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Upgrading DRBD Has Never Been Easier
As DRBD® development continues to move forward with the new and exciting 9.2.0 release, it has never been easier to upgrade to the latest version of
AWS Marketplace Listing for LINSTOR, DRBD, & DRBD Reactor
It has never been easier to use LINBIT®’s suite of storage and high availability (HA) tools in AWS. LINBIT recently added a free to use
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 MicroK8s environment. You can use
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
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
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
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
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).
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.
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
Comparing LINSTOR, Ceph, Mayastor, & Vitastor Storage Performance in Kubernetes
This is a guest post by Andrei Kvapil, Solutions Architect at Flant.
DRBD Reactor – Recovering an Isolated DRBD Primary
This blog post will show how DRBD® has recently added support for secondary –force can be of great use when combined with DRBD Reactor. In short,
Highly Available LINSTOR Controller with Pacemaker
*UPDATE MAY 2022: This article was originally published back in 2018. Three years before our DRBD-Reactor project. With the release of the DRBD-Reactor software we
What’s the Difference Between Off-Site Data Backup and Disaster Recovery (DR)?
Many businesses make the mistake of confusing “Disaster Recovery” (DR) with “off-site data backup.” Confusing the two may lead to paying a high price in
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
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.
