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Making Nagios XI Highly Available on RHEL 9 by Using DRBD & Pacemaker Tech Guide
LINBIT® has an updated and expanded technical guide available with instructions for making a Nagios XI deployment highly available by using DRBD® and Pacemaker on
Thoughts on Red Hat’s Source Repository Changes
Recently, Red Hat’s change in how they distribute the source code of their distro caught my (and the open source world’s) attention. The Register has an excellent historical
The Benefits of Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is a computer systems architecture that abstracts the compute, storage, and networking components of the architecture by using their software-defined functional equivalents
DRBD 9.2 Updates
The eight-week cadence brings the new DRBD releases 9.1.15 and 9.2.2. The two releases contain roughly the same bug fixes. What these bug fixes have in
Abstracting Persistent Storage Across Environments With LINBIT SDS
Kubernetes can be thought of as an infrastructure abstraction layer for on-premise and cloud computing. The applications you deploy into one cloud platform or on-premise
An Introduction to LINBIT SDS Management
As part of ongoing efforts to make LINBIT® software-defined storage (SDS) solutions better understood and more widely used, the LINSTOR® Users Guide has undergone a major change.
LINBIT SDS is now on Xinnor xiRAID
LINBIT SDS and xiRAID have proven to work exceptionally well together, and with LINBIT SDS now on Xinnor xiRAID, I wanted to cover the subject
STAC Summit, Software Updates, & Testimonials
I recently spoke at STAC Summit in London and Rene Peinthor, a LINBIT developer, was also in London for his talk at the CloudStack European User Group.
PHOENIX MEDIA Switches Out Competitor with LINBIT SDS for Kubernetes
High performance will always be a core value of any of our software. We recently shared some exciting performance results from our collaboration with Ampere,
Using Velero & LINBIT SDS to Back Up & Restore a Kubernetes Deployment
Authors: Joel Zhou & Michael Troutman — In a Kubernetes cluster that has persistent storage managed by LINBIT SDS, you can have a high-availability solution
Persistent Storage Solutions for Kubernetes Using LINBIT’s Software: HCI, Disaggregated, & NAS
LINBIT® has been growing its catalog of open source storage and high-availability (HA) clustering software for many years with various drivers, plugins, and platforms all with DRBD®
Speed of Light Media Replaces Ceph with DRBD for Its Cloud Needs
Speed of Light Media has been ecstatic with their decision to replace CEPH in favor of DRBD®. According to Robert Isaacs, the tech-savvy founder and
Monitoring Clusters Using Prometheus & DRBD Reactor
UPDATE 5/15/2023: While the ha_cluster_exporter project is still active and well, LINBIT® now has their own software, DRBD® Reactor, for exporting Prometheus metrics specific to
Getting Started in Kubernetes for Persistent High-Availability Storage with LINBIT SDS
LINBIT® SDS is the product name for LINBIT’s LINSTOR® and DRBD® software, and the plugins, drivers, and utilities that work with them. Together, these combine
LINBIT Content & Software Updates
These days, I have been staying busy preparing for my presentation at STAC Research in London on May 4th. On the same day, Rene will speak at
Deploy a Highly Available MariaDB Service Using LINSTOR & DRBD Reactor Tech Guide
You can quickly and easily deploy a high-availability (HA) MariaDB service by using LINBIT SDS components and DRBD Reactor as a cluster manager. Making your