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Modernize Your VMware Environment for Future Flexibility and Scale

Gain certainty and optimize your VMware environment with secure, reliable, efficient storage that integrates directly with VMware tools.

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Navigate Changes and Build for the Future

Explore pathways you can take towards optimizing your VMware environment. Modernize your architecture—on your terms.

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Simplify and Reduce Your VMware Storage—Anywhere

Pare down your storage footprint, storage costs, and environmental impact while reducing the time needed to manage storage wherever it is.

 

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Protect and Secure Workloads with Pure Storage and VMware Solutions

With encryption and snapshots, your data and business are protected from prying eyes and ransomware attacks. Integrate with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC) to achieve the most demanding RPO and RTO requirements.

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Unified Storage for Your VMware Workloads

Whether you need block, network file system (NFS), or server message block (SMB) for your workloads, the FlashArray™ portfolio offers the only truly unified block and file storage system for VMware.

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One Portfolio for the All-flash VMware Data Center

Whether it’s extreme performance, best-in-class energy efficiency, or the ultimate in capacity, we have it covered for all your VMware workload needs.

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Efficient, Cost Effective Storage for VMware in the Cloud

Achieve up to 10 times the cost savings and unblock VMware migrations with the only external block storage generally available for Azure VMware Solution (AVS).

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The Picture Says It All!

Pure Storage is positioned highest for Ability to Execute and furthest for Completeness of Vision in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Primary Storage.

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Video Series: Pure Storage for VMware

Gain valuable insights—best practices, ransomware safeguards, and strategies for simplifying operations on any cloud—to take your VMware environment to the next level with Pure Storage.

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Test Drive the Modern Data Experience™ for VMware

Step into a virtual lab and get hands on with modern, effortless storage for your VMware environment. No setup, no cost, no hassle.

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“When customers interact with us, we want their experience to be better than anywhere else. Pure Storage is a critical partner in our ability to continue expanding our digital services and deliver an unmatched experience to our customers.”

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“I rarely have to do anything with the Pure Storage environment other than occasionally adding storage space for VMware….It just sits there and does a really good job.”

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Virtual Infrastructure Administrator, Davenport University
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Partnerships

Streamline and simplify snapshot-based data protection by automating and standardizing app-aware snapshot management.

Veeam Backup & ReplicationTM provides fast, flexible, and reliable recovery of virtualized environments.

Veritas and Pure Storage help multi-cloud enterprises gain agility and speed with integrated snapshot-based protection for scale-out data in Flash Arrays.

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VM-Aware Storage: Everything You Need to Know
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Top Reasons to Use Pure Storage FlashArray with vSphere Virtual Volumes
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The Economic Benefits of Pure Storage FlashArray Unified Block and File Platform
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What is VMware?

VMware is a software company that leverages virtualization to help businesses with app modernization, cloud computing, networking, multi-cloud environments, and security. Virtualization involves creating a software representation of something, like a server, so that it can be accessed and used independently from the constraints of its physical hardware.

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People also ask:

1. What is VMware Cloud Foundation?

VMware Cloud Foundation is the main virtualization platform for managing virtual machines (VMs) and containers. It unifies vMware products (e.g., vSphere, vSAN, NSX) under a natively-integrated, software-defined infrastructure for storage, compute, networking, security, and cloud management. Pure Storage has a VMware-validated, design-certified partner architecture for VMware Cloud Foundation with FlashStack®.

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2. What is VMware vSphere?

VMware vSphere is a server virtualization platform that includes a suite of products designed to help you virtualize your IT infrastructure. Core product offerings include:

  • ESXi: Type-1 hypervisor for decoupling virtual machines from hardware
  • vCenter Server: App for managing virtual machines in a vSphere environment
  • Virtual Machine File System (VMFS): File system for accessing the physical storage resources needed for your virtual machines (VMs)
  • Virtual Volumes (vVols): Representations of storage arrays that provide granular control over the provisioning of storage resources
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3. What is VMware Tanzu?

Tanzu is a Kubernetes cluster-management platform that contains a suite of products designed to simplify deploying and managing containerized workloads across multicloud environments. Core products in the Tanzu portfolio include:

  • Tanzu Mission Control: Centralized dash for viewing all your Kubernetes clusters across your on-premises, hybrid, public, and private clouds
  • Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG): A provisionable Kubernetes footprint that can be managed via Tanzu Mission Control, TKG makes it possible to automate provisioning and lifecycle management of Kubernetes clusters both on-premises with vSphere and in the public cloud    
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4. How do VMware datastores work?

Datastores are virtual storage containers that leverage virtualization to run agnostic of your storage device. Whether your data is stored in a storage area network (SAN) or network-attached storage (NAS) device, vSphere datastores abstract the details of the underlying storage hardware allowing you to consolidate them into a single data resource.

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5. What are Virtual Volumes (vVols)?

A vVol datastore is a representation of an array. A single array can have more than one vVol if it can support it. By encapsulating virtual machine files, virtual disks, and their derivatives, vVols act as endpoints that give you granular access to storage resources with policy-based management. In this way, it’s possible to manage and provision VMs and virtual disks as individual objects.

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6. What are the benefits of using vVols with Pure Storage arrays?

vVols can bring the following benefits to your Pure Storage array deployments:

  • Automatic provisioning
  • Policy-based management
  • Virtual disk granularity
  • Array-level VM visibility

When combined with the scalability, reliability, and performance of Pure Storage all-flash storage solutions, vVols can help you bring a modern data experience to your data center.

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