Reducing DRBD Memory Requirements
Over its more than 20 years of existence, DRBD® has earned some renown as data replication software with high performance. Put to the test on some potent hardware, the LINBIT® team has shown impressive benchmarking numbers1. Independent testing has also shown strong results on more conventional hardware2. Performance is one reason DRBD is often used […]
Exciting New DRBD Features
DRBD 9.2.16 and 9.3 are being released. While 9.2.16 is the boring bugfix release, drbd-9.3 brings exciting new features. The newest DRBD update now supports the out-of-sync bitmap at different granularities. For the last 25 years, it has been fixed that one bit in that bitmap represents 4096 bytes of storage. That bitmap exists in […]
Comparing Open Source Virtualization Platforms
More and more, businesses and companies are seeking to repatriate services and infrastructure from the cloud to on-premise or hybrid solutions. This might be for a variety of reasons. Whether repatriating is for cost savings, performance, security, control, or other reasons, it is happening. Increasingly, companies are turning to open source solutions when repatriating services […]
Kubernetes Roundup – LINSTOR Updates, RWX, & Events
This edition of the LINBIT Kubernetes newsletter begins with some big software news. We recently released LINSTOR Operator 2.10.0 (and a follow-up bug fix: LINSTOR Operator 2.10.1). Version v2.10.0 brought long awaited support for ReadWriteMany (RWX) volumes, along with Volume Group Snapshot support, integrations for Cluster API, and more. To use RWX after upgrading to […]
