Kubernetes Persistent Container Storage
LINBIT® builds upon 20 years of experience developing and supporting production storage and high availability workloads, combined with modern best practices from the community.
Our production-grade software defined storage solutions combined with our world-class support for persistent container storage for Kubernetes works seamlessly with your most critical and intensive business applications.
Overview
With native integration to Kubernetes, LINSTOR® makes building, running, and controlling block storage simple. LINSTOR is open-source software defined to manage block storage devices for large Linux server clusters. It’s used to provide persistent block storage for Kubernetes environments.
Architecture
LINSTOR is composed of at least one controller and multiple satellites that connect over a secured connection to Kubernetes. This interaction is done via API or CLI.
Benefits
- Kubernetes Persistent Storage
- Block Storage Replication
- Kubernetes Integration
- RDMA
- Separation of Data & Control Plane
- Management of PMEM
- NVME Over Fabric
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Storage features:
• Snapshots
• Thin Provisioning
• Deduplication
• Encryption at Rest
Business Value
24 x 365
Support
No Vendor
Lock-In
Lower
TCO
Scale
Out
High
Performance
Open
Source
FAQ
Do you support RDMA/Infiniband?
Yes. LINBIT has an RDMA (verbs) API. The DRBD®– software works over Infiniband, RoCE, or iWarp to overcome the performance limitations of TCP/IP.
Do you work with databases?
LINSTOR® is perfectly suited for database workloads and structured data. We’ve reached up to 400,000+ IOPS for a single volume.
What Platforms Are Supported?
Most major Linux platforms are supported:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
- Oracle Linux 6.3+ (RHEL Compatible or UEK)
- Ubuntu Server Edition
Pricing
Open Source
LINBIT SDS
- DRBD 9 and LINSTOR
- Tech Guide for DRBD 9 and LINSTOR + Access to LINBIT's Extensive Documentation
Plus
LINBIT SDS
- All LINBIT SDS Open Source features, plus:
- Access to LINBIT's Repository to Download the Tested, Certified Linux Packages
- New Packages on Request: Next Business Day
- Unlimited Support Tickets
- Remote Installation/Troubleshooting by SSH/VPN
- Updates, Including New Features
- Emergency Support
- Failover Testing
- Emergency Initial Response Time: 4 Hours Maximum
- Initial Support Response Time: 8 Hours Maximum
- Email/Phone Support: 9/5 CE(S)T or PT
Enterprise
LINBIT SDS
- All LINBIT SDS Plus features, plus:
- RDMA License for Fast Infiniband Replication
- New Packages on Request Within 24 Hours
- Performance Tuning
- Support Engineer Assigned to Your Company
- Emergency Initial Response Time: 1 Hour Maximum
- Initial Support Response Time: 4 Hours Maximum
- Email/Phone Support: 24/7
