Blog - LINBIT

VIENNA, Nov. 8, 2018 – LINBIT, the pioneer in Linux-based Software Defined Storage (SDS) built on open source high availability, disaster recovery, and container technologies, today announced a reference architecture for SDS in collaboration with cloud...

Part of the design of LINSTOR is that if the central LINSTOR Controller goes down, all the storage still remains up and accessible. This should allow ample time to repair the downed system hosting the LINSTOR Controller. Still, in the majority of cases...

In many cases, existing DRBD resources that were created manually some time in the past can be migrated, so that LINSTOR can be used to manage those resources afterwards.
While resources managed by LINSTOR can coexist with resources that were created manually, it can often make sense to migrate such existing resources. When resources are migrated to LINSTOR manually, there are some settings that must be carefully adjusted...

In the tech world, a “layered cake” approach allows IT shops to enable new software capabilities while minimizing disruption. Need a new feature? Add a new layer. But like “too much of a good thing,” this approach has caused the IT stack to grow over...