Intro Quick one today. I just want to give a current, summer-of-2026 walkthrough for getting the Everpure (Pure Storage) FlashArray management pack installed and reporting into VCF Operations, because the steps have drifted a bit and half the screenshots floating around out there are for a product that has been renamed twice since they were […]
Blow on the Cartridge: Refreshing a Dev Database In-Place with FlashArray Volume Overwrites on OpenShift Virtualization
Intro If you’re old enough, you remember the ritual: the game starts glitching, so you pop the cartridge out, blow into it, and slide it back in. Don’t let anyone tell you that it didn’t work… You KNOW it did. But the cool part is the console never moved, the controller was still in your […]
4 Simple Click Through Demos of FlashArray with OpenShift!
Every good game opens with a tutorial level. A safe little sandbox where the game teaches you to jump, crouch, and not stand in the lava before it lets you loose on anything that can actually hurt you. Now, I already see some of you rolling your eyes. The Dark Souls and Escape from Tarkov […]
Unofficial Guide to ActiveCluster with Proxmox
Sync rep: Proxmox HA with Everpure ActiveCluster This is a continuation of replication features for FlashArray with a Proxmox environment. I’m running out of witty analogies, so I’ll just start with a joke: What’s a tornado’s favorite game? Twister! ActiveCluster is Everpure’s synchronous replication technology. Meaning that every data written is sent to the other […]
Take Shelter – A Proxmox Async DR Test on Pure FlashArray
Intro If you grew up in Oklahoma like I did, you know the first sign of a tornado isn’t the siren. It’s the sky going deep grey blue, the air suddenly changing from muggy to dry and cool, and your dad walking onto your front porch with his hands on his hips looking up at […]
Beam Me Up, Scotty: Teleporting VMs from vSphere to OpenShift with MTV and Pure FlashArray
Intro I have a major confession to make. I’m not a Star Trek fan. It’s not for a lack of appreciation of the series, it’s more fate that my childhood was filled with Star Wars, Pokemon, Spongebob, and Invader Zim. So when I was researching some fun analogies for this blog, I started to regret […]
Cloning SQL Server on Openshift: How Pure Snapshots Make Dev Environments Disposable
Intro Array-based snapshots are one of the most powerful features in a database administrator’s toolkit. Once a DBA gets a taste of the speed and simplicity of cloning a database without actually moving any of its bytes, they scream “Great Scott!”, grow white hair, and pace around with a frantic Doc-Brown energy their manager finds […]
The Unofficial Beginner’s Guide to OpenShift Virtualization with iSCSI and Pure FlashArray
Intro If the post-Broadcom migration was a prism splitting white light into a spectrum of options, a bright red ray of light would be Red Hat, battle-tested in the enterprise grade linux operating system now moving into the infrastructure platform space. While it might not have the exotic appeal of NVMe/TCP, iSCSI has earned its […]
Wiring Active Directory into OpenShift Without Losing Your Mind
There is a special kind of chaos that appears the moment someone says, “Can we just hook OpenShift up to Active Directory?” On paper, it sounds simple. In practice, it usually means certificates, bind accounts, LDAP filters, group mappings, and at least one moment where you stare at the authentication operator wondering if it is […]
Configuring the Portworx Operator to use Multiple FlashArrays on OpenShift
Journey into the Jungle You’ve just hacked your way into a new, uncharted OpenShift jungle. It’s humid, foreign, and has a faint, lingering scent… “is that the smell of an old used hat?” you think to yourself, “Or perhaps just the musk of a thousand unoptimized containers?” You wipe the sweat from your brow, your […]