Storage
On Linux, there are 2 techniques for storage management :
- the creation of classic partitions as on Windows
- creating volumes from one or more hard disks using LVM
To manage these 2 types of storage, there are obviously dedicated tools that you will find in the list below.
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DRBD
- Package name : drbd8-utils
- Publisher : LINBIT
- Categorie : Storage
- License : Free
DRBD is a free solution to replicate data of a server to ensure the high availability of your data.
In other words, DRBD allows you to create a RAID 1 over the network (tcp/ip) without having to use hardware technologies like SCSI and Fiber Channel. -
fdisk
- Publisher : fdisk
- Categorie : Storage
- License : Free
fdisk is a command line partitioning program présent by default in all GNU/Linux distributions.
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iSCSI Enterprise Target (IET)
- Package name : iscsitarget-dkms
- Publisher : Arne Redlich / Ross Walker
- Categorie : Storage
- License : Free
iSCSI Enterprise Target is an open source enterprise iSCSI server with professional features.
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lvm2
- Package name : lvm2
- Publisher : sourceware.org
- Categorie : Storage
- License : Free
LVM2 is a package for managing logical volumes from one or more hard drives.
LVM provides a great flexibility for the space occupied by each volume. In fact, each volume can be resized, deleted or added.
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open-iscsi
- Package name : open-iscsi
- Publisher : open-iscsi.org
- Categorie : Storage
- License : Free
open-iscsi is a cross-platform and high performance implementation of the iSCSI protocol to use a hard disk over the TCP/IP network.