Building the Community at LINBIT
I’m going to share a bit about selecting a community communications platform, our updated company core values, and how goals have evolved over the years at LINBIT. Freenode → Slack → Discourse Forum It was mid May 2021 and the news that Freenode was being taken over was popping up on all of the news […]
GitLab High Availability With DRBD & Pacemaker
Introduction GitLab is a robust DevOps platform used by many organizations and developers. You can easily install GitLab as a self-managed web application. This blog post will guide you through all of the required steps to install and configure a highly available GitLab environment with DRBD® and Pacemaker. Installation overview This blog post contains configuration […]
Managing AWS EBS Volumes Using LINSTOR
Cloud storage is a critical component of running persistent workloads in the cloud, especially in hybrid cloud environments. LINSTOR®, the open source storage orchestration tool from LINBIT®, integrates seamlessly with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Block Store (EBS) to simplify the management of EBS volumes. LINSTOR also layers DRBD®, LINBIT’s block device replication driver, over EBS volumes […]
Open Source Innovations & Solutions at LINBIT
Perhaps there is a feeling that you might be making the world a better place by choosing to use open source software rather than other alternatives. Maybe this positive feeling spawns an action. If you get a benefit from using a particular open source project, sometimes you might support that project by making a donation […]
Comparing CloudStack, OpenNebula & OpenStack
This post is intended to help someone learn more about three of the most popular open source virtualization management platforms for large IaaS deployments (in alphabetical order): CloudStack, OpenNebula, and OpenStack. You are reading this article on the LINBIT® blog because LINBIT develops integrations for these platforms that you can use to provide software-defined storage […]
Controlling Data Replication with Snapshot Shipping Using LINSTOR
In distributed data storage environments, ensuring data consistency and availability across multiple nodes is crucial. LINSTOR®, the open source software-defined storage (SDS) software created by LINBIT®, is a robust tool for managing data replication and maintaining data integrity both locally for high availability (HA), and across distances for disaster recovery (DR), backup, and other reasons. […]
Ready-made CloudStack Deployment on Hyperconverged Infrastructure with SDS, HA, and DR Capabilities
In an exciting, possibly world-first offering, the LINBIT® team has created the LINBIT® CloudStack® HCI Appliance. The appliance, built on open source software, is an easy way to deploy CloudStack. Beyond that, the appliance includes LINBIT-developed software such as DRBD®, LINSTOR®, DRBD Reactor, LINSTOR Gateway, and related utilities, plus the LINSTOR integration plugin for CloudStack, […]
Setting Up a Highly Available SMB Share for Windows by Using WinDRBD & DRBD
During my years as a system administrator, I have worked as much with Windows servers as I have with Linux systems. Installing and managing SMB, a file-sharing protocol frequently used in small and medium-sized companies, is relatively straightforward and hassle-free on Windows servers. However, ensuring this service runs continuously can be a challenge. In this […]
Working on a More Straightforward Offering
The Broadcom shock still affects many VMWare users. Some might have initially accepted the higher cost in the short term, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t still looking for an exit path from VMWare. Operating a scalable and highly available virtualization platform involves solving multiple challenges. The open-source options for the hypervisor technology are KVM […]
Striping LINSTOR Volumes Across Several Physical Devices
Introduction and considerations In a single sentence, striping can be described as a technique used in storage systems to spread data across multiple physical disks by dividing it into small chunks, which are written sequentially to different drives. Striping volumes across several physical devices in a LINSTOR® storage pool improves performance by distributing I/O operations […]
