Fast, Low Latency Block Storage for VMware Environments
High-performance, scalable, enterprise-class block storage for VMware environments running on-premises or on Azure VMware Solution (AVS).
First NVMe/TCP Storage Solution with VMware Certification
With NVMe® over TCP (NVMe/TCP) support available in VMware ESXi 7 and beyond, users can now adopt NVMe-oF in a simple and frictionless way and enjoy better application performance and improved resource efficiency.
For on-premises deployments, Lightbits is fully certified for VMware ESXi 7.0U3, which allows VMware users to leverage standard Ethernet TCP/IP networks to deploy high-performance, highly available clustered storage that performs like local flash.
Furthermore, Lightbits disaggregated, software-defined storage provides seamless integration with vCenter, allowing virtualized applications to easily consume and manage high-performance, feature-rich NVMe storage while decoupling storage from compute resources for better resource efficiency and lower costs.
As the first NVMe/TCP storage certified by VMware for Azure, Lightbits delivers high-performance, scalable, and cost-efficient external block storage for virtualized workloads running on Azure VMware Solution (AVS). With its high performance and scalability, Lightbits is the ideal data platform for running virtualized workloads on Azure.
Storage Simplified for VMware Environments
Simple
Lightbits seamlessly integrates with VMware, offering standard, simple, secure storage access to any of your ESXi hosts and requiring no changes to your TCP/IP network with no proprietary ESXi drivers.
Flexible
Lightbits runs on any commodity hardware of your choosing or runs your virtualized applications on Azure VMware Solution. With software license portability, you can move storage resources where and when they are needed.
High Performance
Delivers high IOPS and low latency with the equivalent performance of local flash without proprietary hardware or expensive, premium public cloud storage.
High Resiliency
Improved service levels and a better user experience with consistent low latency offers faster rebuild times and higher resiliency levels.
Lower TCO
Disaggregated architecture dramatically improves resource efficiency and utilization for both private deployments and Azure to dramatically reduce storage costs.
Highly Available
Highly resilient storage with high availability that extends across the entire virtualized platform and across multiple zones.
Software-Defined Storage for AVS
For organizations looking to migrate virtualized workloads to the cloud, Azure VMware Solution (AVS) provides a fully consistent VMware platform that allows you to lift and shift to Azure without time-consuming, expensive application refactoring.
With scalable, high-performance, consistent low latency, and predictable low costs, Lightbits enables the successful migration of performance-intensive applications to AVS. Built with large-scale deployments in mind, Lightbits unifies resources like a SAN so you can provision and manage storage easily, but is disaggregated so you can scale compute and storage resources independently. With Lightbits software, you can run storage-intensive workloads that require high throughput and low latency, such as SQL and NoSQL databases, on AVS confidently and with lower storage costs.
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