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FREE BEER FOR ALL!!! Now That I Have Your Attention, Let's Talk About Purity Updates.
WAIT WAIT WAIT - don't leave yet because of my free beer tomfoolery....hear me out. Listen, we get it. Storage OS updates are historically the LAST thing you ever want to consider for your already impossibly thin maintenance windows. And, we all know NOBODY ever grew up saying, "When I get older, I want to manage enterprise storage for its rock and roll lifestyle." π But - hear me out. Any past pain, suffering, or heavy drinking you may have taken on during previous OS updates with other legacy vendors has been minimized or even flat out eliminated by how we handle updating Purity for FlashArray and FlashBlade. We offer two tracks you can leverage for making them happen by either working directly with support for a white glove update experience where they do all the work remotely, or you can complete them via the Self Support Update (SSU) feature built into Pure1. We encourage regular Purity updates for two reasons: Performance. stability and security improvements...obviously New feature adoption. Want Fusion 2.0? Want the ability to deliver NFS/SMB shares on your FlashArray? These are bundled into your Purity updates and require no additional licensing costs to adopt if you want them. Think of them as over the air feature updates that are all the rage for EVs... For now, take a quick look at the Purity version you are running. If you haven't updated it in a year or two (which many of you probably haven't), you're missing out on being able to squeeze extra value out of your storage. I will be posting some supporting demos and other materials to help you visualize the process in the coming month or so. I would LOVE any feedback from the community, good or bad, on current or past experiences with our updating experience...through it all we can get more boats to rise with the tide! Stay tuned! DP17Views3likes1CommentAnnouncing the General Availability of Purity//FA 6.5.11 LLR
We are happy to announce the general availability of 6.5.11, the twelfth release in the 6.5 Long-Life Release (LLR) line! This release line is based on the feature set introduced in 6.4, providing long-term consistency in capabilities, user experience, and interoperability, with the latest fixes and security updates. This 6.5 LLR line has demonstrated sufficient accumulated runtime data to be recommended for critical customer workloads and has been declared Enterprise Ready (ER) effective with the 6.5.3 release. 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 already running 6.5 who are looking for the latest fixes and updates to 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 6.5 LLR line is planned for development through September 2026. HARDWARE SUPPORT This release is supported on the following FlashArray Platforms: FA//M (R2), FA//X, FA//C, and FA//XL. 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 6.5 Release Notes 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 Limits6Views0likes0CommentsVMware 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_1OC3NkXZHG0i0g5Views0likes0CommentsPurity//FB 4.5.8 is now Generally Available!
We are pleased to announce that Purity//FB 4.5.8 is now Generally Available! Purity//FB 4.5.8 supports first generation FlashBlade, FlashBlade//S, and FlashBlade//E. Documentation and Resources: Release and Upgrade Guidelines: Recommended for Proof of Concepts, new installs, and upgrades of FlashBlade//S and FlashBlade//E systems. Object Multi-Site Replication features require workload fit assessment and feature enablement is required. Please contact your Pure Storage representative. Please refer to the Release Guidelines for more up-to-date information. Release Package: Download here External Release Notes (Support Site) For details on fixes included in 4.5.8, please refer to the links below IMPORTANT: Both 3.3.x and 4.1.x are bridgehead releases which means any existing FlashBlade systems will need to upgrade to 3.3.x and then 4.1.x before upgrading to 4.5.0. Contact fb_field_qual@purestorage.com for any questions regarding an upgrade to this release.10Views0likes0CommentsCBS 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 itβs 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.13Views1like0CommentsAnnouncing 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 Matrix19Views2likes0CommentsFlashblade S3 Integration with VMware vCloud
Does anyone know if Pure has an integration with Flashblade and vCloud or is maybe working on one? Dell and Hitachi seem to have extensions for vCloud but nothing for Pure. We want to support Pure Object user consumption through the vCloud model.Solved70Views0likes1CommentBackup and Restore FA Configuration
Hi All, Purestorage has how to save or backup and restore configuration when an issue occurs? For example, the software crashed and could not be used anymore. Once the problem was fixed, we restored the existing configuration file from backup.Solved137Views2likes6CommentsPortworx Enterprise Version 3.2.3 - Release Announcement
We are excited to announce that Portworx Enterprise 3.2.3 is now Generally Available. This version consists of solutions for some key customer asks and support for FlashArray capabilities Key Highlights General Availability of FlashArray Direct Access (FADA) shared raw block (RWX) volumes Support for FADA shared raw block (RWX) volumes, to enable live migration of KubeVirt VMs with high-performance raw block storage Early access support for FlashArray Direct Access volumes with FlashArray Active Cluster feature Early access of the ability to create custom labels for storage pools. This helps placement of volumes and replicas based on environment or workload requirements Other Notable Improvements Support sticky option for FlashArray Direct Access Volumes Scalability improvements to reduce the load of the Kubernetes API Server Usage Instructions Prerequisites Supported Kernels Install, Upgrade and Usage Documentation Additional Resources and Documentation Release Notes Portworx Enterprise Documentation Run KubeVirt VMs with FlashArray Direct Access shared raw block (RWX) volumes ActiveCluster on FlashArray Direct Access volumes (Early Access) Custom labels for device pools (Early Access)8Views0likes0CommentsPurity//FB 4.5.7 is now Generally Available!
We are pleased to announce that Purity//FB 4.5.7 is now Generally Available! Purity//FB 4.5.7 supports first generation FlashBlade, FlashBlade//S, and FlashBlade//E. Documentation and Resources: Release and Upgrade Guidelines: Recommended for Proof of Concepts, new installs, and upgrades of FlashBlade//S and FlashBlade//E systems. Object Multi-Site Replication features require workload fit assessment and feature enablement is required. Please contact your Pure Storage representative. Please refer to the Release Guidelines for more up-to-date information. Release Package: Download here For details on fixes included in 4.5.7, please refer to the links below: External Release Notes (Support Site) IMPORTANT: Both 3.3.x and 4.1.x are bridgehead releases which means any existing FlashBlade systems will need to upgrade to 3.3.x and then 4.1.x before upgrading to 4.5.0.34Views0likes0Comments