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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


Best Practices for Kubernetes Storage Performance with LINSTOR
LINSTOR® is the LINBIT® SDS solution for managing Linux block storage. If you’ve used LINSTOR, you know how many knobs can be turned when configuring


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


Implement Fencing Within a Pacemaker-Managed Cluster Using DRBD 9’s Quorum Feature
Implementing fencing properly is a way to ensure the consistency of your replicated data by avoiding “split-brain” scenarios. When communication between cluster nodes breaks, fencing


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.


LINBIT: The Company You Haven’t Heard of Before But Touches Your Daily Life
All the technological cornerstones of our daily lives are equipped with products and software from various companies. The social media applications we use every day,


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,


Kubernetes CSI Plugin for LINSTOR
It’s been over three years since LINBIT® released the Kubernetes CSI plugin for LINSTOR. While much has changed in how LINSTOR® is typically deployed into


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.