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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.
TLS Security in the LINSTOR SDS & Piraeus Kubernetes Operator
LINSTOR® has featured TLS and SSL security for some time. This security is for communication between the LINSTOR nodes and the client to the API.
Solutions for Microservice Architectures
Over the past few years, microservice architectures and the cloud practices surrounding them have proliferated throughout the IT industry. As someone practicing IT in the
20 Years of LINBIT
Block Storage and Open Source Developments since Nov 2001 In November 2021, we celebrated 20 years of LINBIT, and we wanted to take the opportunity
DRBD Reactor – Prometheus
This blog post discusses the ‘Prometheus’ plugin, which implements a prometheus.io compatible metrics endpoint. But, first, for a more general introduction to ‘drbd-reactor,’ please read the overview blog
DRBD Reactor – User Mode Helper (UMH)
This blog post discusses the User Mode Helper (UMH) plugin. Read the overview blog post first for a more general introduction to drbd-reactor. Motivation Experienced DRBD® users
Multi Availability Zone Block-Level Replication using DRBD
Reader Bootstrapping Amazon Web Services (AWS) is designed from the ground up with availability in mind. The geographical locations of their Availability Zones (AZs) are
DRBD Reactor – Design & Features
Over time, LINBIT® has built a variety of software components for use in highly-available systems. These components range from DRBD® for block device replication to
Who Needs High Availability: Industries & Use Cases
When considering ‘Who needs high availability?’ ask the following question: is downtime unacceptable to your business? Do you work for an Enterprise company? Is access
Tailored fit for any business: IBM LinuxONE & LINBIT SDS
IBM LinuxONE & LINBIT SDS Integration Benefits of the Integration Conclusion
File vs. Block vs. Object Storage
Storage systems are almost unquestionably the most critical component of larger IT systems. Without storage systems operating normally, websites could serve outdated information, customers and
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 across on-prem and clouds at
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 stacked block storage layer. We
What is Business Continuity planning and why it’s important?
If we’ve learned anything over the past few years, it’s that in life, as well as business, it’s important to expect the unexpected. Business continuity
