Fusion

In modern IT environments, not all workloads require the same level of storage performance, protection, or cost. Some applications need high performance with aggressive data protection, while others are perfectly fine with lower performance in exchange for cost savings. This tiered approach to storage service delivery is fundamental to efficient infrastructure management. In my previous post on Fusion, I took an application-centric approach, showing how to deploy SQL Servers using Fusion.

When managing storage infrastructure at scale, one of the most powerful approaches is treating related storage resources as cohesive Workloads rather than individual components. This becomes especially important when dealing with applications like SQL Server that have specific storage patterns and requirements and are often deployed at scale in a datacenter or cloud. In this post, I’ll walk through a complete workflow for creating and managing application-specific storage Workloads using Pure Storage’s Fusion Fleet capability with PowerShell.