SQL Server
FlashArray Management Extension for SQL Server Management Studio is now GA!
Today we are announcing the General Availability (GA) of the Pure Storage® FlashArray Management Extension for Microsoft® SQL Server® Management Studio. At [...]
Announcing the Pure Storage® FlashArray Management Extension for Microsoft® SQL Server® Management Studio
Today marks a significant milestone for Pure Storage as we announce the release of a new extension for Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). This [...]
Get Pumped for Microsoft Ignite & Pure Storage!
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 [...]
T-18 days to Pure//Accelerate 2019 — Check out the Microsoft Sessions!
18 days until the 4th Pure//Accelerate and it's jammed packed full of great sessions covering a ton of different new products, features and solutions. My team [...]
Data Mobility Demo Journey from Pure//Accelerate
At Pure//Accelerate 2018 Cody Hosterman and I delivered a session on "Moving Data Between Cloud and On-Premises Virtualized Environments". The focus of this [...]
SQL Server Database Clones –> AWS Direct Connect –> AWS EC2
In August 2017 we announced the release of our >Hybrid Cloud with AWS and the demonstration in this blog is a follow-up to show how to leverage FlashRecover [...]
New Microsoft Platform Guide Released!
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 [...]
DevOps Pipeline Demo of CloudSnap to AWS
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 [...]
New! FlashStack™ Mini CI for Microsoft Applications with Hyper-V
Hot off the presses, the new FlashStack™ Mini Converged Infrastructure Design Guide for Microsoft Applications with Hyper-V (Download). This new FlashStack [...]
Demonstration of New Microsoft Azure Integration
During the Pure//Accelerate 2016 conference we announced the Pure Storage Hybrid All-Flash Cloud with Microsoft Azure. During the conference we presented [...]
Announcing: Pure Storage All-Flash Cloud for Microsoft Azure
Today is an exciting day at Pure Storage! Holding our 1st User Conference: Pure//Accelerate; announcing new products: FlashArray//m10 and FlashBlade; along [...]
Learn about Commvault IntelliSnap technology integration with Pure Storage
Commvault adds orchestration and functional value on top of the Pure Storage FlashRecover Snapshot technology with the IntelliSnap™ technology snapshot [...]
Backup Automation with SQL Server PowerShell and Pure Storage PowerShell
Microsoft SQL Server is one of the primary workloads that Pure Storage customers run on our FlashArray and a frequent question we get is on the topic of [...]
Simplify Design of 100% Flash Storage for Microsoft SQL Server 2014 with Flashstack
I’m back from my blogging hiatus after wrapping up the new FlashStack Converged Infrastructure Design Guide for SQL 2014. This was a fun and challenging [...]
Using FlashRecover Snapshots to Quickly Scale Creating Databases
I recently helped with a simple proof of concept to enable the ability to create a number of SQL Server databases without the need to have the MDF and LDF [...]
FlashStack Converged Infrastructure for Microsoft SQL Server
Uninterrupted database performance with AlwaysOn Availability Groups and native FlashArray-based replication
Microsoft SQL Server is an increasingly vital [...]
New SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Group Reference Architecture
This document provides a reference architecture for deploying Microsoft SQL Server 2014 AlwaysOn Availability Groups on a Pure Storage FlashArray. This [...]
SQL Server 2014 Prod/Dev Refresh with VMware PowerCLI and Pure Storage PowerShell Toolkit
One of the demonstrations that I created for VMworld 2014 was to create a simple orchestration for refreshing a SQL Server 2014 database volume and [...]
New Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Reference Architecture Released
New Microsoft Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Reference Architecture for Pure Storage FlashArray’s is available. This document provides a reference architecture [...]
Application Consistency with Pure Storage VSS Provider
With the release of the Purity Operating Environment 4.0 comes the new Pure Storage Volume Shadow Copy Service Provider (Pure VSS Provider). The Pure VSS [...]
Attach/Detach SQL Server Databases with PowerShell
@8arkz -- June 20/17 -- I need to re-write this to use the new PowerShell SDK.
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While working on the early testing for the SQL Server 2012 Reference [...]
Building the 1st Gen PureTEC and Solutions Engineering Lab
I had the best Christmas at home and at Pure. The week before Christmas I spent time racking the gear and getting everything squared away so I could start [...]
Getting SQL Server 2012 BPA working on Windows Server 2012 R2
I’ve been building out some new servers with Windows Server 2012 R2 to start working on a new Microsoft SQL Server Reference Architecture on Pure Storage and [...]