Building & Operating Private Cloud with Cloudstack &
Linbit HCI Appliance
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Nischal, Linbit
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Open Source Block Storage Pioneer
Developers of DRBD® and LINSTOR®
24/7 Worldwide Support from LINBIT
Small Team of highly exp. Linux
Specialists
Developers (EU & US)
Who Are We?
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The Problem
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What is
Distributed Replicated Block Device
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DRBD Drill Down
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DRBD Roles: Primary & Secondary
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DRBD – multiple Volumes
• consistency group
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DRBD – up to 32 replicas
• each may be synchronous or async
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DRBD – Switch Over
• Disk failure
• Server failure
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LINSTOR - Hyperconverged
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LINSTOR - VM migrated
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LINSTOR - add local replica
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LINSTOR - remove 3rd
copy
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All this is good but….
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HCI Appliance Installation
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HCI Appliance Installation
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HCI Appliance Installation
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HCI Appliance Configuration
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HCI Appliance Configuration
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HCI Appliance Configuration
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HCI Appliance Configuration
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HCI Appliance Configuration
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HCI Appliance Configuration
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HCI Appliance Configuration
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Once this is done...!
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Any Questions?
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Thank you
https://linbit.com/
nischal@linbit.com
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Building and Operating a Private Cloud with CloudStack and LINBIT CloudStack HCI Appliance