What's New with Pure Storage and VMware

Code Releases

• vSphere Plugin 5.3.0 Launch: NFS Datastore creation, vVol edit and destroy workflows
  • NFS datastore creation workflow
  • NFS datastore summary widget
  • Delete vVols datastore (storage container) workflow
  • Edit vVols datastore workflow
  • Updated mount vVol datastore workflow for multiple storage container support

KB Updates

• Automatic Directory Policies for NFS Datastores
• Installing the FlashArray NFS VAAI VIB Component

Code Releases

• SRA 5.0.0 Launch: NVMe-oF Datastore Support
  • Release Notes
  • Download
  • Configure the SRA for NVMe-oF Datastore Use

KB Updates

• VMware NFS Datastores on FlashArray Quick Start Guide
• VMware NFS Datastores Snapshot Management
  • Snapshot restoration for FlashArray File Managed Snapshots in vSphere
  • FlashArray File Snapshot Policy Management

Blogs

• Features I Use Regularly in Pure's vSphere Plugin

KB Updates

• Configuring NVMe/TCP with FlashArray and vSphere

Videos

• Configuring NVMe/TCP with FlashArray and vSphere

Webinars

• Frictionless vVols Replication with the Pure Storage vSphere Client Plugin

KB Updates

• vVols User Guide: vVol Datastore 
  • Updated to include Multiple Storage Container workflows introduced in Purity 6.4.1
  • New section: Creating a Storage Container on the FlashArray

Videos

• vVols 101 Lightboard Session Playlist
  • Introduction to vVols
  • What are vVols?
  • What is a VASA Provider?
  • What is a Protocol Endpoint?
  • What is a Storage Policy?
  • How do vSphere Managed Snapshots work with vVols?
  • vVols and Changed Block Tracking
• vSphere Remote Plugin Architecture Lightboard
• Connecting Multiple Storage Containers

KB Updates

• vSphere Plugin Replication Manager

Videos

• vSphere Plugin Replication Manager Demo

KB Updates

• vSphere Remote Plugin - vVols Management - VM Insights
• vSphere Remote Plugin - vVols Management - Storage Policy Wizard
• vSphere Remote Plugin - VMFS Management - VM Recovery 

Videos

• vVols Stretched Storage Support Preview Demo
• vSphere Remote Plugin - vVols Management - Storage Policy Wizard Demo
• vSphere Remote Plugin - vVols Management - VM Insights
• Hybrid Cloud Disaster Recovery with Pure ActiveDR and Cloud Block Store
• vSphere Remote Plugin - VMFS Management - VM Recovery Demo

Code Releases

• vSphere Plugin 5.2.0: vVol Replication Manager, VMFS VM Recovery
  • Release Notes
  • Download
  • VMFS VM Recovery Workflow

Webinars

• Protect and Secure Your VMware Workloads with Pure Storage
• How Can I Leverage Virtual Volumes and Their Value?

KB Updates

• Note on vVol support of NVMe-oF in vSphere 8.0 and the Pure VASA Provider

KB Updates

• VMware ESXi 7.0 Update 3f was previously released that fixes core issues with vVols
• Minimum vSphere user privilages and permisions required to register the remote plugin with vCenter

Videos

• How to create a vSphere User with the minimum privileges and register vCenter with the remote plugin
• Using Managed Snapshots with a vVols based VM to create a Point in Time Fast Cloned VM

Blogs

• How to Enable Content Based Read Cache (CBRC) on a vVols based VM
• New REST API's for vVols Objects with FlashArray REST API 2.14

Webinars

• You Won’t Need DR But When You Do You’ll Be Happy You Have It
• vVols Managed Snapshots Deep Dive (VMUG)

Blogs

• Migrating from SCSI to NVMe on vCenter

Code Releases

• vRO Plugin 4.0.1 launch: Pure1 connectivity bug fix
  • Release Notes
  • Download
  • User Guide
• vSphere Remote Plugin 5.1.0 launch: vVol PiT Recovery
  • Release Notes
  • Download
  • New vVols VM Undelete Workflows

