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Hello All, I am a Sr. Architect with the Pure Professional Services team
Hello All, I am a Sr. Architect with the Pure Professional Services team. In our PS Delivery team, we spend a large amount of my time automating against FlashArray for various tasks, such as database refreshes, automated volume provisioning, DR/BC, zero touch provisioning, etc Recently, we have had a thought that it would be mutually beneficial for us to share our successes with the customer base, as well as create an open forum for you all to share with each other where you have had success. I have made a slack channel topic-automation-user-group where you can join if interested. If we can spark enough interest, we will attempt to meet quarterly. We will have an agenda for demos, guest speakers (including from your peers), open Q&A etc.
Hello folks- I hope your day and week are wrapping up nicely
I wanted to make you aware of two FA File+VDI blogs i recently wrote: one for 6.3 that covers a use case with ActiveDR for FA File on VMware and one that goes into some detail on why i made certain decisions in my solution for the FA File+folder redirection for VDI. I hope you find them useful! Let me know if you have any questions or concerns. https://www.codyhosterman.com/2022/04/native-pure-storage-flasharray-file-replication-purity-6-3/|Native Pure Storage FlashArray™ File Replication – Purity 6.3 https://www.codyhosterman.com/2022/04/horizon-folder-redirection-hosted-on-flasharray-file/|Horizon Folder Redirection Hosted on FlashArray™ FileAnnouncing the General Availability of Purity//FA 6.7.4 LLR
We are happy to announce the general availability of 6.7.4, the fifth release in the 6.7 Long-Life Release (LLR) line! This release line is based on the feature set introduced in 6.6, providing long-term consistency in capabilities, user experience, and interoperability, with the latest fixes and security updates. When the 6.7 LLR line demonstrates sufficient accumulated runtime data to be recommended for critical customer workloads, it will be declared Enterprise Ready (ER). Until then, Purity//FA 6.5 is the latest ER-designated LLR line. For more detailed information about bug fixes and security updates included in each release, see the release notes. UPGRADE RECOMMENDATIONS AND EOL SCHEDULE We recommend customers with compatible hardware who are looking for the latest feature set offered for long-term maintenance upgrade to this long-life release. When possible, customers should make use of Self-Service Upgrades (SSU) to ease the process of planning and executing non-disruptive Purity upgrades for their fleet. The 6.7 LLR line is planned for development through October 2027. HARDWARE SUPPORT This release is supported on the following FlashArray Platforms: Cloud Block Store for Azure and AWS, FA//X (R2, R3, R4), FA//C, FA//XL, and FA//E. Note, DFS software version 2.2.3 is recommended with this release. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to thank everyone within the engineering, support, technical program management, product management, product marketing, finance and technical product specialist teams who contributed to this release. LINKS AND REFERENCES Purity//FA 6.7 Release Notes Purity//FA 6.6/6.7 Feature Content Self-Service Upgrades Purity//FA Release and End-of-Life Schedule FlashArray Hardware and End-of-Support DirectFlash Shelf Software Compatibility Matrix FlashArray Capacity and Feature Limits FlashArray Feature Interoperability Matrix
Purity FA 6.6.10* Introduces Better Data Security
Purity FA 6.6.10 introduces better data security by auditing file access. This means for all SMB and NFS shares, all access events can be captured and recorded to a local file or sent to a remote CIS log server. Check out the Pure Storage //Launch Round-Up for August! Have more questions? We’re all ears!
There are some great improvements for VMware and Pure.
There are some great improvements for VMware and Pure. The top enhancement is the ability to use nconnect to an NFS datastore on FlashArray and the ability to vmkNic binding. We are still in the process of creating a KB for this. But reach out if you are interested in learning more.
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