What is Business Continuity planning and why it’s important?
If we’ve learned anything over the past few years, it’s that in life, as well as business, it’s important to expect the unexpected. Business continuity planning is talked about now more than ever. We hope this article can provide some insight on what it is, why it’s important, and what it entails. https://linbit.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Business-Continuity-Intro-1-1.mp4 What is […]
LINBIT & OpenNebula TechDays: About Building IaaS Clouds
Open Source Block Storage for OpenNebula Clouds The LINBIT® OpenNebula TechDays was our mutual attempt to share our combined knowledge with the open source and storage community. We wanted to give you a thorough understanding of combining LINBIT’s software-defined storage solution with OpenNebula clouds. OpenNebula is a powerful, but easy-to-use, open source platform to build […]
Rancher’s K3s and LINBIT SDS
K3s is a very popular Kubernetes distribution from Rancher Labs designed to be both simple to set up and lightweight (in terms of system resources, not features). This makes it a great fit for edge computing, IoT (Internet of Things), and CI environments. LINBIT SDS for Kubernetes is LINBIT’s software suite for provisioning low overhead, […]
What are the benefits of running DRBD in Diskless mode?
Introduction As the developers of DRBD®, LINBIT® has led the way in high availability since 2001. DRBD has been included in the Linux kernel since version 2.6.33 (2009), has been deployed on all major Linux distributions, and is fully compatible with systems, applications, devices, and services. LINBIT specializes in block level replication, high availability, disaster […]
Automated Testing at LINBIT with Virter
My previous blog post described Virter, a tool for running virtual machines (VMs). This post will show how we use that to test our software at LINBIT®. Here we focus on our end-to-end tests. In tandem with Virter, we have another tool called vmshed. Think of it as a shed where VMs are kept. Or […]
Virter – Cloud Image Virtual Machines on Your Workstation
Virtual machines on your workstation At LINBIT® we like tools that are simple, convenient, and integrated. Managing virtual machines (VMs) for development and automated testing was a messy, complicated task. We did not have an appropriate tool for the job. So we created one. Virter is a tool that allows you to conveniently work with […]
OpenShift on IBM Z with LINBIT SDS
High-performance software-defined storage with full OpenShift integration, available on IBM Z OpenShift is RedHat’s enriched version of Kubernetes. An important building block for modern cloud applications. IBM’s Z platform is well known for its track record of being the hardware platform of choice for business critical applications for decades. The LinuxONE platform is optimized for […]
Use Case: Bank replaces Veritas Volume Replicator with LINBIT HA
Just in the last few months, LINBIT® closed with the help of Red Hat a deal with a large, well-known retail and commercial bank with branches across England and Wales. Since 2019, LINBIT has seen a growing interest from banks and the financial sector in our open source products. A bank operating in the UK […]
How to make DRBD compatible to the Linux kernel
The Linux kernel’s interface towards device drivers is not set in stone. It evolves with the evolvement of Linux. Sometimes driven by hardware improvements, sometimes driven by general evolution of the code base. In tree drivers this is not a big issue since they get changed as the interfaces are modified, therefore are called “tree […]
Kubernetes Operator: LINSTOR’s Little Helper
Before we describe what our LINSTOR® Operator does, it is a good idea to discuss what a Kubernetes Operator actually is. If you are already familiar with Kubernetes Operators, feel free to skip the introduction. Introduction CoreOS describes Operators like this: An Operator is a method of packaging, deploying and managing a Kubernetes application. A […]
