Case Study: Athabasca University achieves 99.99% availability with LINBIT DRBD

Athabasca University - Customer Case Study

Athabasca University, Canada’s leading distance-education and online university, needed a cost-effective way to keep its virtualized servers highly available so students could reliably access campus databases and applications 24/7. The challenge was supporting a rapidly growing student base and a large set of e-learning, internet, and external applications without disrupting service. LINBIT provided the DRBD solution used on servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Citrix Xen, and MySQL.

LINBIT’s DRBD enabled Athabasca University to deliver highly available storage and server services across nearly every system in its data center with minimal adoption cost. The result was a solution that was easy to implement, scalable, fast, efficient, and cost-effective, while achieving 99.99% availability. According to AU, LINBIT’s DRBD also reduced the time spent on infrastructure maintenance, letting the team focus more on the application stacks running on top of it.

Athabasca University

Dmitry Makovey

Systems Administrator