 Videos

• Pure Storage vSphere Remote Plugin 5.1.0 - vVols Management - VM Undelete
• Pure Storage vSphere Remote Plugin 5.1.0 - vVols Management - VM Point in Time Undelete
• Pure Storage vSphere Remote Plugin 5.1.0 - vVols Management - VM Point in Time Revert

Code Releases

• SRA 4.2.0 launch: SafeMode support, FlashArray//XL support, Purity 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3 support
  • Release Notes
  • Download
  • User Guide

Blogs

• vCenter Storage Provider "Refresh certificate" Functionality Restored
• Pure Storage’s vROps Management Pack ™ 3.2.0 – New Features and Changes

Documentation

• What's new with VASA provider version 2.0.0?
• Updated KB:  vVols User Guide: Snapshots of vVols
• Updated KB: Site Recovery Manager User Guide
• Updated KB: SafeMode with Site Recovery Manager User Guide

Documentation

• Updated KB: vVols User Guide: Storage Policy Based Management

Blogs

• How to Refresh VASA Certificates in vSphere 7.0
• Native Pure Storage FlashArray™ File Replication – Purity 6.3
• Horizon Folder Redirection Hosted on FlashArray™ File

Documentation

• S.M.A.R.T. Alerts in vmkernel Log with FlashArray™ Hardware-backed Volumes
• RDM SCSI Inquiry Data - updated information about when VMs may need to ignore the cached inqurity data from the host
• vVols and VASA fixes by ESXi release - updated the kb to include ESXi 7.0 U3c release

Documentation

• Whitepaper: Adaptive vVol Performance Management
• ESXi 7.0 U3 Emulex lpfc Driver Version Considerations

Code Releases

• vROps 3.2.0 launch:  contains fixes for Log4j vulnerabilities and other enhancements
  • Release Notes
  • Download
  • User Guide
• Local vSphere Plugin 4.5.2 launch:  assorted bug fixes. This is the last planned feature release of the local vSphere Plugin
  • Release Notes
  • Download
  • User Guide
• VMware Appliance 3.4.0 launch:  improvements to networking configuration in the deployment phase
  • Release Notes
  • Download
  • User Guide

Webinars

• Reducing Challenges and Complexity with VDI
• VMware Virtual Volumes Scale Enhancements and What It Makes Possible

Documentation

• Guide: Horizon Folder Redirection Hosted on FA File

Documentation

• Troubleshooting: VASA Operations Fail with Vendor Specific Error - Duplicate Key Found

Documentation

• Equinix Metal User Guide:  Setup and Deploy VMware Cloud Foundation
• FlashArray//C VMware Managed Snapshot Performance
• FlashArray SafeMode with VMware
  • FlashArray SafeMode with vVols
  • FlashArray SafeMode with SRM

Documentation

• A 25 second pause in I/O during a single link loss with iSCSI
• Adaptive Queueing, Storage I/O Control and QoS (Part 1)
• vVols User Guide - Types of vVols
• vVols User Guide - Replicating vVols
• Troubleshooting: After upgrading to Purity//FA 6.0 or 6.1 SRM is reporting vVol VMs are not replicated and queryReplicationGroup fails

Documentation

• vSphere Plugin 5.0.0 Release
  • Installation KB Article
  • Using RBAC KB Article

Blogs

• What's New in the 5.0.0 Pure Storage Plugin for the vSphere Client - David Stamen

Documentation

• What's new with VASA Version 1.2.0?
• Tanzu User Guide: Creating A Tanzu Kubernetes Guest Cluster
• Tanzu User Guide: Persistent Storage Usage with Pure Storage

Videos

• VMware Tanzu Videos

Documentation

• Implementing vSphere Metro Storage Cluster With ActiveCluster - significant updates

