OpenStack Persistent Storage: Ceph v. Pure Storage

A brief comparison of Ceph with a Pure Storage FlashArray from an OpenStack perspective

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 […]

Manage Drift with Ansible

Managing and alerting infrastructure drift in Pure Storage systems using Ansible

Pure Storage FlashArray and OpenVMS

How to make Pure Storage FlashArray volumes useable with an OpenVMS server.

OpenStack Kolla and Pure Storage FlashArray for Cinder

A short description of how to deploy a Pure Storage FlashArray Cinder backend when using OpenStack Kolla

Pure release updated Splunk Integration

Pure releases latest Splunk Enterprise App for FlashArray, FlashBlade and Pure1

Storage Provisioning on Pure with Ansible

Simple volume provisioning and teardown on a Pure Storage FlashArray using Ansible

Infrastructure deployment with Terraform and Ansible

Using Ansible and Terraform as complementary tools for building infrastructure environments

DataDog and Pure Storage

DataDog and Pure Storage – observability integration for FlashArray and FlashBalde appear in a flash…