Deploy Highly Available Data Stores Easily with LINBIT VSAN

LINBIT VSAN is a virtual storage area network (VSAN) appliance that you can use to easily create highly available data stores for your hypervisors. Originally, the LINBIT® team developed VSAN with VMware ESXi as a target platform in mind, but it is fully independent of the hypervisor software and you can use it with other […]

Scaling Jenkins for HA & DR using AWS, Kubernetes, & LINSTOR

Scaling Jenkins for high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) was not a primary driving force in the open source automation platform’s development history. “Developers who extended Jenkins favored speed of creating functionality over performance or scalability of the entire system,” observe the writers of an Amazon Web Services (AWS) DevOps blog article, “Jenkins high availability […]

Independent Performance Testing of DRBD by E4

This is a guest post by Davide Obbi, Storage Specialist at E4. In 2024, the Italy-based E4 Computer Engineering company evaluated DRBD® for use in their high performance computing (HPC) ecosystem. E4 is a company that since 2002, has specialized in building HPC systems for academic and institutional research environments, such as CERN. More recently, […]

RDMA & What It Means for Data Transfer & Replication

Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) is a data transport protocol that has changed the way data is transferred over networks. This article will discuss the topic of RDMA, what it is, how it differs from Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), and why you might want to use it in a high availability (HA) data replication topology. […]

Open-Sourcing the LINBIT SDS GUI

One year ago, we announced the LINBIT SDS GUI, intending to add another benefit to the subscription products offered by LINBIT. A year later, we reevaluated the situation. I asked my sales team the question:  Will the added benefit of the GUI help you sell more LINBIT support subscriptions?  I got a clear answer: No. […]

Managing Software-Defined Storage with the LINBIT GUI

A Visual Approach to LINBIT SDS Here at LINBIT®, we live at the shell prompt, but on occasion, getting a graphical view of things can provide benefits. This is why we developed the LINBIT GUI, a graphical user interface (GUI), for the LINBIT SDS stack (LINSTOR®, DRBD®, and related software). Open source code for the […]

Perspectives on Retaining Customers of Free Software

In this first edition of what I intend to be a quarterly newsletter, I want to talk about a topic that I think about every day, as someone who helps run a profitable company based on open source software. That topic is how LINBIT® attracts and retains customers when its software is open source and […]

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 […]

DRBD Release & Upcoming Events

The newsletter this week coincides with a DRBD release. The changelog of the most recent DRBD releases – 9.1.22 and 9.2.11 â€“ shows that each fix addresses bugs triggered only in rare corner cases. First, the described non-fatal signal during an auto-promote triggered at a customer with security scanning software installed, such as virus scanners or Endpoint […]

Where to Find LINBIT Documentation

This blog post aims to point to the various resources that document LINBIT open source software. Because some people might find this post after having an in-the-moment need and then searching for a specific type of documentation resource, LINBIT documentation resources are listed here and linked to the sections in this post that describe them: […]