Pure Storage Reference Architecture for VMware View
Let’s start with some questions: Did your virtual desktop deployment pilot or proof-of-concept yield great results but suffered when you tried to scale out? Are your virtual desktop users complaining about slow application response times? Do you understand the benefits of moving desktops to the data center, but haven’t come to terms with storage cost…
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Pure Storage FlashArray Achieves VMware Ready Status
We are proud to announce that Pure Storage FlashArray has successfully completed the tests required for achieving VMware Ready certification, and is now listed on the VMware Hardware Compatibility List (HCL). This gives the FlashArray VMware Ready status for VMware ESXi 5.0 and ESXi 5.0 U1. The storage certification for VMware ESXi assures customers that Pure…
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How much storage should we provision for your VM? Never worry about it again
Storage provisioning is one of the most crucial first steps in enterprise application deployment. If you plan to share storage between hosts in a cluster, getting this right gets harder. And if you need to set a RAID level, whoa nelly! Setting the correct RAID level, managing the needs of different VM workloads, and balancing…
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VM Performance on Flash Part 2: Thin vs. Thick Provisioning – Does it Matter?
This post is Part 2 in our series exploring how flash impacts VM performance and deployment strategies. Our first post covered the impacts of VM host / storage array block alignment, this post covers the performance differences between different VM types, and the third post will cover how different LUN and datastore sizes impact performance. …
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Say Goodbye to VM Alignment Issues (and Poor Performance!) with Pure Storage
This is the first post in a three-post series on VM performance on Flash storage, where I explore various provisioning scenarios for VMs on Flash. This first post discusses the impact of VM/array block alignment, the second post will explore the different performance of various VM types, and the third post will explore the performance…
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