Managing Data Redundancy with Harvester Storage Classes
Learn how Harvester uses Longhorn to provide distributed block storage, the impact of replication factors on availability, and how to avoid common performance pitfalls.
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Learn how Harvester uses Longhorn to provide distributed block storage, the impact of replication factors on availability, and how to avoid common performance pitfalls.
Harvester uses Longhorn as its default storage engine to provide distributed block storage for VMs. The replication factor you choose drives durability, storage overhead and write latency, and the storage plane network determines whether that durability actually holds.