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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?
A list of useful Purity CLI commands to manage Pure Flash Storage arrays.
"pureadmin" commands The pureadmin command displays and manage administrative accounts in Pure Flash Storage Array (22 Commands) Explanation pureadmin create testuser --api-token Generate an API token for the user testuser pureadmin create testuser --api-token --timeout 2h Create API Token for testuser valid for 2 hours pureadmin create testuser --role storage_admin Create user testuser with storage_admin role. Possible roles are readonly, ops_admin, storage_admin, array_admin pureadmin delete --api-token Delete API Token for current user pureadmin delete testuser Delete user testuser from Flash Array pureadmin delete testuser --api-token Delete API Token for user testuser pureadmin global disable --single-sign-on This will disable single sign-on on the current array. Enabling single sign-on gives LDAP users the ability to navigate seamlessly from Pure1 Manage to the current array through a single login. pureadmin global enable --single-sign-on This enables single sign-on on the current array. Enabling single sign-on gives LDAP users the ability to navigate seamlessly from Pure1 Manage to the current array through a single login. pureadmin global list List the global administration attributes like Lockout Duration, Maximum Login Attempts, Minimum Password Length, etc.. pureadmin global setattr --lockout-duration 1m Set the lockout duration to 1 minute after maximum unsuccessful login attempts. pureadmin global setattr --max-login-attempts 3 Set the maximum failed login attempts to 3 before the user get locked out. pureadmin global setattr --min-password-length 8 Set the minimum length of characters required for all the local user account passwords to 8. Minimum length allowed is 1. This will not affect the existing user accounts, but all future password assignment must meet the new value. pureadmin list List all the users configured in the Flash Array pureadmin list --api-token List all the users with api tokens configured pureadmin list --api-token --expose List all the users with api tokens configured and expose the api token for the current user loggedin. pureadmin list --lockout List all the user accounts that are currently lockout pureadmin refresh --clear Clears the permission cache for all the users pureadmin refresh --clear testuser Clears the permission cache for testuser pureadmin refresh testuser Refresh the permission cache for testuser pureadmin reset testuser --lockout Unlock locked user testuser pureadmin setattr testuser --password Change the password for the user testuser pureadmin setattr testuser --role array_admin Change the role of the user testuser to array_admin role. Possible roles are readonly, ops_admin, storage_admin, array_admin "purealert" commands The purealert command manages alert history and the list of designated email addresses for alert notifications (8 Commands) Explanation purealert flag 121212 Flag an alert with ID 121212. This will appear in the flagged alert list. purealert list List all the alerts generated in the Pure Flash Array purealert list --filter "issue='failure'" List all the alerts generated for failures purealert list --filter "severity='critical'" List all the alerts with Critical severity. purealert list --filter "state='closed'" List all the closed alerts purealert list --filter "state='open'" List all the alerts in Open state purealert list --flagged List all the alerts that are flagged. By default all alerts are flagged. We can unflag command once those are resolved. purealert unflag 121212 Unflag alert with ID 121212. This will not appear in the flagged alert list. "purearray" commands The purearray command displays attributes and monitors I/O performance in Pure Flash Storage Array (24 Commands) Explanation purearray connect --management-address 10.0.0.1 --type async-replication --connection-key Connects the local array to remote array 10.0.0.1 for asynchronous replication using the connection key. The Connection key will be prompted to enter. purearray connect --management-address 10.0.0.1 --type sync-replication --connection-key Connects the local array to remote array 10.0.0.1 for synchronous replication using the connection key. The Connection key will be prompted to enter. purearray connect --management-address 10.0.0.1 --type sync-replication --replication-transport ip -- connection-key Connects the local array to remote array 10.0.0.1 for synchronous replication via Ethernet transport using the connection key. The Connection key will be prompted to enter. purearray disable phonehome Disable phonehome or dialhome feature of array. purearray disconnect 10.0.0.1 Disconnects array 10.0.0.1 from the local array connected for remote replication. purearray enable phonehome Enable phonehome or dialhome feature of array. purearray list Display the array name,serial number and firmware version purearray list --connect Display remotely connected arrays for replication purearray list --connect --path Display arrays connected for remote replication along with connection paths purearray list --connect --throttle Display the replication throttle limit purearray list --connection-key Display the connection key that can be used to connect to the array purearray list --controller List all the controllers connected to the Array. This will also display the model and status of each controller purearray list --ntpserver List the NTP servers configured purearray list --phonehome Display the dial home configuration status of the Array purearray list --space Display the capacity and usage statistics information of the Array. purearray list --space --historical 30d Display the capacity and usage statistics information of the Array since last 30 days purearray list --syslogserver List the syslog server names configured to push the logs in pure array purearray monitor --interval 4 --repeat 5 Display the array-wide IO performance of a Flash Array in every 4 seconds for 5 times. purearray remoteassist --status check the Remote Assist is active or inactive purearray rename MYARRAY001 Set the name of the array to MYARRAY001 purearray setattr --ntpserver '' Remove all the NTP servers configured for pure array purearray setattr --ntpserver time.google.com Set the NTP server purearray setattr --syslogserver '' Remove all the syslog server servers configured for pure array purearray setattr --syslogserver log.server.com set the syslog server for pure array "pureaudit" commands The pureaudit command displays and manages the audit logs record details in Pure Flash Storage Array (7 Commands) Explanation pureaudit list Display the list of audit records. Audit trail records are created whenever administrative actions are perfromed by a user (for eg: creating, destroying, eradicating a volume) pureaudit list --filter 'command="purepod" and subcommand="create"' List all the audit records for purepod create command executed in the array pureaudit list --filter 'command="purepod" and user="pureuser"' List all the audit records for purepod commands executed by pureuser in the array pureaudit list --filter 'command="purepod"' List all the audit records for purepod command executed in the array pureaudit list --filter 'user = "root"' Display the list of audit records for the root user pureaudit list --limit 10 Display the first 10 rows of audit records pureaudit list --sort user Display the list of audit records sorted by the user field. By default the records are sorted by the time field "pureconfig" commands The pureconfig command provides commands to reproduce the current Pure Flash Storage Array configuration (4 Commands) Explanation pureconfig list Display list of commands to reproduce the volumes, hosts, host groups, connections, network, alert and array configurations. Copying this and running in another array will create an exact copy. pureconfig list --all Displays all the commands required to reproduce the current FlashAarray configuration of hosts, host groups, pods, protection groups, volumes, volume groups, connections, file systems and directories, alert, network, policies, and support. pureconfig list --object Displays the object configuration of the FlashArray including hosts, host groups, pods, protection groups, volumes, volume groups, and connections, as well as file systems and directories if file services are enabled. pureconfig list --system Displays the system configuration of the flah array including network, policies, alert and support puredns commands The puredns command manages the DNS attributes for an arrays administrative network. (4 Commands) "puredns" list Display the current DNS parameters configured in the array. This includes the domain suffixes and IP addresses of the name servers Explanation puredns setattr --domain "" Removes the domain suffix from Purity//FA DNS queries puredns setattr --domain test.com --nameservers 192.168.0.10,192.168.2.11 Add the IPv4 addresses of two DNS servers for Array to use to resolve hostnames to IP addresses, and the domain suffix test.com for DNS searches. puredns setattr --nameservers"" Unassigns DNS server IP addresses from the DNS entry. This will stop making DNS entries. "puredrive" commands The puredrive command provides information about the Flash Drives and NVRAM modules in Pure Flash Storage Array (6 Commands) Explanation puredrive admit Admit all drive modules that have been added or connected but not yet admitted to the array. Once successfully admitted, the status of the drive modules will change from unadmitted to healthy. puredrive list List all the flash drive modules in an Array. This will also display the capacity of each module. puredrive list --spec List all the flash drive modules in an Array along with Protocol( SAS/NVME) information puredrive list --total List all the flash drive modules in an Array with the total capacity figure puredrive list CH0.BAY10 Display information about flash drive BAY10 in CH0 puredrive list CH0.BAY10 --pack Display information about flash drive BAY10 in CH0 and all other drives in the same packAsk Us Everything About Storage for Databases!
