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How To Use an Open Source SDS Solution for HashiCorp Nomad
Overview Nomad is a simple and flexible workload orchestrator which deploys and manages containers and non-containerized applications. It does so across on-prem and clouds at
Tutorial: Stacked Block Storage in LINBIT SDS (aka LINSTOR)
In this tutorial, I will show you how to use LINBIT SDS to orchestrate DRBD, bcache and ZFS in a stacked block storage layer. We
What is Business Continuity planning and why it’s important?
If we’ve learned anything over the past few years, it’s that in life, as well as business, it’s important to expect the unexpected. Business continuity
What is DR and Why is it Important?
The phones start beeping with alerts, warnings take over every radio and television station, panic starts to ensue – is your company’s data replicated anywhere
What makes LINSTOR a great choice for Block Storage Management for Containers
LINSTOR® is the main open source block replication software component behind our cloud storage platform LINBIT SDS®, and in this article, we will try to
Highly Available GitLab with DRBD
A Common Gitlab Deployment Scenario GitLab is an open DevOps platform used by many companies and organizations both small and large. While GitLab has a
Creating a Persistent Storage Solution Across Availability Zones in Amazon EKS
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) provides AWS users with Kubernetes clusters that are both scalable and highly available. Out of the box, EKS clusters will
LINBIT & OpenNebula TechDays: About Building IaaS Clouds
Open Source Block Storage for OpenNebula Clouds The LINBIT® OpenNebula TechDays was our mutual attempt to share our combined knowledge with the open source and
Rancher’s K3s and LINBIT SDS
K3s is a very popular Kubernetes distribution from Rancher Labs designed to be both simple to set up and lightweight (in terms of system resources,
What are the benefits of running DRBD in Diskless mode?
Introduction As the developers of DRBD®, LINBIT® has led the way in high availability since 2001. DRBD has been included in the Linux kernel since
Automated Testing at LINBIT with Virter
My previous blog post described Virter, a tool for running virtual machines (VMs). This post will show how we use that to test our software
Virter – Cloud Image Virtual Machines on Your Workstation
Virtual machines on your workstation At LINBIT® we like tools that are simple, convenient, and integrated. Managing virtual machines (VMs) for development and automated testing
OpenShift on IBM Z with LINBIT SDS
High-performance software-defined storage with full OpenShift integration, available on IBM Z OpenShift is RedHat’s enriched version of Kubernetes. An important building block for modern cloud
LINBIT Announces Partnership with Trilio for Cloud Backup of Kubernetes Applications and Related Storage Volumes
TrilioVault adds highly sophisticated data protection capabilities and improves operating efficiency for customers of LINSTOR with Kubernetes LINBIT® has finalized an agreement to partner with
How SDS Platforms Can Reduce Your Capital & Operational Expenditures Significantly
Software-defined storage industry – present and future Hardware-defined storage solutions are slowly becoming obsolete. The data is crystal clear: the future belongs to the software-defined
Tutorial: How to Integrate MinIO with LINSTOR to Distribute Data on Kubernetes
While LINSTOR® is on the way to becoming an industry standard as software defined block storage. MinIO stands out as the number one product in
