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Create a Docker Swarm with Volume Replication Using LINBIT SDS
With container orchestrators like Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Nomad often taking the spotlight, Docker swarm hasn’t been getting as much attention. That doesn’t mean we’ve forgotten


High-Availability with DRBD Reactor & Promoter
In this blog post, we discuss the DRBD Reactor® and Promoter plug-in. Please read the overview blog post first if you’re looking for a general


Open-Source, Open-Hearted: LINBIT’s Shift Towards a More Authentic Newsletter
When it comes to company newsletters, the traditional approach has been maintaining a formal, marketing-driven tone. However, as the business landscape evolves, I believe that


DRBD Quorum Implementation Updates
The Origins With version 9, we introduced the capability of building clusters larger than two nodes to DRBD®. That gave us the means to implement


Deploying a Highly Available NFS Cluster on RHEL 9 with DRBD Reactor Tech Guide
The Deploying an HA NFS Cluster with DRBD and DRBD Reactor on RHEL 9 or AlmaLinux 9 tech guide gives instructions for setting up and configuring a


Using Fencing in Pacemaker Clusters on VirtualBox Hypervisors
This post will describe how you can configure the fence_vbox fence agent in high-availability (HA) Pacemaker development clusters running on VirtualBox for Linux. Fencing is an important


Highly Available NFS Exports with DRBD & Pacemaker
Updated January 2023 based on user submitted suggestions and a recent LINBIT technical review. Creating Highly Available NFS Targets with DRBD and Pacemaker This blog


DRBD’s Hardware & Environment Requirements
Whether you are considering DRBD® as a data replication solution to achieve high-availability or disaster recovery in your deployments, or you are seasoned in its


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


Making Primary Storage in CloudStack Highly Available by Using LINSTOR
Members of the LINBIT® team just returned from the CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2022 in Sofia, Bulgaria. CEO Philipp Reisner and solutions architect Yusuf Yildiz both


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


Shared-Nothing High-Availability Cluster with DRBD
You have likely been hearing and reading about high-availability (HA) everywhere and all the time, which is perhaps fitting for its name. This post will


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 Persistent Storage for Kubernetes by Integrating LINBIT SDS Tech Guide
LINBIT® SDS is the product name for LINBIT’s LINSTOR® software, and the plug-ins and drivers that work with it to give you the tools to


Announcing Linbit SDS V.2.0 – Software-Defined Storage for Linux Platforms
Featuring a GUI and support for AWS’ EBS volumes LINBIT® SDS 2.0 is a software-defined storage solution for Linux platforms. It is available in flavors


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