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SQL Server - Best Practices and Architecture
- Pure Storage SQL Server Platform Guides
- Pure Storage SQL Server Best Practices
- Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere with FlashArray | Reference Architecture
- Best Practices for SQL Server on VMware - Distilled
- Architecting Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere - 2023 Version
- Architecting SQL Server on VMware Best Practices Guide
- Azure Arc-enabled data services with Portworx
- 7 Tips in 60 Minutes to Make SQL Server Perform Better | Pure Storage | PASS Marathon
- Understanding SQL Server IO Size
- [Video] - Architecting for High Performance SQL Server on Virtual Machines | SQLBits 2023
SQL Server - Snapshots
- Pure Storage SQL Server Scripts on GitHub
- Are Snapshots Backups? - Anthony Nocentino and Bob Ward PASS Summit 2023
- Using Databases with FlashArray Volume Snapshots
- What DBAs Need to Know About Snapshots - Webinar with Brent Ozar
SQL Server - Availability and Disaster Recovery
- Pure Storage ActiveCluster with SQL Server
- Pure Storage ActiveDR with SQL Server
- Intra-cloud Disaster Recovery for Microsoft SQL Server
- SQL Server Always On Availability Groups Refresh and Restore Solutions with FlashArray
- Seeding an Availability Group Replica from Snapshot
Microsoft
FlashBlade
VMware
- Comparing VVols to VMDKs and RDMs
- Understanding VMware ESXi Queuing and the FlashArray
- Large-scale workloads with intensive I/O patterns might require queue depths significantly greater than Paravirtual SCSI default values (2053145)
- VM Analytics Overview
- VM Analytics Setup
Automation
- Pure/Code Developer Community - code.purestorage.com
- Pure Storage Connect - GitHub contributions created by Pure Storage Engineering and supported by Pure Storage Support.
- Pure Storage Open Connect - GitHub contributions from Pure Storage Customers, Architects, System Engineers, and Developers.
- Pure Storage FlashArray PowerShell SDK
- Pure Storage FlashArray VMware PowerShell Module
FlashArray
- Large FlashArray Models Limits //X90R4, //X70R4, //X90R3, //X70R3, //X90R2, //X70R2, //X70R1, //M70R2)
- Monitoring with the Pure Storage FlashArray OpenMetrics Exporter
- Microsoft SQL Server Backup and Restore with FlashArray//C
Cloud Block Store
- Cloud Block Store Support Matrix for Azure
- Migration to Microsoft Azure made easy with Pure Cloud Block Store
Video Demos
- Snapshotting and cloning databases between SQL Server Instances
- Snapshotting and cloning databases between SQL Server Instances using Protection Groups
- Snapshotting and cloning databases between SQL Server Instances on separate FlashArrays
- Using the Pure Storage SSMS Extension to refresh databases
- Seeding an Availability Group Replica from Snapshot
- SQL Server zero downtime migration between FlashArrays using ActiveCluster
- Rapid Restore SQL Hero Numbers
- Rapid Restore for a Single Database
- SQL Server 2022 S3 Backup and Restore
- SQL Server 2022 S3 Data Virtualization