Shared-Nothing High-Availability Cluster with DRBD
You have likely been hearing and reading about high-availability (HA) everywhere and all the time, which is perhaps fitting for
Joel Zhou
November 16, 2022
Deploying LINSTOR by Using a Juju Charm for Production-Ready Kubernetes Storage
This blog is a walk-through tutorial on how to deploy LINSTOR®, by using a LINBIT® authored Juju charm, into a
Michael Troutman
October 25, 2022
Creating Persistent Storage for Kubernetes by Integrating LINBIT SDS Tech Guide
LINBIT® SDS is the product name for LINBIT’s LINSTOR® software, and the plug-ins and drivers that work with it to
Michael Troutman
October 21, 2022
Announcing Linbit SDS V.2.0 – Software-Defined Storage for Linux Platforms
Featuring a GUI and support for AWS’ EBS volumes LINBIT® SDS 2.0 is a software-defined storage solution for Linux platforms.
Philipp Reisner
October 20, 2022
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Creating a Self-healing Cluster Using LINSTOR’s Auto-evict Feature
When it’s time for the satellite to leave the cluster, the controller takes action! LINBIT® introduced LINSTOR®’s auto-evict feature starting with LINSTOR version 1.10. In
Yusuf Yıldız
October 16, 2022
Filling the Gap: LINBIT SDS in Amazon EKS
Reader Bootstrapping: Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) might be one of the quickest routes an organization can take to run a highly available, fault tolerant,
Matt Kereczman
September 29, 2022
Software-Defined Storage Solves High-Availability & Disaster Recovery Problems
Software-defined storage (SDS) is a technology used in data storage management that intentionally divides storage duties of software and hardware1. Software is responsible for: Provisioning capacity
Michael Troutman
September 19, 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 can be turned when configuring
Matt Kereczman
September 14, 2022
Using Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO) with DRBD on RHEL 9 Tech Guide
The purpose of this guide is to provide installation and configuration instructions for implementing Red Hat’s Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO) and LINBIT®’s DRBD®. VDO is
Matt Kereczman
September 14, 2022
Implement Fencing Within a Pacemaker-Managed Cluster Using DRBD 9’s Quorum Feature
Implementing fencing properly is a way to ensure the consistency of your replicated data by avoiding “split-brain” scenarios. When communication between cluster nodes breaks, fencing
Michael Troutman
September 7, 2022
Highly Available NVMe-oF on RHEL 9 Tech Guide
The Highly Available NVMe-oF on RHEL 9 tech guide will instruct the reader on how to configure a Highly Available (HA) NVM Express over Fabrics
Matt Kereczman
September 6, 2022
Using Velero & LINSTOR to Back Up & Restore a Kubernetes Deployment
This article will describe how you can use LINSTOR® and Velero to back up and restore a Kubernetes deployment, including persistent storage volume data, to
Michael Troutman
August 31, 2022
NuoDB in EKS with LINSTOR for Persistent Storage
In the summer of 2019 LINBIT® and NuoDB collaborated on some testing to see how well the two performed together in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Matt Kereczman
August 25, 2022
Monitoring Clusters Using Prometheus & DRBD Reactor
In an older post I wrote about monitoring Linux HA Clusters using Prometheus and ClusterLab’s ha_cluster_exporter project. Using the ha_cluster_exporter is still a perfectly fine
Matt Kereczman
August 18, 2022
Turning to Open Source is a Win For Every Organization
This is a guest post by Cybernews. Original blog found at cybernews.com Every organization seeks for its data to be available in the most secure and
Philipp Reisner
August 12, 2022
WinDRBD + Proxy: Block-Based Replication for Windows Servers
We have recently released our WinDRBD® product, which we have been working on for a long time, to the open source world as version 1.0.
Yusuf Yıldız
August 11, 2022
LINBIT: The Company You Haven’t Heard of Before But Touches Your Daily Life
All the technological cornerstones of our daily lives are equipped with products and software from various companies. The social media applications we use every day,
Yusuf Yıldız
August 10, 2022
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 need and want to orchestrate
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 and Secondary nodes. You configure
Yusuf Yıldız
July 21, 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 solution for applications and services
Joel Zhou
July 7, 2022
