Native integration available between Canonical LXD and HPE Alletra MP B10000

The integration combines efficient open source virtualization with high performance, enterprise grade storage

We are pleased to announce a new, original integration between Canonical LXD and HPE Alletra. This integration brings together Canonical’s securely engineered, open source virtualization platform with HPE’s enterprise-grade storage to deliver a simple, scalable, high-performance experience.

HPE Alletra is designed to deliver mission-critical storage at mid-range economics, with a consistent data experience across multiple cloud environments. With this integration, Canonical LXD and MicroCloud users can now provision and manage Alletra block storage directly through the LXD interface, without the need for any third-party plugins or additional abstraction layers.

The integration enables users to seamlessly create, attach, snapshot and manage thin-provisioned block volumes as easily as working with local storage, while maintaining the full performance, resiliency and enterprise data services of HPE Alletra.

HPE Alletra NVMe-based architecture ensures sub-millisecond latency for demanding workloads, with built-in services such as thin-provisioning and data deduplication that minimize storage costs while maintaining consistent performance. Combined with LXD’s lightweight control plane and streamlined UI, users can easily operate their environments, combining the best of open source with enterprise storage functionality.

As demand grows, new volumes and storage capacity can be assigned instantly. Alletra’s scaled-out, modular architecture ensures that the platform can expand without disrupting running workloads.

LXD provides a unified open source virtualization platform for running system containers and virtual machines with a focus on efficiency, security and ease of management. With native support for HPE Alletra, enterprises can now build, deploy and manage their workloads with enterprise storage guarantees, whether in private clouds, on-premise data centers or edge environments.

The combined solution empowers teams to deliver predictable performance for critical and data-intensive workloads while reducing complexity and ensuring agility.

The integration between LXD and HPE Alletra is available from the LXD 6.6 feature releaseand requires an HPE Alletra WSAPI version 1. LXD currently supports connecting to HPE Alletra storage through NVMe/TCP or iSCSI protocols. For detailed information, visit Canonical’s LXD documentation.