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When Pure Storage released Purity 5.1 for the FlashArray they introduced a new host feature called Host Personality. Host Personalities offer a way to customize how the FlashArray presents storage to the physical host. Today Pure offers 5 types of Host Personalities: ESXi Hitachi VSP HP-UX Oracle VM Server VMS This post specifically focuses on what’s provided with the ESXi host personality and how to set this using PowerShell, VMware PowerCLI and the Pure Storage PowerShell SDK. ...

Update 12/5/2018: Pure Storage has modified the returned JSON file. The AccessKey is no longer stored as Id, rather it is stored as Name. I’ve updated the code below to reflect that. Part of my job involves managing our storage fleet, both block storage and some file level services. I recently had a conversation with some developers about methods in which we were storing files. The current process involved multiple layers consisting of applications, servers, virtualization and storage systems. Not that great for a rapidly growing file system. ...