About Me
Hello! My name is Alex Carver. I am currently a Senior Solutions Engineer for Pure Storage. I focus on implementations between VMware and Pure Storage for the FlashArray product line. In particular I focus on the implementation of Storage Best Practices, Virtual Volumes (vVols), ActiveCluster and Site Recovery Manager (SRM) with Pure Storage. As this is my personal blog, all thoughts and posts are my own.
Recent Posts
How to update vSphere NVMe-TCP Keep Alive with PowerShell
This article will cover how to update existing NVMe-TCP target controller connections keep alive value. Unfortunately you can not just update the active controller connection…
My FlashArray REST API 2.x Authentication Journey
My journey in understanding FlashArray REST API 2.x Authentication was full of bumps, confusion and frustration. Here is how I progressed in figuring out how…
New REST API’s for vVols Objects in Pure Storage FlashArray REST API 2.14
There are some new REST API's for vVols objects in Pure Storage's FlashArray REST API 2.14! Specifically operations for virtual-machines and virtual-machine-snapshots. I won't lie,…
How to Enable CBRC and Digest for a Data vVol in vSphere 7.0
Recently I was working through an issue that was reported by one of our Partners. I wanted to see if I could reproduce the issue…
How to Refresh VASA Certificates with vSphere 7.0
When VMware released vSphere 7.0 they disabled the ability to refresh certificates for VASA Providers in the vCenter UI. When logging into vCenter and trying…
How to Create SOAP Trace Logs to Troubleshoot PowerCLI Errors
Ugh! That's my first reaction to seeing a failure from PowerCLI when I'm running through a workflow with PowerShell, however, I recently learned the process…