"Remember kids, the only difference between Science and screwing around is writing it down" -Alex Jason (made popular by Adam Savage)
About 6 months ago, my esteemed colleague Barkz blogged about our path forward with PowerShell. We have an official PowerShell SDK for managing the FlashArray–but it is limited to that: doing stuff to the FlashArray.
So to add value and make managing it within context of the layers you actually manage your infrastructure from (VMware, Microsoft, etc.) we created some value-add PowerShell modules to make it easier. Barkz talks about them here:
We just released an updated plugin for vRO today that is fully certified by VMware and is available on the VMware marketplace:
Download it here.
What are the new features? Well a lot–some various bug fixes, but this is mostly about new features:
The first of two long anticipated VMware Site Recovery Manager updates is finally here! (the second being discussed here). A SRM appliance!
Since the dawn of time SRM was a Windows-based application. Requiring you to install, configure, and maintain Windows server and then install SRM on it. Certainly adding to the complexity of getting SRM up and running. Everything else VMware offers is an appliance why not this?
Well a couple reasons–but a primary one though is the ecosystem. SRM, unlike many other offerings relies vary heavily on ecosystem partner’s plugins. With essentially the single exception of vSphere Replication, SRM is useless without those vendor plugins, called Storage Replication Adapters (SRAs).
Continue reading “Photon-based SRM 8.2 and Pure”Today, vRO 7.6 was released, and one feature I was most looking forward to was a fully usable web client for creating/editing workflows! Time to finally ditch the java client!
Today Pure Storage officially released support of NVMe-oF support on the FlashArray. This is another important step forward in the FlashArrays progress with NVMe. Prior to this, we have made a few incremental, but important improvements in the product to add full end-to-end support of NVMe:
This has been a multi-step process that we spent a great deal of effort to make sure we were fully taking advantage of what NVMe in general has to offer.
Continue reading “NVMe-oF Support is now Released!”In the previous post in this series I explored how to run a VVol-based test failover of a virtual machine. Now I will walk through running an actual failover.
There are two types of failovers; a planned migration (everything is up an running) and a disaster recovery failover (part or all of the original site is down).
For this post, I will start with running a planned migration.
Continue reading “PowerCLI and VVols Part VIII: Running a Failover–Planned Migration”In this post, I will overview how to synchronize a VVol-based replication group with PowerCLI. See previous posts below for more context:
This post is somewhat specific to Pure Storage–the cmdlets of course are universal, but behaviors may not correlate to your storage array. So if you are using VVols on a non-Pure array, certainly consult your vendor.
Furthermore, this is certainly specific to PowerCLI when it comes to the commands. With that being said, the fundamentals on how this works with Pure is common for all orchestration tools, so you should be able to use this information for other tools. Though of course the cmds/syntax will be different.
Continue reading “PowerCLI and VVols Part VII: Synchronizing a Replication Group”I have written a few posts recently on using the Pure1 with PowerShell, like below:
I made a PowerShell module you make it easy for you to use, which can be installed via install-module from the PowerShell gallery. Details here:
https://www.codyhosterman.com/scripts-and-tools/pure1-rest-api/pure1-powershell-module/
Continue reading “Pulling Performance Statistics from Pure1 with PowerShell”Recently I wrote a blog post on how to authenticate and connect to Pure1 via PowerShell. You can find that here:
I have made authentication MUCH easier:
https://www.codyhosterman.com/2019/12/pure1-rest-api-authentication-made-easy/
But it is fairly involved, so I made it easier for you (and me) by writing a PowerShell module and posted in on the PowerShell Gallery.
https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Cody.PureStorage.Pure1/
Continue reading “Using the Pure1 PowerShell Module”In my last post, I spoke about the ins and outs of using the Pure1 REST API–but it was a fairly manual process. Which of course is not how you really want to use a REST API. So the first part of this series will be using it with one of my favorite tools: PowerShell!
I will separate this into five parts:
UPDATE!!!! I made this much easier, you can use my module to connect to Pure1 which is on the PowerShell gallery.
You can find more information on it here:
https://www.codyhosterman.com/scripts-and-tools/pure1-rest-api/pure1-powershell-module/h
Continue reading “Using the Pure1 REST API Part I: PowerShell”