Pure Storage

Dashboard

Hardware

M10 - 30TB
M20 - 250 TB
M50 - 500 TB
M70 - 1.5 PB
X70 - 1.1. PB

Operating System

Version: 3.0


Health status
latency
IOPS
Bandwidth

Storage

1) Create host - host1
2) Add FC ports
3) create volumes
4) create voluems
5) create clone -> copy snapshot to volume


Replications

1) Create Protection group
2) add members to the group
3) add ESX cluster
4) add targets  - > add pure storage array targets
5) define replication policy

SRM
site recovery manager to connect Pure storage to vmware

Analysis  for graphs

System

alerts configration, SNMP, system time, directory service,

Host Connections

Plugins - vCenter plug ins

VSS - application consistent snapshots for the windows



Pure storage architecture



Monitoring of the Pure storage through  PURE1 Cloud ( similar to ESRS)


Pure 3.0 features


Non-disruptive - >  software updates
                                Capacity expansion
                                performance expansions


ZeroSnap using vmware xCopy feature


More security through  Always on Encryption  AES

VAAI xcopy
VAAI thin prov
vSphere plugin

Support model - PureCloud