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Big changes in the virtualization world. Are you ready?
With VMware’s future in flux—licensing changes, partner cuts, and the deprecation of vVols—many IT leaders are rethinking their virtualization strategy. 💡 Enter OpenStack: the leading open-source alternative that’s mature, flexible, and cost-effective. But migrating from VMware to OpenStack can be… complicated. 👉 Not if you're running VMware on Pure Storage FlashArrays. In my latest blog, I explore how the new OpenStack 2025.1 "Epoxy" release simplifies the migration of VMware VMs using Pure’s native storage structures—no conversions, no downtime, no headaches. 🧠 If you’re navigating Broadcom-era VMware and planning your next move, this is the insight you need. 🔗 http://theansibleguy.com/vmware-to-openstack-the-simple-way/OpenShift Virtualization at Red Hat Summit
I had so many great discussions last week at Red Hat Summit in Boston about vSphere alternatives. There was a very noticeable change from last year where practitioners were asking strong technical questions about KubeVirt related technologies as a replacement for their current hypervisor. This trend seems to be gaining momentum. I’m interested to hear if more of our customers are testing out running VMs on Kubernetes. If you are, sound off!
Hello Team, Need help in Pure Metro storage cluster configuration
Hello Team, Need help in Pure Metro storage cluster configuration. https://support.purestorage.com/Solutions/VMware_Platform_Guide/User_Guides_for_VMware_Solutions/ActiveCluster_with_VMware_User_Guide/vSphere_Metro_Storage_Cluster_With_ActiveCluster%3A_Overview_and_Introduction As per this document there are two ways to configure it Uniform and non-uniform. Uniform configuration indicates Local and Remote paths to be configured as AO (Active Optimized), but during storage failure scenario Local storage takes 17 to 20 seconds to time out. During that time Storage array sends a PDL to ESXi host and host removes the devices. Due to which the vSphere HA configured to react on PDL restarts the VMs and that causes a outage for the customer. Which is not expected. From ESXI host there is no way to Change PDL behavior. Now my question is there anything that we are missing in this configuration, as during my talk with Consultants they are very sure 17 to 20 seconds delay is expected in this setup and during that time though the paths are available devices returned D:0x2 0x5 0x25 which is PDL. Looking for the guidance to overcome this situation. If anybody here faced such situation during the implementation𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗮 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗩𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗲𝘀
Many OpenStack admins are hitting limits with ephemeral storage—and asking how to move boot volumes to Cinder. Whether it’s performance issues with Ceph, limited scalability, or running out of disk on Nova hosts, external storage is becoming essential. I wrote a quick blog post showing how to migrate a Nova instance to a Cinder boot volume in 4 simple steps. Bonus: I included a fix for a common Glance quota issue. 👉 http://theansibleguy.com/ephemeral-to-cinder-a-quick-guide/ Have you started this transition? Let’s compare notes.
Good day all Just a quick question to the Pure team
Good day all Just a quick question to the Pure team & community. We have a customer utilising VMware's https://tanzu.vmware.com/tanzu|Tanzu for their K8s workloads. They have asked the question about backup/recovery options for those workloads. We were wondering if anyone has done some leg work already regarding delivering the PFA's snap/restore capabilities & integration into Tanzu/K8s clusters? In terms of backups, they wish to use Commvault for their backup orchestration. So we could more than likely leverage intellisnap for full VM level backups (but it does not necessarily answer the Tanzu/cluster re-integration question (at least, not that I am aware of (very happy to be incorrect about that))). Any thoughts/direction would be greatly appreciated.
Hi, We are currently using Mellanox NICs which support RDMA
Can we run all the normal VMware services (vMotion, Management, etc) on these NICs? I ask because in https://support.purestorage.com/?title=Solutions/VMware_Platform_Guide/How-To%27s_for_VMware_Solutions/NVMe_over_Fabrics/How_To:_Setup_NVMe-RDMA_with_VMware|this KB it says these NICs should not be used. The KB states configuring an RNIC with multiple services is not recommended by VMware. Is there a source?Accelerate Teaser - VMware -> OpenStack
Big changes are afoot in the Virtualization world with the introduction of Broadcom's new licensing model for VMware. People are looking at how to move from VMware to another visrtualization platform. At Accelerate in Las Vegas, 2025, we will be showcasing a new feature in OpenStack that will allow you to seamlessly migrate VMware guests that currently exist on a Pure Storage FlashArray, either in a datastore or as a vVol, directly into OpenStack. Using a simple process, sometimes only requiring one step, your VMware guests can be made availble in your OpenStack cluster. As part of this Accelerate FlashTalk we will demonstrate this process using manual, GUI-based methods, and also using full automation with Ansible. If you are interested in this, make sure you register for Accelerate in Las Vegas, June 17-19.
Looking for a tool / script that will take a vmware snapshot
Looking for help. I have looked around but cant find it. Looking for a tool / script that will take a vmware snapshot, then a pure snap shot and then delete the vmware snapshot. I started writing a script but thought I would ask the question first. Thanks
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