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Pure Report Podcast: Nutanix and Pure Storage: Propelling Enterprise Virtualization Forward
Check out the latest edition of the Pure Report podcast where we unpack the GA announcement for the Nutanix and Pure Storage partnership. Hear from Cody_Hosterman and Nutanix VP Product Ketan Shah on the technical details of the integration and how this partnership came together.
Nutanix and Pure Storage are Changing Virtualization
Big news, virtualization fans! The combined Nutanix + Pure Storage solution is now available. You can read all about it in the blog and get further details on our Nutanix partner page. We’ve been talking to lots of folks about this offering, both Pure users and not, and the consensus is that people are glad to see some new stability being brought to the virtualization world, with a solution from two customer-centric organizations. To give you a sense of the value of using external storage with FlashArray, an early adopter (I’m not at liberty to name them) running a nearly 2 PB database workload will save about 50% on rack space with significant savings on power, cooling and operational costs. Please contact your Pure sales team if you want to learn more about this solution.
Proxmox VE
Hi all Hope you're all having a great day. We have several customers going down the Proxmox VE road. One of my colleagues was put onto https://github.com/kolesa-team/pve-purestorage-plugin as a possible solution (as using Pure behind Proxmox (using the native Proxmox release) is not a particularly Pure-like experience. Could someone from Pure comment on the plugin's validity/supportability?Join us for Nutanix IT Unplugged with Isaac Slade
Our friends at Nutanix are sponsering a fun virtual event on Dec. 5 for IT Unplugged featuring a live performance by Isaac Slade, formerly of The Fray. You'll hear from both Nutanix and Pure about our new joint solution, along with some musical fun. Go here for more details and to register: https://event.nutanix.com/itunplugged-december2025?utm_source=PureStorage
Any movement on Active Cluster with NVMe /TCP?
The last update I can find is from 2 years ago was a "maybe 2025" post. Nothing in the AC FAQ that I can find. Is this going to happen or should we just explore other conectivity options at this point? Servers are UCS with internal FC switching for now, we would like to configure uniform access. Pretty sure VMware isn't going to officially support multiple connection types for the same LUN/device/volume, unless someone knows something different.
relationship between clusters and host groups
Due to circumstances beyond my control, over time and several upgrades of vSphere, there is no longer any commonality between the clusters in vSphere and what I see as host groups in the FlashArrays. So, my question is - does the API figure things out one way or another OR is my assumption that in the ideal world the clusters of hosts in VMware should match the host group names and such in Pure land? Basically some folks played shell games and since the zoning allowed it, lots of things don't line up like I once had them. I am unsure of the best way to make them sane again. thanks!Pure Report Podcast - Nutanix and Pure
Join industry experts Don Poorman and Erin Stevens as we unpack the latest trends in virtualization strategies and why the timing is perfect for a new approach, and how Nutanix, with its AHV hypervisor, is well positioned with Pure to deliver a solution designed from the ground up for high-performance and enterprise scale. This episode explores the "what" and "how" of the jointly engineered Pure and Nutanix solution, detailing how Nutanix AHV hosts can leverage Pure FlashArray for shared storage, offering an apples-to-apples replacement for traditional setups. We'll cover the details around joint integrations, including the NVMe/TCP connection between Nutanix and Pure FlashArray, and how VMs are managed through Nutanix Prism for a granular vVols-like experience. Learn about the specific workloads and use cases this solution targets, particularly environments needing a balance of computing and networking, and those with high transactional database demands.
NVMe-TCP + VMware Design Questions
Q1: In a medium - large datacenter (ie anticipated growth to 500 hosts), would it be a problem to use large subnets (ie 2 x /23 or /22's) to place the initiators + target IPs? All our existing nvme-tcp deployments (which we're having great success with btw) use 2 x /24's, which provides more than enough capacity for the array + a decent sized cluster. But now we're entering into the realms of multiple flasharrays (ie 3 or 4 in a single site) and hundreds of hosts - we'll quickly exhaust a /24 range. Q2: In this site, where we have say 2 x FA-X's an 2 x FA-C's, is it valid to present datastores from all of these arrays over nvme-tcp to a single cluster? With each array / datastore cluster being accessed using the same initiators on the same layer 2's? At what point does it get silly and I need to draw a line and segregate environments? Q3: Is there a capacity limit to the number of client hosts I can have on an array / mapping storage to? (nvm - I think I found the answer to that - looks like it's 1000 nqn's on pretty much all X and C arrays)Accelerate Breakout Replay: Pure Storage and VMware Core Storage Best Practices Deep Dive
Join this session to learn Pure Storage + VMware best practices. Get answers to "why" and deployment tips. Speakers: Alex Carver Jason Langer Trevin Hale, Columbia Sportswear https://www.purestorage.com/video/webinars/vmware-core-storage-best-practices-deep-dive/6375804979112.htmlAccelerate Breakout Replay: Who's Driving Virtualization? Navigating This New Landscape
Compare VMware, Hyper-V, AHV, and more. Learn why organizations switch hypervisors and how to manage multi-platform environments. Speakers: Zane Allyn Rob Quimby Joe Houghes https://www.purestorage.com/video/webinars/whos-driving-virtualization/6375799315112.html
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