What's New with Pure Storage and VMware
Curious about what's new for Pure Storage and VMware? You've come to the right place!
This will list blogs, videos, KB articles, integrations, certifications, etc that relate to or consist of VMware/Pure Storage content.
2023
New content for the calendar year of 2023.
October
September
Code Releases
- vSphere Plugin 5.3.4 Launch: NFS Enhancements
- NFS datastore edit and delete support
- NFS 4.1 support
- NFS VM undelete
- NFS VM PiT recovery
Videos
August
Code Releases
- vSphere Plugin 5.3.3 Launch: Bug Fixes
Blogs
- Pure Storage And VMware On Azure: Easy, Performant, Cost-Effective - Forbes
- Pure Storage Expands Microsoft Partnership to Further Accelerate Cloud Adoption - StorageReview
- Pure Storage extends Azure Cloud Block Store to lower-cost SSD instances – Blocks and Files
- Pure Storage Brings Its Storage Technology To Microsoft’s Azure VMware Solution - Forbes
- Pure Cloud Block Store Now Available for Microsoft Azure VMware Solution
July
Code Releases
- vSphere Plugin 5.3.2 Launch: Bug Fixes
June
Videos
Code Releases
- vSphere Plugin 5.3.1 Launch: Additional NFS features, NVMe-oF basic functionality
- NVMe-oF functionality
- Add and update host group workflow added
- Create VMFS datastore workflow has protocol selection capabilities
- Host connection view shows NVMe-oF connections
- Feedback form added to the home screen of the remote plugin
- Automatic directory management (autodir) option when creating an NFS datastore
- NVMe-oF functionality
May
April
Code Releases
KB Updates
February
January
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
2022
New content for the calendar year of 2022.
December
KB Updates
November
KB Updates
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
October
Code Releases
September
August
KB Updates
Videos
July
Webinars
June
Code Releases
May
Code Releases
Blogs
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
April
March
February
Documentation
Code Releases
- vROps 3.2.0 launch: contains fixes for Log4j vulnerabilities and other enhancements
- Local vSphere Plugin 4.5.2 launch: assorted bug fixes. This is the last planned feature release of the local vSphere Plugin
- VMware Appliance 3.4.0 launch: improvements to networking configuration in the deployment phase
2021
New content for the calendar year of 2021.
December
Documentation
November
Pure Storage and VMware have found an issue with vSphere 7.0U3 and 7.0U3a with Purity//FA versions 5.3.12 or lower, 6.0.4 or lower, and 6.1.0 or lower, where VASA operations will fail with a vendor specific error saying that there are duplicate keys found for the request. Please check what versions of Purity your FlashArray's are running before planning upgrades of your vSphere environment to 7.0U3 or 7.0U3a.
This issue is resolved in Purity versions above the listed affected versions and VMware is working to push a fix in vSphere to revert the change to 7.0U3 that introduced this issue. Please see this KB for more information.
October
August
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
July
Blogs
June
Documentation
Videos
May
April
Documentation
March
Blogs
Documentation
February
Blogs
Documentation
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NVMe Fibre Channel Updates
January
Blogs
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
Code Releases
- Pure Storage Plugin 4.5.0 for the vSphere Client
- Storage Replication Adapter 4.1 for Site Recovery Manager
2020
New content for the calendar year of 2020.
November
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
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)
October
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
Documentation
Code Releases
September
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
August
Blogs
- Disk.DiskMaxIOSize is no longer needed -- Cody Hosterman
- Pure Storage and VMware Python Module -- Jacob Hopkinson
Videos
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:
- purepyvmware 1.0.0:
July
Blogs
- What's New with Purity 6.0: ActiveDR - Cody Hosterman
- What's New with Purity 6.0: Tagging - Cody Hosterman
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Tanzu with Pure Storage vVols: Part 1 Deploying TKG - Cody Hosterman
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Using PowerShell with FlashArray REST 2.x - Cody Hosterman
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What's New in the Pure Storage vRealize Orchestrator Plugin 3.5 - David Stamen
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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
Miscellaneous
June
Blogs
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Configuring vRealize Orchestrator to use Pure1 Integration - David Stamen
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Unable to Provision a vVol Hard Disk on a VM Located on VMFS Datastore - David Stamen
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Data Replication: Fundamentals - Cody Hosterman
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Using the VMware Event Broker Appliance to Automatically Expand a Pure Storage FlashArray Datastore - David Stamen
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Data Replication Part I: Replication Fundamentals - Cody Hosterman
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Data Replication Part II: FlashArray Replication Options - Cody Hosterman
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Using Terraform to Deploy the Pure1 VM Analytics Collector - David Stamen
Videos
Documentation
Code Releases
May
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
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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
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
April
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
Documentation
Code Releases
March
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