Software-Defined Storage Solutions
LINBIT SDS delivers ultra-fast, resilient block storage for private cloud infrastructure. The SDS solution enables commodity hardware to create high performance storage clusters. Thus LINBIT’s custom open source software-defined storage solution is perfect for cloud environments because it ensures application availability as your storage scales.Â
- Delivers ultra-fast, resilient block storage
- Community hardware for high-performing clusters
- Ideal for cloud environments
Software Components
LINSTOR - Controller, Satellite, and User Interface
The LINSTOR® system – one key software component of LINBIT SDS – consists of multiple server and client components.
- A LINSTOR controller manages the configuration of the LINSTOR cluster and all of its managed storage resources.
- The LINSTOR satellite component manages creation, modification and deletion of storage resources on each node that provides or uses storage resources managed by LINSTOR.
- All communication between LINSTOR components uses LINSTOR’s own network protocol, based on TCP/IP network connections.
- The storage system can be managed by directly using a GUI or a command line utility to interact with the active LINSTOR controller. Alternatively, users may integrate the LINSTOR system into the storage architecture of other software systems, such as Kubernetes.
- Seamless integration to various cloud environments with many additional software including Ha Controller, STORK, Kubectl Plugin, Operator
DRBD - The de facto standard Block Storage Replication tool
DRBD® – the other key software component of LINBIT SDS – is a distributed replicated storage system for the Linux platform.
It is implemented as a kernel driver, several userspace management applications, and some shell scripts. DRBD is traditionally used in high availability (HA) computer clusters, but it can also be used to create larger software defined storage pools with a focus on cloud integration.
Companies implement software-defined storage (SDS) in order to easily provision and manage data storage, independent of the underlying hardware environment.
Since the software simply presents a block device, users do not need to use complex, shared file systems. Because we can use a single node with a filesystem on top of a block device, backing disk failure is transparent to the end user.
SW/HW Agnostic
Latest LINBIT SDS Feature: GUI
The Graphical User Interface simplifies multi-cluster management and complex monitoring so your team can just go back to enjoying the power of Kubernetes persistent storage. Easy to install, easy to use.
Features:
- Storage pool dashboard with per node usage
- Built-in alerts and monitoring
- Simple Navigation system
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Benefits
Technical Benefits
- Open source
- Scale-out persistent storage
- In-kernel data replication
- Ultra-fast performance
- Low CPU utilization
Business Benefits
- Data Protection
- 24 x 365 remote support
- Lower TCO than proprietary solutions
- Remote installation option
- OpenShift primed certified
Features
- Open Source Software
- Geo-Clustering
- Distributed Storage
- High Availability
- Data Compression
- Snapshot Shipping
- Ultra Low Latency
- Thin Provisioning
- Remote Installation
- Tier 4 Availability
- Native RDMA InfiniBand Support
- Streamlined Configuration & Management
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?
LINBIT SDS 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?
Support Subscriptions for Production Deployments
We believe strongly in customer satisfaction. That’s why LINBIT offers 24/7 support services from our global team.
The LINBIT engineers are perfectly trained to help your team design, deploy, and support your infrastructure.
Open Source
LINBIT SDS
- DRBD 9 and LINSTOR
- Tech Guide for DRBD 9 and LINSTOR + Access to LINBIT's Extensive Documentation
- Self-service / Community Support
Plus
LINBIT SDS Support
- All LINBIT SDS Open Source features plus:
- Updates, Including New Features
- New Packages on Request: Next Business Day
- Annual Health Checks
- E-Mail/Phone Support
- Unlimited Support Tickets
- Remote Installation/Troubleshooting by SSH/VPN
- Failover Testing
- Emergency Support
- Emergency Initial Response Time: 4 Hours Maximum
- Initial Support Response Time: 8 Hours Maximum
Enterprise
LINBIT SDS Support
- All LINBIT SDS Plus features plus:
- New Packages on Request Within 24 Hours
- RDMA License for Fast Infiniband Replication
- Performance Tuning
- Support Engineer Assigned to Your Company
- Graphical User Interface
- Remote Support / Remote Management
- Dedicated Account Manager Assigned to Your Company
- Initial Support Response Time: 4 Hours Maximum
- Emergency Initial Response Time: 1 Hour Maximum
- Mail/Phone Support: 24/7
