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At long last! vSphere 7 is available for download. An overview podcast on whats up: As time progresses we will have a lot more content out–especially new integrations around the VMware ecosystem. So certainly stay tuned, this is just the start!
To help our customers I have written a module that includes a lot of the common operations people might need to “connect” PowerCLI to our PowerShell SDK. The module is called PureStorage.FlashArray.VMware. Latest version 2.1.0.1 (October 8th, 2020) New Features: New CMDLETS: Get-PfaVcfVasaProvider–get all registered VASA providers in VCF SDD Manager New-PfaVcfVasaProvider–register a new VASA …
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Another quarter, another vSphere Plugin release from Pure! This is the release I have been really looking forward to as it sets the stage for a lot of the future work I want to build into the plugin. To recap: 4.0.0 was our initial release of our plugin that only had the basic configuration support …
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A few weeks ago, VMware released the latest version of VMware Cloud Foundation, version 3.9. There were more than a few things in this release but one enhancement was around Fibre Channel: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-Foundation/3.9/rn/VMware-Cloud-Foundation-39-Release-Notes.html The release notes mention: Fibre Channel Storage as Principal Storage: Virtual Infrastructure (VI) workload domains now support Fibre Channel as a principal …
FlashArray Receives the Highest Scores for Server Virtualization in 2019 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Solid State Arrays Report This is a semi-non-technical post for once here, but somewhat of a state of the union which is something I’ve been meaning to write. A great thing to provide me with the impetus to do this is …
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I’ve been on a few podcasts in the past couple of years, though pretty much all of them have been very tech-focused (shocking, right?). vSpeaking a few times, Pure Report, PowerScripting. A few weeks ago I had the pleasure to do a guest spot on a different type of podcast hosted by my friend Dale …
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It’s that time of the year again…again! Pure Storage is back at VMworld in Barcelona. Before we get into what’s happening at Barcelona, let’s recap a bit what happened in the US conference. As the best way to look to the future sometimes is to analyze the past. Also check out this panel session I …
… Sorry I had to throw up in my mouth a bit. Anyways. In general I am not a fan of using in-guest iSCSI for VMware environments (or really any virtualized environment), but the question does come up. And I find a surprising amount of customers using it in secret. So what of it? Why …
Cloud Block Store is now GA! About a year ago, we announced our intentions–to bring Purity (the OS for the FlashArray) to AWS. I wrote a post about it here: https://www.codyhosterman.com/2018/11/announcing-pure-storage-cloud-block-store-for-aws/ In the past 10 months I have been pretty focused on learning AWS. Not just how to use it, but more importantly, how others …
Well it’s that time of year again. Well it’s a bit past that time of year again–I should have written this a few weeks ago, but I’ve been busy! So deal with it! Anyways, what’s going on this year at VMworld when it comes to Pure? Well a fair amount! So first, sessions!