Trying something new out, join us?
Hi all! Briana from the community team here. adhill and nfritsch came to me over the summer with the idea to host a virtual PUG meetup. So we put our heads together and came up with the idea of hosting a virtual PUG all about the landscape of virtualization options and figuring out how to make a choice or make the most of the choice you've already made. We'll meet on zoom & use breakout rooms to have small group discussions on 7 different virtualization topics. Info & registration link can be found by clicking on this image ⬇️ We're hosting it in 2 week and will be sending you a DoorDash gift card to cover your lunch during it. If you're part of a local chapter an SE in your area will be hosting a happy hour later in the day. (So far, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Columbus, OH have committed to this. Oh and you have to be at meetup to learn about the HH location & get swag.) We've brought in the Everpure experts on each of these options, and in some case they'll be interviewing customers who have already made the move. You'll have the chance to ask both of them your questions and get to know other Everpure customers that are making the same decision as you. What I'm asking is two things of you: 1) If you're interested, please register. This will help me know if it was a good idea to try out and will make it so I can get you that GC for lunch. Bonus points for commenting here & letting everyone know which room you're joining or thinking of joining. 2) If you think this is a terrible idea, tell us! Even better if you have an idea of what you'd like to see from the community team.
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?09222026 - Demo Recap - From CSI to Snapshots—Seamless VM Management on Red Hat OpenShift
If you missed our latest Expert Led Demo, Matt Webb and I walked through how teams can manage virtual machines on Red Hat OpenShift while using Everpure FlashArray through CSI. The goal was not to turn every VMware administrator into a Kubernetes expert overnight. It was to connect the dots: many familiar VM operations still exist, but the platform uses different objects, policies, and automation to get the job done. What you missed 👇 🗺️ A familiar operating model with new terminology. Worker nodes, StorageClasses, PersistentVolumeClaims, live migration, and VirtualMachine objects map closely to concepts many VMware administrators already know. ⚙️ CSI automates the storage plumbing. A StorageClass defines the storage policy, while the CSI driver provisions volumes, maps them to the right node, and handles the day-to-day attachment work. 🔀 Choose the right storage-consumption model. Teams can use Portworx Enterprise volumes for flexible, software-defined storage services across mixed infrastructure, or FlashArray Direct Access when they want array-level data services and visibility in Purity. 🚀 Keep VM operations simple. In the demo, we showed a live compute migration, created a VM from a template, and used the OpenShift console to work through familiar virtualization tasks. 📸 Use array-based snapshots for fast recovery. With CSI configured, snapshots are FlashArray-based. The demo showed taking a snapshot, deleting data, restoring the VM, and bringing the data back quickly. 🧳 Plan migrations around your environment. Migration Toolkit for Virtualization can support cold migrations, while storage-offload migration can use SCSI XCOPY when source VMware storage and OpenShift storage share the same FlashArray. The practical takeaway: storage policies and automation remove much of the manual LUN, mapping, rescan, and multipathing work. That gives virtualization and platform teams more time to focus on the workload—not the plumbing behind it. 🎥Catch up on the demo HERE 🎥 💬 What is the biggest question your team has about running VMs on OpenShift: migration, storage policy, snapshots, or day-two operations? Share it in the comments.
