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 from ShapeBlue, OpenNebula, and Vates to discuss the fallout from the recent VMware/Broadcom news.
We posed the question of whether or not LINBIT’s partners, who offer open-source virtualization solutions, have seen any effect on their business due to the much-discussed Broadcom/VMware moves. My panelists, Giles Sirett, Alberto Picón and Marc-André Pezin, had some answers. Their responses ranged from a simple “yes” to “it’s like a tsunami.” They all have seen increased web traffic, forum traffic, and prospect conversations.
They are not alone. LINBIT has also seen rising interest. We feel it through the questions reaching us from the three named partners and through direct conversations we have had with interested prospects.
During our meeting, I had to say that I consider the LINBIT SDS stack the superior storage option. Giles and Alberto did not dare to disagree but pointed out that their cloud stacks are SDS agnostic. Regarding HCI vs disaggregated, we all agreed that we see more disaggregated deployments in the data centers and HCI on the network’s edge.
Moving over to the LINBIT blog, we recently published The Stretched Cluster Disaster Recovery Strategy. This blog post explores the expert opinion of LINBIT Solution Architect, Yusuf Yildiz. Disaster Recovery (DR) is a plan that must be realistic to an organization’s individual constraints rather than a one-size-fits-all solution.
How A Synology NAS Appliance Uses LINBIT Software For High Availability is a blog post about how other companies use our software. LINBIT is no stranger to assisting companies in implementing high availability or software-defined storage into their products. LINBIT is open source, and companies can use our software without our input, too. This particular post shows how Synology has used DRBD.
Finally, Configuring Highly Available NVMe-oF Attached Storage in Proxmox VE presents one way to use LINBIT’s software with Proxmox VE. We develop and support software used to build high availability clusters for almost any application or platform out there!
There have been no new software updates since I last wrote, but I can share that a major improvement to the Proxmox plugin is coming; it will bring support for moving virtual disks between VMs.
LINSTOR will get a release with some improvements in handling encrypted volumes and final touches on using repeatedly snapshot shipping for disaster-recovery.
A lot of activity is happening with the Apache CloudStack integration. And LINBIT VSAN is reaching the psychologically important version 1.0.0.
