Overview
Everpure Cloud Dedicated is a customer-managed cloud storage service deployed in AWS or Azure, and its networking model is designed to help you connect, secure, and operate the service inside your own cloud environment. The networking design covers connectivity options, security controls, performance considerations, and monitoring practices while preserving a consistent storage experience across on-premises and cloud environments.
Key Benefits
- Simplify hybrid operations by using the same storage workflows, GUI, CLI, and APIs across cloud and on-premises environments.
- Reduce storage overhead with built-in data reduction, snapshots, and thin provisioning.
- Improve resilience through multi-AZ design and replication options across availability zones or regions.
- Support mission-critical workloads with enterprise-grade performance, low latency, and cloud-native deployment models in both AWS and Azure.
Audience & Use Cases
- Cloud and storage architects planning VPC/VNet connectivity, subnet layout, and security for Everpure Cloud Dedicated deployments.
- Platform administrators connecting hosts or Kubernetes nodes over iSCSI or NVMe/TCP.
- VMware and hybrid-cloud teams extending workloads into the cloud for migration, disaster recovery, or burst capacity scenarios.
How it Works
- You deploy Everpure Cloud Dedicated into your target AWS VPC or Azure VNet.
- You configure management and data-path networking so hosts can reach the array over supported storage protocols such as iSCSI or NVMe/TCP.
- Dual controllers process data services such as deduplication, compression, and encryption before persisting data to cloud-backed storage resources.
- The backend design provides high availability and durability, with replication available for additional protection across zones or regions.
- After deployment, you manage and consume storage through the familiar GUI, CLI, or APIs.
Prerequisites
- Supported cloud targets: AWS and Azure.
- Deployment boundary: an AWS VPC or an Azure VNet for the managed deployment.
- Network access: management connectivity is required, and storage connectivity uses iSCSI or NVMe/TCP depending on the host integration pattern.
- Region support: verify the cloud-specific support matrix before deployment; AWS support is region-based, and Azure support varies by region, SKU generation, and zone count.
- Version check: the referenced AWS and Azure deployment guides are validated on version 6.8.7, so confirm the currently supported release before building.
Deployment
- AWS: Start from the AWS Marketplace deployment listing for Pure Storage Cloud Dedicated, then click Continue to Subscribe, Continue to Configuration, and Continue to Launch to open the CloudFormation workflow.
- Azure: Start from the Azure Marketplace deployment listing or the Azure Marketplace subscription listing, then deploy the managed application into your target VNet.
- After deployment, use the management endpoint values or the GUI Network page to verify interfaces and begin post-deployment configuration.
Additional Information
- Pure Storage Cloud Dedicated Network Architecture and Best Practices — networking design overview and best practices.
- Pure Storage Cloud Dedicated Architecture and Core Components for AWS — AWS architecture deep dive.
- Pure Storage Cloud Dedicated Architecture and Core Components for Azure — Azure architecture deep dive.
- AWS Regions Support — supported AWS regions and caveats.
- Azure Regions Support — supported Azure regions by model and zone count.
- Accessing Pure Storage Cloud Dedicated — management endpoints, GUI access, CLI access, and network-interface verification.