Lightbits Photon Multi-Cluster Management GUI in Public Preview

Lightbits has announced the public preview of Photon, a new multi-cluster management GUI. Photon is designed to help users manage multiple Lightbits clusters more efficiently, providing a set of useful capabilities in an intuitive interface.

What is Photon?

Photon is a next-generation GUI solution, built to simplify the management of multiple Lightbits software-defined storage clusters. With Photon, you can monitor cluster health, manage storage, and explore various functionalities that make cluster operations smoother and more accessible. This technology preview version offers a glimpse into the core features, allowing you to evaluate how Photon can fit into your environment.

Key Features of Photon:

• Multi-cluster management: Attach and manage multiple Lightbits clusters with ease.
• Storage operations: Provision volumes, create snapshots, and monitor system health.
• User-friendly interface: Designed for simplicity, Photon enables quick access to a range of useful functionalities like volume creation and cluster monitoring.
• Preview limitations: As an early version, some features (such as user management and cluster upgrade functionality) are not fully operational yet, but we’re actively working on enhancing them.

Supported Use Cases

While in public preview, the following use cases are supported:

• Volume management: create and delete volumes
• Snapshot management: create and delete snapshots, as well as create volumes from snapshots
• Basic health and event monitoring: track health and key events across multiple clusters
• Track capacity, allocation, and usage: easily track capacity and volume allocation across clusters

Learn more here.