Linbit: LinStor Linux Storage Management Tool Completed Testing With Red Hat Container Certification

Linbit HA-Solutions GmbH has completed testing with Red Hat, Inc., achieving Red Hat Container Certification for its Linux storage management tool, LinStor.

The LinStor repositories are available through the Red Hat Container Catalog, providing replicated persistent storage to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift users.

LinStor is an open source management tool designed to manage block storage devices for large Linux server clusters. Its primary use-case is currently to provide persistent Linux block storage for Kubernetes, OpenStack, OpenNebula and OpenShift environments. With native integration to Kubernetes, LinStor makes building, running, and controlling block storage simple.

“As a proud partner of Red Hat, Linbit’s mission is to change the way digital businesses design OpenShift storage infrastructures. Linbit enables OpenShift clients to provision persistent storage for applications like databases, ML, and messaging on high performance block devices, all using open-source software. LinStor provides high performance programmatic provisioning capabilities aligned with modern data center best practices. Linbit’s DRBD provides both the performance and redundancy expected by data center administrators: centrally-managed storage in a converged architecture or a disaggregated (e.g. top-of-rack) storage solution. Red Hat provides the Enterprise ready OpenShift Orchestrator. Working with Red Hat, our clients get innovative open source private cloud solutions,” said Philipp Reisner, CEO, Linbit

“Red Hat’s portfolio of open hybrid cloud technologies can help developers and architects looking to build new cloud-native applications or migrate existing workloads to cloud infrastructure build and deliver more readily supportable solutions sooner,” said Lars Herrmann, senior director, technology partnerships, Red Hat. “The Red Hat Container Certification shows that Linbit’s technology has passed a series of technical checks and measures on Red Hat platforms, providing confidence to customers in consistency and compatibility across hybrid cloud deployments. Red Hat is pleased to work with software partners like Linbit as part of an open and commercially-supportable application ecosystem.“

This LinStor certification expands the company’s relationship as a Container Partner with Red Hat to deliver a storage management tool solution for the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.

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