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How to Setup LINSTOR on Proxmox VE
Authors: Ryan Ronnander & Roland Kammerer — In this technical blog post, we show you how to integrate LINSTOR® with Proxmox VE using a storage
DRBD Reactor & Pacemaker: A Side-by-Side Comparison
In this blog post, I want to expand a little bit further on my colleague, and DRBD Reactor developer, Roland’s post, High-Availability with DRBD Reactor &
RHEL Compatible Distribution
You may have noticed that the newsletter got one week off from its usual cadence. That is due to my two-week summer vacation. We spent
Deploy a LINSTOR Cluster Using Ansible
LINSTOR®, the software behind LINBIT®’s software defined storage solutions, can be integrated into many different platforms and many different environments. Most of LINSTOR’s platform integrations
Making Nagios XI Highly Available on RHEL 9 by Using DRBD & Pacemaker Tech Guide
LINBIT® has an updated and expanded technical guide available with instructions for making a Nagios XI deployment highly available by using DRBD® and Pacemaker on
Thoughts on Red Hat’s Source Repository Changes
Recently, Red Hat’s change in how they distribute the source code of their distro caught my (and the open source world’s) attention. The Register has an excellent historical
The Benefits of Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is a computer systems architecture that abstracts the compute, storage, and networking components of the architecture by using their software-defined functional equivalents
DRBD 9.2 Updates
The eight-week cadence brings the new DRBD releases 9.1.15 and 9.2.2. The two releases contain roughly the same bug fixes. What these bug fixes have in
An Introduction to LINBIT SDS Management
As part of ongoing efforts to make LINBIT® software-defined storage (SDS) solutions better understood and more widely used, the LINSTOR® Users Guide has undergone a major change.
LINBIT SDS is now on Xinnor xiRAID
LINBIT SDS and xiRAID have proven to work exceptionally well together, and with LINBIT SDS now on Xinnor xiRAID, I wanted to cover the subject
STAC Summit, Software Updates, & Testimonials
I recently spoke at STAC Summit in London and Rene Peinthor, a LINBIT developer, was also in London for his talk at the CloudStack European User Group.
PHOENIX MEDIA Switches Out Competitor with LINBIT SDS for Kubernetes
High performance will always be a core value of any of our software. We recently shared some exciting performance results from our collaboration with Ampere,
Persistent Storage Solutions for Kubernetes Using LINBIT’s Software: HCI, Disaggregated, & NAS
LINBIT® has been growing its catalog of open source storage and high-availability (HA) clustering software for many years with various drivers, plugins, and platforms all with DRBD®
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
