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Migrating and Managing Nutanix Workloads on Pure Storage FlashArray
January 27 | Register Now! Let’s move past the slide deck and get into the Nutanix and Pure Storage solution. Join two of our senior technical experts for a live, end-to-end demonstration of this new integrated solution. We will simulate a real-world deployment scenario, showing you exactly how to leverage the performance of Pure Storage FlashArray™ within your Nutanix environment. This is a technical "how-to" designed for architects and admins who want to see the plumbing behind the partnership. Here’s what we’ll demo live: Connectivity and setup: A step-by-step connection of the FlashArray to the Nutanix cluster, ensuring optimal configuration for low-latency workloads. Seamless migration: The workflow for migrating active workloads onto the joint solution without breaking a sweat. Provisioning in action: Create a Virtual Machine and track the corresponding volume directly on the FlashArray management console. Advanced data protection: How to execute and manage high-performance snapshots for instant recovery and data mobility. Register now!
4 Ways Pure1 Detects Storage Vulnerabilities before Attackers
3 MIN READ January 2026: Strengthening Your Storage Security Posture through Visibility and Continuous Scanning Storage infrastructure often flies under the radar in vulnerability management programs—until a critical CVE surfaces and security teams scramble to determine which arrays are affected, what versions are running, and how quickly they can be patched. Pure1® eliminates that scramble. With automated fleet-wide scanning, real-time CVE mapping, and AI-powered risk prioritization, you can detect and remediate storage vulnerabilities in minutes instead of days. Here are four security practices that leverage Pure1 to keep your infrastructure ahead of emerging threats. 1. Know Your Environment through Pure1 A surprising number of security gaps arise simply because organizations don’t have clear visibility into what they own, where it runs, or which software versions are deployed. This includes host operating systems, hypervisors, middleware, container platforms, and attached storage systems. In 2026, we strongly recommend the following as a baseline: Maintain an authoritative asset inventory that includes servers, VMs, containers, networking components, storage arrays, and management systems. Track OS and firmware versions so you can quickly identify where vulnerabilities may apply. Align inventory systems with your vulnerability management program, ensuring asset records update automatically after changes, upgrades, or new deployments. When a vulnerability arises, minutes matter. Having an accurate inventory dramatically accelerates response and reduces risk. 2. Conduct Routine Security Scanning with Proven Tools Routine scanning is essential to identify known vulnerabilities and misconfigurations before adversaries can exploit them. We recommend that customers establish and automate regular scans across the full stack, including OS, application, and network layers. Examples of widely used enterprise-grade scanning solutions include: Tenable Nessus/Tenable.io Qualys Vulnerability Management Rapid7 InsightVM OpenSCAP (for organizations requiring open source or compliance-driven scanning) Microsoft Defender for endpoint vulnerability management (for Windows-centric environments) These tools help detect risks associated with: Outdated OS versions Missing patches Weak or misconfigured services Known exploit paths Compliance gaps Scanning should be scheduled continuously or at a minimum weekly, with results integrated into your SIEM, configuration management database (CMDB), or ticketing system for remediation workflows. 3. Stay Informed: Use Pure Storage Security Resources to Monitor Vulnerability Risk Pure Storage provides several mechanisms to help customers stay aware of current vulnerabilities, product guidance, and recommended remediations. We encourage customers to use all available resources based on their connectivity model (connected vs. dark site). Pure Storage CVE Database (Public) Our centralized CVE repository provides authoritative information on all known vulnerabilities affecting Pure Storage products. Entries include severity ratings, impacted versions, remediation steps, and patch availability. Bookmark it. Check it routinely. Pure1 Fleet Security Assessment Center (for Phoning-home Environments) If your arrays are connected to Pure1, you gain access to automated fleet-wide security intelligence: Insights into which arrays are affected by current CVEs Version-specific vulnerability mapping Prioritized recommendations Health and risk scoring Security posture trending over time Pure1 AI Copilot AI Copilot enhances vulnerability awareness by: Surfacing relevant CVE insights directly to administrators Providing proactive upgrade guidance Highlighting misconfigurations or emerging risks Recommending actions tailored to your environment This gives operations teams a powerful ally in detecting and acting on risk signals early. Pure Storage Security Bulletin Page The Security Bulletin page provides release announcements, security advisories, and critical updates. It's designed for security professionals who require real-time visibility into product-level risks, including high-severity industry disclosures. Customers—especially those in regulated, security-sensitive, or air-gapped environments—should build a discipline around monitoring this page. 4. Where Possible, Enable Phoning Home for Maximum Protection Connected customers benefit from real-time intelligence and automated assessments, including: Vulnerability detection Upgrade recommendations Fleet-wide configuration checks Security posture comparison against best practices If your environment’s security model permits it, enabling phone-home telemetry unlocks the full Pure1 experience—including AI Copilot and the Fleet Security Assessment Center. For dark-site customers, we continue to expand offline and manual workflows to ensure you can maintain the same high standard of security without connectivity. Learn more: When Data Storage Learns: How Telemetry Transforms Storage Management Strengthen Your 2026 Security Resilience Today A strong cybersecurity foundation is built on visibility, continuous detection, and timely response. By maintaining a thorough inventory, performing routine vulnerability scanning, and leveraging Pure1 security tools and resources, your organization can significantly reduce risk and stay ahead of evolving threats. If you need guidance on implementing any of these practices—or want assistance reviewing the security posture of your Pure Storage environment—your Pure Storage account team and support engineers are ready to help. 2026 will bring new challenges. With the right practices and tools, you can meet them with confidence.
