OpenStack Cinder Replication: Using Multiple ActiveCluster Pods to Increase Scale

Since the Mitaka release of OpenStack, the Pure Storage Cinder driver has supported Cinder replication, although this first iteration only supported asynchronous replication. The Rocky release of OpenStack saw Pure’s Cinder driver support synchronous replication by integrating our ActiveCluster feature from the FlashArray. This synchronous replication automatically created an ActiveCluster pod on the paired FlashArrays […]

Load Balancing Fleets of Storage with Ansible

In this post, I’m going to discuss how to load balance your storage provisioning across a fleet of Pure Storage FlashArrays using Ansible. What would a use case be for this? Imagine a vSphere environment where there are multiple Pure Storage FlashArrays available to a vCenter and when creating a new datastore, you want to […]