DRBD Quorum Implementation Updates
The Origins With version 9, we introduced the capability of building clusters larger than two nodes to DRBD®. That gave us the means to implement the concept of quorum and eliminate the old plague of many clusters: the split-brain. The concept is intriguingly simple. A partition of the cluster may modify the data when it […]
Interview with Philipp Reisner, CEO & Founder, LINBIT
LINBIT®, a reference in Linux HA and data replication, recently participated in the IT Press Tour in Lisbon, Portugal, and it was the perfect opportunity to learn more about the standard in protection for production data. The French Storage Podcast made this interview with Philipp Reisner, CEO and founder, a story he started more than 20 years ago […]
The Most Visited AWS DevOps Blogs in 2022
As we kick off 2023, I wanted to take a moment to highlight the top posts from 2022. Without further ado, here are the top 10 AWS DevOps Blog posts of 2022.
DRBD’s Hardware & Environment Requirements
Whether you are considering DRBD® as a data replication solution to achieve high-availability or disaster recovery in your deployments, or you are seasoned in its use already, there are some hardware and environment requirements that you should consider. Memory Requirements and Maximum Device Size DRBD can replicate block devices in real-time or asynchronously, depending on […]
LINBIT Pushes DRBD-Based Software as SAN Replacement
Savvy Linux users can provide SAN services to physical, virtual and containerized applications without buying a SAN product, by using LINBIT® open-source software based on DRBD®, which is included in the Linux distribution. LINBIT provides support for DRBD in a similar way to how Red Hat supports its Linux distro and has four downloadable products on […]
Data Replication for Linux
It is not widely known, but Linux has many memory features in the operating system that are powerful out of the box. The Viennese start-up LINBIT® has now bundled these into a complete storage package with data replication and high availability. LINBIT accelerates enterprise needs for high availability and software-defined storage by transforming common commodity […]
‘Seeking New Partners’, Say Data Management Vendors
The IT Press Tour in Lisbon took place last week, to offer data management and storage vendors a shop window for their emerging business and channel strategies. IT Europa attended the event and has separately and already reported on those strategies from three different vendors. Here’s a round-up of three other vendor participants at the […]
LINBIT, The Reference in Linux Data Protection
LINBIT®, the reference in Linux data protection, joined the recent 47th IT Press Tour organized in Lisbon, Portugal. It was the opportunity to get an update about DRBD®, the famous Distributed Replicated Block Device engine, directly from the CEO and founder of LINBIT, Philipp Reisner, who started this project during his studies more than 20 years ago. Since then, the […]
Upgrading DRBD Has Never Been Easier
As DRBD® development continues to move forward with the new and exciting 9.2.0 release, it has never been easier to upgrade to the latest version of DRBD. DRBD’s wire-protocol compatibility has recently expanded, enabling replication between DRBD 8.4 and the latest versions of DRBD 9. Upgrading From DRBD 9 Upgrading from DRBD 9 to a newer version of […]
LINBIT LINSTOR on AWS Marketplace
LINBIT® recently posted a free AMI in the AWS Marketplace based on the latest Ubuntu LTS release and preconfigured with LINBIT’s Ubuntu Personal Package Archive (PPA) and with LINBIT’s packages preinstalled. You will receive the latest Ubuntu LTS with the following LINBIT software preinstalled: DRBD enables AWS users to replicate block storage (EBS volumes) across […]