We are just one week away PUG#3
January 28th, the Cincinnati Pure User Group will be convening at Ace's Pickleball to discuss Enterprise file. We will be joined by Matt Niederhelman Unstructured Data Field Solutions Architect to help guide conversation and answer questions about what he is experiencing amongst other customers. Click the link below to register and come join us. Help us guide the conversation with your ideas for future topics. https://info.purestorage.com/2025-Q4AMS-COMREPLTFSCincinnatiPUG-LP_01---Registration-Page.htmlStop Guessing, Start Recovering: Near-Zero RTO in Action
February 5 | Register now! Cyberattacks are faster and smarter—recovery must be too. Join Pure Storage and Rubrik to see the industry’s first integrated cyber-recovery solution that delivers full data visibility and near-zero RTOs. Discover how combining Rubrik Security Cloud with the Pure Storage Enterprise Data Cloud (EDC) eliminates guesswork, strengthens data integrity, and enables confident, rapid recovery of critical workloads. Key takeaways: Learn how Pure Storage and Rubrik deliver near-zero RTOs with complete data visibility. See how Pure Storage SafeMode™ Snapshots enable the fastest, most reliable recovery. Discover how Rubrik’s continuous threat detection scans backup data and shares Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) with Pure Storage EDC. Register Now!Welcome & Intro
I'm VERY excited about this new Pure Storage Community site! Paired with the return of the PUG (Pure Users Group) these are both GREAT opportunities for the MOST important people out there, YOU, our customers to meet others in the industry tackling similar problems. Thought I'd start off with a thread for introductions. Joe Mudra (or just Mudra) here, been at Pure storage ~3 years, prior to that I was a Sr. SE at Arctic Wolf Networks and before that Veeam Software (for a while, ~6 yrs). I started in IT at Ohio University while attending school there before moving to the Columbus area where I worked at a variety of IT shops locally (Omnicare, Residential Finance, Pacer Logistics, XPO Logistics, & Commercial Vehicle Group). I'm currently working with State, Local & Education accounts in Ohio. Needless to say, in that time, I worked with a lot of Network, Server, Storage Infrastructure stacks. But I honestly got my start in software administration (Esker Deliverware (faxing software), Microsoft Server administration, (Whole slew of MSFT products), VMWARE!!! (rip), Cisco, Cisco UCS, IBM, NetApp, EMC, HPE & Dell. Was a bit of the "Give it to Joe, he'll figure it out." guy for a while, and I got learned so much by just raising my hand when asked if anyone wanted the new (sometimes tedious) sounding project. I've been a Pure fanboy from the start. Unfortunately, in my years in the data centers, Pure at the time was out of my price range, as Flash was $$$ back then (wish I had ran the long term TCO for my employers!) and I didn't understand Pure's Evergreen//Forever program. i.e. Refreshed storage for the cost of normal maintenance + flat maintenance costs. (My apologies to my old employers for missing this opportunity.) I learn the most when I get to chat with customers and hear about their challenges. So THANK YOU! To every one of you who take the time to share, I am forever grateful and appreciative!!! Personally, got 2 daughters in Dublin Jerome HS, one who will graduate this year and head off to College, and another in her Freshman year. I spend as much time as life allows with them. And the newest member of my family... a new Jeep Wrangler Willy's ER (Annie). Let's talk about Jeeps!!! :)Cincinnati Pure User Group: Real-time Enterprise File
Register Now => Join us for an exclusive Pure User Group (PUG) session dedicated to the future of file services. This isn't just a technical briefing; it’s a community gathering designed for peer-to-peer learning and strategic roadmap building. We’re diving deep into the Real-time Enterprise File vision—exploring how to unify your environment across FlashArray and FlashBlade to eliminate silos and escape the "forklift upgrade" trap forever. Whether you’re managing simple departmental shares or complex AI/ML pipelines, this is your chance to connect with local experts, share battle-tested insights, and see how to make your data plane as agile as your business demands. What You’ll Learn The Power of Choice: Understand how Pure’s file capabilities span the entire portfolio. We’ll clarify exactly when to