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Accelerate Breakout Replay: Seamless VMware Workloads in AWS with Elastic VMware Service and Pure Cloud Block Store™
Discover how EVS & Pure Cloud Block Store™ bring VMware to the cloud with operational consistency and new workload opportunities. Speakers: Pavel Kovar Ron Wedel, AWS https://www.purestorage.com/video/webinars/seamless-vmware-workloads-in-aws-with-elastic/6375806872112.htmlAccelerate Breakout Replay: From Data Center to Azure: Seamless VMware Migrations Unleashed with Pure Storage Cloud
Learn how Pure Storage Azure-native service simplifies AVS migration with elastic storage, unified management, and FinOps-friendly scaling. Speakers: Vaclav Jirovsky Husam Hilal, MSFT Joe Ervolino, Dupaco https://www.purestorage.com/video/webinars/from-data-center-to-azure-seamless-vmware-migrations-unleashed/6375801044112.htmlPurely Cloud Podcast - CBS on Azure Technical Deep Dive
Together with vjirovsky we hosted a podcast episode where we discussed CBS on Azure architecture and best practices. Have a listen here: https://soundcloud.com/user-917746545/purely-cloud-guest-series-cbs-on-azure-technical-deep-dive-and-deployment-best-practicesUse CBS as persistent storage on AKS via Portworx CSI driver
Hi all, with the recent version of Portworx CSI driver (v25.4.0) you can mount a persistent block volume on CBS into your containers on Kubernetes and utilize all features and benefits of CBS. Sharing my recent blog post, how to set it up on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS): https://blog.vjirovsky.cz/portworx-csi-with-aks-with-cbs/VMware Data Mobility on AWS
This quick technical demo shows how fast you can put data to work in AWS and Elastic VMware Service (EVS) by linking both platforms to Pure Cloud Service on AWS. After cold-migrating a SQL VM to EVS with VMware HCX, we attach its vVols data volume to a VM in EVS via the Pure Storage vSphere Plugin, then use a few clicks in the Cloud Block Store GUI to snapshot, clone, and mount a different database volume to an Amazon EC2 instance over in-guest iSCSI. https://youtu.be/hBeV1mkDPLA?si=w_1OC3NkXZHG0i0gCBS 6.8.7 released
This version brings several updates to Cloud Block Store on both AWS and Azure. Automatic Capacity Upgrade for CBS on Azure enables customers to automatically increase total CBS capacity by adding additional storage to the array when total used storage capacity reaches the threshold of 80%. Along with the Automatic Capacity Upgrade, we released Selectable Initial Capacity, which allows customers to choose the array capacity during initial deployment. Starting from this release it’s possible to configure NVMe-TCP connection between CBS on AWS and AWS Linux based native VMs. NVMe-TCP is seen as the modern successor to iSCSI for block storage, particularly for workloads demanding high performance. Both CBS AWS and CBS Azure now support over-the-wire encryption capability for arrays that are replicating using synchronous connections, adding to the existing support for encrypted asynchronous replication. For more details, please refer to Purity Release Notes.
Pure Storage Cloud for Azure VMware Solution | Public Preview Announcement
Pure Storage Cloud for Azure VMware Solution has officially entered a Public Preview phase! Check out the launch blog posts: Pure Storage Cloud for Azure VMware Solution: A Closer Look Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud for Azure VMware Solution | Microsoft Community HubMarch 2025 | Cloud Block Store Updates!
What’s new in Pure Cloud Block Store CBS 6.8.4 released This version is bringing multiple Purity OS improvements shared across on-premise FlashArray and Pure Cloud Block Store. For more details, please refer to Purity Release Notes. Tip of the Month For CBS documentation requests, you can use a new workflow available directly from this Slack channel. Just click Workflows on top of the window - select Cloud Documentation Request - fill out the form, and we’ll take care of the rest. Blogs Pure Cloud Block Store with Cirrus Migrate Cloud, part 1 - read here Pure Cloud Block Store with Cirrus Migrate Cloud, part 2 - read here Podcasts Purely Cloud episode 4 - Living with Pure Cloud Block Store - listen here Purely Cloud episode 5 - Bridging Worlds with Azure VMware Solution - listen hereHave you considered using Cloud Block Store on Azure?
Have you considered using Cloud Block Store on Azure? Why or why not? New this month, our CBS team released Automatic Capacity Expansion. Dive into step-by-step technical demonstrations on Automatic Pure Cloud Block Store Capacity Expansion on Azure with Kyle Grossmiller. Automatic Pure Cloud Block Store Capacity Expansion on Azure: Part 1 Automatic Pure Cloud Block Store Capacity Expansion on Azure: Part 2
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