New Version of LINBIT VSAN
I recently returned from the STAC Summit, where I presented ‘Fast Data Replication with DRBD over RDMA/RoCE/IB/verbs’ as part of the ‘Innovation Roundup.’ The challenge at STAC is that every vendor presentation gets a 5-minute time slot. I was quite relieved after 4:20 that I said everything I wanted to say without feeling rushed. I saw […]
Minimize Downtime During System Maintenance
System maintenance, whether you plan for it or do it in response to failure, is a necessary part of managing infrastructure. Everyone hopes to only have to do planned-for system maintenance. The reality is that with so many pieces of a system puzzle, you also have to plan for failures. Regularly maintaining your systems, just […]
The Benefits of Buying Support for Open Source Software
One of the enticing things about open source software is its almost universal price tag: free. Another enticement is your ability to start testing and using an open source solution, usually without going through barriers, such as creating an account on a platform website, or downloading software from a proprietary source and possibly exposing yourself […]
Upcoming Events & Software Updates
In the coming month, there are two events that our team will be attending. The first event is STAC (Strategic Technology Analysis Center). STAC’s research helps players in the finance industry discover and assess technology. LINBIT team members have been to the spring event before and are looking forward to our second appearance at STAC on […]
Encrypted Replication With DRBD
With the arrival of DRBD® 9.2.6, replication traffic can now be encrypted by the Linux kernel. DRBD is now able to use in-kernel TLS acceleration (kTLS), which has been fully implemented since the release of Linux kernel version 4.17. LINBIT® developer Moritz Wanzenböck initially demoed the new feature during our recent community meeting. While it has […]
Experience the LINBIT Storage Day Webinars
While keeping up with news from our industry, it caught my attention that among EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) users, servers running Rocky Linux have overtaken the others (RHEL, AlmaLinux, OracleLinux). While that may be an interesting fact, it might generate the impression that Rocky is more relevant than RHEL. However, this notion requires […]
Multisite Data Replication Over a WAN for Disaster Recovery
LINBIT® and many other organizations that specialize in high-availability (HA) solutions use and support the cluster manager Pacemaker. Pacemaker, when properly configured, does a great job at maintaining high availability for services, applications, and other resources within a single-site cluster on a LAN. However, as robust a solution as Pacemaker is, it was never designed […]
Configuring Multipath iSCSI Targets in Pacemaker for Higher Availability
LINBIT® has been building and supporting high-availability (HA) iSCSI clusters using DRBD® and Pacemaker for over a decade. In fact, that was the very first HA cluster I built for a client when I started working at LINBIT as a support engineer back in 2014. Searching the Internet for HA iSCSI Pacemaker clusters will return […]
What the New European Cyber Resilience Act Means for the Open Source Industry
In community news, the European Cyber Resilience Act will have a massive impact on Open Source projects and Open Source businesses. The intention is to impose mandatory security requirements on everyone delivering/supplying the software. That by itself is a noble goal. However, it is slightly in contrast to what Open Source licenses do. Open Source licenses limit […]
Kubernetes at the Edge Using LINBIT SDS for Persistent Storage
Edge computing is a distributed computing paradigm that brings data processing and computation closer to the data source or “edge” of the network. This reduces latency and removes Internet connectivity as a point of failure for users of edge services. Since more hardware is involved in an edge computing environment than there is in a […]
