Pure Storage® has partnered with Gridpro Software to add integration into the EvOps resource provider for Microsoft Azure Stack Hub. This partnership has enabled the direct integration of one or many FlashBlade namespaces directly into the Microsoft Azure Stack Hub Portal via a 3rd party resource provider deployment model. The…

There is an age-old story for the storage admins as they embark on the dreaded hardware renewal every 3 to 5 years. The process is as follows: Buy a new array equal to or larger than the current array They rack, stack, cable, zone, and initialize this new array Start…

The Pure Storage FlashArray has built in data protection mechanisms that enable simple and streamlined replication solutions without any add-ons or additional software costs. Depending on the organizations RPO requirements for their specific workloads will ultimately determine which of the three protection mechanisms they should utilize. In this blog, I…

Pure Storage Quick Tutorials Video 2 This is video 2 in the video series. All Pure Storage products run on top of our Purity Operating System. Purity has a very sleek and simple UI for managing your arrays. However, if you are using vSphere to manage your VMWare ESXi environment, we have a VMWare certified plugin…

Pure Storage Quick Tutorials Video 1 This is video 1 in a series I’m planning on putting together that will demonstrate how easy the Pure Storage products are to setup and manage. All Pure Storage products run on top of our Purity Operating System. Purity has a very sleek and simple UI for managing your arrays. …

In this post I want to demonstrate how I used Microsoft Azure Functions to build an online Pure Storage FlashArray simulator to test my code against while writing the ZTP tool. So what are Azure Functions? Azure Functions are a serverless compute service that enables event-triggered code to run without explicitly provisioning the underlying framework, runtime or infrastructure. Azure functions supports several types of triggers:

Building the Zero Touch Provisioner Tool for Pure Storage The Challenge Pandemic 2020!

We needed to figure out a good way to provide our customers the status of the Azure Stack services we were supporting. There are quite a few monitoring systems such as Nagios, SCCM, BMC Truesight that might be suitable but we just wanted something sleek and simple. Enter Cachet! …

How to Enable Custom Hostnames In Azure Stack Web Apps You may have noticed that if you try to configure a custom hostname (e.g. mycoolapp.mydomain.com) for a Web App you’ll get a name validation error similar to this: So the good news is… it is possible to setup custom hostnames for Azure Web Apps deployed in Azure Stack I can…