Pure Storage ActiveCluster Lab

Welcome to FlashArray's ActiveCluster synchronous data storage replication technology. This software stack from Pure Storage enables business critical applications and the machines hosting them with the highest possible resiliency to ensure that business operations do not stop in the case of a disaster — either localized or site-wide. Pure Storage helps these scenarios by ensuring the data is always on and always available to the servers requesting the I/O. Achieve zero RPO and zero RTO with ActiveCluster in Purity OS.  

A recent addition to this lab is the ability to have a 3rd copy of data sitting on a FlashArray in your DR site using ActiveCluster's Protection Groups as part of a Active-Active-Async design.

In this lab users will gain a general understanding of Pure Storage's ActiveCluster feature by performing the following activities: 

• Initial setup of the ActiveCluster and Pod creation on two FlashArrays
• ESXi host integration and Datastore creation
• Run through common Failure scenarios to see how ActiveCluster performs
• Configure Protection Groups to send Async Snapshot copies to a 3rd FlashArray for DR purposes

• Three Pure Storage FlashArrays running 6.8.x
• Virtual Pure1 Mediator OVA Instance
• Two ESXi Servers
• vCenter
• Virtual Networking