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I hope you’re enjoying the fall weather. Baseball fans have already seen two roof balls this postseason, while Bengals fans know the drill. We tried to gather this summer, but the July 4th holiday and vacations made scheduling tough. We’re planning one last community get-together before 2027, and details are coming soon. In the meantime, join us for our first virtual Pure User Group, focused on modern virtualization. Subject matter experts and customers will share their experience and answer questions. We’re bringing together Pure User Group communities from across the Midwest, including Pittsburgh, but don’t let the Steelers fans scare you off even though they got the best of our Bengals a few weeks ago. Event Date/Time: Thursday, October 29, 2026, 1:00–2:20 p.m. Eastern Register: https://experience.everpuredata.com/virtualizationlunchlearn I’ve loved the community we’ve built in 2025 and 2026. We have a great foundation, and I’m looking forward to building on it in 2027.Purity//FB 4.8.6 FR has released
We are happy to announce the general availability of 4.8.6, the seventh Feature Release in the 4.8/4.9 line, helping customers move from managing storage to managing their data, with governance that enforces itself, a fleet that runs as one, and real-time insight that keeps critical workloads performing, all with less manual effort and less risk. See the release notes for all the details about the features and improvements included in this release.Purity//FA 6.12.3 FR has released
We are happy to announce the general availability of 6.12.3, the fourth Feature Release in the 6.12/6.13 line, including new capabilities that help customers advance their Enterprise Data Cloud with deeper VM-level workload visibility, standardized fleet-wide bucket provisioning, and simpler data replication with less complexity and risk. See the release notes for all the details about the many features, enhancements, bug fixes, and security updates included in this release.Active Cluster for File
Hello, I have another question. I am currently implementing Active Cluster for FILE, but regarding the server interface configuration—specifically for the Realm server—I need to add the sub-interfaces for each array, correct? For example, I add `ct0.eth1` for Array 1; then, since `array1:ct0.eth1` is automatically replicated, I should edit it to add the `ct0.eth1` on Array 2, and likewise add the `Array2:ct0.eth1` interface on Array 1, right? To test this, I make the change using Bulk Edit, select the "Remediate" option, and I am able to ping the interface IP. Is this the correct procedure? I didn't find any mention of this "Remediate" procedure in the articles, only in the GUI itself. Thank you.
How much more inference could you get from the GPUs you already have?
As inference workloads grow, it’s not always the GPU compute that becomes the bottleneck. Recomputing tokens of a known context vs reloading from KV cache can take up a lot of GPU bandwidth and limit how many workloads you can run in a given amount of time. That’s one of the things we’ve been working on with PureKVA, reusing KV cache so you can get more out of the GPU capacity you already have. With v1.2, we’ve also added a 3-tier memory architecture, TurboQuant KV cache support, along with things like multi-tenancy and storage isolation. We’re seeing some of the benefits internally as well, particularly around reducing throttling when usage spikes. Curious what others are seeing. Is GPU compute the bigger constraint for you, or GPU memory?09222026 - Demo Recap - From CSI to Snapshots—Seamless VM Management on Red Hat OpenShift
If you missed our latest Expert Led Demo, Matt Webb and I walked through how teams can manage virtual machines on Red Hat OpenShift while using Everpure FlashArray through CSI. The goal was not to turn every VMware administrator into a Kubernetes expert overnight. It was to connect the dots: many familiar VM operations still exist, but the platform uses different objects, policies, and automation to get the job done. What you missed 👇 🗺️ A familiar operating model with new terminology. Worker nodes, StorageClasses, PersistentVolumeClaims, live migration, and VirtualMachine objects map closely to concepts many VMware administrators already know. ⚙️ CSI automates the storage plumbing. A StorageClass defines the storage policy, while the CSI driver provisions volumes, maps them to the right node, and handles the day-to-day attachment work. 🔀 Choose the right storage-consumption model. Teams can use Portworx Enterprise volumes for flexible, software-defined storage services across mixed infrastructure, or FlashArray Direct Access when they want array-level data services and visibility in Purity. 🚀 Keep VM operations simple. In the demo, we showed a live compute migration, created a VM from a template, and used the OpenShift console to work through familiar virtualization tasks. 📸 Use array-based snapshots for fast recovery. With CSI configured, snapshots are FlashArray-based. The demo showed taking a snapshot, deleting data, restoring the VM, and bringing the data back quickly. 🧳 Plan migrations around your environment. Migration Toolkit for Virtualization can support cold migrations, while storage-offload migration can use SCSI XCOPY when source VMware storage and OpenShift storage share the same FlashArray. The practical takeaway: storage policies and automation remove much of the manual LUN, mapping, rescan, and multipathing work. That gives virtualization and platform teams more time to focus on the workload—not the plumbing behind it. 🎥Catch up on the demo HERE 🎥 💬 What is the biggest question your team has about running VMs on OpenShift: migration, storage policy, snapshots, or day-two operations? Share it in the comments.10012026 - TechTalk Recap - Oracle Resiliency—Choosing the Right Data Protection Approach🛡️
If you missed our latest TechTalks session, Lester Wells and I explored an important reality for Oracle teams: there is no single data-protection feature that covers every failure scenario. Keeping Oracle resilient means looking beyond a simple “backup or HA” decision. The right approach layers protection for local failures, site failures, operational recovery, and logical corruption—then aligns each layer to the application’s business requirements. What you missed 👇 🧭 HA and DR are different problems. High availability helps applications continue through infrastructure failures; disaster recovery protects against a broader site-level event. Both matter, but not every database needs the same RPO or RTO. ⚡ Snapshots improve operational recovery. Fast, space-efficient snapshots can help reduce backup and recovery pressure, refresh dev/test environments, support reporting copies, and provide recovery points for ransomware or user errors. 🏢 ActiveCluster is designed for continuous availability. For metro-distance deployments that meet latency requirements, synchronous replication can provide zero RPO and zero RTO protection against array or site failure. 🌍 ActiveDR extends protection across distance. Continuous, asynchronous replication supports disaster recovery where synchronous replication is not practical—and enables non-disruptive DR testing. 🧩 Layered protection covers more failure modes. Oracle RAC, ActiveCluster, ActiveDR, Data Guard, Flashback, and snapshots each address different risks. Combining the right layers helps protect both availability and recoverability. 🔎 Replication does not replace logical recovery. A bad write, accidental delete, or corruption can replicate correctly. Point-in-time snapshots and database-level recovery tools remain important parts of the plan. One of the best practical examples was using ActiveDR to bring up and validate a DR environment without disrupting production. That makes it easier to test your recovery plan more often—before you need it. 🎥 Catch up on the session HERE🎥 💬 Which Oracle resilience challenge is top of mind for your team: backup windows, recovery time, site-level availability, DR testing, or protection from logical errors? Share your perspective in the comments.
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