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.
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?Proxmox VE + Everpure FlashArray: Official Partnership Announced!
Hey everyone! As more organizations evaluate open-source virtualization, we’ve formally joined forces with Proxmox under the Everpure Technology Alliance Partner program. We’ve listened to your feedback and now offer validated and documented production-ready setups for running Proxmox VE on FlashArray™. What’s supported and available today: Shared Storage Transports: Full connection guides and best practices for FC, iSCSI, NVMe/TCP, and NFS through FlashArray File Services. Live Migration & HA: Shared storage volumes allow VMs and LXC containers to live-migrate across nodes with no data copying. ActiveCluster™ Stretched Resiliency: Synchronous replication with zero RPO and <3 minute RTO (including QDevice quorum & automatic fencing). Backup & Immutable Recovery: Full integration with Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) combined with SafeMode™ tamper-proof snapshots. What’s coming next: We’re actively engineering an array-aware Native Storage Plugin for Proxmox VE to bring array-offloaded snapshots, volume provisioning, and cloning directly into the Proxmox management experience. Read the full blog announcement here. Let us know what protocols you're running in your clusters or if you have questions on migration steps!
