DRBD Alternatives

DRBD is described as 'LINBIT’s DRBD® software seamlessly replicates data between servers, eliminating “single points of failure” within your IT infrastructure, no matter which applications are running on top' and is an app in the backup & sync category. There are more than 10 alternatives to DRBD for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Self-Hosted solutions, Mac, Windows and iPhone. The best alternative is Ceph, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like DRBD are Seaweed FS, StorPool, BeeGFS and LVM2.

DRBD alternatives are mainly Cloud Storage Services but may also be Cloud Computing Services or Cloud Hosting Services. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of DRBD.

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Ceph
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Free • Open Source
Linux
19 alternatives to Ceph
Ceph is a distributed object store and file system designed to provide excellent performance, reliability and scalability.
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Seaweed FS
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Free • Open Source
Cloud Storage Service
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Windows
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Self-Hosted
14 alternatives to Seaweed FS
SeaweedFS is a simple and highly scalable distributed file system to store and serve billions of files fast! SeaweedFS object store has O(1) disk seek and SeaweedFS Filer supports cross-cluster replication, POSIX, S3 API, ,….
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WebDAV Support
Erasure coding
S3 storage support
Distributed
Fault tolerant
Region replication
Kubernetes
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File Storage
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StorPool
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Paid • Proprietary
Cloud Storage Service
Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise
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Ubuntu
Debian
Ubuntu Server
Microsoft Hyper-V Server
Red Hat
39 alternatives to StorPool
StorPool is an intelligent software-defined storage solution that allows service providers, enterprises and other Cloud builders to run data storage on standard x86 servers, instead of on expensive and inefficient storage arrays (SANs).
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HCI support
High Availability
Infiniband support
ISCSI support
QoS
Backups and Disaster Recovery
Data tiering
Thin Provisioning
Automatic recovery
Zeroes detection
BeeGFS
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Free • Proprietary
Linux
21 alternatives to BeeGFS
BeeGFS (formerly FhGFS) is a parallel cluster file system, developed with a strong focus on performance and designed for very easy installation and management.
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LVM2
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Free • Open Source
Linux
5 alternatives to LVM2
LVM2 refers to the userspace toolset that provide logical volume management facilities on linux. It is reasonably backwards-compatible with the original LVM toolset.
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XtreemFS
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
19 alternatives to XtreemFS
XtreemFS is an object-based, distributed file system for wide area networks. The file system replicates objects for fault tolerance and caches metadata and data to improve performance over high-latency links. SSL and X.
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GlusterFS
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Free • Open Source
Linux
17 alternatives to GlusterFS
GlusterFS is a scale-out network-attached storage file system. It has found applications including cloud computing, streaming media services, and content delivery networks. GlusterFS was developed originally by Gluster, Inc. and then by Red Hat, Inc.

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Elliptics
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Free • Open Source
Linux
Self-Hosted
15 alternatives to Elliptics
Elliptics network is a fault tolerant key/value storage. It was designed to handle all error cases starting from simple disk problems upto datacenter failures. With default key generation policy it implements distributed hash table object storage.
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Object storage
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Vitastor
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Free • Open Source
Linux
Self-Hosted
8 alternatives to Vitastor
Vitastor is a small, simple and fast clustered block storage (storage for VM drives), architecturally similar to Ceph which means strong consistency, primary-replication, symmetric clustering and automatic data distribution over any number of drives.
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File Storage
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Object storage
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NetApp
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Paid • Proprietary
Cloud Hosting Service
Cloud Computing Service
Online Backup Tool
iPhone
iPad
7 alternatives to NetApp
NetApp Support provides information about Cases, AutoSupports and Fitness of your NetApp storage systems helping you to enhance uptime.
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