSTOR GUI
LINSTOR – an orchestrator for Linux block storage, used to be a command-line only tool. Not anymore! In 2021, we released LINSTOR Web UI, based
Joel Zhou
February 2, 2022
DRBD Reactor – Prometheus
This blog post discusses the ‘Prometheus’ plugin, which implements a prometheus.io compatible metrics endpoint. But, first, for a more general introduction to ‘drbd-reactor,’ please read
Roland Kammerer
February 1, 2022
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