Does LINBIT SDS have any capacity limitations?
There is a 1PiB limit on an individual volumes. However, you can have many volumes with combined storage capacity greater than 1PiB.
Does LINBIT SDS support monitoring?
Yes, LINBIT SDS (LINSTOR) exposes a Prometheus metric endpoint on the controller, which can report on storage-pool utilization, resource definition counts, node states, etc. DRBD, the replication used in LINBIT SDS, also supports exposing Prometheus metrics.
Does LINBIT SDS support live PV (physical volume) Resize?
Yes, when “allowVolumeExpansion: true” is set on the StorageClass and the PV is created dynamically.
Is LINBIT SDS compatible with K8S “StorageClass” object?
Yes, most options for LINBIT SDS (LINSTOR) volumes are configured in the StorageClass objects.
Does LINBIT SDS provide data redundancy?
Yes, LINBIT SDS uses DRBD to replicate volumes – up to 32 replicas.
Does LINBIT SDS have a REST API for storage configuration and management?
Yes, LINBIT SDS (LINSTOR) has a REST API. In k8s environments the API can be accessed through the LINSTOR controller’s Kubernetes service (created by the LINSTOR Operator).
What types of encryption does LINBIT SDS support?
LINBIT SDS supports any encryption that is supported by the Linux Kernel and that is available on all nodes.
Does LINBIT SDS support data encryption at rest with external key management?
Yes, LINBIT SDS (LINSTOR) has native LUKS support that can be enabled/disabled.
Does LINBIT SDS architecture support multiple performance classes?
Yes, you can have multiple storage classes defined within LINSTOR. Each storage class could be backed by different classes of physical storage. Larger slower SSDs could make up one LINSTOR storage pool, while smaller lower latency NVMe devices could be used as another storage pool.
Does LINBIT SDS provide the ability to create writable clones of shares?
Yes, you can populate new persistent volumes from snapshots of other volumes.
