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DRBD and LINSTOR are open source. Pick the on-ramp that fits how you work.
Fastest path
A desktop app that takes you from bare metal to a verified DRBD + LINSTOR cluster over SSH — repositories, packages, storage pools, gateway targets, certificates and DRBD Reactor failover, with no Ansible or CLI expertise needed. It comes with an evaluation license, and the software is the same one you would run in production.
No sales call required. When you are ready for production support, talk to us.
Get the Deployment ToolEvaluating for production?
Tell us about your platform and cluster size and we will set you up with certified packages, the Deployment Tool and a guided evaluation.
Existing customers: the Deployment Tool and certified repositories are in the customer portal.
Public repositories for Ubuntu (PPA) and Debian at packages.linbit.com, and the public Proxmox VE repository with the full stack of DRBD, LINSTOR and the Proxmox plugin.
Deploy Piraeus Datastore — the open-source upstream of LINSTOR for Kubernetes — on minikube and have replicated persistent volumes on your laptop.
LINBIT SDS for Windows brings WinDRBD, LINSTOR and DRBD Reactor to Windows Server 2016–2025 for SQL Server, Hyper-V and file servers.