Blogs

• What’s new in Pure’s vROps Management Pack 3.1.1 – vVol VM Metrics

Documentation

• vSphere Plugin 4.5.1 Release
• Pure Storage Plugin for vRO 3.5.1 Release
• vROps 3.1.1 Management Pack Release; vVol Container Objects now displayed
  • vROps User Guide updated to include vVol features
• vROps 2.0.12 Management Pack Release 

Blogs 

• What's New in Pure1 VM Analytics and OVA Collector 3.1.0

Blogs 

• NVMe-oF multipathing

• Deploy vSphere with Tanzu using vSphere Networking with the NSX Advanced Load Balancer

• Deploy and Configure the NSX Advanced Load Balancer for vSphere with Tanzu

• How to Create SOAP Trace Logs to Troubleshoot PowerCLI Errors

• What's New in vSphere 7.0 U2

  • Creating a vVol Datastore File Repository

  • Increase in supported iSCSI path limit

  • Multiple of the same capabilities in one policy

Videos

• NVMe-oF with vSphere Deep Dive
• Pure Storage on Equinix Metal Videos

Documentation  

• Tanzu User Guide:  vSphere Workload Management Namespace Overview and Setup
• Pure Storage on Equinix User Guide

Webinars 

• NVMe-oF Deep Dive VMware User Group On-Demand Webinar

Blogs  

• How does Pure Storage integration with vSAN?

• What's New in Purity 6.1: NVMe-oF Fibre Channel 

• Configuring NVMe-oF Fibre Channel Boot from SAN

• Using the Pure Storage Cloud Block Store Terraform Provider for AWS

• Configuring FlashArray Offload to AWS S3

• Using vRealize Automation 8.x with the Pure Storage vRealize Orchestrator Plugin

• Digging into vSphere Workload Management Options

Videos

• VMware Tanzu with VMware Cloud Foundation:  Setup and Usage

Documentation

• NVMe Fibre Channel Updates

  • How To: Setup NVMe-FC with VMware

  • FAQ: NVMe-oF and VMware

  • NVMe over Fabrics Quick Reference

Blogs  

• NVMe Identification and VMware
• PowerShell and vVol Replication Cmdlets
• PowerShell and vVol Storage Policy Management
• Pure Storage Plugin 4.5.0 for the vSphere Client

Videos  

• VMFS lifecycle management with the Pure Storage Plugin for the vSphere Client
• Host Management with the Pure Storage Plugin for the vSphere Client
• Pure Storage vSphere Plugin vVols Management: Import Protection Groups - version 4.5.0
• Azure VMware Solution (AVS) and Cloud Block Store:  Setup and Usage
• VMware Tanzu with HA-Proxy:  Setup and Usage

Documentation  

• vSphere Plugin User Guide: Host Management
• vSphere Plugin User Guide: VMFS Management
• vSphere Plugin User Guide: Virtual Volumes (vVols) Management
• vVols Troubleshooting: PowerCLI 12 Object Not Referenced
• Azure VMware Solution (AVS) User Guide

Code Releases  

• Pure Storage Plugin 4.5.0 for the vSphere Client
  • Release Notes
  • Download
  • VCG Listing
• Storage Replication Adapter 4.1 for Site Recovery Manager
  • Release Notes
  • Download
  • VCG Listing

Blogs  

• Tanzu Kubernetes 1.2 Part 1: Deploying a Tanzu Kubernetes Management Cluster
• Tanzu Kubernetes 1.2 Part 2: Deploying a Tanzu Kubernetes Guest Cluster
• Tanzu Kubernetes 1.2 Part 3: Authenticating Tanzu Kubernetes Guest Clusters with Kubectl
• Cloud Native Storage: Configuring Storage Policies
• Using Pure1 Meta for Intelligent Datastore Selection and VM Provisioning
• Pure Storage & VMware: Adaptive Queueing, Storage I/O Control and QoS (Part 1)
• Pure Storage & VMware: Adaptive Queueing, Storage I/O Control and QoS (Part 2)
• What's New in Pure1 VM Analytics and OVA Collector 3.0

