Automate your storage environment with Red Hat and Pure Storage
Create advanced automation workflows for managing your entire data storage environment using Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform and Pure Storage.
IT organizations today deal with enormous amounts of data, which can often make it difficult to operate efficiently and respond rapidly to issues. Working together, Ansible Automation Platform and Pure Storage can help increase the efficiency of day-to-day IT operations and improve service response times by simplifying high-volume, repetitive tasks such as storage provisioning and backups. You can also create advanced automation workflows to manage your entire data storage environment along with other systems and platforms.
The Ansible Certified Content Collections for Pure Storage include automation content that is developed, tested, and maintained by Red Hat and Pure Storage. Published to Ansible automation hub, these collections not only help you automate more rapidly, they also integrate with other Ansible Automation Platform and Pure Storage products, including FlashArray, FlashBlade, Pure1, and Fusion. These integrations allow you to perform nearly every operation in the Pure Storage command line and graphical user interfaces (GUIs).
Reduce complexity and cost of managing storage
Pure Storage delivers a modern data experience with flash-based storage and policy-driven services that let you run an automated, storage-as-a-service model across your storage platforms. With Pure Storage, you can build an all-flash datacenter, based on FlashBlade, FlashArray, and Pure Fusion’s storage-as-code capabilities to reduce the complexity and expense of managing your environment.
Together, Pure Storage and Ansible Automation Platform provide advanced automation workflows for managing your entire data storage environment that help you:
- Snapshot production databases
Build automated workflows that clone production databases each morning and delete old copies late at night. You can keep your production database safe, provide up-to-date copies for developers, and manage storage—all without manual intervention.
- Migrate live application data
Migrate data between FlashArray storage platforms while applications perform live data transfers to the file system. Because services remain active, your data migration processes can run during normal working hours, eliminating downtime and off-hours work.
- Remediate storage platform configurations
Automatically check storage array configurations as necessary, without manual intervention. If Ansible Automation Platform detects incorrect settings, it can gather necessary information, send notifications, and automatically remediate the configuration. This saves time and helps to increase the security of your data storage environment.
- Streamline disaster recovery testing
Document your disaster recovery procedures in executable, version-controlled workflows that are simple to audit and approve. When you need to run your disaster recovery process, Ansible Automation Platform executes rapidly and consistently, saving valuable time and avoiding potentially catastrophic errors.
Collections are a distribution format for Ansible content that can include playbooks, roles, modules, and plugins. You can install and access the certified collections through the Red Hat Ansible Automation Hub in the Hybrid Cloud Console.
