FlashArray Compatibility Matrix

The compatibility matrix lists third-party products that have been fully tested and qualified for use with the Pure Storage
FlashArray.

This Matrix is for FC/iSCSI only. For NVMe/RoCE support, please go here -- https://support.purestorage.com/Solutions/
SAN/SAN_Configuration/NVMe-oF_Support_Matrix

Pure Storage provides best-effort integration support for all vendors/models. If a specific vendor or product model is not
listed, please contact your Pure Storage representative to determine if it is supported. Pure Storage certifies major
versions of Purity and will support appropriate minor versions.

Please refer to best practices documentation in the Solutions section for your environment when deploying FlashArray
with supported operating systems and hypervisors. Following best practices, documentation will help optimize
FlashArray performance and resiliency for the supported operating systems and hypervisors.

For any caveats related to switch and HBA connectivity, please see our field support bulletin. The bulletin will cover
caveats with 3rd party hardware products and list mitigation steps.

For related FlashArray product information, see Supported SFP Modules FA-400.

For related FlashArray hardware troubleshooting, see FlashArray Transceiver and Cable Support.

indicates a link to a Best Practice Guide.

indicates a caveat/issue of importance.

Operating Systems
Unless otherwise specified, Pure Storage supports all major operating system versions listed plus their minor and
maintenance releases.

AIX ActiveCluster
FlashArray//M, //X,
FA-300 FA-400
//C

AIX 6.1    

AIX 7.1    

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 AIX 7.2 -   

ActiveCluster
FlashArray//M, //X,
IBMi FA-300 FA-400
//C

IBMi 7.2 (via VIOS

  
vSCSI)

IBMi 7.3 (via VIOS

  
vSCSI)

IBMi 7.4 (via VIOS

  
vSCSI)

IBM VIOS
ActiveCluster
(Standard and FlashArray//M, //X,
FA-300 FA-400
Enterprise //C
Editions)

IBM VIOS 2.2.5.20

  
and up

IBM VIOS 2.2.6.10

  
and up

IBM VIOS 3.1.0.0

  
and up

ActiveCluster
FlashArray//M, //X,
HP-UX FA-300 FA-400
//C

HP-UX 11i v2
  -
(B.11.23)

HP-UX 11i v3
   
(B.11.31)

Linux ActiveCluster
FlashArray//M, //X,
FA-300 FA-400
//C

CentOS
(Equivalent to RHEL
-- see below) Refer to RHEL versions for supported platforms

Oracle Enterprise
   
Linux 5.6 and higher

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 (See Note 1)

Oracle Enterprise
Linux 6.5 and    
Higher (See Note 1
& 2)

Oracle Enterprise
Linux 7.0 and -   
Higher

Oracle Enterprise
Linux 8.0 and -   
Higher

Debian 7.5.0 (With

-   
Linux Kernel 3.2)

Debian 8.11 -   

RHEL 5.5 and

   
Higher

RHEL 6.0 and

   
Higher (See Notes 1
& 2)

RHEL 7.0 and -   

Higher (See Note 1)

RHEL 8.0 and -   

Higher

SLES 10 SP3 (See

   
Note 1)

SLES 11 SP3 and

-   
Higher (x64/PPC)

SLES 12/x64 and

higher (See note -   
3 & 5)

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 SLES 15 and Higher -   

Ubuntu 16.04 -   

Ubuntu
18.04.02 LTS (See -   
Note 4)

Ubuntu
18.04.03 LTS (See -   
Note 4)

Ubuntu 20.04 (See

Note 4) -   

Notes

1 iSCSI multipath boot from SAN is currently not supported at installation on some releases
2 Installation directly onto multipath SAN LUN on RHEL 6.9, 6.10 and OEL 6.7 not
supported due to RedHat bug. https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4466491 Install OS
on single path device and later add another path to devices .Refer OS vendor
documentation for "Moving root filesystem from single path device to multiple path device.
3 Qlogic FC driver 10.01.00.48.12.4 or higher recommended.
4 Contact lori@purestorage.com for Ubuntu settings, until Best Practices are finalized and
published.
5 Recommend update to kernel version 3.12.55-52.42

Microsoft ActiveCluster
FlashArray//M, //X,
FA-300 FA-400
//C

Windows Server
    **AC
2008 R2 SP1

Windows Server
-    **AC
2012

Windows Server
-    **AC
2012 R2

Windows Server
-    **AC
2016, x64

Windows Server
-    **AC
2019, x64

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 **AC - Microsoft ODX (Offloaded Data Transfer) is not supported with ActiveCluster. Copy operations inside pods or across pod boundaries
will be treated as normal copies.

