Red Hat Summit Conference – Trends Observed and Lessons Learned
In my previous newsletter, I wrote about how we’re changing our approach to events and conferences. I covered how we could aim to build better customer relationships with in-person interactions, the design of our booth, and how we might sift through many potential areas of focus to get what we want from events or conferences. These […]
Using minikube to Get Started With LINSTOR in Kubernetes
This article gives you step-by-step instructions for setting up a minikube virtual machine (VM) environment for testing and exploring LINSTOR® in Kubernetes. minikube is a local Kubernetes environment on a single host machine that people often use to get up and running quickly, usually for testing or proof-of-concept purposes. Because installing and setting up minikube […]
Webinar: Build Resilient Architectures with LINBIT SDS & Oracle Virtualization
Simon Coter Senior Director, Oracle Linux and Virtualization Product Management & Engineering Marcos Sungaila Senior Principal Technical Product Manager Join us at 9:00 a.m. PT on Wednesday, June 25 to explore how LINBIT software-defined storage (SDS) combined with the cost-effective, high-performance Oracle Virtualization offering can help you create an open, resilient virtualization and storage solution […]
Exploring LINSTOR Features for SDS, HA, & DR
This article itemizes and explores LINSTOR® notable features for software-defined storage (SDS), high availability (HA), and disaster recovery (DR). The intent behind writing this article is to help orient someone who might be unfamiliar with LINSTOR. However, even someone familiar with LINSTOR might find it helpful for either review, promoting LINSTOR to others, or perhaps […]
The Benefits of Using LINSTOR with CloudStack
While Apache CloudStack has open source roots going back over a decade and is currently on its fourth major version release, the platform has been gaining more attention as more businesses and organizations seek open source alternatives to commercial offerings such as VMware virtualization management solutions. Since early 2021, the LINBIT® team has actively developed […]
The Benefits of High Availability (HA)
This article describes the reasoning behind and the benefits of a high-availability (HA) solution for providing services and applications. This article is intended as a general overview and introduction to HA, with a nontechnical reader in mind. Because you are reading this article on the LINBIT® blog, you will also learn how LINBIT software can […]
Using LINSTOR in Kubernetes to Create & Manage Persistent Storage for KubeVirt VMs
Kubernetes is best known as a container orchestrator. However, more and more businesses and organizations are using Kubernetes to also deploy and manage virtual machines (VMs). There are many reasons why this is a growing trend. One reason people are running and managing VMs in Kubernetes is to decompose legacy workloads running in VMs and […]
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 using DRBD® and Pacemaker. You can implement this solution easily 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 […]
AI at This Year’s Red Hat Summit
I am writing this week’s newsletter from Boston, MA, at Red Hat Summit. AI was central to this year’s keynote, with Red Hat announcing various infrastructure components for AI inference, which did not come as a surprise. Red Hat set the de facto standard for Linux in the enterprise environments. Their goal is to also set […]
Using LINSTOR with Storj S3 Storage for Disaster Recovery
Besides being able to ship storage snapshots internally to the same LINSTOR® cluster, or to a different “remote” LINSTOR cluster, LINSTOR administrators can also ship storage snapshots to S3 compatible storage. MinIO and Amazon S3 are examples of this that articles on this blog have explored before. Storj is an intriguing open source S3 compatible storage offering […]
