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
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
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
Ryan Ronnander
April 7, 2022
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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
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
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
DRBD Reactor – User Mode Helper (UMH)
This blog post discusses the User Mode Helper (UMH) plugin. Read the overview blog post first for a more general introduction to drbd-reactor. Motivation Experienced
Roland Kammerer
January 19, 2022
Multi Availability Zone Block-Level Replication using DRBD
Reader Bootstrapping Amazon Web Services (AWS) is designed from the ground up with availability in mind. The geographical locations of their Availability Zones (AZs) are
Matt Kereczman
December 21, 2021
LINSTOR – Controlling Data Replication with Snapshot Shipping
Whatever the situation, LINSTOR covers your back. LINSTOR is an SDS technology with snapshot shipping integrated into the code, capable of real-time replication using DRBD.
Yusuf Yıldız
December 13, 2021
DRBD Reactor – Design & Features
Over time, LINBIT has built a variety of software components for use in highly-available systems. These components range from DRBD for block device replication to
Roland Kammerer
December 1, 2021
What are the advantages of software-defined storage?
LINBIT has been in the software-defined storage industry for over 20 years, since its inception in 2001. It all started with an idea from our
Ryan Taylor
November 25, 2021
