A new star is born: LIN:BEAT – The Band
LINBIT is opening up a new division to specifically address our community’s desire to turn the music up to 11! As you all know, LINBIT is famous for its DRBD, Software-Defined Storage (SDS) and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions. In a paradigm-shifting turn of events by management, LINBIT has decided to expand into the music industry. […]
LINSTOR grows beyond DRBD
For quite some time, LINSTOR has been able to use NVMe-oF storage targets via the Swordfish API. This was expressed in LINSTOR as a resource definition that contains a single resource with one backing disk (that is the NVMe-oF target) and one diskless resource (that is the NVMe-oF initiator). Layers in the storage stack In […]
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 […]
LINSTOR CSI Plugin for Kubernetes
A few weeks ago, LINBIT publicly released the LINSTOR CSI (Container Storage Interface) plugin. This means LINSTOR now has a standardized way of working with any container orchestration platform that supports CSI. Kubernetes is one of those platforms, so our developers put in the work to make LINSTOR integration with Kubernetes easy, and I’ll show […]
How to Setup LINSTOR in OpenStack
This post will walk through the installation and setup procedures for deploying LINSTOR for a persistent, replicated, and high-performance source of block storage within DevStack version of OpenStack running on an Ubuntu host. We will refer to this Ubuntu host as the LINSTOR Controller. This setup also requires at least one additional Ubuntu node handling […]
Why you should use LINSTOR in OpenStack
With the LINSTOR volume driver for OpenStack, Linux storage created in OpenStack Cinder can be easily provisioned, managed and seamlessly replicated across a large Linux cluster. LINSTOR is an open-source storage orchestrator designed to deliver easy-to-use software-defined storage in Linux environments. LINSTOR uses LINBIT’s DRBD to replicate block data with minimal overhead and CPU load. […]
It’s Official. LINSTOR Volume Driver is Now a Part of OpenStack Cinder.
It’s Official. LINSTOR volume driver is now part of OpenStack. With this code merge, LINSTOR volume driver is now officially part of OpenStack and brings a new level of software-defined-storage (SDS) service to Cinder, the OpenStack’s volume service. While the next OpenStack release named ‘Stein’ won’t be out until April, the latest LINSTOR driver is […]
How to Setup LINSTOR with OpenNebula
This post will guide you through the setup of the LINSTOR – OpenNebula Addon. After completing it, you will be able to easily live-migrate virtual machines between OpenNebula nodes, and additionally, have data redundancy. Setup Linstor with OpenNebula This post assumes that you already have OpenNebula installed and running on all of your nodes. At […]
CSI Plugin for LINSTOR Complete
This CSI plug-in allows for the use of LINSTOR volumes on Container Orchestrators that implement CSI, such as Kubernetes. Preliminary work on the CSI plugin for LINSTOR is now complete and is capable of operating as an independent driver. CSI is a project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation which aims to serve as an […]
