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Increase storage efficiency and shrink your data center footprint by optimizing your VMware storage environment with the Pure Storage platform. Discover how you can streamline your virtual infrastructure while benefiting from significant cost savings.

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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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Pure Storage is constantly innovating to support the most up-to-date versions of vVols. Our deep integration with VMware ensures a seamless data experience, delivering solutions that support your unique storage requirements.

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Even Better Storage for VMware in the Cloud

Reduce overall costs and unlock enterprise-scale VMware migrations with fully-managed, block storage-as–a-service for Azure VMware Solution (AVS).

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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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“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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Vice President Technology Operations, AutoNation

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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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KNOWLEDGE BRIEF

VM-aware Storage: Everything You Need to Know

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3 Reasons You Need an Evergreen® Subscription Strategy

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Top Reasons to Use Pure Storage FlashArray™ with vSphere Virtual Volumes

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ANALYST REPORT

ESG - The Economic Benefits of Pure Storage FlashArray Unified Block and File Platform

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Top 10 Features That Make FlashArray the Best Storage for Your vSphere Environment

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Accelerate the Path To Production with VMWare Tanzu

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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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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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