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Digital Bytes: Are You Ready for FlashArray//XL™?
Always know when you're about to outgrow your storage and exactly what upgrades you need to sustain your growth with Pure1®.
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All right, so you just outgrew your storage. And like your waistline after Christmas, it's time to step up a size. But what size? It's not like there's a fitting room for storage. Is there
Pure storage offers non disruptive upgrades from flash Array X to XL. And if you're not sure if you're ready to make the step up in your storage, then I've got some great news for you. If your storage feels a little bit tight around the waist line, are we still doing that thing? Then head on over to Pier one and try on an XL
for size. We are, are we? And to find that perfect fit and see what array is going to suit us best, we can go into Pier one and perform some capacity planning. So if you're a current pure storage customer, just go to Pier one dot pure storage dot com. And if you're sending us phone home data, then you're gonna be able to see all of your arrays
right within here. Now, as we're doing capacity planning, we want to look beyond just the needs of today and look into the future. And so that's why we're on the planning page here. But if you do want to see how your appliances are performing right now, you can view them on the appliances page,
or you can go a little bit deeper into the performance and capacity pages. But these are all point in time. Now, inside the planning page here, we can actually project our load out up to three months here and for this particular array, I can see that I've already got a bit of an issue here because the injected load is at 100%. Now, down here, you can see our current load is, you know,
kind of flirting at that 100% line. And if we go out into the future, uh, we've got 100% right here, uh, within about a month. So that's an issue that we're going to need to address Now we can look at migrating workloads off of this array and onto other arrays. But what I really want to show you is how we can look at upgrading this array from its current model,
which is a, uh x 90 r two flash array to something a little bit bigger. And so we can do that by going into the simulate hardware button, which is available here or up here. As long as we have this array selected, we can click on either one of these and we can go into the hardware simulation now, you know, again, we can see the model of this current array.
We can see the capacity configuration, uh, as well as the current controller. Now, let's look at another controller, because the load is what's really high capacity. Um, you know, about 75%. That's still our projected capacity is actually 77% so still getting a little bit high there. But the real concern here is our projected load, which is at 100%.
So the easiest thing we can do is just looking at just doing a quick controller swap and upgrading this to an x nine r three. And what this is gonna do is it buys us just a tiny little bit. You know, we're at maybe 99% versus 100% load in that one month period. So that's not quite enough.
Now, one of the cool things we can do here with our flash arrays is we can actually perform non disruptive upgrades from a flash array X to a flash array XL. And so we can also model that within pier One to see what is this actually going to look like? So down here, you can see I've actually got an XL 1 70 available. So let's just click on that and model that.
And right here, we can already see, like, upgrading that to an XL. It buys us a whole bunch, right? Our simulated load is about 56% versus 100% right, And that's in that same one month time period. Um, our projected load here across the three months is gonna reach 65 then we've also increased our capacity a bit 63.
Now, the reason why we don't have the XL 1 30 available is because the capacity here you can see we've got our installed capacity is, uh, 994 which is greater than what the XL 1 30 can support. So if we drop this down just a little bit and maybe take this, uh, down to 91 terabytes. Now we've got the XL 1 30 available so Let's take a look at what that looks like if I go on to 1.
30. Yeah, still buys us a little bit here, right? We're at 74% in one month time, period. Projected load across all three months is 88%. So, yeah, that buys us a little bit. But I think for this particular situation, I like having a lot more headroom. There's gonna be more projects which,
by the way, we can model those within tier one as well. So I'm just gonna go ahead and say, Here you go XL 1 70. This is the configuration that I want to use, and I've got a projected capacity of 66% across the next three months. And once you're happy and love your new flash rate XL configuration,
you can take things to the next level and request a quote directly from within pier one. From there, your account team will sit down with you and walk you through the steps to perform this non disruptive upgrade. And if you want more information right now, you can check out the links below. So everybody that's going to wrap things up for today's episode of digital bits.
Thanks so much for checking us out. And until I see in the next episode, stay pure.
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