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Mm Remember the good old days back in 2009. Man, I can remember it now. That newfangled thing called cloud was gonna be the future and the solution was easy. Just take all of our data centers and move them to the cloud. And with that minimal guidance, our enlightened bosses all came out and told us to just make it
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so. I mean, how hard could it be? Turns out that wholesale migration idea was complicated, costly, and filled with compromises. This is because everybody's on-prem data centers were customized like tailored suits, while public clouds are more generalized and offered off the rack t-shirt sizes. Data center operators struggled to match their
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own technical capabilities and management workflows with similar cloud services. Enterprise storage managers struggled the most since much of their ecosystem was dependent on specific features or capabilities with their on-prem arrays, and compromising any of those in a cloud migration could lead to catastrophic data loss. Pure storage. address this challenge with Cloud Blockto.
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CBS is a fully functional instance, a flash array that can operate in Microsoft Azure or Amazon AWS and has been optimized to leverage hyperscalar infrastructure resources. Let's see it in action. Launching a cloud block store instance is done from the Azure marketplace or, as you can see here, the AWService catalog.
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The first main step of deployment is to determine and add the security role that will launch the new CBS instance. This step is the same for Azure or AWS and may require some coordination with your cloud security teams to enable. The next step will be to provide networking details and other foundational items that will
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be necessary for deployment automation. After that is done, our cloud formation script takes over and gets to work. This process will take roughly 4 to 5 minutes, and at the end, we'll give you the IP address you assigned to the CBS GUI. You'll then be able to log into it and begin configuring its storage after you connect with
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our support to enable it out of read-only mode. And as you can see here, working with its GUI is identical to working with an on-prem flash array for creating and managing block storage. CBS is designed to support a variety of use cases like disaster recovery for cloud native data sets, on-prem to hybrid cloud disaster recovery, Test dev with Azure Cerneti
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Services, and hybrid cloud business resilience for SQL Server. Thanks a lot for taking the time for a quick orientation on Pure Storage's cloud block store. Want to learn more about it? www.pureStorage.com is the place to go. And if you like this video and you want to see more, www.ppeStorage.com/demos.