Videos  

• vRO 8.x with Pure Storage Plugin v4: Install Demo
• vRO 8.x with Pure Storage Plugin v4: Authenticate with Pure1
• Pure Storage Plugin for the vSphere Client: Uninstallation Methods

Documentation  

• Test Recovery with ActiveDR workflow
• vVols User Guide KBs
  • vVols User Guide: Best Practice Summary
  • vVols User Guide: Terminology
  • vVols User Guide: Introduction to vVols
  • vVols User Guide: The FlashArray VASA Provider
  • vVols User Guide: Configuring Host Connectivity
  • vVols User Guide: Protocol Endpoints
  • vVols User Guide: vVols Reporting
  • vVols User Guide: vVol Datastore
• Updated the KB for renewing the VASA Certificate
• vRealize Orchestrator 8 with Pure Storage User Guide
• How to: Setup NVMe-RDMA with VMware (Updated for setting Priority Flow Control)

Code Releases  

• Pure Storage Plugin v4 for vRealize Orchestrator v8.x

Blogs 

• VMware Cloud Foundation 4.1 and vVols --Kyle Grossmiller
• PowerShell Automation of VCF and Host Commissioning -- Cody Hosterman
• VMware and Portworx -- Cody Hosterman

Videos 

• PowerShell and VCF Automation
• VCF & vVols as Principal Storage: FC 
• VCF & vVols as Principal Storage: iSCSI
• Cloud Native Storage and vVols

Documentation 

• How To: VMware Cloud Foundation with VMFS on FC as Principal Storage
• How To: Deploy VCF Workload Domains with vVols and iSCSI as Principal Storage
• User Guide:  VMware Cloud Native Storage (CNS)
• Updated vVols Quick Start Guide

Code Releases 

Blogs

• Pure1 PowerShell Module support for Core-- Cody Hosterman
• VMworld 2020 and Pure Storage -- Cody Hosterman
• vSphere Plugin 4.4.0 --Cody Hosterman
• Why we are called Solutions Engineering --Cody Hosterman

Videos

• Pure Storage Management Pack for vROps: Installation and Configuration
• Pure Storage Plugin for the vSphere Client: Installation Methods
• SRM: Install and Configure SRA 4.0
• SRM: Configure ActiveDR for SRM
• SRM: Test Recovery of ActiveDR
• SRM: Recovery and Reprotect of ActiveDR
• VCF:  Easily Reassign ESXi Hosts with FlashArray Snapshots

Documentation

• Update: vSphere Plugin User Guide: Configuring Authentication New info on PowerShell JWT creation on Linux
• Update: vROps 3.x Management Pack Release Notes (The release of 3.0.2 information)
• Update: vSphere Plugin vVol Management (creating a single vVol snapshot)
• Pure Storage Plugin version 4.4.0 for the vSphere Client Release Notes
• How To:  ESXi Host Reassignment in VMware Cloud Foundation

Code Releases

• Pure Storage/VMware PowerShell Module 2.0.0.0
• Pure Storage Pure1 PowerShell Module 1.2.0.0
• vROps Management Pack 3.0.2
• Pure Storage Plugin version 4.4.0 for the vSphere Client 

Blogs

• Disk.DiskMaxIOSize is no longer needed -- Cody Hosterman
• Pure Storage and VMware Python Module -- Jacob Hopkinson

Videos

• VMware Cloud Foundation Videos: Easily Reassign ESXi Hosts Between Workload Domains
• Hybrid Cloud Kubernetes on Storage Field Day
• vVol and Site Recovery Manager Panel

