LINBIT & OpenNebula TechDays: About Building IaaS Clouds
Open Source Block Storage for OpenNebula Clouds The LINBIT OpenNebula TechDays is our mutual attempt to share our combined knowledge with the open source and storage community. We want 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 […]
High Availability (HA): What Are the Benefits?
According to searchdatacenter.techtarget.com, “High availability (HA) is the ability of a system to operate continuously without failing for a designated period of time.” Meaning HA is the term used to ensure a system meets an agreed-upon operational performance level. Nowadays, through the dependency on digital solutions and transactions even small organizations rely on HA solutions. […]
Hyper-Convergence: What Is It, and What Are Its Benefits?
I. What is Hyper-Convergence? Hyper-convergence (or HCI) is a data center architecture that prioritizes IT experts and administrators’ focus on workloads’ operating conditions instead of systems. The primary purpose of HCI has been to simplify the management of data centers by recreating them as transportation systems for software and transactions. Consequently, the “convergence” that HCI […]
Rancher’s K3s and LINBIT SDS
K3s is a very popular Kubernetes distribution from Rancher Labs designed to be both simple to setup 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, high […]
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, […]
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 […]
Kubernetes High Availability for Stateful Workloads
LINBIT is a company with deep roots in Linux High Availability (HA). Because of this, LINBIT has some opinions on what HA is, and how it can be achieved. Kubernetes’ approach to HA generally involves sprawling many replicas of an application across many cluster nodes, therefore making it less impactful when a single node or […]
5 reasons why you should join the LINBIT Slack channel
LINBIT has an excellent Slack community that can benefit you in many ways. Here are the top 5 reasons why you should join our community. 1. You learn as you go By merely adding the channel to your Slack app, you are making a conscious effort to expand your knowledge. Just check on […]
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 […]