💬 Get ready for our March 2026 edition of Ask Us Everything, this Thursday, March 19th at 9 AM Pacific. This month is all about Storage for Databases! If you have a burning question, feel free to ask it here early and we'll add it to the list to answer tomorrow. Or if we can't get it answered live, our Everpure experts can follow up here. Anthony Nocentino, rarsenault-pure & dpoorman are the experts answering your questions during the conversation and on the community. See you this Thursday! (Oh, and if you haven't registered yet, there's still time!)🏀 Will you have a perfect bracket? 🗑️
It's Madness!! March Madness that is! Join the Everpure community bracket contest and make your bracket today. ESPN closes bracket selection on Thursday, 3/19 @ 12:15p ET, so be sure to lock in your selections before then. Once you have a completed bracket, come back to this post to share yours, join in on the trash talk, and cheer on the cinderella stories! Will Duke and Arizona be dueling in the tournament final? How far can Kennesaw St, McNeese, or Hofstra get? Is your alma mater in the tourney? As a Jayhawk, this is always one of the most exciting and nerve wracking times of year for me! I'm bummed we're a 4 seed this year, but we've been playing so hot and cold this season, I get why.Help Shape the Future of the Everpure Customer Community! 🧡
We’re constantly trying to improve and look for ways to make this community the best it can be for you all. In order to do that, we need your unique perspective. We’ve put together a quick Community Feedback Survey to hear what’s working, what’s not, and what you’d like to see next. It only takes about 2 minutes. Your honest input helps us make the community more valuable. [The Perk] You’ll get the "Community Consultant" Badge! 🎖️ As a huge thank you for your time and insight, everyone who completes the survey will be awarded the exclusive "Community Consultant" badge on their profile! You can find the survey here. Thank you for being such a vital part of our growth. We can’t wait to hear what you have to say! Cheers! The Everpure Community Team
Everpure will be at Nutanix .NEXT
Hey Nutanix fans! Will you be attending Nutanix .NEXT in Chicago (April 7-9) this year? Everpure will be there, ready to answer all your questions, provide demos, etc. We will be at Booth P8. If you want to schedule a meeting with one of the many technical experts we will have on hand, or one of our executives, please visit our event page and fill out the meeting request form. Hope to see folks there! https://www.purestorage.com/events/nutanix-next-2026.htmlPure FlashArray CLI Quick References (daily feeds)
Questions Commands Explanations How to display serial number of a specific hardware component of a Pure Flash Array purehw list CT0 --spec Display model, part number, and serial number of Controller 0 How to check the Remote Assist is active or inactive in a Pure Flash Array purearray remoteassist --status check the Remote Assist is active or inactive How to change the password for a user in Flash Array pureadmin setattr testuser --password Change the password for the user testuser How to display the name serial number and firmware version of Pure Flash Array purearray list Display the array name,serial number and firmware version How to generate API token for a user in Flash Array pureadmin create testuser --api-token Generate an API token for the user testuser How to increase the size of a Volume in Pure Flash Array purevol setattr --size 2G MY_VOL_001 Increase the size of MY_VOL_001 to 2GB ( from current size of 1GB for example ) How to list all the Ethernet ports in a Pure Flash Array purehw list --type eth List all the Ethernet ports in an Array How to set the NTP server for Pure Flash Array purearray setattr --ntpserver time.google.com Set the NTP server How to list all the Host initiators and connected volumes purehost list --all List all the hosts in a Flash Array along with its member initiators connected to volumes through target ports How to list all the destroyed Virtual Volumes pending for eradication in a Pure Flash Array purevol list --pending-only List all the destroyed Virtual Volumes pending for eradication How to list all the hardware components of a Pure Flash Array along with part and serial number purehw list --spec List all the hardware components along with information like Model name, Part number and serial number How to list the pods with the mediator connectivity status in a Pure Flash array purepod list --mediator List all the pods along with connectivity status from each array to the mediator. How to create a user in Flash Array pureadmin create testuser --role storage_admin Create user testuser with storage_admin role. Possible roles are readonly, ops_admin, storage_admin, array_admin How to destroy Volume in Pure Flash Array purevol destroy MY_VOL_001 Destroy virtual volume MY_VOL_001. This volume can be recovered within 24hrs. After that, physical storage occupied this volume will be reclaimed. How to display audit log records in Pure Flash Storage pureaudit list Display the list of audit records. Audit trail records are created whenever administrative actions are perfromed by a user (for eg: creating, destroying, eradicating a volume) How to list all the controllers connected to a Pure Flash Array purearray list --controller List all the controllers connected to the Array. This will also display the model and status of each controller How to list all the hardware components of a Pure Flash Array purehw list List all the hardware components along with information like status, temperature, voltage etc. How to list all the HBA WWNs logged in to a Flash