How to Setup LINSTOR on Proxmox VE
Authors: Ryan Ronnander & Roland Kammerer — In this technical blog post, I will show you how to integrate the open source software-defined storage (SDS) solution, LINSTOR®, with Proxmox VE by using a storage plugin developed here at LINBIT®. The advantages of using LINSTOR with Proxmox VE include: Extremely fast live migrations of virtual machines […]
Setting Up Highly Available Storage for Proxmox Using LINSTOR & the LINBIT GUI
This article is a companion article to “How to Setup LINSTOR on Proxmox VE”. Instructions in this article will guide you through installing and integrating LINSTOR® with Proxmox VE. However, rather than using the LINSTOR client utility, within a CLI, to set up LINSTOR, you will use the open source LINBIT GUI. Some of the benefits of […]
Implementing Disaster Recovery for Proxmox VE with a Stretched LINSTOR Cluster
In this blog, you will delve into the necessary steps and settings for creating a stretched LINSTOR® cluster to provide disaster recovery (DR) capabilities for Proxmox VE virtual machines (VMs). This setup involves two sites, each with a three-node Proxmox VE cluster, using the same LINSTOR storage cluster to manage DRBD® replicated volumes across both […]
AWS Outage & LINBIT Software Updates for Kubernetes
We recently witnessed an AWS outage. I then saw an article that called for European digital sovereignty in the context of the outage, but those are two different concepts. To be safe from an outage in a single zone of a cloud provider, treat it as a failure domain. You protect yourself with data replication […]
LINBIT CEO & Developers to Present at CloudStack and Kubernetes Focused Conferences
Members of the LINBIT® team will speak at upcoming conferences, focused around cloud, virtualization, containerization, and orchestration technologies. LINBIT CEO and DRBD® creator, Philipp Reisner, and LINSTOR® for CloudStack lead developer, Rene Peinthor, will each present at the 2025 CloudStack Collaboration Conference, 19-21 November, in Milan, Italy. LINSTOR for Kubernetes lead developer, Moritz Wanzenböck, will […]
Fraudsters & Technology
AI technologies are changing our world quickly. Of course, fraudsters also adopt these technologies and create increasingly sophisticated CFO scams. Recently, my CFO shared an email he received, supposedly from me, that showed a convincing conversation I supposedly had with a third party, concluding that my CFO should initiate a wire transfer. This time, it […]
Reduce Contractual Risk with Open-Source Software
In a recent conversation with Doug Milburn, CEO of 45Drives, I picked up the term ‘contractual risk’. You add to the contractual risk of your organisation every time you deploy a proprietary software solution. Proprietary software comes with a license that grants you the right to use it after you pay for it. But perpetual licenses […]
Configuring Highly Available NVMe-oF Attached Storage in Proxmox VE
LINBIT® develops and supports software used to build high availability clusters for almost any application or platform out there. It does this by creating tools and frameworks that can be used in generic ways that can be used by most applications, rather than building application-specific products that might only work for a single application. While […]
Project Updates & New Features
I will use this newsletter edition to share progress on projects that we will release soon. The first one the team has been working on is adding ReadWriteMany (RWX) support for persistent volumes in Kubernetes to our LINBIT SDS offering. Before enabling this on all your persistent volumes in Kubernetes, you need to understand what […]
Backing up and Restoring Kubernetes Workloads by Using CloudCasa with LINSTOR
This article overviews some of the features and benefits of using the CloudCasa™ data protection platform for Kubernetes with a LINSTOR® deployment in Kubernetes, and provides step-by-step instructions for getting started. Because the CloudCasa agent in Kubernetes can interface with a CSI-compliant storage driver, such as LINSTOR or Piraeus Datastore, backing up and restoring with […]
