Using LINSTOR with Storj S3 Storage for Disaster Recovery
Besides being able to ship storage snapshots internally to the same LINSTOR® cluster, or to a different “remote” LINSTOR cluster,
Create a Highly Available iSCSI Target Using a LINSTOR Gateway Cluster
This tutorial will teach you how to set up a highly available iSCSI target by using LINSTOR Gateway. Here is
DRBD Client (Diskless Mode) Performance
Introduction This blog post will examine the performance of DRBD® in diskless mode. DRBD version 9.0 introduced a feature that
Exploring LINBIT Software Relationships for Building Resilient, Scalable, & Integrated Data Storage Solutions
LINBIT® has been a player in the world of highly available storage and data replication since 2001. At the heart
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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 solutions. This might be for
Open Source VMware Alternatives That Can Integrate With LINBIT Storage Solutions
This article contains content contributions from LINBIT® team members: solutions architects Matt Kereczman and Joel Zhou, CEO Philipp Reisner, and developer Moritz Wanzenböck. If the
Bringing a LINSTOR Driver to Incus
In my last newsletter, I mentioned the growing burden of maintaining all the integrations for LINSTOR with various workload orchestrators. When the open-source community creates
Supporting Live Migration for VMs Running With KubeVirt in Kubernetes
There are many workload orchestrators for virtual machines on Linux. The open-source options are Apache CloudStack, OpenNebula, Xen Orchestra, oVirt, OpenStack, Proxmox VE, and Ganeti.
Documenting a LINSTOR Automatic Resource Placement Feature: Ensuring a Number of Resources on Nodes of a Different Type
In this article, I will explore the LINSTOR® –x-replicas-on-different feature, and my efforts to document the feature for the LINSTOR User Guide. This was an incredible journey. An
The Time of Hardware RAID Controllers is Over
We recently received a support request from a user who believed that DRBD was causing high I/O latency. We quickly determined that DRBD was not
Introducing DRBD Proxy version 4
In January 2025, LINBIT® quietly released DRBD Proxy version 4 (or, DRBD Proxy v4, for short). For those who are not familiar with DRBD Proxy,
Upcoming Events & Conferences
I would like to use this newsletter edition to focus on a few upcoming events and conferences. Events have always been important to LINBIT, as
A New Iteration of DRBD-Proxy
The headline in this newsletter edition is that we have finished a new iteration of our DRBD-Proxy product. DRBD-Proxy is an optional component that enables
LINBIT Hosts the CloudStack European User Group 2025 Conference
On May 8th, 2025, LINBIT® will sponsor and host the CloudStack European User Group (CSEUG) 2025 community conference in LINBIT’s home city of Vienna, Austria. ShapeBlue and proIO are
Shared-Nothing High-Availability Architecture with DRBD
You have likely been reading about high availability (HA) everywhere and all the time, which is perhaps fitting for its name. This post will briefly talk about
Creating OpenShift Persistent Storage with HA & DR Capability by Using LINSTOR
Perhaps storage is not the first thought you have when thinking about adopting a container orchestration solution, such as OpenShift Container Platform. However, if the
LINSTOR GUI Improvements
As we lay out our plans for work on the new features on the DRBD and LINSTOR sides, there are some interesting improvements to share
Abstracting Block Storage For Hybrid Clouds & Disaster Recovery Planning Using LINSTOR in AWS
Hybrid cloud strategies are critical for businesses seeking flexibility, cost efficiency, and robust disaster recovery (DR) solutions. By leveraging both on-premise data centers and cloud
Load Balanced Replication with DRBD
Along with the ability to encrypt replication traffic, DRBD® version 9.2.6 gives you the ability to load balance replication traffic across multiple TCP sockets1. You can
2024 Reflections
As this is the final newsletter of 2024, I took the opportunity to review all the announcements we made this year. On the DRBD side,