Countdown to VMware Explore 2026
Just about three weeks until VMware Explore 2026 kicks off in Las Vegas (Aug. 31 - Sept. 3). Everpure will be there with our VMware experts on hand to help answer your questions, bounce ideas off, learn what's coming next and more. Everpure is deeply committed to continuing joint development on VMware and continuing to enhance our industry leading VMware support and features. If you want to ensure you get some quality time with Everpure, please visit the event landing page where you can sign up for a meeting. We'll see you there! Sessions Everpure has two sessions at Explore. Sign up today! Monday, August 31, 10:30am Zero RPO and RTO, Full Speed: ActiveCluster with NVMe-oF on VCF Speaker: Alex Carver, Senior Technical Product Specialist Location: The Hub Theater Your most demanding VMware vSphere workloads no longer have to choose between NVMe performance and zero-RPO protection. Learn how Everpure combines ActiveCluster with NVMe-oF in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 to deliver synchronous replication for mission-critical workloads across NVMe/TCP and NVMe/Fibre Channel. Tuesday, September 1, 11:30am Anywhere VCF Runs, Your Data Follows: Hybrid Mobility with Everpure Speaker: Alex Carver, Senior Technical Product Specialist What if your move from VMware vSphere 8 to VMware Cloud Foundation 9 didn't lock you into one path, one platform, or one cloud? See how Everpure enables consistent data services, bidirectional workload mobility, and resilient hybrid VCF architectures across on-premise and cloud environments.Navigating Strategy Shift: Lessons from Virtualization’s "Three Waves"
The enterprise virtualization landscape has evolved through distinct shifts over the years, making long-term infrastructure planning a top priority for IT leaders. In an insightful article on the Everpure Blog, Matt Webb breaks down the Three Waves of competitive and market pressure that have shaped modern virtualization—from early hypervisor competition and the rise of public cloud to recent shifting licensing models. Key takeaways for managing long-term virtualization costs and operations: Infrastructure Change Takes Time: While application development moves rapidly, core infrastructure shifts are deliberate and require extensive lead time. Early planning, often 12 months or more ahead of renewals, is essential. A Refracted Market: There is no single "successor" path. Depending on business goals, organizations are choosing between remaining on their current stack, shifting to the public cloud, adopting alternative hypervisors, or modernizing workloads with containerized virtualization (e.g., KubeVirt). Control the Fundamentals: Unpredictability in software licensing makes optimizing the underlying storage and physical infrastructure one of the most reliable ways to control total cost of ownership (TCO). Whether you're actively evaluating new platforms or optimizing your existing stack, this piece offers a valuable framework for thinking through long-term infrastructure strategy. 📖 Read the full article: Virtualization's Three Waves: Where Do We Go from Here?Modern Virtualization and Containers Sessions at Accelerate 2026
Accelerate 2026 is fast approaching! Explore deep dives on integrating the Everpure platform with VCF, Nutanix, Proxmox, and Kubernetes (Portworx). Learn migration roadmaps, best practices for TCO reduction, and how to build a flexible, high-performance platform for all your modern workloads. If this sounds right up your alley, we’ve curated a list of must-attend breakout sessions focused on all things modern virtualization. Check out these don’t miss sessions: Mastering VCF 9: Unified Management Meets Pure Storage Performance Workload Migrations Simplified with Everpure and Nutanix Reduce VMware cost pressure with VMs on Kubernetes (KubeVirt): Strategy and Implementation What's new with Everpure and the Virtualization Landscape Modern Virt: What's Next(iva)? The Journey to Open Source Virtualization! 🎤 Featured Speaker We are thrilled to have David Stevens (pictured on the left) sharing deep-dive insights into this special subject. Will you be joining us in person? Drop a comment below with the session you're most interested in and what you hope to learn! We can't wait to see you live in Las Vegas!ICYMI: Azure Local webinar replay now available
Missed our Azure Local webinar? Catch the replay! This is a really exciting new joint solution between Everpure and Microsoft to deliver Azure services and Hyper-V virtualization in your data center, on your favorite FlashArray, all managed through the Azure portal. The webinar explains the value of the joint solution as well as details about how it works.Azure Local now works with FlashArray
A little bit of catch up here, but Azure Local is now fully GA with support for on-premises FlashArray. That means you can easily expand your current environment with FA external storage, or start a net new deployment. And yes, you can use an existing FlashArray to do it. Azure Local is shaping up to be a good VMware alternative as well as a strong solution for those needing soverign clouds, as Microsoft has a lot of support for regulatory frameworks and in-country data centers. You can learn more about it in the blog and feel free to post any questions here. We also have a webinar coming up on May 21, 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET, so you can learn more about it.Ask Us Everything about Pure Storage + Nutanix
💬 Get ready for our January 2026 edition of Ask Us Everything, this Friday, January 16th at 9 AM Pacific. This month is all about Pure Storage + Nutanix. If you have a burning question, feel free to ask it here early and we'll add it to the list to answer on Friday. Or if we can't get it answered live, our Pure Storage + Nutanix experts can follow up here. thomasbrown Cody_Hosterman jhoughes & dpoorman are the experts answering your questions during the conversation and here on the community. See you this Friday! (Oh, and if you haven't registered yet, there's still time!) Or, check out some of these self-serve resources: Solution Brief Pure Report Podcast Pure360 Video Nutanix, Intel, & Pure white paper EDIT: Thanks for joining in! If you have additional burning questions and comments, leave them in the comments below for the team!