leverage FlashArray vs. FlashBlade for workloads ranging from VDI and VMware over NFS to massive AI/ML repositories. Production-Ready Excellence: Go beyond the basics with a look at the capabilities that matter in the real world: multi-protocol support (SMB/NFS), directory integration, Kerberos security, and multi-tenancy for segmented environments. The "Last Refresh" Strategy: Get practical, no-nonsense guidance on sizing and migration tooling. Learn how to consolidate legacy filers and execute a migration that ensures you never have to do a forklift upgrade again. Peer-to-Peer Wisdom: This is a user group first. You’ll hear directly from local customers about their real-world journeys—what worked, what didn't, and the lessons they learned that you can apply to your own data center tomorrow. Event Agenda 2:00 PM | Welcome & Round-the-Room: We start with quick intros. We want to know who you are and exactly what technical hurdles you’re looking to clear. 2:15 PM | The Real-time Enterprise File Vision: An overview of the vision and where the portfolio is headed. See what’s new and what’s next for FlashArray and FlashBlade. 2:40 PM | Deep Dive: Design Patterns & Use Cases: We’ll walk through common architectural designs for home directories, content repositories, and NFS datastores, including proven protection and recovery patterns. 3:10 PM | Customer Spotlight & Panel: A 25-minute interactive session with local peers. Hear their architecture stories and get your toughest questions answered in an open Q&A. 3:35 PM | Whiteboard Session: Your File Roadmap: An open, interactive conversation about your specific challenges—from unstructured data growth to migration blockers. Let’s map out where Pure can help. 3:55 PM | Wrap-up & Next Steps: Key takeaways, resources for your team, and a preview of our next PUG event. 4:00 PM | Networking & Happy Hour Date & Time January 28, 2026 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST Location Aces Pickleball 2730 Maverick Dr Norwood, OH 45212 (Factory 52)Ask Us Everything about Pure Storage + Nutanix
💬 Get ready for our January 2026 edition of Ask Us Everything, this Friday, January 16th at 9 AM Pacific. This month is all about Pure Storage + Nutanix. If you have a burning question, feel free to ask it here early and we'll add it to the list to answer on Friday. Or if we can't get it answered live, our Pure Storage + Nutanix experts can follow up here. thomasbrown Cody_Hosterman jhoughes & dpoorman are the experts answering your questions during the conversation and here on the community. See you this Friday! (Oh, and if you haven't registered yet, there's still time!) Or, check out some of these self-serve resources: Solution Brief Pure Report Podcast Pure360 Video Nutanix, Intel, & Pure white paper EDIT: Thanks for joining in! If you have additional burning questions and comments, leave them in the comments below for the team!Pure Storage Cloud Dedicated on Azure: An intro to Performance
Introduction With Pure Storage Cloud Dedicated on Microsoft Azure, performance is largely governed by three factors that need to be taken into consideration: front-end controller networking, controller back‑end connection to managed disks, and the Purity data path. This post explains how Azure building blocks and these factors influence overal performance. Disclaimer: This post requires basic understanding of PSC Dedicated architecture. Real-life Performance varies based on configuration and workload; examples here are illustrative. Architecture: the building blocks that shape performance Cloud performance often comes from how compute, storage, and networking are assembled. PSC Dedicated deploys two Azure VMs as storage controllers running the Purity operating environment and uses Azure Managed Disks as persistent media. Initiator VMs connect over the Azure Virtual Network using in‑guest iSCSI or NVMe/TCP. Features like inline data reduction, write coalescing through NVRAM, and an I/O rate limiter help keep the array stable and with predictable performance under saturation. Front-end performance: networking caps Azure limits the outbound (egress) bandwidth of Virtual Machines. Each Azure VM has a certain network egress cap assigned and cannot send out more data than what the limit allows. As PSC Dedicated controllers run on Azure VMs, this translates into the following: Network traffic going INTO the PSC Dedicated array - writes - not throttled by Azure outbound bandwidth limits Network