Pure Storage in Collaboration With VMware on Pure Validated Design

Pure Storage, Inc. announced tPure Validated Design (PVD) in collaboration with VMware, Inc. to provide mutual customers with a complete, full-stack solution for deploying mission-critical, data rich workloads in production on VMware Tanzu.

The latest PVD provides an architecture, including design considerations and deployment best practices, that customers can use to enable their stateful applications like databases, search, streaming, and AI/ML apps running on Tanzu to have access to the critical container-granular storage and data management provided by Portworx.

Today’s businesses are prioritizing the modernization of core applications and infrastructure to fuel business agility, and are doing so by adopting containers and Kubernetes for their applications and leveraging solutions like Tanzu for their infrastructure.

While Tanzu allows organizations to use their existing investments in infrastructure to run enterprise-grade Kubernetes inside their own data centers, enabling organizations to build, run, and manage modern applications, Portworx by Pure Storage provides the layer of persistent storage and data management needed to run stateful applications more securely and effectively, offering features including replication and higher availability, greater security and encryption, capacity management, DR, and data protection

The PVD highlights the benefits of using Portworx with both Tanzu Data Services and applications deployed on Tanzu.

The 4 most common use cases to help administrators deploy and operate Kubernetes stack include:

• Kubernetes storage and data management for Tanzu: Portworx Enterprise provides cloud-native storage and data management for Tanzu, including features like replication and higher availability, encryption and role based access controls, class of service, automated capacity management and auto-scaling.

• Data protection for Tanzu: Portworx PX-Backup provides a Kubernetes backup and restoration solution for applications running on Tanzu.

• DR for Tanzu: To enable customers to build DR solutions for their apps running on Tanzu, PX-DR provides synchronous and asynchronous replication capabilities to enable that cloud native applications to have the resiliency needed to meet predefined SLAs.

• Tanzu data services and Portworx: Portworx Enterprise, PX-DR, and PX-Backup provide a consistent storage and data management solution that can be used to enhance operational capabilities for multiple Tanzu Data Services.

Regardless of whether an organization chooses to run their Tanzu clusters on premises or in the public cloud, they can still rely on Portworx to provide the same set of storage and data services for their Tanzu applications.

“Organizations building modern applications need a modern platform and cloud-native storage that can run anywhere – whether on-premises, in the cloud, or at the edge. We are pleased to partner closely with Portworx by Pure Storage on a validated design to provide organizations running applications on VMware Tanzu with robust Kubernetes-native storage. Together, we will continue to support our customers through their next phase of growth and their transformation journeys.” said Ajay Patel, SVP and GM, modern applications and management, VMware.

“We’re excited to be offering organizations a proven architecture to support and accelerate the adoption of modern applications and Kubernetes. The value of using both VMware and Portworx seamlessly together will be paramount in helping organizations achieve BC, while also ensuring that they get the best performance and reliability for their mission-critical applications deployed on Tanzu.” said Murli Thirumale, VP and GM, cloud native business unit, Pure.

Resources:
VMware Tanzu with Portworx
Future-ready solutions from VMware and Pure Storage
Portworx Enterprise 2.8: Deeper Pure Integration, VMware Tanzu Support, and More