VMware to OpenStack: The Simple Way

With VMware’s future in question following Broadcom’s acquisition and the deprecation of vVols, many organizations are rethinking their virtualization strategy. OpenStack emerges as a powerful, open alternative—but migration can be daunting. If you’re running VMware on Pure Storage FlashArrays, there’s good news: the latest OpenStack release unlocks a simple, elegant path to migrate your virtual machine volumes—no conversions, no complexity. Discover how Pure Storage makes your transition to OpenStack easier than ever.

Ephemeral to Cinder: A Quick Guide

One question I’ve been hearing more frequently from OpenStack admins is: “How do I move my instances from ephemeral boot to Cinder-backed volumes?” This shift is becoming increasingly necessary for several reasons, including: In this short post, I’ll walk you through how to migrate an instance that was originally booted with ephemeral storage to a […]

Deploying Pure Storage in OpenStack using kolla-ansible

Some time ago I wrote a post on deploying the Flash Storage FlashArray as a Cinder backend using Kolla as the deployment method. As time has moved on, so has Kolla to the point where it now uses Ansible to deploy OpenStack with the kolla-ansible project. In this post I’m going to explain how to […]

Observe More with Dynatrace and Pure Storage

Pure Storage develops Dynatrace integration to extend enterprise class storage observability

Simple OpenStack Glance Configuration with S3 and Cinder Image-Volume Cache

A simple review of configuring OpenStack Glance to use S3 object stores combined with Cinder Image-Volume cache.

OpenStack Glance with Cinder Multistores – Scurry into the Unknown

A deep-dive into configuring OpenStack Glance multistore on Cinder backends and how they can be used in core-edge deployments.

Introducing Ansible and Pure to Empower Live Application Data Migration

How to perform a live migration of an applications data disks from one storage array to another using Ansible.

Join us at the OpenInfrastructure Summit in Vancouver from June 13-15. Network with industry professionals, learn about cutting-edge solutions, and hear from thought leaders in the field. Visit booth A12 to see Pure Storage’s OpenStack integrations and RSVP for our Happy Hour. Don’t miss out!

REST API – The Postman Only Rings Once…

This post will discuss using Postman to work with Pure Storage FlashArray REST API endpoints.

OpenStack Cinder 3-Site Replication

Pure announces 3-site Cinder Replication in OpenStack 2023.1 (Antelope)