Documentation

• vRealize Orchestrator 7 User Guide: Inventory management 
• Pure Storage Plugin for vRealize Orchestrator release notes
• vRealize Orchestrator 7 User Guide: Using workflows
• vVols Replication Deep Dive
• Leveraging FlashArray Snapshots for VCF Host Reassignment
• SRM User Guide: Discovering Replicated Devices with the FlashArray SRA (added ActiveDR)
• SRM User Guide: Configuring the FlashArray SRA Array Managers  (added ActiveDR)
• SRM User Guide: FlashArray Continuous Replication (ActiveDR) Workflows
• Troubleshooting ActiveDR Recovery Errors in Site Recovery Manager
• Troubleshooting ActiveDR Test Recovery Errors in Site Recovery Manager
• Troubleshooting ActiveDR Reprotect Errors in Site Recovery Manager

Code Releases

• SRA 4.0:
  • Release Notes
  • Download
  • Compatibility Listing
  • User Guide
• purepyvmware 1.0.0:
  • GitHub Download
  • Documentation

Blogs

• What's New with Purity 6.0: ActiveDR - Cody Hosterman
• What's New with Purity 6.0: Tagging - Cody Hosterman

• Tanzu with Pure Storage vVols: Part 1 Deploying TKG - Cody Hosterman

• Using PowerShell with FlashArray REST 2.x - Cody Hosterman

• What's New in the Pure Storage vRealize Orchestrator Plugin 3.5 - David Stamen

• Naming PowerShell tabs by vCenter with Windows Terminal - Cody Hosterman

Videos

• Tech Preview: SRM and ActiveDR
• Lightboard video with VMware: vVols isn't just for the VMware admin
• Pure Storage vSphere Plugin: vVols Management
• Install and Configure the Pure Storage Plugin for vRealize Orchestrator
• Pure Storage vSphere Plugin: Authenticate with Pure1
• Pure Storage vSphere Plugin: Using the Home Screen

Documentation

• vSphere Plugin Guide: Installing the vSphere Plugin
• vSphere Plugin Guide: Uninstalling the vSphere Plugin
• vSphere Plugin Guide: vSphere Plugin Authentication
• vSphere Plugin Guide: Volume Group Management
• vSphere Plugin Guide: ESXi Host Configuration
• vSphere Plugin Guide: VMFS Management
• vSphere Plugin Guide: vVols Management
• vROps 3.x Management Pack Release Notes (Updated)
• Installing the Pure Storage Plugin into vRealize Orchestrator 7.x 
• Pure Storage Plugin Authentication with vRealize Orchestrator 7.x 

Code Releases

• vROps 3.0.1
• vRO 3.5.0
  • Solution Exchange Download
  • VMware Compatibility Guide Listing

Miscellaneous

Blogs

• Configuring vRealize Orchestrator to use Pure1 Integration - David Stamen

• Unable to Provision a vVol Hard Disk on a VM Located on VMFS Datastore - David Stamen

• Data Replication: Fundamentals - Cody Hosterman

• Using the VMware Event Broker Appliance to Automatically Expand a Pure Storage FlashArray Datastore - David Stamen

• Data Replication Part I: Replication Fundamentals - Cody Hosterman

• Data Replication Part II: FlashArray Replication Options - Cody Hosterman

• Using Terraform to Deploy the Pure1 VM Analytics Collector - David Stamen

Videos

• SRM and vVols lightboard 
• VMware and Pure Storage Containers - Gestalt IT

Documentation

• SRM and vVol User Guide (VASA 1.1.0)
• SRM SRA User Guide (SRA 3.1.0)
• Why the vCenter Server should not run on vVols
• What's new with VASA Version 1.1.0?
• VASA Operation Lifecycle Deep Dive
• ActiveDR VMware Implementation Guide

Code Releases

Miscellaneous 

• vSphere Plugin certification for 6.5

Blogs

• Installing the vSphere Plugin with PowerShell Core -Cody Hosterman
• Is NVMe-oF Ready for Primetime with vSphere 7? - Cody Hosterman
• vROps 8.x: Alert triggered for potentially stale objects - Jacob Hopkinson

• Running vVols in VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) on Pure Storage Cloud Block Store (CBS) on AWS - David Stamen

