StorPool Improves Support For VMware Alternative Apache CloudStack
StorPool Storage has responded to heightened demand from VMware customers by expanding its Apache CloudStack integration capabilities. Apache CloudStack, an open-source IaaS platform, is gaining popularity among VMware users seeking reduced vendor lock-in, cost optimization, and future-proofed IT environments. CloudStack's current KVM-hypervisor host High Availability (HA) feature relies on NFS primary storage for node detection, even when deploying faster block-level storage. StorPool has innovatively addressed this limitation by introducing a mechanism that bypasses the NFS primary storage heartbeat dependency, extending KVM host HA for non-NFS storage within Apache CloudStack environments. This enhancement simplifies CloudStack deployments and enables global cloud builders to choose block-level primary storage, providing more flexibility compared to the NFS-only alternative.
The newly implemented functionality empowers cloud and storage architects to deploy an automated, reliable, agile, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure based on CloudStack, KVM hosts, and StorPool Storage. Alex Ivanov, Product Lead at StorPool Storage, emphasized the breakthrough in overcoming storage limitations in the rapidly adopted KVM and CloudStack stack. StorPool's solution, which eliminates the mandatory use of NFS primary storage in the cloud, offers superior performance, surpassing other primary storage products in terms of reliability, agility, speed, and cost-effectiveness, thus expanding storage options for high-availability deployments.
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