By Business Wire
Publication Date: 2026-10-30 13:00:00
Open-source plugin delivers high-performance, resilient block storage for live migrations, high availability and snapshots without proprietary storage networking
SAN JOSE, Calif., October 30, 2026–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Lightbits Labs®, inventor of the NVMe® over TCP storage protocol and Inferra™, intelligent KV cache orchestration engine, today announced that it has been named a Solution Provider by Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH and released a native storage plugin for Proxmox Virtual Environment (Proxmox VE). The integration gives organizations evaluating alternatives to VMware a way to deploy shared, high-performance block storage using standard servers and existing Ethernet infrastructure.
As organizations reassess virtualization infrastructure and explore open-source alternatives, storage remains a critical consideration. Lightbits SDS disaggregated architecture enables independent scaling while delivering NVMe flash performance over standard Ethernet. It runs on commodity servers and replicates data across storage nodes to help maintain availability during drive and server failures. Multipath connectivity supports resilience against network-path failures. The result is shared block storage for performance-sensitive virtualized workloads that is easy to manage and configure through Proxmox VE and doesn’t require costly, complex networking.
The Lightbits open-source plugin connects Proxmox VE clusters to Lightbits