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LXD 6.3 Brings Pure Storage Driver, Improved GPU Pass-Through

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Mar 15, 2025

LXD 6.3 system container manager

Quoting: LXD 6.3 Brings Pure Storage Driver, Improved GPU Pass-Through —

LXD, a modern system container manager developed by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has just released LXD 6.3, marking the third feature launch in the 6.x series.

One of the standout additions is the “pure” storage driver, providing integration with remote Pure Storage arrays. Pure Storage offers a scalable, software-defined storage system, and LXD now seamlessly supports connections through iSCSI or NVMe/TCP protocols.

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