** Tested by Pure Engineering

Oracle Solaris ActiveCluster

FlashArray//M, //X,
FA-300 FA-400
//C

Solaris 10 u8 or
   ***
greater / SPARC *

Solaris 10 u8 or
  
greater / x64 *

Solaris 11.2 x86 *   

Solaris 11.2
SPARC* **
    ***

Solaris 11.3 Sparc*

**
    ***

Solaris 11.4 Sparc*     ***

* Includes ZFS Support

** Customers with Emulex HBA's please refer to https://support.purestorage.com/Solu...mulex_8Gbps_FC

*** Requires Purity 5.0.7 or greater or 5.1.0 or greater

FlashArray//M, //X,
OpenVMS FA-300 FA-400 ActiveCluster
//C

8.4, 8.4-1H1, 8.4-2

and -   
8.4-2L1* ,8.4-2L2 *

*Requires Purity 4.7.6 or

above

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Unified Compute System
Cisco UCS FA-300 FA-400 FlashArray //M, //X, //C

UCS 2.1.2 (FC)   -

UCS 2.2(2)
  
(FC, iSCSI, Direct Attach)

UCS 2.2(3)
  
(FC, iSCSI, Direct Attach)

UCS 2.2(6)
-  
(FC, iSCSI, Direct Attach)

UCS 2.2(7)
-  
(FC, iSCSI, Direct Attach)

UCS 3.0(2) MINI

-  
(FC, iSCSI, Direct Attach)

UCS 3.1(1)
-  
(FC, iSCSI, Direct Attach)

UCS 3.1(2)
-  
(FC, iSCSI, Direct Attach)

UCS 3.1(3)
-  
(FC, iSCSI, Direct Attach)

UCS 3.2(2)
-  
(FC, iSCSI, Direct Attach)

UCS 3.2(3)
-  
(FC, iSCSI, Direct Attach)

UCS 4.0(1)
-  
(FC, iSCSI, Direct Attach)

UCS 4.0(2)
-  
(FC, iSCSI, Direct Attach)

UCS 4.0(4)
-  
(FC, iSCSI, Direct Attach)

UCS 4.1(1)
(FC, iSCSI, NVMe/RoCE, -  
Direct Attach)

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 UCS 4.1(2)
(FC, iSCSI, NVMe/RoCE, -  
Direct Attach)

Note: the letters inside brackets are considered UCS maintenance releases and are supported, unless specifically called out here for example 3.1(2e) is
also supported.

Storage
DataCore FA-300 FA-400 FlashArray//M, //X, //C

SANsymphony-V -  

EMC VPLEX FA-300 FA-400 FlashArray//M, //X, //C

VPLEX 5.3+

-  
Please see guide for
details on support

VPLEX 6.0 SP1

-  
Please see guide for
details on support

Hitachi Virtual Storage

FA-300 FA-400 FlashArray//M, //X, //C
Platform (VSP)

G1000, G800, G600,

G400, G200, VSP, HUS-
VM*
-  
* Support via profile
installation tool / USP-V is
not supported.

Falconstor FA-300 FA-400 FlashArray//M, //X, //C

CDP/NSS 8.00, 7.8.0,

7.7.0, 7.6.0, 7.5.0, 7.0.0   
FSS

IBM SVC FA-300 FA-400 FlashArray//M, //X, //C

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 7.2.0.2 and higher -  

Symantec Storage
Foundation FA-300 FA-400 FlashArray//M, //X, //C
(rebranded Infoscale)

AIX 7.1 / Infoscale 7.1,

 
7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.4.1

AIX 6.1 / SFHA 6.0.x*  

HPUX 11.3 / SFHA 6.1  

HPUX 11.3 / SFHA 5.1  

Solaris SPARC SF /
 - -
SFHA 5.1

Solaris SPARC 6.0, 6.1,

-  
6.2, 7.1,7.2,7.3, 7.4

Solaris x86 6.0 -  

RHEL/OEL SFRAC 5.1

6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1,7.2,7.3, -  
7.4, 7.4.1

SLES / SFRAC 6.0,6.1,

-  
6.2, 7.1,7.2,7,3, 7.4, 7.4.1

Windows
2008R2 / SFRAC 6.0,6.1, -  
6.2, 7.1, 7.2,7.3, 7.4, 7.4.1

Windows 2012 / SFRAC

6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1,7.2,7.3, -  
7.4, 7.4.1

* Requires a VXVM Patch - Please contact VRTS for more details

FlashArray//M,
Veritas Infoscale FA-400 ActiveCluster
FlashArray//X, //C

IBM AIX / Infoscale 7.4    **

Solaris (SPARC) /
   **
Infoscale 7.4

RHEL (x86_64) /    **

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 Infoscale 7.4

Refer to Veritas documentation on supported versions of AIX, Solaris and RHEL

** Requires Updated ALUA ASL from Verita that is not part of initial Infoscale install

Hypervisors
Citrix ActiveCluster
FlashArray//M, //X,
FA-300 FA-400
//C

XenServer 6.1 (FC

 
& iSCSI)

XenServer 6.2 (FC

-  
& iSCSI)

XenServer 6.5 (FC

& iSCSI) -  
Citrix HCL Listing Pending

XenServer 7.0,
7.1,7.2,7.3, 7.5, 7.6,
-   
8.0, 8.1 (FC &
iSCSI)

