StorPool Storage Delivers Persistent Storage for Kubernetes

StorPool Storage announced its expansion into the Kubernetes market.

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The solution has already become one of the main choices when it comes to creating scalable and performance clouds. Its native integration with K8S meets all core requirements of  ‘Persistent Volumes for Kubernetes’.

Combination of StorPool’s storage and Kubernetes
The native integration with Kubernetes is achieved by expanding the firm’s SDS platform with a CSI (Container Storage Interface) driver. This allows on-premise Kubernetes clusters to have fast and reliable persistent storage for their containers and databases or stateful applications and microservices.

The company’s K8S CSI driver supports the ‘dynamic volume provisioning’ feature, enabling persistent volumes in the cluster to be dynamically attached/detached to different Kubernetes nodes on-demand. This automates the pre-provisioing of the storage and the volumes are provisioned as requested.

In addition, persistent storage must prevent data loss and ensure data accessibility at all times. The company provides a cloud-native storage architecture with a set of data management features such as: end-to-end data integrity; Copy-on-write snapshots and clones; HA; Multi-stack support; scalability; Backups and DR; and Advanced Monitoring and Statistics.

Increased demand for persistent storage for containers
When deploying containers with Kubernetes, companies eventually realize that they need persistent storage. However, its implementation is one of the top challenges for administrators, DevOps, and cloud engineers. They need to provide fast and reliable storage for the data used by the containers, which should survive hardware and software failures, reboots, and updates.

Using the company’s solution as persistent storage for Kubernetes brings easier management, scaling, and flexibility. It provides a faster and highly-available environment to run databases and stateful apps. You can run both VMs and container environments on the same storage stack.

Persistent storage across many IT stacks
Managing large-scale IT infrastructure often requires multi-stack/platform support for multiple virtualization technologies and cloud management systems. Many companies have grown their infrastructure by utilizing different technologies, and now they need to simultaneously run – or consolidate – workloads of VMware, Hyper-V, OpenStack, bare-metal, and other systems.

The company is positioned to deliver a SDS platform, which provides storage simultaneously to several IT software stacks, all at once. The longevity, performance, and security of data is ensured with the firm, regardless of wherever this data is stored.

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