Highly Available Replicated Disk Drives for Windows
WinDRBD® brings the power of DRBD® to the Windows world. With the original DRBD® engine built into it it is a perfect fit for highly available Microsoft SQL Server, Hyper V or Windows file server deployments.
LINBIT High Availability (HA) For Windows
LINBIT has ported its Linux based high availability (HA) stack to the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems (Windows Server 2016, 2019 and 2022, Windows 10 and 11). This stack consists of following open source components:
- WinDRBD: A native Windows kernel driver based on DRBD that provides highly available (HA) virtual disks to applications and file systems
- LINSTOR For Windows: A software-defined storage (SDS) solution for managing DRBD and WinDRBD resources
- Coming soon: LINBIT Cluster Manager for Windows: A light-weight applicatio-n aware cluster manager based on DRBD Reactor that comes preconfigured for common server applications such as MS SQL Server, Hyper-V and SMB Ffile Sservers
Optional features include cross platform replication for mixed Windows/Linux clusters, disaster recovery (DR) using DRBD Proxy as well as a web browser based graphical user interface (Web-GUI) for easy configuration and maintenance of the cluster.
Use Cases
Database
- MS SQL Server
Virtualization
- Hyper-V
File Server
- Windows File Sharing
Your application
- Choose LINBIT HA
Architecture
WinDRBD is the port of Linbit’s DRBD kernel driver and userspace utilities to the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems (Windows Server, Windows 10). It is based on the original source code of DRBD, which makes it widely compatible with the Linux version of DRBD. Most features that come with Linux DRBD are also available on the WinDRBD port.
