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 FlashArray//m50. Just as we showed in Chapters 1 & 2 the video illustrates all of the different cmd line operations and the physical hardware tasks to move in-generation FlashArray//m series. The same workloads continue to run on the FlashArray that were shown in Chapter 1 and Chapter 2.
Chapter 3 of the three-part video series which covers:
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Upgrading from a FlashArray//m20 to a FlashArray//m50
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Adding additional capacity to the FlashArray//m chassis
Each of the above tasks are performed while active workloads are running that include:
- One OLTP SQL Server workload simulating brokerage firm trading
- One DSS SQL Server workload servicing three different data warehouses
- One OLTP Oracle workload
- One Jetstress 2013 simulating 5,000 mailboxes with 1 IOPs per mailbox
The full setup includes the following components:
- One FlashArray//m20
- One FlashArray//m50
- Two Cisco MDS 9148 switches
- 8-Node VMware ESXi cluster
- Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Enterprise
- Oracle 11g
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Jetstress
I hope that this three part series helps illustrate how easy it is to perform software upgrades, generational controller upgrades, in-generation controller upgrades and adding capacity into the system.
Cheers,
Barkz