Array target FC port pureport list --initiator --raw --filter "name='CT0.FC0'" Display all HBA WWNs logged to the FC port CT0.FC0 How to expose the api token for the current user pureadmin list --api-token --expose List all the users with api tokens configured and expose the api token for the current user loggedin. How to set the personality for a host purehost setattr MY-SERVER-001 --personality esxi Set the personality of host MY-SERVER-001 to esxi. Some other values are aix, solaris etc.. How to display all the FC Ports in the Flash Arrays pureport list --raw --filter "name='*FC*'" Display all the Fibre Channel Ports with its WWNs in the Flash Arrays How to display the host with a specified WWN purehost list --filter "wwn='1000000000000003'" Display the host with WWN 1000000000000003 as a member How to connect volume to host with specific LUN id in Pure Flash Array purevol connect MY_VOL_001 --host MY-SERVER-001 --lun 10 Connect volume MY_VOL_001 to host MY-SERVER-001 and assign LUN id 10. This will Provide the R/W access to the volume. How to copy data from one Volume to another in a Pure Flash Array purevol copy MY_VOL_001 MY_VOL_002 --overwrite Copy data from MY_VOL_001 to an existing volume MY_VOL_002. Contents of MY_VOL_002 will be overwritten.Spring is Calling, and so is Reds Baseball
I don't know about you, but I am more than ready for Spring; though I could definitely skip the rain. Wiping muddy dog paws after every walk is getting old! On the bright side, who else is ready for some Reds baseball? I have a few exciting updates and resources to share with the community: 🚀 PUG Meeting Update charles_sheppar and I are currently hard at work on the next PUG meeting. We can't share the specifics just yet, but we are planning something unique and fun for the community. Stay tuned! 🛡️ Strengthening Your Cyber Resilience Given the current geopolitical climate and the rise in cyber threats, now is the perfect time to audit your data protection. Features like SafeMode and Pure1 Security Assessments act as a resilient last line of defense. If you want to see these tools in action, we recently hosted an expert-led demo on building a foundation for cyber resilience. Watch the recording here: https://www.purestorage.com/video/webinars/the-foundations-of-cyber-resilience/6389889927112.html Questions? Reach out to your Everpure SE or partner for a deeper dive. 📅 Upcoming Events March 12: Nutanix Webinar Exploring virtualization alternatives? Nutanix is hosting a session tomorrow focused on simplifying IT operations and highlighting the Everpure partnership. https://event.nutanix.com/simplifyitandonprem March 19: Or perhaps you're interested in running virtual machines alongside containerized workloads within K8s clusters. If that's the case, join Greg McNutt and Sagar Srinivasa for Virtualization Reimagined: Inside the Everpure Journey. https://www.purestorage.com/events/webinars/virtualization-reimagined.html March 19: Ask Us Everything About Storage for Databases. Join experts Anthony Nocentino, Ryan Arsenault, and Don Poorman for a live Q&A session. https://www.purestorage.com/events/webinars/ask-us-everything-about-storage-for-databases.html March 24: Presets & Workloads for Consistent DB Environments. We’re extending the database conversation to discuss how Everpure helps you transition from "managing storage" to "managing data" through automated presets. https://www.purestorage.com/events/webinars/presets-and-workload-setups-for-consistent-database-environments.html
ActiveCluster for File
We’re proud to announce the availability of ActiveCluster for file, Everpure’s premier business continuity solution and a fundamental enabler of our Enterprise Data Cloud vision, where Service Level Agreements define what storage, network and compute resources are assigned dynamically to application data sets rather than an hardware-to-app architectures. With ActiveCluster for file, Everpure is extending the benefits of data mobility, continuous access and policy-driven management to file workloads. What is ActiveCluster? Everpure launched ActiveCluster in 2017, and rapidly took the mission critical, enterprise block storage world by storm. ActiveCluster rapidly enabled enterprise customers with the most demanding block workloads to deploy synchronous, always available, always up-to-date, LUNs or volumes to hosts stretched across geographic distances. What set ActiveCluster apart from the existing solutions at the time, and even now, is how simple to set up Everpure RTO-0 and RPO-0 file solutions are, and how flexible and adaptable to the ever changing business needs hosting these data sets become after being deployed on a Everpure Fusion fleets. Today, we’re adding file protocol support like NFSv3, NFSv4.1, SMB 2.0, and SMB 3.0 w/ continuously available shares to our ActiveCluster solution. Realms as a new container ActiveCluster for file utilizes a new, high-level container called a Realm, to synchronously mirror both user data and storage configuration information necessary to provide data access to authorized users on either side of the stretched file system(s). Realms are handy to put applications with similar Recovery Point Objectives and similar Recovery Time Objectives together. Realm Synchronous Replication The act of synchronously mirroring both the user data and storage configuration information across two different FlashArrays is called ‘stretching’. Similar to how a pod is stretched across two FlashArrays, a Realm can be stretched between any FlashArray system that has no more than 11ms Round Trip Time average latencies on their array replication links. Either Fibrechannel or Ethernet