Pure Storage Training-

1. Foundational Tier: Pure Fundamentals

This introductory track is designed for new IT professionals to understand the basic technologies and philosophies behind Pure Storage products.

• Storage Overview: Fundamentals of SAN/NAS, transport protocols (iSCSI, Fibre Channel), and basic architectures.

• Administration: Navigating the Purity Operating Environment and managing hosts and volumes.

• Monitoring: Using Pure1 for visibility, reporting, and capacity analysis.

• Data Recovery: Understanding snapshots, replication, and ad-hoc data recovery procedures.

2. FlashArray Administration Track

This syllabus focuses on managing high-performance block storage through its entire lifecycle.

• Architecture Deep Dive: Hardware components of FlashArray//X, //C, and //E models, including 100% NVMe shared accelerated storage.

• Data Administration: Configuring RAID-HA, encryption, and data reduction processing (deduplication/compression).

• Enterprise Features: Implementing ActiveCluster for multi-site availability and ActiveDR for disaster recovery.

• Cloud Integration: Overview of Cloud Block Store (CBS) and hybrid cloud optimization.

3. FlashBlade Administration Track

Designed for managing large-scale unstructured data (unified file and object storage).

• Hardware & Software: FlashBlade chassis expansion, blade architecture, and the Purity//FB operating system.

• Networking: Fabric Modules, external physical network connections, and network stack technologies.

• Protocol Services: Managing NFS and SMB file services and S3-compatible object storage.

• Advanced Scale-out: Understanding scale-out concepts and data protection for massive unstructured datasets.

4. Specialist & Expert Modules

• Cyber Resilience: Implementing SafeMode™ snapshots for ransomware protection and rapid recovery.

• Kubernetes/Containers: Managing enterprise container storage using Portworx.

• Migration: Skillfully navigating third-party storage migration to the Pure platform.