PURE Storage Discovery. FlashBlade vs FlashArray

[Stephen Skaggs]

The storage expert in our environment informed me that there was documentation for FlashBlade but not FlashArray. I have checked the internet for the differences between the two but cannot find any. Please advise on any info regarding the differences, if there are any, between these alleged separate technologies. Thanks.

[Stephen Skaggs]

Looks like I found my answer:

Pure Storage FlashBlade is an Object Storage software built to store files and objects in a blade architecture that can be accessed by servers. Pure Storage FlashArray is an Enterprise Flash Array Solution that compresses files to store for access from servers.

from this link: https://www.trustradius.com/compare-products/pure-storage-flasharray-vs-pure-storage-flashblade#:~:t...

However, this doesn't answer if ServiceNow discovers for FlashArray, I see only documentation on FlashBlade.

[SiD2]

Hi @Stephen S,

Yes, Flash array discovery is not supported OOB and you can check the API documentation for flash array to communicate with the resource and create a customized classifier, pattern and new CI classes to discover them. You can use the flash blade pattern as a reference.

I doubt the API specification would be same for both, but you can try discovering your flasharray resource with existing pattern and see what is the behavior to experiment.

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[Stephen Skaggs]

Thank you for your response, I am not able to find any API documentation on this. Can you please point me in the right direction, or provide a link if you have already found one?

[Akshatha Ballal]

https://pythonhosted.org/purestorage/#overview

https://readthedocs.org/projects/pure-storage-python-rest-client/downloads/pdf/latest/