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jlanger
Puritan
2 months ago

🧠 Deep Dive: Configuring File Services Policies & File Systems on FlashArray

Continuing our technical walkthrough series on Pure Storage FlashArray File Services, this new video dives into the nuts and bolts of setting up policies and file systems to create your first SMB file share.

If you’ve already followed along with the previous video on setting up networking, DNS, and Active Directory integration, this next step completes the foundation — showing exactly how to configure:

  • Export Policies for SMB access and permissions
  • Quota Policies to manage capacity limits
  • Audit and AutoDir Policies for visibility and governance
  • And finally, how to create and assign a file system for your department or team shares

The demo walks through the FlashArray UI and even steps into Windows file share management to validate access-based enumeration and permissions in action — proving just how simple and powerful FlashArray file services can be.

👉 Watch the video on Pure360 to see how easy it is to go from blank configuration to a fully functional SMB file share environment in minutes.

-Jason

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1 Reply

  • Ludes's avatar
    Ludes
    Community Manager
    2 months ago

    Great share, jlanger​ - love seeing the growth in interesting and useful Demo content becoming available via Pure360 as you and the team grow it.  Certainly helpful for our Community to learn how to get more value out of their Pure investment!