array replication links can be used to replicate file data synchronously. Figure 1. ActiveCluster for file can be deployed in different modalities Realms as namespaces for policies Realms contain unique snapshot, audit logging, replication and export policies. These policies are only viewable and attachable to storage objects within the Realm, creating a building block for hosting multiple different end customers or tenants on Fusion fleets. These policies are automatically replicated over to the other array if the Realm is stretched, reducing operator burden in failover scenarios. To prevent split brain scenarios (where a network partition in the array links or replication links stop communication between the pair of FlashArrays) Everpure’s fully managed Cloud Mediator service will determine which remaining FlashArray controller pair can process writes, and which array will not. Unlike other business continuity solutions, ActiveCluster customers don’t have to worry about patching or maintaining the security of separate VMs to act as a mediator service to prevent split brain scenarios. Multiple servers supported per Realm, different IDPs allowed. Each Realm can have one or more servers configured in it, which act as protocol end points for clients and hosts to connect to. Each server in a Realm can have a different IP address, or utilize a different Identity Provider Service. When a failover condition occurs (like a site disaster on one side), automatic failover and the clients in either data center are on the same Ethernet segment or broadcast domain, a failover condition will emit a gratuitous Reverse Address Resolution Protocol request (RARP), mapping the new MAC address of the ethernet interface on one side to a same IP address being used. Applications may see a small pause in reads or writes being serviced, but will not have to re-issue I/O or remount / remap shares or exports. Managed directory quotas can also be used for any filesystem or managed directory attached to the servers in the Realm being stretched. These quota policies automatically get replicated with user data, so the same customer experience in terms of usable space exists both before and after an automatic failover. New Guided Setup available for ActiveCluster for file Deploying new ActiveCluster for file solutions can occur in less than five minutes on already racked and powered arrays. A Guided Setup wizard is available to quickly capture the necessary information to stretch a Realm. This wizard can be started from multiple locations within the Purity GUI. ActiveCluster for file fully takes advantage of Fusion fleets and the ability to manage storage infrastructure as code, programmatically and via policy. Realms are not tied to hardware, and can ‘float’ Realms with ActiveCluster for file support not only provide a 0-RTO and 0-Recovery Point Object at the storage layer for mission critical applications, but they also provide a mechanism to transparently move the data and configuration in the Realm non-disruptively somewhere else within your fleet, whether it’s follow the Sun type round-robin hops, where the Realm’s location changes depending on the time of day, or is moved as a part of a data-center migration. Coupled with Fusion, Everpure’s intelligent control plane, ActiveCluster for file enables workloads and application data and their configuration information to dynamically and seamlessly move to the right location, at the right time, at the right granularity. Seamless movement across greater geographic distances can be accomplished by stretching and unstretching the same Realm between different arrays, as long as the RTT latency between them is <11ms. Service Level Agreements are the lingua franca of the Enterprise Data Cloud Service Level Agreements are the natural language of business owners, and are integral for companies who want to move away from managing storage arrays to managing their business data. They capture answers to questions like “How fast do you need access to this data? Does it need to be backed up or otherwise protected against site-wide failure? SLAs are what forms our vision behind the App-to-data operational model. This App-to-data model takes abstract, high level business requirements as input, and then automatically configures and deploys the required storage services to meet the service level agreement just defined. A Fusion fleet manager’s perspective is one of many different application tiles, and their health, not just a series of HA pairs spread out across different data centers. Data management operations, like instant backups, cloning, movement is applied as “verbs” to the application data set’s name or workload ID, and not to a mismatched storage container whose hardware boundaries impose limits on your app team. An Intelligent, unified control plane manages and enforces SLA’s across the fleet autonomously, like a modern cloud operating model but that can be deployed in any modality, whether on-prem, in the cloud or a hybrid. This scalable model, with Fusion’s intelligent control plane, supports ALL workloads, from modern AI workloads, containers and High Performance Workloads to extremely large image or rich media archives. An Enterprise Data Cloud, made up of discrete nodes tied loosely together, where Service Level Definitions define autonomous system behavior. Stop managing your storage arrays, and start managing your data. Learn more about ActiveCluster for file Read the support documentation for Purity 6.12.0 Test and deploy Fusion fleets and file presets Ask your account executive or system engineer for a demo!
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