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  • Using Pure Storage FlashBlade as a Nutanix Point in Time Backup for Prism Central

    Feb 16, 2026 Nutanix Backup
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    Nutanix Prism Central supports point-in-time backups to protect your Prism Environment. These backups capture the complete state of your environment at a specific moment, enabling rapid recovery from data loss or corruption. While Prism Central offers native backup capabilities, integrating an S3-compliant object store like Pure Storage FlashBlade provides a scalable, cost-effective alternative for long-term retention and disaster recovery. Let’s dive in and see how to configure this integration!

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  • Collect Nutanix VM vDisk and Map to Pure Storage Volumes and Snapshots

    Dec 16, 2025 Nutanix Powershell
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    Nutanix with FlashArray is Now Generally Available! With this initial release, Nutanix now has a new External Storage Platform with Pure Storage connecting over NVMeoF/TCP. This integration uses volume granular storage which means every vDisk from Nutanix gets created as a Pure Storage volume. This series will outline how to identify a vDisks associated volume and snapshot on a Pure Storage FlashArray.

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  • What's New in the 5.0.0 Pure Storage Plugin for the vSphere Client

    Jul 28, 2021 vSphere Plugin vCenter Server
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    On July 28, 2021 Pure Storage released the latest version of their plugin version 5.0.0. Not only is this a new version, but it also runs on the new remote plugin architecture that VMware has released in vSphere 6.7U3 and vSphere 7.0+. This post will explore how to deploy and manage version 5.0.0 as well as discuss the latest features in this release! (Some are long awaited!)

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  • Pure Cloud Block Store on AWS - Quick Launch

    Jul 26, 2021 Terraform Amazon Web Services Cloud Block Store Quick Launch
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    In previous posts I have covered use cases on how to utilize Pure Cloud Block Store (CBS), but if we look back I haven’t explained how it can be deployed. This blog will cover how to quickly launch CBS with the pre-requisites in AWS.

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  • Pure Cloud Block Store on Azure - Quick Launch

    Jul 21, 2021 Terraform Azure Cloud Block Store Quick Launch
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    In previous posts I have covered use cases on how to utilize Pure Cloud Block Store (CBS), but if we look back I haven’t explained how it can be deployed. This blog will cover how to quickly launch the pre-requisites and get your Pure Cloud Block Store deployed in Azure.

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  • Automating Deployment of vSphere Infrastructure on Equinix Metal

    May 20, 2021 Terraform Equinix Metal
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    Did you know that Equinix has a Bare Metal as a Service (BMaaS) offering? Back in March Pure Storage also announced their Pure StorageĀ® on Equinix Metalā„¢ offering. This allows users to not only procure the Pure Storage FlashArray as an op-ex based purchase, but it also lets you spin up physical servers in Equinix Metal DC’s and connect them to a physical dedicated FlashArray. In this series I will cover how to deploy a vSphere environment on Equinix Metal with Terraform.

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  • Using the Pure Storage Cloud Block Store Terraform Provider for Azure

    Mar 9, 2021 Terraform Cloud Block Store Azure
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    Im excited to announce the second release of the Pure Storage Cloud Block Store (CBS) Terraform Provider. This release includes support for Cloud Block Store on Azure! Let’s dive in and take a look.

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  • Cloud Block Store Use Cases for Microsoft Azure - Terraform Edition

    Mar 2, 2021 Cloud Block Store Azure Terraform
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    Previously I explained how to use Terraform to Deploy an Azure VM. Now that Cloud Block Store iS GA in Azure, I can cover how to use Automation for Test/Dev, Disaster Recovery and Migration use cases to move workloads from on-premises to Microsoft Azure!

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  • Using vRealize Automation 8.x with the Pure Storage vRealize Orchestrator Plugin

    Feb 18, 2021 vRealize Automation vRealize Orchestrator
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    Previously I explained how to use the vRealize Orchestrator Plugin 3.5 with vRealize Orchestrator and Automation 7.x. Back in November of 2020 we released the latest update to our vRO workflow package 4.0 which introduced support for vRealize Automation/Orchestrator 8.x! Our integration with vRA utilizes the vRO Plugin and allows users to self-provision their infrastructure using all the goodness included with vRA such as blueprints, approval workflows and reservations. Lets Dive in and take a look!

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  • Using the Pure Storage Cloud Block Store Terraform Provider for AWS

    Feb 10, 2021 Terraform Cloud Block Store Amazon Web Services
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    Im excited to announce the first release of the Pure Storage Cloud Block Store (CBS) Terraform Provider. The first release introduces support for Cloud Block Store on AWS. Let’s dive in and take a look at how to utilize the new provider!

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Recent Posts

  • Using Pure Storage FlashBlade as a Nutanix Point in Time Backup for Prism Central
  • Collect Nutanix VM vDisk and Map to Pure Storage Volumes and Snapshots
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  • A Guide to Using iPXE + Pure Cloud Block Store for Stateless EC2 Instances - Part 2
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