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Abstracting Persistent Storage Across Environments With LINBIT SDS
Kubernetes can be thought of as an infrastructure abstraction layer for on-premise and cloud computing. The applications you deploy into one cloud platform or on-premise
Open Source VMware Alternatives That Can Integrate With LINBIT Storage Solutions
This article contains content contributions from LINBIT team members: solutions architects Matt Kereczman and Joel Zhou, CEO Philipp Reisner, and developer Moritz Wanzenböck. If the
Using the Prometheus Operator for Monitoring LINBIT SDS in Kubernetes
Prometheus is a popular solution for Kubernetes monitoring and alerting. The kube-prometheus-stack project is a collection of Kubernetes manifests, Grafana dashboards, and Prometheus rules that provides an
Monitoring & Performing Actions on DRBD Resources in Real-Time Using DRBDmon
One convenient way to work with and check DRBD® and its resources is by using DRBDmon. DRBDmon is an open source utility included with the drbd-utils software
Using Fencing in Pacemaker Clusters on VirtualBox Hypervisors
This blog 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
XZ Backdoor & LINBIT Updates
Without question, the most drastic news event in the past two weeks was, of course, the backdoor in XZ Utils’ liblzma, which implements a backdoor
Disaster Recovery Is Not a Technology, It’s a Plan
Disaster recovery (DR) is often perceived as a purely technological solution implemented within storage or virtualization environments, thanks to aggressive marketing by software vendors. However,
LINBIT Software Used In an Academic Research Clustering Project
We at LINBIT® are pleased to learn about a collaborative research project between 45drives, a data storage solutions company built on open source, and Nova Scotia Community
Using the DRBD Quorum Feature as an Alternative to Fencing in a Pacemaker Cluster
Implementing fencing is a way to ensure the consistency of your replicated data by avoiding “split-brain” scenarios. When communication between cluster nodes breaks, fencing prevents
Filling the Gap: LINBIT SDS in Amazon EKS
Update: The full technical document described in this blog post has been updated to version 8.2 on 2024-04-06 to include enhancements made to the LINSTOR
Discussion with Our Partners after the VMware News
We held our recent Community Meeting on March 14th, and decided to try something new. We gave our developers a break from the spotlight to invite partners
Enabling Long Distance Replication for Disaster Recovery Using LINSTOR & DRBD Proxy
In this video Matt Kereczman from LINBIT® combines components of LINBIT SDS and LINBIT to demonstrate extending an existing LINSTOR® managed DRBD® volume to a
Configuring Highly Available NVMe-oF Attached Storage in Proxmox VE
LINBIT® develops and supports software used to build high availability clusters for almost any application or platform out there. It does this by creating tools
The Stretched Cluster Disaster Recovery Strategy
My colleague, Yusuf Yildiz, a solutions architect here at LINBIT® strongly believes disaster recovery (DR) should be thought of as a plan, rather than a
NAS High Availability Using a Synology NAS Appliance & LINBIT Software
Recently I came across Synology’s spin on high availability. After perusing through their documentation I noticed an all too familiar protocol: DRBD®. Recognizing this software and having a
Highly Available SCST & LIO iSCSI Clustering How-To Guide Update & Comparison
Companion Tech Guide Updated using Community Feedback on 3/21/24 LINBIT®️ has been building and supporting Highly Available (HA) iSCSI clusters using DRBD®️ and Pacemaker for
