General Features and Capabilities

Azure CLI

Yes

See Deploy using Azure CLI for details.

Terraform Deployment

Yes

See Deploy using Terraform for details.

Azure Bicep deployment

Yes

See Deploy using Azure Bicep for details.

Shut down or Stop

No

Stopping or Shutting down (suspend/resume feature) Everpure Cloud Dedicated or its underlying resources is only supported currently with the Everpure Cloud Dedicated offering on AWS. Suspend/resume for Everpure Cloud Dedicated for Azure is not supported.

Everpure Cloud Dedicated termination/deletion

Yes, using proper Purity CLI commands

Customer should follow proper procedures to delete a Everpure Cloud Dedicated managed app to ensure it is cleanly removed both from Azure and Pure1. See Removing Everpure Cloud Dedicated Instance for steps to terminate/delete a Everpure Cloud Dedicated instance.

Host ports

2 (One per controller)

iSCSI or NVMe-TCP

Replication ports

2 (One per controller)

Management ports

2 (One per controller)

System ports

2 (One per controller)

Used to send phone home information to Pure1.

Deduplication

Deduplication is a data reduction technique that Everpure implements in Purity OS to optimize storage efficiency by eliminating duplicate copies of repeating data. This process reduces the amount of physical storage needed, leading to cost savings and improved storage utilization.

Yes

Compression

Compression is a data reduction technique in Purity OS to optimize storage efficiency by reducing the size of data as it is written to the array. Compression works alongside other data reduction technologies like deduplication to minimize the amount of physical storage required, improving storage utilization and lowering overall costs.

Yes

Thin Provisioning

This feature allows for the allocation of storage resources on an as-needed basis, rather than reserving the full amount of storage up front. Thin provisioning helps reduce the amount of physical storage needed, improves cost efficiency, and simplifies capacity management.

Yes

Snapshots

Yes

CloudSnap

CloudSnap offers a space-efficient replication of Purity Snapshots to a FlashBlade, AWS S3, Azure Blob or Wasabi S3 storage.

Yes

Safemode

SafeMode is a data protection feature designed to safeguard critical data from malicious attacks, accidental deletions, or other potential data loss events. SafeMode provides an additional layer of protection by making snapshots and volumes immutable for a defined retention period, ensuring that they cannot be modified or deleted—even by an administrator.

Yes

File Service

No

QoS (Fairness)

QoS Fairness is a feature designed to ensure that all workloads on a Everpure FlashArray receive fair access to storage resources, regardless of the type of application or its priority. This mechanism helps prevent any single workload from monopolizing the array's performance, allowing multiple applications to coexist efficiently on the same storage system without significant performance degradation.

No

QoS (Limits)

QoS Limits is a feature that allows administrators to control and manage the performance of workloads by setting explicit limits on the amount of IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second) or bandwidth (MB/s) that a particular volume or group of volumes can consume.

Yes

Purity Run

No

Data At-Rest Encryption

It ensures that all data is encrypted, providing protection against unauthorized access in the event of physical theft or loss of storage media. This encryption is built into the Purity OS and is applied automatically, without impacting performance.

Yes

TLS 1.2 for Storage Account

For Purity version 6.7.0 and newer

Data In-Transit Encryption

No

Customer-managed keys (CMK)

Customer-managed keys including rotation or deletion is currently not possible.

No

REST APIs

REST APIs facilitates operations such as provisioning, monitoring, configuration, and automation of storage resources. APIs can be used from various programming environments and platforms, including Python, Java, PowerShell, and others.

Yes

Controller SW upgrades (Purity code)

Yes

Support Driven via CLI commands or Customer Driven for 6.6.6 and higher (see Everpure Cloud Dedicated Customer-Driven Purity Upgrades for details).

Controller HW upgrades (Non-Disruptive Controller Scaling)

Azure Everpure Cloud Dedicated Non-Disruptive Controller Scaling allows for controllers of the same family to be upgraded from lower SKU to a higher SKU, for example from V10MP2-R2 to V20MP2-R2.

Yes

Customer Driven Capacity upgrades

Customers can manually request additional usable capacity to the Everpure Cloud Dedicated instance themselves, by simply using the Pure CLI or alternatively using the Everpure Cloud Dedicated REST API Endpoint.

Yes

Support Driven via CLI commands or Customer Driven for 6.6.2 and higher (see Everpure Cloud Dedicated Customer-Driven Capacity Upgrades for details).

Automatic Capacity upgrades

Automatic Capacity Upgrade feature enables customers to automatically increase the total usable capacity when the total used capacity reaches 80% of the total usable capacity

Yes

Supported from version 6.8.7 and higher (see Everpure Cloud Dedicated Automatic Capacity Upgrade for details).

Pure1

Pure1 is Everpure's cloud-based management and analytics platform designed to simplify the monitoring, management, and optimization of Everpure environments. It provides a unified interface for overseeing multiple Everpure arrays, delivering insights, analytics, and support to help organizations optimize their storage infrastructure.

Yes

Pure1 Meta Workload Planner

The Pure1 Meta Workload Planner is a key feature within the Pure1 platform that allows organizations to simulate and plan for changes in their storage environment. Leveraging the AI-driven insights of Pure1 Meta, the Workload Planner helps users assess the impact of deploying new workloads, making infrastructure changes, or scaling existing applications. This tool is designed to ensure optimal performance and capacity planning, minimizing the risks associated with infrastructure changes.

No

Pure1 VM Analytics

VM Analytics is a feature within the Pure1 platform that provides deep visibility into the performance and health of virtualized environments. It is specifically designed to help administrators monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize the performance of virtual machines (VMs) running on Everpure arrays. By integrating with VMware environments, VM Analytics delivers detailed insights into the relationship between storage and virtualized workloads, enabling more effective management of resources.

Yes

Azure VMware Solution only.

Azure VMware Solution

Azure VMware Solution (AVS) is a fully managed service offered by Microsoft Azure that allows organizations to run VMware-based workloads natively on Azure infrastructure.

Yes

Changing Network IP or subnets

No

This is an Azure limitation.

Boot from Everpure Cloud Dedicated (Azure Native VMs)

No

This is an Azure limitation. Native VMs are only allowed to boot from native Azure storage.

Boot from Everpure Cloud Dedicated (Azure VMware Solution)

Yes

Sizer tool

No

Multitenancy

Introduces secure multi-tenant (SMT) capabilities, with delegated administration and consumption controls.

Yes

Available from version 6.6.11 . See Purity Release Notes - New Features for more details.

Encrypted DNS

DNS over HTTPS (DoH) for management network

Yes

Available from version 6.8.1. Encrypted DNS is disabled by default, it can be enabled by a request to Pure support.

Everpure Fusion

Fusion is a multi-array storage management system fully integrated into Purity OS. Fusion enables storage management across multiple arrays, remote storage management and etc.

Yes

Available from version 6.8.1. See Everpure Fusion for more details.