After 9.5yrs at Pure Storage I am moving on to new adventures.
Sharing knowledge about the work I delivered at Pure has been great. I appreciate all who [...]
It is both cool and a little scary how ChatGPT can not only write poems but also write code.
My ask: "Write a Pure Storage PowerShell SDK connect [...]
I am immensely proud to announce that the FlashArray PowerShell SDK 2.16 has been released! The latest version of the PowerShell SDK has been a long time in [...]
At the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit there was a lot of great content on creating PowerShell solutions, using cross-platform, new announcements from [...]
The PowerShell SDK was released in 2015 and has been downloaded over 14,000 times. It is the most comprehensive automation SDK that we have delivered to [...]
REST API 1.17 support has been added to the PowerShell SDK. The new SDK supports FlashArray REST API 1.0 — 1.17. For full documentation on the REST API use [...]
Today we are announcing the General Availability (GA) of the Pure Storage® FlashArray Management Extension for Microsoft® SQL Server® Management Studio. At [...]
As you start to build your hybrid- or multi- cloud environment differences in storage capabilities across various private and public clouds become more and [...]
Today Pure Storage is excited to announce new integrated capabilities to simplify the management and operation of Microsoft applications and databases running [...]
Microsoft Ignite is just around the corner from November 4 - 8th in Orlando, FL, and Pure Storage is proud to be a Silver Sponsor in 2019. Make plans to stop [...]
On Wednesday, September 18th @2:00-2:45pm I will be co-presenting with Richelle Ahlvers, Storage Management Software Architect from Broadcom, Inc. If you are [...]
A long awaited update to the Pure Storage PowerShell SDK is here! The new SDK supports FlashArray REST API 1.0 -- 1.16. For full documentation on the REST [...]
In my previous post I discussed how to achieve data mobility between on-premises and the cloud which focused on a Microsoft SQL Server production and dev/test [...]
Today we are announcing the Tech Preview of the Pure Storage Extension for Windows Admin Center! The Pure Storage Extension for Windows Admin Center provides [...]
There was a formatting problem discovered by a customer with the New-FlashArrayCapacityReport which is fixed in version 1808.24.
The issue was related to [...]
I am happy to announce a HUGE release of the PowerShell SDK, version 1.13. With this new release the version naming adopts the REST API version that is [...]
Today we launched the Pure Storage Hackathon! We ran a hackathon at Pure//Accelerate 2017 and we got a few participants so this year we went a bit bigger to [...]
FlashRecover protection groups can be defined at all the different object levels the FlashArray supports; volumes, hosts and host groups. Whenever a snapshot [...]
New-FlashArrayCapacityReport has been updated in the latest release of the Pure Storage PowerShell Toolkit 1802.13. The report that is generated provides a [...]
I had a question asked about how to determine whether or not a connected volume to a Windows Server host is thin provisioned or not. I put together the below [...]
There are no words for my appreciation to Chappy, Kyle, Charlies, Jon, Daniel, Arthur, John, Joe and a host of others for creating this song.
Enjoy the [...]
In Part 1 of creating volumes from Protection Group (PGroup) sources I discussed how to get a specific snapshot to use for a disaster recovery (DR) restore. [...]
When creating new volumes (Copy Volume) from a Protection Group snapshot the naming convention is the devil in the details. Below is an example using the [...]
Update 10/6/2017 — Updated the PowerShell script to support the cmdlets in the PowerShell SDK (1.7.4.0+).
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Having Active Directory [...]
Microsoft Ignite 2017 was all about the cloud, Office 365, Dynamics 365, Teams, Azure Cloud, Cloud Shell and more. Prefix or suffix a word with "Cloud" and [...]
I am happy to announce the availability of the new Microsoft Platform Guide on the Pure1 Support site. The new platform guide is a complete re-write from [...]
September 6, 2017 ---
Feeling a little nostalgic today. What an incredible journey the work on our PowerShell SDK has taken over the last 3+ years. It's hard [...]
This is just a quick post to recommend that Pure Storage customers or partners working on automation workflows using PowerShell with Server and SAN [...]
At Pure//Accelerate 2017 we announced a ton of new innovation, including a new Hybrid Cloud solution for AWS. If you missed it, check out my breakout session [...]
I have been using Visual Studio Code more than the PowerShell ISE nowadays for script development, C# and a few other projects. I mostly focus on Microsoft [...]
At //Accelerate 2017 we announced a lot of new features for Purity//FA and one of the more interesting is CloudSnap. Omer Asad wrote a great blog that provides [...]
This is a follow-up blog based on Overwriting a Volume in Windows Server.
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Our snapshots offer an incredible amount of flexibility. One of the [...]
Update 7/5/2017 -- Added https://pscodeinvite.azurewebsites.net/ using slackin for quick and easy sign-up!
Along with the upcoming hackathon we have [...]
This is a great example of using the Cisco UCS PowerTool Suite for Microsoft PowerShell to setup a FlashStack. The Cisco UCS manager can be a bit overwhelming [...]
A common question I get about the Pure Storage Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) provider is; "How can I replicate a VSS snapshot?" Our VSS provider takes [...]
This new release adds support for connecting to Pure Storage FlashArray using IPv6. The only change in the connectivity process using New-PfaArray is using an [...]
Rolling out of the lab and into production a new Pure Storage reference architecture (Download) for deploying a highly-available and scale-out Microsoft® [...]
Hot off the presses, the new FlashStack™ Mini Converged Infrastructure Design Guide for Microsoft Applications with Hyper-V (Download). This new FlashStack [...]
The final chapter in the Non-Disruptive Video Series is now available! In this chapter we focus on upgrading from a Pure Storage FlashArray//m20 to a [...]
We all have ideas we all come up with daily based on customer interactions, self-learning or working with engineering. But the chance to make one of those [...]
Got this question today that a customer was looking for a provisioning script that allowed them to create several hundred volumes with assigned prefixes and [...]
This new release of the Pure Storage PowerShell SDK provides easier access to IO and Space reporting metrics. For those customers that are interested in [...]
Pure Storage support uses Remote Assist to help customers upgrade and troubleshoot should an issue arise. There have been a few requests from our System [...]
Microsoft Ignite is always a great show because I finally get a chance to nerd out with like minded people. This year I am even more excited because of the [...]
Updates
5/2/2017 - Added size of disconnected volume output.
5/1/2017 - Fixed bugs.
There are many ways to determine what volumes are connected to a host [...]
Once Pure Storage FlashArray Directory Services has been configured seeing who has been added to the different defined groups (Array_Admin_Group, [...]
When using the Pure Storage SMI-S Provider ALWAYS use the VIR IP address. The SMI-S Provider runs on the Active (Primary) controller and using the VIR IP [...]
I’m so excited, it’s already been fun to develop demos for the capabilities of the Pure Storage platform but now its time for some new demos. First off, [...]
We introduced support for Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) with the release of Purity 4.6. I covered the Pure Storage SMI-S Provider [...]
The next chapter in the Non-Disruptive Video Series is now available! In this chapter we focus on upgrading from a Pure Storage FlashArray FA-420 to a [...]