XenDesktop 7.0 -  -

XenDesktop 7.5,
-  
7.6,7.7,7.8,7.9

ActiveCluster
FlashArray//M, //X,
Linux FA-300 FA-400
//C

KVM 6.0 or higher

(must be installed
  
on an RHEL
system)

RHEV/oVIRT 4.x   

Microsoft ActiveCluster
FlashArray//M, //X,
FA-300 FA-400
//C

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 Hyper-V in Windows
Server
   **AC
(See Windows
certifications)

ActiveCluster
FlashArray//M, //X,
Oracle FA-300 FA-400
//C

Oracle VM 3.2  

Oracle VM 3.3 FC &

iSCSI
 
Note: iSCSI Chap not
supported

Oracle VM 3.4.3 FC
& iSCSI
 
Note: iSCSI Chap not
supported

Oracle VM 3.4.4 FC   

ActiveCluster
VMware
FlashArray//M, //X,
FA-300 FA-400
//C
*AC

ESX 4.1 U3 FC only FC only -

* ESXi 5.0, ESXi 5.0

U1, ESXi 5.0 U2, FC Only   **
ESXi 5.0 U3

* ESXi 5.1, ESXi 5.1

U1, ESXi 5.1   -
U2, ESXi 5.1 U3

* ESXi 5.5, ESXi 5.5

U1, ESXi 5.5     *AC
U2 ESXi 5.5 U3

* ESXi 6.0, ESXi 6.0

U1, ESXi 6.0 U2,     *AC
ESXi 6.0 U3

* ESXi 6.5, ESXi 6.5

U1, ESXi 6.5 U2,     *AC
6.5 U3

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 * ESXi 6.7, 6.7 U1,
    *AC
6.7 U2, 6.7 U3

ESXi 7.0, 7.0 U1,

7.0 U2 (FC, iSCSI,
NVMe-oF RoCEv2**   *AC
NVMe-oF Fibre
Channel)***

* VAAI must be enabled on the ESXi hosts that are connected to Pure Storage FlashArray devices. Contact
Pure Storage Support if VAAI is disabled.

* * NVMe-oF is only supported on FlashArray//X

* ** NVMe-oF Fibre Channel is only supported on FlashArray//X and C and only with 7.0 U1 and later.

*AC - VMware VAAI copy offload (XCOPY) works only between volumes in the same pod. Copy operations
across pod boundaries will be treated as normal copies.

**AC - Microsoft ODX (Offloaded Data Transfer) is not supported with ActiveCluster. Copy operations inside
pods or across pod boundaries will be treated as normal copies.

** Tested by Pure Engineering

ActiveDR Host OS Interoperability

The ActiveDR replication process is agnostic to host OS type or application. This means that you can use ActiveDR
replication regardless of host OS type or application type.

ActiveDR adds the ability to promote and demote pods to Purity//FA. While a pod is demoted (the default state of an
ActiveDR target pod) the volumes in that pod are read-only. To perform an ActiveDR test failover or real failover you
promote the pod causing the volumes in the pod to become writable.

Hosts may be connected to the volumes in the demoted pod* before a failover is performed however it is not required.

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If you intend to pre-connect hosts to volumes while pods are in a demoted state be aware that some host operating
systems may properly recognize the read-only state of the volumes and not allow the volume, or the filesystem on the
volume, to be marked as writable. Other host operating systems will simply generate errors whenever the hosts attempt
to write to the volumes. Regardless of the host OS behavior, Purity will not allow writes to occur in volumes while the
pod is demoted.

It is important to configure host personalities in Purity according to the type of host as described in the Host Personality
in Purity KB Article.

*Note that connecting NVME hosts to volumes in demoted pods is not allowed. NVME hosts must be connected after
the pod is promoted and disconnected before the pod is demoted.

FC Loop Support
A Host Operating System that requires the array to be in an FC-Loop mode is not supported at this time.

Network Adapters, HBAs and Switches

Fibre Channel HBAs FA-300 FA-400 FlashArray//M, //X, //C

Pure Supports all industry-standard Fibre Channel HBAs

Emulex has identified a bug with certain versions of the Emulex HBA Driver where the FC drivers may acquire an
incorrect ring lock during abort processing. This opens a very small window where two consecutive I/Os could be
sent to the same WQ index, causing one of them to be dropped. These dropped I/Os can lead to data integrity
issues.

This applies to the following cards:

• LPe1600x (Lancer) based adapters

• LPe1600xb (Lancer) based adapters
• OCe1010x (BE2) based adapters
• OCe1110x (BE3) based adapters
• OCe1410x (Skyhawk) based adapters
• OCe1440x (Skyhawk) based adapters

For more detail, see this Field Support Bulletin

Fibre Channel Switches FA-300 FA-400 FlashArray//M, //X, //C

Pure Supports all industry-standard Fibre Channel Switches

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 Ethernet NICs FA-300 FA-400 FlashArray//M, //X, //C

Pure Supports all industry-standard Ethernet NICs

Ethernet Switches FA-300 FA-400 FlashArray//M, //X, //C

Pure Supports all industry-standard Ethernet Switches

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