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LINBIT launches new version of high availability solution DRBD: DRBD9
For more than a decade DRBD® by LINBIT® has been the expert for high availability of data and services. Major cloud solutions providers, data centre
Combine GFS2 with DRBD
Cluster filesystems like GFS2 has gained a lot popularity lately. Higher Performance. Scalability. Fault tolerance. These features sound like heaven for any system architect. But
LINBIT Implements Open Source Virtualization for the Felder Group
Felder, the international woodwork machinery specialists for the industrial, retail and private sectors, favors open source software for its IT services. LINBIT®, Austria’s largest Linux
Enterprise Network Security: Scale for Dependable Security, Higher Speed, & High Availability
Enterprise network security is essential to protect an organization’s computer networks, data, and devices from unauthorized access and disruption. The goal of enterprise network security
LINBIT Announces DRBD9 and DRBDmanage Support for Upcoming Liberty Release of OpenStack at Tokyo Summit
Open-source storage software, DRBD®, comes to OpenStack TOKYO, Japan – LINBIT®, a worldwide provider of Linux High Availability (HA) solutions, is pleased to be a
High Speed Geo-Clustering meets Hardware Compression.
Today, at Red Hat Summit 2016, AHA Products Group (AHA), the data compression experts, and LINBIT®, the market leader in open source High Availability (HA)
DRBD 9 over RDMA with Micron SSDs
We have been testing out some 240GB Micron M500DC SSDs with DRBD® 9 and DRBD’s RDMA Transport layer.  Micron, based in Boise Idaho, is a
RDMA Performance
As promised in the previous RDMA post, we gathered some performance data for the RDMA transport. Read and enjoy! Basic Hardware Information The Software We
DRBD Client (Diskless Mode) Performance
This blog post will introduce a new feature and examine the performance of DRBD® Diskless. DRBD 9 introduces an interesting new feature; DRBD client nodes.
Raspberry Tau: Pi Cluster
Raspberry Tau: a Pi cluster. The Raspberry PI is a small ARM computer (hardware specifications in wiki, outline and FAQs). Of course, you can build
Mirrored SAN vs DRBD
We sometimes get asked, “Why not simply use a mirrored SAN instead of DRBD®”? This post shows some crucial differences between mirrored SAN and DRBD.
Explaining The DRBD® Configuration ‘al-extents.’
There can sometimes be a lot of confusion and complexity about the DRBD® configuration value al-extents (activity log extents). We have written this blog post
