Lightbits Storage
for OpenStack Cloud
Build Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) with the Fastest, Most Scalable OpenStack Storage Solution.
Lightbits redefines how storage is managed and delivered in OpenStack cloud environments.
Lightbits is the best storage for OpenStack clouds, tailored for organizations seeking to modernize their data centers for efficiency and flexibility to support a diversity of applications, no matter what the requirements are. Lightbits software-defined, high-performance NVMe/TCP storage for OpenStack can be run on commodity hardware and seamlessly integrates into your desired architecture for faster deployment of cloud services.
Engineered for high performance, low latency, resiliency, and elasticity Lightbits enables end-to-end NVMe and will rapidly scale in lockstep with your business demands. The software delivers the best price/performance for OpenStack cloud while delivering a solid user experience.
OpenStack Cloud - Customer Stories
Lightbits' high-performance block storage solution has addressed our storage challenges, unlocking the full potential of Crusoe Cloud's infrastructure and empowering users to pursue innovative research and development in the field of climate science and AI. Together, Crusoe Cloud and Lightbits are driving the future of climate-focused computing toward a more sustainable and efficient tomorrow.
Rapid OpenStack Deployment and Expansion
Spin up new OpenStack shared storage services in minutes and support tens of thousands of workloads.
Best Price/Performance for
OpenStack Private Clouds
Reduce your TCO by over 50% compared to Ceph Storage, achieve up to 4.4M IOPS per Rack Unit, and use commodity hardware.
OpenStack Block Storage
for Any Application
Lightbits OpenStack Cinder driver enables seamless integration into your cloud while high availability, reliability and QoS ensure consistent user experience, making Lightbits an ideal OpenStack storage solution for mission critical applications. Ceph Storage Augmentation for OpenStack Clouds
With open source, software defined architecture you have the flexibility to choose either footprint for expansion–Lightbits or Ceph Storage. Procurement and maintenance are simple with a single server specification and set of hardware.
While Ceph offers open-source advantages and unified storage protocols, Lightbits is uniquely engineered to deliver 16x better performance, efficiency, and operational simplicity at scale under demanding production workloads, such as SQL, NoSQL, real-time, and vector databases.
OpenShift is ideal for managing containerized applications and supporting microservices-based architectures, making it a favorite for DevOps and developer teams.
OpenStack, on the other hand, is focused on managing infrastructure and is often used for building private clouds, giving IT administrators full control over compute, storage, and networking resources.
High-performance block storage for OpenStack and Red Hat OpenShift is an ideal choice for accelerating I/O-intensive real-time analytics and transactional workloads at scale.
Each platform serves different needs depending on the specific requirements of an organization. OpenStack is ideal for large-scale, customized cloud solutions.
OpenStack
It is an open-source cloud platform that allows users to build and manage both public and private clouds. It’s highly customizable and free to use, but you need expertise to implement, manage, and scale it.
VMware
VMware vSphere is a proprietary, commercial solution designed to virtualize data centers and manage cloud environments. It comes with licensing fees.
OpenStack can be integrated with Kubernetes enabling IT teams to build a more flexible, scalable, and integrated cloud environment that supports both traditional virtualized applications and modern containerized workloads. OpenStack provides the private cloud infrastructure (VMs, storage, networking), while Kubernetes handles the container orchestration on top, enabling hybrid environments across private and public cloud resources.
OpenStack and KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) are often used together and are a powerful combination for building and managing private or hybrid cloud infrastructures. KVM is an open-source hypervisor built into the Linux kernel that allows a Linux machine to act as a host for running multiple VMs. In an OpenStack cloud, KVM provides the virtualization layer, allowing OpenStack to spin up and manage VMs efficiently. KVM enables resource isolation, meaning multiple VMs can run on the same physical host without interfering with each other.
OpenStack uses KVM to create scalable, flexible, and multi-tenant cloud environments, making it an ideal solution for organizations and service providers wanting to build private or hybrid clouds.
Lightbits solves the unique storage demands of OpenStack and KVM environments. With seamless integrations, Lightbits meets the demands of your growing KVM environment. Lightbits clusters scale out block storage effortlessly without performance degradation, and deliver high availability and data protection with up to three data replicas.
With Lightbits, you gain a flexible, powerful storage platform for the full range of KVM-based applications and the most popular orchestrators.
Lightbits Software-Defined Storage for OpenStack Clouds
Lightbits OpenStack Cinder driver provisions and mounts highly available, replicated Lightbits volumes as NVMe devices to OpenStack compute nodes. The orchestration and management of data is controlled directly from OpenStack ensuring the seamless integration with any OpenStack cloud environment.
