Pure Storage announced the company's extended collaboration with VMware to enable mutual customers with the performance, simplicity and resiliency needed for their cloud environments. The support for VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster, vSphere Virtual Volumes and the VMware Validated Design provides more options for mutual customers to help them effortlessly achieve always-on operations, increased per-VM control, and ease of deployment of their private cloud. Pure also now offers support for VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes 2.0. Customers virtualized on VMware can now get per-VM granular mapping to the FlashArray, which helps assure per-VM service level agreements, simplifies per-VM management and gains per-VM portability.

In addition to enabling compliance, VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes on FlashArray utilizes storage policy-based management to automate provisioning of VMs and align application requirements to available FlashArray data services including highly efficient snapshots and replication. This streamlines operations and empowers the VMware administrators to gain more control with less dependency on the storage team.