Lightbits Labs will demonstrate how its LightOS
solution working with VMware vSAN can independently scale storage and
compute to maximize efficiency and flexibility. This demonstration will
take place at VMworld 2019 in San Francisco on August 28th.
The demonstration will highlight cases in which vSAN customers benefit
from disaggregation and how a VMware and Lightbits solution improves
their infrastructure utilization. Companies whose storage needs are
growing faster than their compute needs, who see the limitations of
expanding their storage through available drive slots on the host, and
who feel restricted by being unable to use storage from "outside" their
existing storage cluster, should join the demonstration and see how
Lightbits solutions can address their challenges.
VMware vSAN powers VMware's hyper-converged infrastructure solutions and
pools direct-attached storage devices across a VMware vSphere cluster
to create a distributed, shared data store. Storage and compute are
scaled in lockstep within vSAN. When combined with Lightbits' LightOS
software, vSAN users can disaggregate their hyper-converged
infrastructure (HCI) and can scale storage and compute independently,
with no change to the vSAN management or user experience.
By working with LightOS from Lightbits, our vSAN users gain the benefit
of NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) disaggregation, allowing for
heterogeneous clustering of vSAN nodes with local drives or even
diskless hosts. LightOS also lets vSAN users enjoy NVMe performance,
enhanced SSD endurance, and other benefits such as thin provisioning,
wirespeed compression, and erasure coding for fault tolerance.
"Adding hosts to grow storage is expensive and inefficient, and
typically strands unused capacity in the storage cluster," said Kam
Eshghi, VP of strategy and business development at Lightbits Labs.
"NVMe/TCP, pioneered by the Lightbits team, extends NVMe across the data
center using standard networks, connecting remote NVMe SSDs to hosts
with latencies that are indistinguishable from local storage."
Continuous demos will take place in the VMware Innovation Zone between 1:30 pm and 5 pm on Wednesday, Aug. 28.
"VMware constantly works with cutting edge technology providers to
enhance and extend the value of VMware solutions," said Vijay
Ramachandran, VP of product management, HCI business unit, VMware.
"Lightbits delivers an innovative software solution that optimizes
storage performance and endurance with a global FTL layer. The
technology holds great promise for customers looking to extend
hyperconverged infrastructure to environments that are served by
traditional storage products today."
In other news at the show, Lightbits rolled out improved hardware acceleration capabilities with the second generation of its LightField
storage acceleration card. This new iteration of LightField features
improvements in performance and power efficiency, cost as well as
smaller, half-height, half-length (HHHL) PCIe add-in card form factor.
The reduced size allows for integration into a broader set of commodity
storage servers, including 1U high density storage servers.