Exploring LINSTOR Features for SDS, HA, & DR
This article itemizes and explores LINSTOR® notable features for software-defined storage (SDS), high availability (HA), and disaster recovery (DR). The
The Benefits of Using LINSTOR with CloudStack
While Apache CloudStack has open source roots going back over a decade and is currently on its fourth major version
Setting Up Highly Available Storage for Proxmox Using LINSTOR & the LINBIT GUI
This article is a companion article to “How to Setup LINSTOR on Proxmox VE”. Instructions in this article will guide
How to Setup LINSTOR on Proxmox VE
Authors: Ryan Ronnander & Roland Kammerer — In this technical blog post, I will show you how to integrate the
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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
Using LINSTOR in Kubernetes to Create & Manage Persistent Storage for KubeVirt VMs
Kubernetes is best known as a container orchestrator. However, more and more businesses and organizations are using Kubernetes to also deploy and manage virtual machines
Highly Available NFS Exports with DRBD & Pacemaker
This blog post explains how to configure an NFS server instance in a 3-node high availability (HA) active/passive Linux cluster using DRBD® and Pacemaker. You
AI at This Year’s Red Hat Summit
I am writing this week’s newsletter from Boston, MA, at Red Hat Summit. AI was central to this year’s keynote, with Red Hat announcing various infrastructure
Using LINSTOR with Storj S3 Storage for Disaster Recovery
Besides being able to ship storage snapshots internally to the same LINSTOR® cluster, or to a different “remote” LINSTOR cluster, LINSTOR administrators can also ship
Create a Highly Available iSCSI Target Using a LINSTOR Gateway Cluster
This tutorial will teach you how to set up a highly available iSCSI target by using LINSTOR Gateway. Here is the ideal starting point to
LINBIT SDS & SUSE Virtualization
A few newsletter editions ago, I wrote about the trend of using Kubernetes clusters for managing VMs and its original purpose of orchestrating containers. The
Comparing Open Source Virtualization Platforms
More and more, businesses and companies are seeking to repatriate services and infrastructure from the cloud to on-premise or hybrid solutions. This might be for
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
LVM, LVM-thin, or ZFS
Since LINSTOR supports LVM, LVM-thin, and ZFS, we often get questions about which of the above lower-level storage virtualization technologies we recommend. The answer is,
Discover Our Approach to Events & Conferences
I led a few discussions last year based on how valuable events and conferences were to us. While I have always appreciated the opportunity to
DRBD Client (Diskless Mode) Performance
Introduction This blog post will examine the performance of DRBD® in diskless mode. DRBD version 9.0 introduced a feature that is now used in nearly
Bringing a LINSTOR Driver to Incus
In my last newsletter, I mentioned the growing burden of maintaining all the integrations for LINSTOR with various workload orchestrators. When the open-source community creates
Exploring LINBIT Software Relationships for Building Resilient, Scalable, & Integrated Data Storage Solutions
LINBIT® has been a player in the world of highly available storage and data replication since 2001. At the heart of the LINBIT software ecosystem
Documenting a LINSTOR Automatic Resource Placement Feature: Ensuring a Number of Resources on Nodes of a Different Type
In this article, I will explore the LINSTOR® –x-replicas-on-different feature, and my efforts to document the feature for the LINSTOR User Guide. This was an incredible journey. An
The Time of Hardware RAID Controllers is Over
We recently received a support request from a user who believed that DRBD was causing high I/O latency. We quickly determined that DRBD was not
