Meet LINBIT at KubeCon North America 2026 & a LINSTOR in Kubernetes Development Roundup
LINBIT® will exhibit at the KubeCon and CloudNativeCon North America 2026 conference. The conference takes place November 9-12, at the Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, Utah. As Kubernetes continues to evolve, so does the LINBIT team’s development of LINSTOR® in Kubernetes and the upstream CNCF Piraeus Datastore project. 2026 has brought new features […]
Meeting Your HA, DR, & SDS Goals with LINBIT Software
LINBIT® software covers DRBD® and LINSTOR®, together with DRBD Reactor and its promoter plugin, LINSTOR Gateway, WinDRBD, and LINBIT SDS for Windows. Teams evaluating high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), and software-defined storage (SDS) can use these tools to replicate block storage reliably across Linux and Windows nodes, automate failover with or without specialized fencing […]
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 by using DRBD® and Pacemaker. You can implement this solution with enterprise Linux distributions such as Ubuntu LTS, or Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The instructions in this article have been validated on both RHEL […]
Applying Per-Volume I/O Quality of Service Limits with LINSTOR in Kubernetes
Since the release of the LINSTOR Operator version 2.11.0 and the LINSTOR CSI driver version 1.11.3, both developed by LINBIT®, users can attach I/O Quality of Service (QoS) limits to the persistent volumes that LINSTOR® provisions. Users can specify read and write bandwidth and IOPS limits as StorageClass parameters, and every volume created from that […]
LINSTOR is Red Hat Certified for OpenShift Virtualization
LINSTOR® now lists OpenShift Virtualization under Infrastructure features in its Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog listing, next to Container Storage Interface (CSI). It is a single line, only two words on a catalog spec sheet. In this article, I elaborate on what the certification actually means. Red Hat’s own certification conformance suites were run against the LINSTOR […]
Digital Sovereignty’s Impact on Open Source Companies
‘Sovereignty’ is a word we borrowed from statecraft: a sovereign country is independent in its decisions. The term ‘Digital Sovereignty’ is a more recent invention that applies to organizations and even individuals. The European Commission published the EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework (CSF), which breaks sovereignty down into eight objectives: SOV-1: Strategic: ownership and governance are […]
Getting Started with the LINBIT Deployment Tool
The LINBIT® deployment tool is a graphical tool that steps you through the process of installing and configuring LINSTOR® in a cluster of nodes. LINSTOR is a software-defined storage (SDS) solution that you can use to build high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions for critical applications and data. By using the deployment tool, […]
AI – The Enabler for Crazy Ideas
Great things sometimes start with a crazy experiment. Before the AI age, many of us shelved crazy ideas as they were too time-consuming to explore or the purpose and benefits were unclear. Nowadays, before following these thoughts and finding reasons to park the idea, we can formulate a prompt to an AI-coding agent and see what happens. WinDRBD […]
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 Broadcom VMware acquisition negatively impacts you, you might be looking around for possible VMware alternatives, especially if you have customers who are also affected. Or maybe you have not been […]
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 a variety of reasons. Whether repatriating is for cost savings, performance, security, control, or other reasons, it is happening. Increasingly, companies are turning to open source solutions when repatriating services […]
