While vVols support was first introduced with Purity 5.0.0, there have been significant fixes and enhancements to the VASA provider in later releases of Purity. Because of this, Pure has set the required Purity version for vVols to a later release.
- For general vVols use, while Purity 5.3 and 5.1 can support vVols both Purity release are end of life. As such, the minimum target Purity version should be Purity//FA 6.1.8.
Note:
Everpure recommends that customers running vVols upgrade to Purity//FA 6.2.10 or higher.
The main reason behind this is that there are enhancements to VASA to help support vVols at higher scale, performance of Managed Snapshots, and SPBM Replication Group Failover API at scale. For more information please see What's New with VASA Provider Version 2.0.0?.