Pure Service Orchestrator

Pure Service Orchestrator is the solution providing containers for data storage as service.

Specific Features:

• Smart reservation
  • Container storage is provided on demand on the basis of policy; optimal reservation turns out taking into account performance review, capacity and operability of storage systems. Unlike other solutions which require a difficult configuration providing resources of storage to containers using Pure Service Orchestrator without serious consequences — clients can just specify desirable capacity.

• Flexible scaling
  • The solution is scaled, using the numerous systems, and providing resources of file and block storage within uniform service. Now clients will be able to support tens of thousands of applications using all line of the arrays of FlashArray and FlashBlade which are available for them. It is simple to add new DWH to the existing infrastructure. Thanks to simplicity of expansion of storage using only one command the client can begin with small and quickly increase resources in process of growth of the container environment.

• Transparent recovery
  • The solution has the selfrecovery functions ensuring reliable functioning of services. The mechanism of automatic redistribution protects clients from the problems connected with failures of nodes and restriction of performance of arrays.

Pure Service Orchestrator

2018: Launching

The Pure Storage company announced on July 9, 2018 availability of the solution Pure Service Orchestrator representing containers for data storage as service. The product will be useful to IT departments and developers who use container applications on the basis of microservices.

Pure Service Orchestrator provides to clients simple storage in use for local creation of the datacentrichny architecture having cloud adaptivity thanks to the high speed of the drives all flash and the high reliability meeting the requirements of the enterprises.

Using Pure Service Orchestrator of the company will be able to develop dynamic container environments, using data storage in the form of service for container applications on uniform to storage system (DWH) with the accelerated access.

Pure Service Orchestrator is automatically integrated with Docker, Kubernetes and not only, providing a possibility of permanent data storage for container environments using integration with subsystems of storage of Docker and Kubernetes FlexDriver. Besides, Pure Service Orchestrator applies the automated intellectual scalable approach to reservation, providing adaptivity, as at cloud services which developers also expect. Flexibly scalable service, using a set of storage systems, supports the high-dynamic container environments capable to extend quickly to several thousand containers, told in Pure Storage.

Pure Service Orchestrator is easily scaled in FlashArray, FlashBlade or combinations of both systems, supporting file and block storage and providing flexibility for a possibility of variation of configurations of each of DWH which is a part of this service. Thanks to simplicity of accumulation of amount of storage using the only command the client can begin with small and quickly increase capacity in process of growth of the container environment.

The architecture of applications evolves from the monolithic, vertically scalable and virtualized annexes to horizontally scalable applications on the basis of microservices. These applications are created based on containers, however the lack of support of permanent storage for containers with tracking of a status threatens to slow down progress — Sandip Singh, the senior director of Pure Storage on marketing of solutions noted. — Containers without tracking of a status can be started and stop for read seconds while containers with condition monitoring live much longer. At the same time some containers need block storage, and to others — file. Developers — the driving force of modern business, and to them is necessary a possibility of providing storage in the form of service for container applications. Pure Service Orchestrator providing flexibility as at a cloud, and the performance level necessary for the enterprises is for this purpose created.

Basic function of Pure Service Orchestrator — management at the level of virtualization that allows to use DWH under container environments not only as the equipment, but also as service.

With Pure Service Orchestrator clients can expand possibilities of infrastructure out of limits of the applications which are already existing vertically scaled and virtualized, connecting container applications for the existing loading, and all — in uniform DWH with the accelerated access, concluded in Pure Storage.