Alternative Virtualization Meet-Up at //Accelerate
Our company like many others have parted ways with VMWare. We decided not to renew this last April and are currently running unsupported/perpetual as we look for a replacement hypervisor. Costs on a 7000+ core renewal came in at about 5x what we paid in previous years. Just a little backstory, but this post is not to discuss that. For hardware we currently run Cisco ACI, Cisco UCS and Pure Storage in a converged architecture. What Cisco/Pure call Flashstack. 4 Sites, 200+ blades, Mix of 14 //x and //c Arrays. We are heavy Vvol users today. We have narrowed our search down to Proxmox, XCP-NG, and OpenShift Virtualization. Successes with Proxmox have been great, deployment (iSCSI Boot), automation, migration, etc. Winning so far. XCP-NG, similar to Proxmox. Some issues with Migrations. But overall working. OpenShift, just started vetting. Have a workshop scheduled with RedHat to really test out and see if the product is a good fit. Would require Portworx. Now to what I am wondering, would any of you that will be attending Pure //Accelerate be interested in a meet-up to network and discuss the trials and tribulations with these or other alternative hypervisors on Pure Storage? I am happy to present my decision process, success criteria, testing results and implementation configuration for each. If we get enough people I can ask my AE/SE to see if Pure would allow us use of a breakout meeting room. If interested let me know, I would prefer to keep this vendor neutral other than Pure, as we would not be going to a Pure conference if not interested or already running Pure Storage.Accelerate Breakout Replay: Simplifying Storage Management Automation with Pure Fusion™
See how Pure Fusion and APIs make storage automation easy—whether you're starting out or scaling advanced fleet-wide automation. Speakers: Mike Nelson Brent Lim Chris Jimenez - Fanatics https://www.purestorage.com/video/webinars/simplifying-storage-management-automation-with-pure-fusion/6375797858112.htmlAccelerate Breakout Replay: From Data Center to Azure: Seamless VMware Migrations Unleashed with Pure Storage Cloud
Learn how Pure Storage Azure-native service simplifies AVS migration with elastic storage, unified management, and FinOps-friendly scaling. Speakers: Vaclav Jirovsky Husam Hilal, MSFT Joe Ervolino, Dupaco https://www.purestorage.com/video/webinars/from-data-center-to-azure-seamless-vmware-migrations-unleashed/6375801044112.htmlAccelerate Breakout Replay: Optimizing Unstructured Data with Advanced Workflow Management
Learn how Pure Fusion™, Zero Move Tiering, and Rapid Replicas help manage and scale unstructured data while reducing complexity. Speakers: Amrita Das Hari Kannan https://www.purestorage.com/video/webinars/optimizing-unstructured-data-with-advanced-workflow-management/6375798474112.htmlPure//Accelerate 2025 - Watch the Keynote Replays
What a week it was in Las Vegas. Pure hosted customers and partners for a highly engaging and informative week all about the Enterprise Data Cloud enabled by the Pure Platform. ICYMI - we already have the keynote replays up and available for viewing. Check out Pure Storage CEO Charles Giancarlo introducing the Enterprise Data Cloudor catch up with Pure founder Coz talking about 300 TB DFMs and eliminating disk for good. It's all there - watch and let us know your favorite session and why in the comments below. dpoormanUnifying VMs and Containers: Adopting Modern Virtualization with Portworx and Red Hat OpenShift
I'll be at Accelerate in a couple of weeks talking about how you can manage your virtual machines side by side with your containerized workloads on Kubernetes. Drop by the session to learn about the options that Portworx by Pure Storage and Red Hat OpenShift provide you for managing your VMs in Kubernetes Be sure to register:
