The Broadcom shock still affects many VMWare users. Some might have initially accepted the higher cost in the short term, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t still looking for an exit path from VMWare.
Operating a scalable and highly available virtualization platform involves solving multiple challenges. The open-source options for the hypervisor technology are KVM and Xen. LINBIT provides a very attractive option for storage, although there are other open-source options. For network virtualization, there are multiple options, and finally, one needs to orchestrate all these technologies using OpenStack, Apache CloudStack, OpenNebula, ProxmoxVE, XCP-ng/XenOrchestra, or oVirt.
Apropos oVirt, Oracle ships oVirt as a supported product as Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager. A few days ago, they mentioned the existing integration of LINBIT SDS with their product in their blog.
But that highlights one of the challenges. A potential customer running this stack will have two vendors: Oracle and LINBIT. Incidentally, I am working on a more straightforward offering, which I intend to present on November 21 at the CloudStack Collaboration Conference in Madrid. I will give a presentation on DRBD and its quorum implementation there. Rene will deliver a workshop on storage encryption using LINSTOR and CloudStack.
Regarding the latest LINBIT content, ‘Striping LINSTOR Volumes Across Several Physical Devices’ is a blog post by LINBIT Solutions Architect Matt Kereczman that shares several benefits of striping volumes across several physical devices. These include reducing bottlenecks and increasing throughput when compared to linearly allocated storage pools. You can read the full post to find out more.
Since I last wrote, the team has released new versions of the LINSTOR GUI: v1.8.5, linstor-server: 1.29.2, and drbd-utils: v9.29.0, all of which you can access in the shared links.
