Linbit Launching Next-Gen HA Solution With DRBD9

LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH announced the availability release of its DRBD9 software.

Developed to provide end-users, OEMs and ISVs a tool to build redundant, highly scalable and flexible storage architectures, DRBD9 is an replication design capable of connecting 30 nodes in real time to ensure data availability from multiple locations – even when disaster strikes.

Designed as a building block for today’s most advanced storage architectures and HA systems, DRBD9’s mesh-like multi node replication extends the scope of current DRBD versions while eliminating duplication overhead and keeping data logging to a minimum. And since DRBD9 is Open Source software, it is easily adapted to any infrastructure.

“LINBIT is doing important work with the Linux community to advance HA advanced storage infrastructures,” said Mike Woster, COO, Linux Foundation. “We’re ,king forward to the company’s ongoing contributions to the community and the resulting market success with products like what they’re releasing today.“

“LINBIT introduced DRBD9 because most software defined storage technologies are unable to address the need for high performance or low latency synchronous data replication, and Traditional SAN storage isn’t cost effective enough to keep up with today’s ever expanding storage needs.” said Philipp Reisner, CEO and CTO, LINBIT. “IT continuity is critical, and no geograhically diverse enterprise today can rsk the expense of inflexible, proprietary systems or internal application downtime.“

Designed as a Linux based kernel module, LINBIT’s DRBD Open Source software enables HA for virtually any application.Today thousands of companies worldwide use DRBD to ensure availability of their critical applications and services. The DRBD9 solution expands the core functionality of DRBD, allowing for more than 30 storage nodes in a distributed network to remain in sync, delivering HA on a new scale. Its flexible protocol architecture allows for offsite DR in addition to local high-speed replication.

Features and benefits of DRBD9 include:

• Replication performance: RDMA is integrated into DRBD9, enabling low latency storage replication. PCIe storage combined with IB network cards yields a 100% replication increase over traditional IP-based networks, while simultaneously reducing CPU load by 50%.

• Availability: DRBD9 allows for interconnection of more than 30 geographically diverse distributed storage nodes across any network environment – enabling businesses of all sizes to afford cross-site availability, and not mere backups.

• Integrative management: The DRBD Manage application allows the deployment of complex storage infrastructures within minutes. It exposes all necessary APIs to automate DRBD9’s features in infrastructures such as OpenStack or Linux-based alternatives to traditional SANs.

“We are committed to providing an easily-accessible solution that gives businesses peace of mind, even during outages and hardware failures” added Reisner. “DRBD9 keeps locally and globally distributed storage systems synchronized at all times, ensuring applications and services can continue running even in the face of disaster.“

DRBD9 is available and can be downloaded.