WinDRBD + Proxy: Block-Based Replication for Windows Servers
We have recently released our WinDRBD® product, which we have been working on for a long time, to the open source world as version 1.0. WinDRBD takes DRBD® and allows you to do block-based replication on Windows servers. Since the initial 1.0 version release in 2022, we have received good feedback and we are learning […]
DRBD Read-Balancing
DRBD’s read-balancing feature has been available since version 8.4.1. This feature enables DRBD® to balance read requests between the Primary and Secondary nodes. You configure read-balancing in the “disk” section of the configuration file(s). On the read intensive workloads, balancing read I/O operations between nodes can give you significant improvements. If your network gear allows, […]
Comparing LINSTOR, Ceph, Mayastor, & Vitastor Storage Performance in Kubernetes
This is a guest post by Andrei Kvapil, Solutions Architect at Flant.
DRBD Reactor – Recovering an Isolated DRBD Primary
This blog post will show how DRBD® has recently added support for secondary –force can be of great use when combined with DRBD Reactor. In short, secondary-force reconfigures the DRBD device so that the suspended I/O requests and newly submitted I/O requests will terminate with I/O errors. Motivation Imagine a three-node setup where your current active […]
Highly Available LINSTOR Controller with Pacemaker
*UPDATE MAY 2022: This article was originally published back in 2018. Three years before our DRBD-Reactor project. With the release of the DRBD-Reactor software we now suggest using that to make a Highly available LINSTOR® Controller. Instructions for this can be found in our User’s Guide. However, using Pacemaker is still a valid option. So […]
What’s the Difference Between Off-Site Data Backup and Disaster Recovery (DR)?
Many businesses make the mistake of confusing “Disaster Recovery” (DR) with “off-site data backup.” Confusing the two may lead to paying a high price in the form of data loss and downtime when a disaster hits. Off-site backups are a necessary part of business continuity in the face of disaster for nearly any organization, but […]
Multi-AZ Replication Using Automatic Placement Rules in LINSTOR
Multi-AZ Replication Are you looking to leverage multiple availability zones in Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure? LINSTOR® can easily manage your block storage and automatically replicate your data between availability zones (AZs). This post explores multi-AZ replication using automatic placement rules in LINSTOR. This blog post illustrates the advantages of using LINSTOR’s lesser-known […]
Benchmarking DRBD
We often see people on #drbd or on drbd-user trying to measure the performance of their setup. Here are a few best practices to do this. First, a few facts. What you want to do: Some problems we’ve seen: If you’re doing all that correctly, and are using a recent DRBD version, for a pure random-write […]
TLS Security in the LINSTOR SDS & Piraeus Kubernetes Operator
LINSTOR® has featured TLS and SSL security for some time. This security is for communication between the LINSTOR nodes and the client to the API. However, implementing this was not trivial. If you want to see the nitty-gritty details, peep a snapshot of the LINSTOR User’s Guide on the Wayback Machine before March 2022. The […]
Solutions for Microservice Architectures
Over the past few years, microservice architectures and the cloud practices surrounding them have proliferated throughout the IT industry. As someone practicing IT in the early 2000s, the container revolution is reminiscent of when VM infrastructure became the new normal. With any major shift in IT architectures, new and old software finds new use cases, […]