• What's New in the 4.3.1 Pure Storage vSphere Client Plugin - David Stamen

Videos

• Installing the Pure Storage vSphere Client Plugin
• Using the Pure Storage vSphere Client Plugin
• vVols Lightboard: Using your array the way it was meant to be used!
• Gestalt IT Round Table: NVMe-oF with vSphere 7 - Cody Hosterman

Documentation

• FlashStack Deployment Automation with SmartConfig and VMware Cloud Foundation
• FlashArray SRA 3.1 User Guide 
• FlashArray SRA 3.1 Release Notes
• Raw Device Mapping (RDM)
• vVols and SRM Requirements and Best Practices
• VMware Validated Design 5.0 KB
• Configuring Site Recovery Manager vVol-Based Storage Policy Discovery KB
• Troubleshooting: vVols report " LOGICAL BLOCK ADDRESS OUT OF RANGE" SCSI errors

Code Releases

• Pure1 PowerShell Module 1.0.1.0
• FlashArray SRA 3.1.0
• SRM 8.3 SRA Certification
• vSphere Plugin 4.3.1
• Pure Storage VMware PowerShell Module 1.4.2.0

Miscellaneous 

• VASA and vVols related ESXi fixes - 6.7 P02 - Build 16075168 

Blogs

• Replacing the Pure Storage FlashArray VASA Certificate --David Stamen
• vVol refresh with PowerCLI or vRealize--Jase McCarty
• vSphere 7 and Pure Storage--Cody Hosterman
• Part 1: Deploying vSphere with Kubernetes - Prerequisites
• Part 2: Deploying vSphere with Kubernetes - Configuring vCenter Server
• Part 3: Deploying vSphere with Kubernetes - Deploy and Configure NSX-T
• Part 4: Deploying vSphere with Kubernetes - Enabling vSphere with Kubernetes
• Part 5: Deploying vSphere with Kubernetes - Using vSphere with Kubernetes
• Part 6: Deploying vSphere with Kubernetes - Provisioning and Managing a Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster
• Using PowerCLI to Deploy the Site Recovery Manager 8.3 Appliance
• Introducing the FlashArray vSphere Plugin version 4.3.0 -- David Stamen
• What's New in the Pure Storage vRealize Operations Management Pack 3.0

Videos

• Migration to vVols lightboard
• Pure and vVols lightboard
• Configuring NVMe-oF with vSphere

Documentation

• NVMe-oF documentation
• VCF with Pure White Paper
• Configuring Multiple Non-Linked vCenters with the same VASA provider
• Using Site Recovery Manager with the FlashArray Web Guide
• vROPs management pack 3.0.0 release notes
• Updated web guide for vROPs management pack 3.0.0

Code Releases

• vSphere Plugin 4.3.0
• VASA version 1.1.0/vSphere 7.0 certification
• SRM vVol certification
• vROPs 8.x certification/mgmt pack 3.0.0

Miscellaneous 

• Podcast: vSphere 7 and Pure Storage
• Compatibility listing for NVMe-oF and ESXi
• VMUG Webinar: What's New with vSphere 7 and Pure Storage

Blogs

• Replacing the Pure Storage FlashArray Management Certificate -- David Stamen
• Configuring and Using the Pure Storage vSphere Plugin with Pure1 Authentication -- David Stamen
• Using vRealize Automation with the Pure Storage vRealize Orchestrator Plugin -- David Stamen
• Using the Pure Storage vRealize Orchestrator Plugin -- David Stamen
• Using the Pure Storage vRealize Operations Management Pack -- David Stamen
• Using the Pure Storage vSphere Plugin -- David Stamen
• Installing and Updating the Pure Storage vSphere Plugin -- David Stamen
• vVols and Ransomware --Cody Hosterman
• VMware Cloud Foundation and vVols --Kyle Grossmiller
• What's New with vVols in vSphere 7 -- Cody Hosterman

Videos

KB Articles

Code Releases

Miscellaneous