Cost Efficient Storage Solutions for Azure VMware

This technical report outlines the integration of Lightbits storage solutions with Azure VMware Solution (AVS). It describes how AVS provides a VMware Software-Defined Data Center in the Azure cloud, enabling enterprises to migrate VMware workloads without extensive application refactoring. The report explains how Lightbits enhances AVS by offering cost-efficient, high-performance, and resilient external block storage. It details the architecture of AVS clusters and the challenges of migrating storage-intensive workloads, emphasizing the need for high throughput and low latency. The document also presents the benefits of using Lightbits, including independent scaling of storage and compute resources, predictable pricing, and improved availability. Additionally, it discusses the deployment of Lightbits as a managed application within the Azure Marketplace, highlighting the resources involved and the orchestration tools available for managing Lightbits datastores. The report concludes with a description of the zone-redundant storage capabilities that protect AVS datastores from zone failures.