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Version: 3.4

FlashArray Cloud Drives

When you deploy Portworx with FlashArray or Pure Cloud Block Store as a cloud storage provider, Portworx runs on each node and creates a storage pool using volumes provisioned from FlashArray, as defined in the StorageCluster specification. When a user creates a Portworx volume PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC), Portworx provisions the volume from this pool.

Cloud drives offer on-premises storage using FlashArray or cloud storage using Pure Cloud Block Store, while supporting:

  • Automatic provisioning of block volumes from the Portworx storage pool
  • Dynamic cluster expansion by adding or growing FlashArray-backed drives
  • Full support for PX-Backup, Autopilot, and PX-StoreV2

Portworx manages the lifecycle of storage pool volumes on registered FlashArray devices, similar to how it operates with cloud-based block storage.

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Volume groups are not supported