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Speed of Light Media Replaces Ceph with DRBD for Its Cloud Needs
Speed of Light Media has been ecstatic with their decision to replace CEPH in favor of DRBD®. According to Robert Isaacs, the tech-savvy founder and
Monitoring Clusters Using Prometheus & DRBD Reactor
UPDATE 5/15/2023: While the ha_cluster_exporter project is still active and well, LINBIT® now has their own software, DRBD® Reactor, for exporting Prometheus metrics specific to
Getting Started in Kubernetes for Persistent High-Availability Storage with LINBIT SDS
LINBIT® SDS is the product name for LINBIT’s LINSTOR® and DRBD® software, and the plugins, drivers, and utilities that work with them. Together, these combine
LINBIT Content & Software Updates
These days, I have been staying busy preparing for my presentation at STAC Research in London on May 4th. On the same day, Rene will speak at
Deploy a Highly Available MariaDB Service Using LINSTOR & DRBD Reactor Tech Guide
You can quickly and easily deploy a high-availability (HA) MariaDB service by using LINBIT SDS components and DRBD Reactor as a cluster manager. Making your
Kubernetes High Availability for Stateful Workloads
LINBIT® is a company with deep roots in Linux High Availability (HA). Because of this, LINBIT has some opinions on what HA is, and how it
Highly Available KVM Virtualization Using DRBD & Pacemaker Tech Guide
One of the many use cases for DRBD® replication technology is to replicate a device that backs a storage volume that is in a backing
Open Source Workload Orchestrators
LINBIT® SDS is available for Kubernetes (and OpenShift), Apache CloudStack, Open Stack, OpenNebula, XCP-ng, and Proxmox. When I think of a name for these, I
Breaking Our IOPS Record: What LINBIT’s Success Means For Our Clients
We recently shared the exciting performance results from our recent collaboration with Ampere. You can view our recent blog post that published the outcome of
Create a Highly Available iSCSI Target Using LINSTOR Gateway
This tutorial will teach you how to set up a highly available iSCSI target by using LINSTOR Gateway. Here is the ideal starting point to
The Benefits of High-Availability (HA)
This article describes the reasoning behind and the benefits of a high-availability (HA) solution for providing services and applications. This article is intended as a
Benchmarking on Ampere Altra Max Platform with LINBIT SDS
Ampere® and LINBIT® collaborated on some exciting benchmarking of Ampere’s Altra® Max Platform using LINBIT SDS to manage and replicate some seriously fast Samsung PM1733a
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