Lightbits on Microsoft Azure
High-performance cloud storage. Consistent sub-millisecond latency. Enterprise-grade resiliency. All delivered with maximum cost-efficiency.
Microsoft Azure Cloud Overview
Migrate Storage-Intensive Applications to Azure with Confidence
Lightbits Cloud Data Platform delivers the most scalable, highest-performance storage on Azure with the efficiency you need to control costs for your ever-growing cloud environment. With Lightbits, your storage-intensive workloads, such as SQL and NoSQL databases, can run on Azure efficiently even at peak demand periods, giving your users an exceptional experience–without running up cloud charges.
Reduce Azure Cloud Storage Costs.
Migrate latency-sensitive apps that couldn’t previously run on Azure due to storage bottlenecks and pay only for the Azure storage optimized virtual machines you deploy. Provision as many volumes or snapshots to any number of virtual machines with no additional cost.
Enterprise Data Services. High Availability.
Lightbits on Azure comes with built-in enterprise features: snapshots, clones, QoS, compression and thin provisioning. Spans multiple Availability Zones and plugs directly into Azure Virtual Machines.
High-Performance Multi-Tenant Storage.
With NVMe/TCP shared storage you can provision high-performance, persistent volumes to your application, protecting data from failures and enabling dynamic, independent scaling of compute and storage. A single Lightbits cluster can service multiple heterogeneous app environments.
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Microsoft Azure Cloud Use Cases
Lightbits for Oracle on Azure
Storage will affect how well your Oracle tasks run, how reliable they are, and how much they cost. Understanding the choices of available storage options and their performance capabilities is the key to successfully migrating Oracle to Azure VMs.
“Lightbits has the most scalable and highest performance storage we’ve tested on Azure.”
— Azure Storage Product Manager
Lightbits Cloud Data Platform Advantage
Enterprise Features
High Performance
Data Protection & High Availability
Ease of Use
Scalable
Hybrid Cloud
| Azure Disk Storage | Lightbits | Lightbits Advantage | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Storage Costs |
Charged by capacity plus for provisioned IOPS and throughput |
No IOPS or throughput charges and up to 86% lower pricing than Azure Ultra Disk |
Low, predictable pricing for premium performance |
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Performance |
Up to 160K IOPS per volume and Up to 120K IOPS per VM using Azure Ultra Disk |
1M IOPS/volume, 3M+ IOPS per VM, consistent low latency
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Maximum performance for your most demanding storage-intensive workloads
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Snapshots & Clones
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No (top tier storage) Yes (low performance storage)
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Yes |
Instant protection and recovery
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Compression & Fast Thin Provisioning
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No |
Yes |
Increase your effective storage capacity |
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Cloud and On-Premise
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No |
Yes |
Flexibility |
Microsoft Azure Cloud Deployment
Lightbits Managed Application on Azure
Lightbits is available through the Marketplace as a Managed Application, making it as easy to provision and manage as the native storage offerings. Managed application services include 24/7 health monitoring, high availability with SLAs, proactive software upgrades, critical vulnerability patches, auto-healing notifications, and guidelines for cluster expansion.
Resources
Lightbits on Microsoft Azure
Lightbits Integrated with K8s Cluster Deployment Demonstration
