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That time of the year again, VMworld Europe! My second one with Pure Storage and my 5th VMworld Europe (just finished my 8th VMworld US!). I am hoping I get to actually attend some sessions this time, was far too busy at the US show, but most likely won’t this time around either. Anyways, what’s in …
Last week Pure Storage introduced the latest iteration in the FlashArray product line: the FlashArray //m. While Pure Storage has traditionally focused on software innovation from a technical standpoint, we decided that the only way to stay ahead of (and lead) the curve was to innovate in the hardware realm as well. Therefore, for the …
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Update: Please see this page for latest updates on best practices and relevant links. Quick post here. I have updated the Pure Storage FlashArray Best Practices Guide for VMware vSphere. Not a total overhaul but there are some changes to note. Updates include: New information for vSphere 6.0 This mostly focuses on what supports vSphere …
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Phew another VMworld under my belt! Tons of fun and tons of work! Pure Storage had its largest presence ever at VMworld–we certainly painted Moscone orange in addition to unleashing an arsenal of nerf guns (4,500) upon the city. This post is meant to be more of a photo album of the week and what …
A lot of activity coming up this year at VMworld 2014 and Pure Storage has a large part in it. Between our booth, staffing presence, tons of sessions and 1:1 meetings there aren’t any steps we are missing. This will be my 7th VMworld and from a storage perspective I have never been more excited! …
Finally procured a pass to EMC World 2014 and I am very excited to attend–this will be my 5th one in a row! Once again EMC World is in Las Vegas–you still have time to sign up–so if you haven’t please do! This post is going to center around session suggestions, I will do another …
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Increasingly, organizations, small and large, are attempting to or at least considering to implement some type of cloud-based architecture into their IT infrastructure. The benefits of tight integration, intelligent abstraction of resources, seamless automation and orchestration are becoming quite apparent. These benefits and the desire to obtain them are causing customers and partners to look …
My colleague Jonas Rosland (@virtualswede) has been doing some great work with Splunk recently (check out a post from his blog here) and it got me to want to get my own hands a little dirty. So far I’ve only scratched the surface on what can be done with Splunk but I decided to put …
As some of you are aware, myself and my colleague Drew Tonnesen (@drewtonnesen) write and update an EMC document called Using EMC Symmetrix Storage in VMware vSphere Environments. This document is what we call a “TechBook”. Essentially a very detailed explanation of the best practices of using VMware with Symmetrix storage as well as overviews …
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I’m going to be writing a series of blogs on ActiveDR (Active Disaster Recovery) with NFS datastores over the next couple of posts. Some of the other posts I have planned in the near future are: In this blog I will do an introduction to the technologies and I will give some high level information …
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