Komprise this week launched Asynchronous Replication for Pure Storage FlashArray File Solutions, which will not do replication natively.
Komprise Asynchronous Replication is built-in with Pure Storage’s Purity 6.one running technique, enabling it to see all of the system’s managed directories and file hierarchies. FlashArray File Solutions buyers can use Komprise to replicate particular file shares or directories, and program these replication positions as wanted.
Pure created file storage capacity into its FlashArray block storage system in June 2020 with the start of FlashArray File Solutions. FlashArray has indigenous replication for block storage but not for file. Komprise Asynchronous Replication fills that gap and makes it possible for for a lot more granular, file-stage replication and restoration than what FlashArray natively offers.
Not many consumers are putting production workloads in their FlashArray File environments, explained Krishna Subramanian, COO at Komprise. That may not be surprising, given Pure’s solution has been commonly obtainable for scarcely 50 percent a calendar year, but she explained its deficiency of indigenous replication has prevented consumers from putting everything critical into individuals environments.
“Replication is a essential component for any production workload,” Subramanian explained.
Replication is a essential component for any production workload. Krishna SubramanianCOO, Komprise
Pure identified this gap and tasked Komprise with filling it, in accordance to Subramanian. Pure and Komprise currently have a technological know-how partnership, as Komprise’s knowledge analytics and migration capabilities are obtainable on Pure’s FlashBlade solutions. Komprise has taken that very same motor and created a replication-concentrated solution specifically optimized for FlashArray File.
Prospects procure Komprise Asynchronous Replication as a result of Pure Storage, but it is Komprise-branded and accredited individually from Pure FlashArray.
Komprise’s main solution is an clever knowledge administration system that supports a broad array of NAS, public clouds and non-public cloud environments. Prospects can use Komprise to examine knowledge and go it to the most price tag-successful storage, although continue to enabling buyers access to it.
Komprise Asynchronous Replication is an completely new solution in Komprise’s portfolio, concentrated on the replication use circumstance. It takes advantage of the very same motor in Komprise’s knowledge administration software package, but it has a distinctive interface and new functions these kinds of as setting which files to replicate, scheduling replication positions, setting which atmosphere to fail more than to and seeing where the golden duplicate of a file is.
Subramanian explained it was technically doable to accomplish replication applying Komprise, as it really is only executing a migration occupation without accomplishing a slash-off. Nevertheless Komprise’s interface failed to assist a replication workflow, she explained.
Komprise can now use its main migration and analytics motor to replicate from FlashArray to FlashArray.
“The use circumstance is distinctive, so it needs a new solution,” Subramanian explained.
Komprise Asynchronous Replication is at this time obtainable for only Pure Storage FlashArray File, but Komprise is searching into expanding the solution to other environments.
Granular, file-stage restores are the biggest profit for consumers with Komprise Asynchronous Replication, explained Julia Palmer, a research vice president at Gartner. Restoring the total FlashArray technique is problematic, as it loses all improvements throughout the entire technique from when the backup duplicate was created. That’s only not worthy of it just to restore a few of shed files, Palmer explained. Thus, the a lot more granular the copies, the considerably less knowledge that receives shed in a recovery.
Palmer explained replication was a critical function lacking from FlashArray File Solutions, so she was not stunned Pure tapped Komprise to handle it. It can make sense that consumers would be hesitant to place their critical workloads in FlashArray File environments without a usually means of duplicating them and bringing them back again without a entire-scale restore, she explained.
“People today are paranoid about duplicating every thing, and they are also specific about catastrophe recovery,” Palmer explained.
