How to use an open source SDS solution for HashiCorp Nomad
Overview Nomad is a simple and flexible workload orchestrator which deploys and manages containers and non-containerized applications. It does so
LINBIT and ShapeBlue Presenting Storage Days
On September 28th and 29th, LINBIT and ShapeBlue are teaming up to bring you a two day webinar event exploring the benefits
Tutorial: Stacked Block Storage in LINBIT SDS (aka LINSTOR)
In this tutorial, I will show you how to use LINBIT SDS to orchestrate DRBD, bcache and ZFS in a
Create a Docker Swarm with Volume Replication Using LINBIT SDS
With container orchestrators like Kubernetes, OpenShift and Nomad hogging the spotlight, Docker Swarm hasn’t been getting as much attention.That doesn’t
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How does LINSTOR compare to Ceph?
Over the many years that I’ve worked for LINBIT, I cannot tell you how many times I’ve been asked, “How does a LINSTOR® (and/or DRBD®) cluster
What is Business Continuity Planning, Why is it important, How LINBIT can help
https://linbit.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Business-Continuity-Intro-1-1.mp4 If we’ve learned anything over the past 18 months, it’s that in life, as well as business, it’s important to expect the unexpected. Business
What is DR and why is it important?
The phones start beeping with alerts, warnings take over every radio and television station, panic starts to ensue – is your company’s data replicated anywhere
Piraeus Data-Store accepted into CNCF’s Sandbox
LINBIT, DaoCloud and SPDB announce today that the Piraeus Data-Store project has been accepted into CNCF’s Sandbox. LINBIT, based in Europe and the US, is
What makes LINSTOR a great choice for Block Storage Management for Containers
LINSTOR® is the main open source block replication software component behind our cloud storage platform LINBIT SDS®, and in this article, we will try to
Highly Available GitLab with DRBD
A Common Gitlab Deployment Scenario GitLab is an open DevOps platform used by many companies and organizations both small and large. While GitLab has a
Filling the Gap: LINBIT SDS in Amazon EKS
Reader Bootstrapping (Introduction): Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) might be one of the quickest routes an organization can take to run a highly available, fault
CloudTalk Online 2021 – bringing together the best IT professionals of Eurasia for the 2nd time
LINBIT – Gold Sponsor at CloudTalk Online MatchMaking Summit: 2021 “CloudTalk Online Matchmaking Summit” – Eurasia’s most comprehensive and widely attended online cloud computing event will
Benefits of Software-Defined Storage During the Lockdown
What is Software-Defined Storage? Software-defined storage (SDS) is a technology used in data storage management that intentionally divides the duties accountable for provisioning capacity, protecting
LINBIT & OpenNebula TechDays: About Building IaaS Clouds
Open Source Block Storage for OpenNebula Clouds The LINBIT OpenNebula TechDays is our mutual attempt to share our combined knowledge with the open source and
High Availability (HA): What Are the Benefits?
According to searchdatacenter.techtarget.com, “High availability (HA) is the ability of a system to operate continuously without failing for a designated period of time.” Meaning HA
Hyper-Convergence: What Is It, and What Are Its Benefits?
I. What is Hyper-Convergence? Hyper-convergence (or HCI) is a data center architecture that prioritizes IT experts and administrators’ focus on workloads’ operating conditions instead of
Rancher’s K3s and LINBIT SDS
K3s is a very popular Kubernetes distribution from Rancher Labs designed to be both simple to setup and lightweight (in terms of system resources, not
What are the benefits of running DRBD in Diskless mode?
Introduction As the developers of DRBD®, LINBIT has led the way in high availability since 2001. DRBD has been included in the Linux kernel
Automated testing at LINBIT with Virter
My previous blog post described Virter, a tool for running virtual machines (VMs). This post will show how we use that to test our software
Virter – cloud image virtual machines on your workstation
Virtual machines on your workstation At LINBIT we like tools that are simple, convenient, and integrated. Managing virtual machines (VMs) for development and automated testing
