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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
LINBIT SDS & SUSE Virtualization
A few newsletter editions ago, I wrote about the trend of using Kubernetes clusters for managing VMs and its original purpose of orchestrating containers. The commercial players’ products are OpenShift virtualization, SUSE Virtualization (formerly Harvester), alauda.io, Ænix’s Cozystack, and potentially more I am unaware of. I can now share that LINBIT SDS has become a formally […]
LVM, LVM-thin, or ZFS
Since LINSTOR supports LVM, LVM-thin, and ZFS, we often get questions about which of the above lower-level storage virtualization technologies we recommend. The answer is, as usual, it depends on your requirements. If you only look for performance, no matter which features are available, the answer is LVM (traditional). If you want to have snapshots […]
Discover Our Approach to Events & Conferences
I led a few discussions last year based on how valuable events and conferences were to us. While I have always appreciated the opportunity to connect with our clients and present our software at events, you have to balance that with the outcomes. I am a big fan of “in person”. While deals don’t normally […]
DRBD Client (Diskless Mode) Performance
Introduction This blog post will examine the performance of DRBD® in diskless mode. DRBD version 9.0 introduced a feature that is now used in nearly all LINSTOR® integrated clusters: DRBD diskless attachment, otherwise known as DRBD clients. With this feature, you can have a DRBD node which has no local replica itself. Essentially, the client node […]
