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What is Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud (preview)?

With Azure Native Integrations, you can easily provision, manage, and tightly integrate software and services from software development companies on Azure.

Microsoft and Pure Storage Cloud developed this service and manage it together.

Access Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud from the Azure portal.

This offering provides enterprise-class cloud block storage with built-in cloud capabilities powered by a common Purity operating environment. Pure Storage decouples storage and compute resources, which allows customers with large data footprints to optimize their cloud spend and avoid paying for unnecessary compute power.

Capabilities

Here are the key capabilities provided by the Pure Storage Cloud integration:

  • Elastic capacity - Pay for the capacity you use.
  • Flexible performance - Scale independently from capacity.
  • Thin provisioning - Allocate space dynamically.
  • Instant resizing - Adjust storage volumes without downtime or disruption.
  • Flexible volumes - Multiple hosts can simultaneously access the same storage volume.
  • Snapshots - Quickly recover from data loss or corruption.

Subscribe to Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud (preview)

You can subscribe to Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud in Azure Marketplace.

  1. Select the Contact Me button.

    Pure Storage emails you once they enable your tenant.

    Once your tenant is enabled, you can access the service via this link.

    Important

    • You can't access the service until your tenant is enabled.

  2. Go to Subscriptions and select the subscription where you wish to deploy the AVS cluster.

  3. Go to the Settings tab and select Resource providers.

  4. Choose PureStorage.Block from the options.

    You can also choose Pure Storage as a resource provider with Azure CLI 

    az provider register --namespace 'PureStorage.Block'

  5. Select the Register button.

    The status updates to Registered once the process is complete.

For more information, see Pure Storage Cloud documentation.

Next step

Quickstart: Create an Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud (preview) resource