The Next Generation's
High Performance Storage
LINBIT builds upon 20 years of experience developing and supporting production storage while integrating modern best practices from the community.
IBM has been putting various flavors of Linux on its mainframe computers for over 20 years. IBM and LINBIT teamed up to build the most refined production storage running on the IBM LinuxONE Platform.
Enterprise Kubernetes with OpenShift is fully supported by the IBM LinuxONE and LINBIT SDS through OpenShift CSI driver.Â
Key Benefits
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Improved Performance
IBM LinuxONE is faster than x86 competitors up to 6x - 12x. -
Lower TCO
IBM LinuxONE platform can provide up to 44% lower TCO than x86 alternatives -
Proven Resiliency & Data Insurance
No interruption in customer service - virtually zero downtime and fast DR to keep your business up and running! LinuxONE & LINBIT SDS can protect your data and manage privacy by policy across your infrastructure. -
Flexible Deployment Options
Gives you the flexibility to customize solutions to fit your business needs. Pay as you go pricing and flexible deployment options, spanning on-prem, private cloud and SaaS -
Stronger Compliance
Encrypting data at rest on LINBIT SDS volumes with encryption keys stored in the highest certified level of tamper-proof hardware. -
Meets Tiering Needs
LinuxONE can reduce your storage costs and help you overcome performance problems with tiering mechanism -
Perfect integration
With the help of the wide range API/Driver support, LINBIT SDS and LinuxONE is perfectly integrated in many orchestrators and can be used for OpenShift Storage. -
Disaster Recovery
Enterprises need disaster recovery plans for their critical applications & services. LinuxONE can integrate seamlessly for many DR plans.
Architecture Overview
1. Integration:
- Red Hat OpenShift certified
- Native Kubernetes integration with many additional advantages like Ha Controller, STORK, Kubectl Plugin, Operator
2. CLI / APIs / Drivers:
- CSI OpenShift driver is fully supported
- Wide range of API & driver support for integration
3. LINSTOR Controller:
- Separated data path for best day-2 operations
- Highly Available SDS Controller across the cluster manages the satellites
4. LINSTOR Satellites:
- Lightweight satellites manage LinuxONE nodes
- Can replicate synchronous for High availability, asynchronous for Disaster Recovery.
- OpenShift Storage is served inside of LinuxONE satellite nodes
- Ultra-fast, resilient block storage - enabling hardware to create high-performance storage clusters.
- The Platform ties together data availability, performance and scale.
- The Platform supports for Deduplication, Tiering, Data-Locality, Online Re-sizing, Caching and Snapshot Shipping.
Learn about the LinuxONE systems
IBM LinuxONE systems are designed to deliver the trust, efficiency and performance that can differentiate you in a wolrd standards.
- Open: Choose the tools and applications you love. OpenShift / Kubernetes is fully supported.
- Flexible: Meet demand with virtually limitless scale. OpenShift storage is in your fingertips.
- Simple: Fewer servers, less complexity, lower cost
- Efficient: Get unparalleled utilization and speed
- Trusted: Embedded security and service that never stops. Suports for Disaster Recovery and High Availability.
IBM LinuxONE single-frame
The new air-cooled, single-frame system extends next-level data privacy, security and resiliency to any hybrid cloud and is designed for businesses of all sizes.
IBM LinuxONE multi-frame
The multi-frame system brings innovative data privacy, security and resiliency to any hybrid cloud – and offers enterprise-level scalability.
Solution Features
Reliable Storage with Replication
Multi - Tier Storage
Separation of data & control plane
Interoperability between legacy & modern devices
Integrated with most of the operators
Faster response & deployment time
Business
Open-source
High Performance
Lower TCO
Scale Out
24 x 365 Support
Secure & Compliance
Storage Features
Snapshots
Thin Provisioning
Deduplication
Encryption at rest
“We’ve recognized that there is a massive demand for storage solutions with more capacity and lower latency. Organisations combining LINBIT SDS with our OpenFlex offering ... gain the confidence they need in their Kubernetes environments.”
“LINBIT provides superior support with professionals who are quickly able to discern problems, and provide clear and crisp resolutions in an understanding manner; this efficiency allows us to swiftly get back to our own business.”
“Because LINBIT has 24×7 support, and downtime is unacceptable, we purchased Enterprise level support and are happy to say Performance Matters absolutely got what they paid for. LINBIT is available to work in impossible time frames, which reaffirms our decision.”
“TruckPro has had flawless production with the LINBIT DRBD software. In fact, LINBIT’s professional and responsive support has been a notable part of TruckPro’s positive experience…. no other vendor compared to LINBIT.”
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