Speed Up! NVMe-oF for LINSTOR

What is NVMe? The storage world has gained a number of new terms in the last few years. Let’s start with NVMe. The abbreviation stands for Non-Volatile Memory express, which isn’t very self-explanatory. It all began a few years back when NAND Flash started to make major inroads into the storage industry, and the new […]
High Level Resource API – The simplicity of creating replicated volumes

In this blog post, we present one of our recent extensions to the LINSTOR® ecosystem: A high-level, user-friendly Python API that allows simple DRBD® resource management via LINSTOR. Background: So far LINSTOR components communicated by the following means: Via Protocol Buffers, or via the Python API that is used in the linstor command line client. Protocol […]
The Technology Inside LINSTOR (Part II)

In our first look into LINSTOR®, you learned a lot about the single communication protocol, transaction safety and modularity features. In the next chapter, you can dive deeper into the construction. Fault Tolerance Keeping the software responsive is one of the more difficult problems that we have to deal with in LINSTOR’s design and implementation. […]
The Technology Inside LINSTOR (Part I)

Spotlight on LINSTOR’s design and technology What we do to LINSTOR’s design and technology and how we do it to create a powerful, flexible and robust storage cluster management software. LINSTOR® is an application that integrates with highly automated systems, such as software-defined storage systems or virtualization environments. Users often interact with the management interface […]
Container-Native Software Defined Storage (SDS) From LINBIT

Container-native software technologies represent the next wave of efficiency for data centres. Like previous waves, a new technology points to new levels of efficiency and delivers some of it. But as you get deeper into it, you see opportunities to optimize how it works. And after a while longer, you see it. Doing it in […]