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Snapshots have become a de facto tool in managing and protecting data on primary storage. With Pure Storage and Purity//FA, snapshots can be created in less than a millisecond and take up very little space since they are simple data structures filled with only pointers to actual data. So, snapshots can be a simple and space-efficient mechanism to recover from short-term data loss events.

With a feature that is so easy to use and valuable to an organization, you could see how the number of snapshots in use could increase quickly over time especially in large enterprises. Protection from ransomware attacks is a primary driver in the need to take more, and more frequent, snapshots.

This post is an excerpt from Part 1 of my deep dive on Pure Storage. This post will just discuss the number of Pure Storage employees. You can find way more details on Pure Storage in Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 of my deep dive.

I encourage you to read my other posts covering Pure Storage. There is way more to learn from their financials than just the Pure Storage number of employees. ? Click here to see all my posts related to Pure Storage

I have been around IT since I was in high school (running a customized BBS, and hacking) and am not the typical person that finds one area of interest at work; I have designed databases, automated IT processes, written code at the driver level and all the way up to the GUI level, ran an international software engineering team, started an e-commerce business that generated over $1M, ran a $5B product marketing team for one of the largest semiconductor players in the world, traveled as a sales engineer for the largest storage OEM in the world, researched and developed strategy for one of the top 5 enterprise storage providers, and traveled around the world helping various companies make investment decisions in startups. I also am extremely passionate about uncovering insights from any data set. I just like to have fun by making a notable difference, influencing others, and to work with smart people.

To find the serial number and hardware information of the Pure Flash array, we use "purehw list" command. The purehw list command returns information on array hardware components. The output is mostly useful for troubleshooting hardware issues.

This function makes a copy in pure storage of object, and returnsit. It copies a string by simply making a new string with the samecharacters, but without text properties, in pure storage. Itrecursively copies the contents of vectors and cons cells. It doesnot make copies of other objects such as symbols, but just returnsthem unchanged. It signals an error if asked to copy markers.

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One of the main things I have been doing in my first few weeks at Pure Storage (which has been nothing but awesome so far by the way) is going through all of our VMware best practices and integration points. Testing them, seeing how they work or can they be improved etc. The latest thing I looked into was Dead Space Reclamation (which from here on out I will just refer to as UNMAP) with the Pure Storage FlashArray and specifically ESXi 5.5. This is a pretty straight forward process but I did find something interesting that is worth noting.

For those unfamiliar with the UNMAP process in ESXi 5.5 it was somewhat enhanced in how it is performed on the ESXi side of things as compared to earlier releases of ESXi 5.x. Prior to 5.5 it was a vmkfstools CLI option and due to the way it was executed certain storage arrays could get overwhelmed by heavy UNMAP operations causing performance degradation to concurrent workloads. This led to a VMware recommendation to run it sparingly or only during non-peak workload time periods. The other issue was that depending on how much space to indicated it to reclaim it was possibly to run into temporary out-of-space conditions when the UNMAP balloon file was created. Furthermore due to file size limits and other reasons very large datastores could not be fully reclaimed.

I ran UNMAP tests to a 1 TB FlashArray volume using block counts of 200, 400, 800 and 8000. I timed the operation and watched the esxtop data to see the number of UNMAP commands going out and to see the effective UNMAP throughput. Note that the throughput is a bit of a misnomer in this case because it is not actually reading or writing that much at a time, it just reflects on how much space ESXi is reclaiming per second. Below are three charts showing these values. Block counts on the x axis for all three.

Yeah that should be completely fine. Though I would look at getting off 5.1 soon as VMware has made it end of normal support life, so if something goes wrong they will only give guidance, not provide fixes.

"We closed FY24 delivering strong RPO growth, and exceeded our revenue and operating margin guidance in Q4," said Kevan Krysler, Chief Financial Officer, Pure Storage. "Looking to FY25, we expect double-digit revenue growth and strong growth of RPO, fueled by our highly differentiated data storage platform, and strength of our Evergreen and Portworx consumption and subscription offerings."

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Pure's audit committee has approved incremental share repurchases of up to an additional $250 million under its stock repurchase program, in addition to the $145 million remaining under the existing program authorization. The authorization allows Pure to repurchase shares of its Class A common stock opportunistically and will be funded from available working capital. Repurchases may be made at management's discretion from time to time on the open market through privately negotiated transactions, transactions structured through investment banking institutions, block purchase techniques, 10b5-1 trading plans, or a combination of the foregoing. The repurchase program does not have an expiration date, does not obligate Pure to acquire any of its common stock, and may be suspended or discontinued by the company at any time without prior notice.

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