traffic going OUT of the PSC Dedicated array - reads - limited User-requested reads (e.g. from an application) as well as any replication traffic leaving the controller share the same egress budget. Because of that, planning workloads with replication should be done carefully to avoid competing with client reads. Back-end performance: VM caps, NVMe, and the write path The Controller VM caps Similarly to frontend network read throughput, Azure enforces per‑VM limits on total backend IOPS and combined read/write throughput. The overall IOPS/throughput of a VM is therefore limited by the lower of: the controller VM's IOPS/throughput cap and the combined IOPS/throughput of all attached managed disks. To avoid unnecessary spend due to overprovisioning, managed disks of PSC Dedicated arrays are configured as to saturate the controller backend caps just right. NVMe backend raises the ceiling Recent PSC Dedicated releases adopt an NVMe backend on supported Azure Premium SSD v2 based SKUs, increasing the controller VM’s backend IOPS and bandwidth ceilings. The disk layout and economics remain the same while the array gains backend headroom. The write path Purity secures initiator writes to NVRAM (for fast acknowledgment) and later destages to data managed disks. For each logical write, the backend cap is therefore tapped multiple times: a write to NVRAM a read from NVRAM during flush and a write to the data managed disks Under mixed read/write non-reducible workloads this can exhaust the combined read/write backend bandwidth and IOPS of the controller VM. Raised caps of the NVMe backend help here. Workload characteristics: iSCSI sessions and data reducibility Block size and session count Increasing iSCSI session count between Initiator VMs and the array does not guarantee better performance; with large blocks, too many sessions can increase latency without improving throughput, especially when multiple initiators converge on the same controller. Establish at least one session per controller for resiliency, then tune based on measured throughput and latency. Data reduction helps extend backend headroom When data is reducible, PSC Dedicated writes fewer physical bytes to backend managed disks. That directly reduces backend write MBps for the same logical workload, delaying the point where Azure’s VM backend caps are reached. The effect is most pronounced for write‑heavy and mixed workloads. Conversely, non‑reducible data translates almost 1:1 to backend traffic, hitting limits sooner and raising latency at high load. Conclusion Predictable performance in the cloud is about aligning architecture and operations with the platform’s limits. For PSC Dedicated on Azure, that means selecting the right controller and initiator VM SKUs, co‑locating resources to minimise network distance, enabling accelerated networking, and tuning workloads (block size, sessions, protocol) to the caps that actually matter. Inline data reduction and NVMe backend extend headroom meaningfully (particularly for mixed workloads) while Purity’s design keeps the experience consistent. Hopefully, this post was able to shed light on at least some of the performance factors of PSC Dedicated on Azure.
Veeam v13 Integration and Plugin
Hi Everyone, We're new Pure customers this year and have two Flasharray C models, one for virtual infrastructure and the other will be used solely as a storage repository to back up those virtual machines using Veeam Backup and Replication. Our plan is to move away from the current windows-based Veeam v12 in favor of Veeam v13 hardened Linux appliances. We're in the design phase now but have Veeam v13 working great in separate environment with VMware and HPE Nimble. Our question is around Pure Storage and Veeam v13 integration and Plugin support. Veeam's product team mentions there is native integrations in v12, but that storage vendors should be "adopting USAPI" going forward. Is this something that Pure is working on, or maybe already has completed with Veeam Backup and Replication v13?
Proxmox VE
Hi all Hope you're all having a great day. We have several customers going down the Proxmox VE road. One of my colleagues was put onto https://github.com/kolesa-team/pve-purestorage-plugin as a possible solution (as using Pure behind Proxmox (using the native Proxmox release) is not a particularly Pure-like experience. Could someone from Pure comment on the plugin's validity/supportability?
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