Portworx Enterprise (PX-Enterprise) gives platform engineering and DevOps teams elastic scalability, high availability, and self-service access to storage across Kubernetes environments in any on-premises, cloud, or hybrid environment, with automated capacity management, I/O control and flexible provisioning to support resilient, scalable applications.
The latest release of Portworx Enterprise integrates with FlashArray to deliver enhanced controls and security to support multi-tenancy, along with expanded support for Storage vMotion for easy scalability, without disruption. As always, Portworx Enterprise 3.2 includes performance and usability enhancements, ensuring organizations can smoothly manage data and accelerate application development.
Greater Security and Utilization with Enhanced Multi-tenancy Controls for Portworx and FlashArray
At Pure Accelerate in June, we introduced “realms” for FlashArray, which group objects together in a self-contained, virtual storage environment to support secure, multi-tenant deployments. Realms include highly configurable management policies, including controls for availability SLAs, QoS variables, and more. At the time, we promised to integrate container data management from Portworx with FlashArray to ensure that customers have a full stack, secure, multi-tenancy environment to accelerate application modernization.
PX-Enterprise 3.2 delivers on this integration, and increases control and security for customers using Portworx Enterprise with FlashArray. Portworx customers can now enable multiple clusters (or customers) to more securely share the same array, blocking visibility to volumes and operations from other organizations using that array. With this new structure, authorized operations – such as greenfield PX installations and volume creation – may only occur through API, token-based, realm-restricted access. FlashArray and Portworx customers with multiple clusters and a large number of Portworx volumes can more confidently optimize storage for greater utilization and efficiency, as well.
Streamlined Scaling, Less Disruption with PX-Enterprise Support for Storage vMotion
PX-Enterprise also enhances support for Storage vMotion. Now, Portworx cloud drives created for vSphere will migrate smoothly between datastores when capacity limits are reached, rebalancing space across different datastores in a datacenter and giving customers greater flexibility to manage storage capacity. This helps customers plan for future expansion and scaling, without disruption. With Storage vMotion support, customers can optimize storage resources while maintaining the integrity of their vSphere environments.
A Friendlier User Experience for Defragmentation
Fragmentation is a fact of life for any enterprise – as data ages, contiguous free memory breaks up into smaller isolated pieces. Fragmentation can cause performance issues over time, and in some cases, file system fragmentation resulted in slow storage backends and associated timeouts for our customers.
In previous versions of PX-Enterprise, defragmentation was scheduled and run using a separately applied Python script. This was not always compatible with customer environments and impacted the user experience. With this release, defragmentation can now be scheduled and executed via CLI, with support for multiple schedules, selecting nodes, and checks for conflicting schedules. Overall, the improved experience for defragmentation scheduling will make it easier for our customers to manage operations and improve storage performance.
Get Started with Portworx Enterprise
For existing Portworx Enterprise customers, the best way to get started with the features noted in this post are to reach out to your Portworx and Pure contacts, as well as check out the release notes for more detail. For those new to Portworx and wanting to learn more:
- Sign up for our next monthly hands-on lab, where we’ll have a Kubernetes cluster ready for you to try out Portworx in real time
- Reach out to us or your Pure Storage contact for a custom consultation or demo
