Pure Storage vVol Essentials Lab
Pure Storage FlashArray introduced vVols support with its Purity 5.0 operating system. VMware vVols offers control over resources at the VM level eliminating storage over-provisioning. vVols can also streamline storage and VMware admin operations by separating storage presentation from storage consumption, allowing the VMware admin to be self-sufficient. With vVols, VMware can communicate to the array to find out what features it supports and allow the VMware administrator to assign, change or remove functionality on a vVols on-demand and via policies.
Goals & Objectives
After completing this lab users will gain an understanding of the following concepts:
- Introduction to VMware Virtual Volumes
- Installation and configuration of the Pure FlashArray Web Client Plugin.
- Registering the Pure FlashArray as a VASA provider.
- Mounting a vVols Datastore in VMware.
- Additional reporting capabilities of vVols and Pure FlashArray
- Benefits of array-based snapshots.