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October 6, 2020October 6, 2020

vVols, please report to the Principal’s Office! VCF 4.1 and vVols!

Note: This is another guest blog by Kyle Grossmiller. Kyle is a Sr. Solutions Architect at Pure and works with Cody on all things VMware. In VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) version 4.1, vVols have taken center stage as a Principal Storage type available for Workload Domain deployments. This inclusion in one of VMware’s premier products reinforces the …

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July 19, 2020July 19, 2020

Deploying VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid with Pure Storage vVols Part I: Deploy TKG on vSphere

This is the start of a multi-part series (how many parts? I have no idea). But let’s start at the basics–getting TKG deployed on vSphere. Prepare Environment So the first step is to download the two OVAs required: The HA proxy and the photon appliance itself. Download the latest: https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/downloads/info/slug/infrastructure_operations_management/vmware_tanzu_kubernetes_grid/1_x

March 17, 2020March 17, 2020

The Case for vVols and Ransomware

I was listening to an episode of the Pure Report recently where Rob Ludeman interviewed Andrew Miller: Also a post on ransomware and FlashBlade: It’s a good listen–and it did get me thinking about vVols (like most things do these days). Before I get into that though… We (Pure) are doing a fair amount around …

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March 11, 2020March 19, 2020

Extending vVols to VMware Cloud Foundation

Note: This is a guest blog by Kyle Grossmiller. Kyle is a Sr. Solutions Architect at Pure and works with Cody on all things VMware. As we’ve covered in past posts, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) offers immense advantage to VMware users in terms of simplifying day 0 and 1 activities and streamlining management operations within …

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March 10, 2020March 11, 2020

What’s New in vSphere 7.0 Storage Part I: vVols are all over the place!

Ah it’s time for another round of “what’s new” with vSphere external storage. Before I get into the more traditional feature version of this series, I wanted to first note some important announcements around vVols. So the first thing that’s “new” in storage with vSphere 7.0 is that VMware is taking vVols extremely seriously now. …

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August 23, 2019August 23, 2019

End-to-End Encryption with vVols Part I: Introduction

No that’s not a typo–VVols are now capitalized as vVols. So, FYI. Anywho…as you may or may not be aware, we just released our 5.3.0 version of the FlashArray Purity Operating Environment, with quite a few things in it. One of the features is part of a larger solution that I think is a really …

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June 11, 2019June 11, 2019

First Class Disks and VVols

One of the major advantages we have seen with VVols is making a virtual disk a first class citizen on the array. We can restore, copy, replicate them (and their VMs) as storage objects were meant to be restored, copied, replicated etc. Though one thing about virtual disks is that by default–they are not first …

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February 13, 2019February 13, 2019

PowerCLI and VVols Part VIII: Running a Failover–Planned Migration

In the previous post in this series I explored how to run a VVol-based test failover of a virtual machine. Now I will walk through running an actual failover. PowerCLI and VVols Part I: Assigning a SPBM Policy PowerCLI and VVols Part II: Finding VVol UUIDs PowerCLI and VVols Part III: Getting VVol UUIDs from …

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February 11, 2019February 13, 2019

PowerCLI and VVols Part VII: Synchronizing a Replication Group

In this post, I will overview how to synchronize a VVol-based replication group with PowerCLI. See previous posts below for more context: PowerCLI and VVols Part I: Assigning a SPBM Policy PowerCLI and VVols Part II: Finding VVol UUIDs PowerCLI and VVols Part III: Getting VVol UUIDs from the FlashArray PowerCLI and VVols Part IV: …

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December 10, 2018June 26, 2019

Updating a volume group name on the FlashArray for VVols

The FlashArray implementation of Virtual Volumes surfaces VMs on the FlashArray as standard volume groups. The volume group being named by the virtual machine name. Each VVol is then added and removed to the volume group as they are provisioned or deleted. These objects though are fairly flexible–we do not use the volume group as …

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