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Getting Started with LINSTOR in Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager

How-to Guide

This how-to guide will guide you through setting up a LINSTOR® environment that provides highly available storage domains for OLVM.

Getting Started With LINSTOR in Proxmox VE

How-to Guide

This how-to guide provides instructions for getting started with using LINSTOR® for Proxmox VE. The configuration described in this guide is a hyperconverged architecture, with storage directly attached to the hypervisor nodes.

Getting Started With LINSTOR in SUSE Harvester

How-to Guide

This how-to guide describes using LINSTOR, as managed by the LINSTOR Operator in Harvester, and with volumes provisioned through the LINSTOR CSI plugin.

OpenShift Persistent Storage Using LINBIT SDS Quick Start

How-to Guide

This how-to guide focuses on integrating LINSTOR® with OpenShift and will guide you through the installation and some initial steps of using LINSTOR within OpenShift.

Nagios XI High Availability Clustering on RHEL 9

How-to Guide

Set up the Linux Cluster stack for Nagios XI to achieve a Highly Available automated Failover cluster. After close collaboration, LINBIT and Nagios are jointly releasing this technical guide outlining the best practices to achieve HA for your existing Nagios XI implementation.

MariaDB High Availability Clustering Using LINSTOR, DRBD, and DRBD Reactor

How-to Guide

This guide provides instructions for deploying an High Availability (HA) MariaDB cluster using LINSTOR, DRBD, and DRBD Reactor.

KVM High Availability Clustering Using DRBD and Pacemaker on RHEL 9

How-to Guide

This guide can be used to deploy a high-availability (HA) KVM cluster by using DRBD®️, Pacemaker, and Corosync on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 or AlmaLinux 9 servers.

Kubernetes Persistent Storage Using LINBIT SDS Quick Start

How-to Guide

This guide provides instructions for integrating LINBIT SDS within a Kubernetes installation, to offer persistent, highly available storage for your Kubernetes deployed applications and services.

Jenkins High Availability Clustering Using LINBIT SDS in EKS

How-to Guide

The following reference architecture is specific to deploying HA Jenkins pods onto LINSTOR backed persistent storage in EKS stretching across multiple AZs, but could be adapted for other workloads that need cross AZ replication without sacrificing performance.

GitLab High Availability Clustering Using DRBD and Pacemaker

How-to Guide

GitLab is a complete DevOps platform used by many organizations and developers. GitLab can be easily installed as a self-managed web application. This guide will demonstrate installing and configuring a highly available (HA) two node GitLab CE (Community Edition) environment using Pacemaker and DRBD.

MySQL High Availability Clustering Using DRBD and Pacemaker on RHEL 8

How-to Guide

This guide describes an approach for designing and implementing High Availability (HA) MySQL cluster using DRBD, Pacemaker, and Corosync on RHEL 8 or CentOS 8 servers.

KVM High Availability Clustering Using DRBD and Pacemaker on RHEL 8

How-to Guide

This guide can be used to deploy a High Availability (HA) KVM cluster using DRBD, Pacemaker, and Corosync on RHEL 8 or CentOS 8 servers

LINBIT SDS Cluster Quickstart on RHEL 8

How-to Guide

Quickly setup the LINBIT SDS solution, LINSTOR, to manage storage in your cluster. Use LINSTOR to manage storage directly or use LINSTOR's native integrations with cloud platforms such as Kubernetes.

Storage

iSCSI High Availability Clustering Using DRBD and Pacemaker on RHEL 9

How-to Guide

This guide outlines the configuration of a highly-available iSCSI storage cluster using DRBD®, Pacemaker, and Corosync. iSCSI provides access to block devices via TCP/IP, which allows storage to be accessed remotely using standard networks.

NFS High Availability Clustering Using DRBD and DRBD Reactor on RHEL 9

How-to Guide

You can use the instructions in this guide to deploy a high-availability (HA) three-node NFS cluster on a LAN. To do this, you will use DRBD® and DRBD Reactor on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 or AlmaLinux 9 cluster.

NFS High Availability Clustering Using DRBD and Pacemaker on RHEL 9

How-to Guide

This tech guide will instruct the reader on how to configure a Highly Available (HA) NVM Express over Fabrics (NVMe- oF) cluster using DRBD® 9 from LINBIT® and the Pacemaker cluster stack on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.

NVMe-oF High Availability Clustering Using DRBD and Pacemaker on RHEL 9

How-to Guide

This tech guide will instruct the reader on how to configure a Highly Available (HA) NVM Express over Fabrics (NVMe- oF) cluster using DRBD® 9 from LINBIT® and the Pacemaker cluster stack on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.

NFS High Availability Clustering Using DRBD and Pacemaker on RHEL 8

How-to Guide

This guide can be used to deploy a High Availability (HA) NFS cluster using DRBD, Pacemaker, and Corosync on a RHEL/CentOS 8 server. After following the instructions outlined in this guide, transferring data to or from an NFS export, to or from a client system, should not be interrupted during failover.

iSCSI High Availability Clustering Using DRBD and Pacemaker on RHEL 8

How-to Guide

This guide outlines the configuration of a highly-available iSCSI storage cluster using DRBD, Pacemaker, and Corosync. iSCSI provides access to block devices via TCP/IP, which allows storage to be accessed remotely using standard networks.

Disaster Recovery

DRBD Disaster Recovery Clustering Using DRBD Proxy Version 4 on RHEL 9

How-to Guide

This guide outlines the configuration of a highly-available iSCSI storage cluster using DRBD®, Pacemaker, and Corosync. iSCSI provides access to block devices via TCP/IP, which allows storage to be accessed remotely using standard networks.

Multisite Clustering Using DRBD, DRBD Proxy, Pacemaker, and Booth on RHEL 8

How-to Guide

This guide covers two common DRBD Proxy implementations. The first method uses DRBD proxy in a newly configured two-node DRBD cluster to replicate data to a peer over a high latency WAN connection; this method is common for customers looking for a disaster recovery solution.

DRBD Disaster Recovery Clustering Using DRBD Proxy on RHEL 8

How-to Guide

Using LINBIT's DRBD and DRBD Proxy, along with Pacemaker, Corosync and Booth, you can ensure that even in the event of an entire data center going offline, services and data are available.

Miscellaneous

Ampere Altra Max Platform Benchmarking Using LINBIT SDS

How-to Guide

You can use the instructions in this guide to deploy a high-availability (HA) three-node NFS cluster on a LAN. To do this, you will use DRBD® and DRBD Reactor on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 or AlmaLinux 9 cluster.

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All rights reserved. The words LINSTOR®, DRBD®, LINBIT®, and the logo LINSTOR®, DRBD®, and LINBIT® are trademarks or registered trademarks of LINBIT HA-Solutions GmbH and LINBIT USA LLC.