Comparing Open Source Cloud & Virtualization Platforms
More and more, businesses and companies are seeking to repatriate services and infrastructure from the cloud to on-premise or hybrid
NFS High Availability on RHEL 9 with DRBD Reactor: A How-To Technical Guide
The Deploying an HA NFS Cluster with DRBD and DRBD Reactor on RHEL 9 or AlmaLinux 9 how-to technical guide gives instructions
Configuring Tiered Storage in CloudStack Using LINSTOR
One of the benefits of integrating LINSTOR®, the LINBIT® developed software-defined storage utility, with Apache CloudStack is that you can
Distributing Volume Replicas for High Availability & Disaster Recovery Using LINSTOR
LINSTOR® has supported using auxiliary node properties to fine tune LINSTOR’s logic for where in the cluster LINSTOR should place DRBD® volume
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Highly Available NFS Exports with DRBD and Pacemaker
Creating Highly Available NFS Targets with DRBD and Pacemaker This blog post explains how to configure a highly available (HA) active/passive NFS server on a
Backing up a Kubernetes Deployment Using Velero & LINBIT SDS
Authors: Joel Zhou & Michael Troutman — In a Kubernetes cluster that has persistent storage managed by LINBIT SDS, you can have a high-availability solution
A Proactive Approach Towards Ransomware ProtectionÂ
Every year, the research firms’ analysts send questionnaires and conduct interviews. The new trend I have noticed in the analysts’ questions is a proactive approach
Security Best Practices For LINSTOR Software-Defined Storage Clusters
LINSTOR®, developed by LINBIT®, is a robust open source software-defined storage system designed for managing block storage devices in large-scale clusters. It simplifies the creation,
Highly Available NFS Storage using LINBIT HA for Kubernetes
While NFS (Network File System) isn’t a new or exciting technology, it is one of the more common storage solutions for Kubernetes clusters that require
DRBD-reactor over Pacemaker
DRBD-reactor is one of our younger projects, but did you realize it’s already three years old? For some projects, three years is not a lot,
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
Highly Available NFS for Proxmox With LINSTOR Gateway
Attaching an NFS share to your Proxmox cluster is a convenient way to add reliable storage for backups, ISO images, container templates, and more. If
Home Assistant High Availability
So, you’ve gone down the rabbit hole of home automation. You’ve been getting deeper and deeper into Home Assistant and its ecosystem. You are configuring new IoT
How We Test DRBD
As I am still involved in DRBD development, this newsletter edition includes insights into how we test DRBD. Sometimes, testing begins with a bug in
Configuring High Availability for MySQL Databases Using DRBD
Before MySQL version 5.5, released in December of 2010, MySQL only natively supported asynchronous replication which had the potential to lose data under certain conditions.
Conference & Software Updates
May is conference season. Kicking off the season, I gave a short presentation last week at a STAC research event in London. As you can imagine, it
Controlling Data Replication with Snapshot Shipping Using LINSTOR
In distributed storage environments, ensuring data consistency and availability across multiple nodes is crucial. LINSTOR®, the software-defined storage (SDS) software created by LINBIT®, is a
Continuously Improving our Build Automation
Jia Tan owned the previous newsletter with their work on the XZ/ssh backdoor. I wanted to write about HashiCorp and Redis, and a common theme
Abstracting Persistent Storage Across Environments With LINBIT SDS
Kubernetes can be thought of as an infrastructure abstraction layer for on-premise and cloud computing. The applications you deploy into one cloud platform or on-premise
Open Source VMware Alternatives That Can Integrate With LINBIT Storage Solutions
This article contains content contributions from LINBIT team members: solutions architects Matt Kereczman and Joel Zhou, CEO Philipp Reisner, and developer Moritz Wanzenböck. If the
