How to Supercharge Your VMware Environment with Pure Storage

Explore 2024 in Las Vegas is a wrap! Pure Storage was there talking all about how storage can supercharge your VMware environment. This year, we had an exciting lineup of sessions.

Unlock the Full Potential of VMware by Broadcom with Pure Storage

At Pure Storage, we’re proud of our long-standing partnership with VMware.

Here’s a quick look at what makes our collaboration so powerful:

• 10+ years of joint solutions: A decade of working together to bring you the best in storage and virtualization.
• Storage built to optimize VMware: Our solutions are designed to complement and enhance your VMware environment.
• #1 deployed storage platform for vVols: Leading the way in Virtual Volumes deployment.

We also understand that today’s IT environments are under more pressure than ever—trying to keep up with the demands of AI technology as well as breakthroughs yet to be discovered. That’s why we’ve built a storage platform that is agile, stable, and gives you predictability in cost and performance. We see all too often that storage is an afterthought when building a future-ready infrastructure strategy when it should be a foundation.

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Here are just a few of the sessions we hosted: 

Session: See vVols and Stretched Clusters with Pure Storage and VMware—Live!

We talked about the stretched vVols enabled through the joint solution between Pure Storage and VMware by Broadcom. Virtual Volumes (vVols) and stretched clusters offer the ability to balance VMs application workloads between two geographically separated data centers. They also offer non-disruptive workload mobility enabling migration of services between geographically close sites without the need for sustaining an outage.

• Speakers: Alex Carver, Senior Technical Product Specialist, Pure Storage, and Sazzala Reddy, Distinguished Engineer, Broadcom
• Code: VCFB2397LVS

Session: Next-Gen Virtualization: Elevating VMware VCF with Pure Storage FlashArray 

Industry veterans explore how Pure Storage FlashArray transforms VMware’s Cloud Foundation environments into next-generation hybrid cloud powerhouses. Discover the unparalleled performance, simplicity, and efficiency gains achieved by integrating FlashArray with VMware Cloud Foundation. 

• Speakers: Tristan Todd, Principal Field Solutions Architect, and Jason Langer, Technical Evangelist
• Location: Expo Theater, Location 1508
• Code: EXPO2556LVS

Session: Unlock the Potential of Azure VMware Solution with Pure Cloud Block Store

Microsoft’s Azure VMware Solution (AVS) allows customers to move or extend VMware-based workloads from on-premises data centers to Azure. But to take advantage of all that AVS has to offer, you need storage purpose-built for VMware. That’s where Pure Cloud Block Store can help. The AVS and Pure Cloud Block Store integration enhances cloud-first strategies by seamlessly extending on-premises VMware environments to Azure, optimizing costs and providing a scalable, enterprise-grade storage solution. Learn how this solution could save money on your cloud bill by eliminating the need for excess AVS nodes for workloads with large storage footprints. 

• Speakers: Kyle Grossmiller, Principal Cloud Technical Product Specialist, and David Stamen, Director Technical Strategy, Virtualization & Cloud
• Code: EXPO2398LVS

Session: API First: Complete Storage Lifecycle Management In Azure VMware Solution

Curious about simplifying your storage tasks? Join us for a demo on how to manage storage lifecycles with ease. We’ll show you how Azure VMware Solution (AVS) administrators can streamline tasks with continuous monitoring and automated updates of Pure Cloud Block Store datastores.

• Speakers: Kyle Grossmiller, Principal Cloud Technical Product Specialist, and David Stamen, Director Technical Strategy, Virtualization & Cloud
• Code: CODE2328LV

Session: Success with Supplemental Storage for VMware Cloud Foundation

This presentation dives into the strategic integration of supplemental storage with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) to enhance performance, scalability, and resilience in enterprise environments. As organizations increasingly adopt hybrid cloud models, the demand for a robust, scalable, and seamlessly integrated storage infrastructure is paramount. VCF offers a comprehensive cloud platform that combines compute, storage, and networking into a single system, but challenges in storage capacity and performance optimization often necessitate additional storage solutions.

• Speaker: Tristan Todd, Principal Field Solutions Architect
• Code: CMTY2307LV

Hands-on Lab: Deploying Pure Cloud Block Store on Azure VMware Solution

Ready to dive into a hands-on experience? Check out our lab on deploying and integrating Pure Cloud Block Store with Azure VMware Solution (AVS). Whether you’re an IT pro or a cloud architect, this session will guide you through setting up and optimizing storage in a hybrid cloud environment.

• Tracks: Cloud Infrastructure
• Code: SPL2486LV

See You Next Year!

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