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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.12Views4likes0CommentsHello 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™ File12Views3likes0CommentsHello All! Pure Storage will be at the PowerShell DevOps
Hello All! Pure Storage will be at the PowerShell DevOps Global Summit happening in Bellevue WA in April. Join our team who are attending and presenting, including barkz, rquimbey, anocentino, jhoughes, and more. Get more information and register here - https://powershellsummit.org/4Views3likes0CommentsGeneral Availability of Purity//FB 4.5.6
We are excited to announce the general availability of Purity//FB 4.5.6 Purity 4.5.6 Release Highlights Introducing Purity//FB 4.5.6, designed to simplify managing a fleet of systems, optimize geographically distributed workflows, and expand the environments that can deploy FlashBlade. Key highlights include: Fusion for FlashBlade: Support for FlashBlade is available now on Pure Fusion, enabling FlashBlade to create, or join a fleet of arrays, simplifying deployments, scaling, and management of data across both FlashArrays and FlashBlades. Pure Fusion now also delivers a single consistent interface for deploying file and object workloads. Rapid Replicas: The remote fetching and caching capability enables file data to be distributed efficiently and allows collaborative development across multiple Data centers, remote sites or, increasingly, workloads in the cloud. QoS ceiling for File System: Purity//FB adds support for creating custom QoS policies defining ceiling limits for IOPS and bandwidth per filesystem. Storage administrators can leverage QoS ceiling to ensure predictable performance and mitigate resource contention. Legal Hold support for File System: Allows users to apply legal hold on files, folders and sub-folders. Once applied the file/folder can’t be deleted by the user until the legal hold is removed. This capability supports compliance for enterprises in regulated industries by providing mandatory legal hold capabilities for files and folders. 18.6TB QLC DFM Support for S100: provides lower entry-point (130TB raw) for customers to experience the power and goodness of FlashBlade//S and also provides heterogeneous expansion capability on //S100 systems with 18.6TB and 37.5TB DFMs. FlashBlade//S500 with NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD: Purity//FB 4.5.6 introduces the integration of FlashBlade with NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD to provide a high-performance, scalable solution for AI and other high-performance computing applications. Object Secure Token Service: Secure Token Services helps FlashBlade to integrate with Single Sign ON (SSO) architectures (Federated Identity models). It simplifies management of user and group access to FlashBlade resources like buckets and objects. Increased Object Account and Bucket Scale: Scalability in FlashBlade Object storage is enhanced with the latest release. FlashBlade will be able to support up to 30K replication relations and up to 5K remote credentials while setting up replication. Object Active-Active Replication: Beginning with Purity//FB 4.5.6, Active-Active Replication between multi-site writable buckets is now Generally Available. No qualification document or approval for setting up replication is needed. However, active-active replication of classic buckets still requires PM approval. Please contact your Pure Storage Representative for assessment and approval for classic buckets. We recommend using multi-site writable buckets for all scenarios including single site deployments. Capacity Consolidation on FB//S & FB//E: provides support for upgrading smaller capacity DFMs to larger capacity DFMs in FlashBlade//S and FlashBlade//E systems. TLS Policy and Ciphers: TLS Policy allows customers to create and maintain custom TLS policies & Ciphers for FlashBlade network interfaces. TLS policy helps centralize management and controls for all inbound network traffic. The policy helps narrow down attack surface and vulnerability exploitation for transports over the network. Updates to Zero Move Tiering (ZMT): FlashBlade//ZMT system adds support for 1,2,3 and 4 DFM per blade configs in 1S:1E offering. New SKUs offer low starting capacity points for Hot storage class and large Cold archival storage. This indirectly improves TCO for customers with predictable performance and cost efficiency. ABE Support for File System: Access-based Enumeration (ABE) allows administrators to hide objects (files and folders) from users who don’t have permissions (Read or List) on a network shared folder in order to access them. MMC Support for File System: Administrators can now go into Microsoft Management Console (MMC) to list open inaccessible files and choose to close them. The full list of new features and enhancements can be found in the Purity//FB 4.5.6 Release Notes.42Views2likes0CommentsLast week there was a big announcement around the FA
Last week there was a big announcement around the FA being truly unified now Could someone please elaborate on what that means from a technical standpoint? (ive been through all the marketing material) Are there some new features to FA file or another architecture? Or is it just that 6.3.10 is now ER and therefore FA file is available to all, if enabled via Pure support? (so its actually been around since April last year when 6.3.0 was released)Solved17Views1like1CommentActiveCluster Asynchronous
Hello Having question about ActiveCluster Asynchronous is it possible to configure between 2 existing clusters Poland to Germany . Idea is to have ability to perform DR tests in Datacenters located in different country The customer is currently running a configuration based on X20R2/R4. They have two systems in the Poland and two in the Germany. Local replication between arrays is configured using ActiveCluster Synchronous. ################## Reviewed documentation is ActiveCluster over Fibre Channel and ActiveDR or Async is supported on the same system starting with Purity 6.1.3+. ActiveDR must be configured with separate volumes (and pods) from ActiveCluster volumes. ActiveCluster asynchronous works in such way that that both arrays Metro Arrays replicate data to 3d array protection group snapshot only Leveraging asynchronous replication is easy to do, it's a simple matter of defining a Target array in a Protection Group after connecting the array. Once defined in a Protection Group, the Protection Group itself can be moved into an ActiveCluster (our synchronous replication, RPO0 replication service) Pod, where the Protection Group is owned by two arrays. The defined Target can replicate regularly scheduled snapshots to a third array. This Active-Active Asynchronous Replication is shared by the ActiveCluster arrays and in the event that either array is offline, the alternate array will assume ownership of continual snapshot replication to the third array. In summary, you can replicate snapshots as desired between any number of arrays to any other number of arrays, requiring a defined array connection and Protection Group Target. These Protection Groups can also be moved into a pod for sharing between ActiveCluster arrays for disaster recovery purposes as well. The sequence of steps for enabling asynchronous replication: Connect arrays so the source and target arrays are aware of each other Create a Protection Group with desired snapshot policies Add any array to replicate snapshots to the Target field If using in an ActiveCluster pair, move the Protection Group into the ActiveCluster podPure 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 here