Pure Storage FlashArray-Implementation-Specialist Exam With Confidence Using Practice Dumps

Pure Storage has introducedSelf-Service Upgrades (SSU)via thePure1 Manageportal to provide customers with greater flexibility and control over their maintenance windows.

If a client cannot wait for a scheduled assisted upgrade with a Support Engineer, the validated and supported path is togo through the Self-Service upgrade portal on Pure1 Manage.

This portal performs the same pre-flight health checks (Remote Assist, array health, pathing) that a Support Engineer would perform manually.

Once the checks pass, the customer can schedule and initiate the Purity upgrade directly from the cloud dashboard.

The process is fully automated and monitored by Pure1. This eliminates the wait time for human resource availability while maintaining the safety guardrails of a supported upgrade. Manual USB installs (Option A) or direct CLI downloads (Option B) are generally restricted or not recommended for standard customer workflows without specific support supervision.

Data evacuation is a background process used to move data off specific physical media (like a shelf or data pack) so it can be removed safely. Purity is designed to handle dynamic changes to evacuation requests efficiently.

If an evacuation is already running and additional hardware needs to be evacuated, the Implementation Engineer does not need to stop the current job or wait for it to finish. The correct procedure is toissue a new evacuation commandspecifying the additional packs or shelves. Purity will intelligently update the existing background job to include the new targets, queuing the data movement logic to ensure all specified hardware is cleared. This "add-to-flight" capability saves time and administrative overhead compared to cancelling and restarting the entire workflow.

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On aFlashArray//XR2 or //XR3, if a dedicatedPCIe SAS HBA(Host Bus Adapter) is required for external shelf connectivity (expanding beyond the onboard SAS ports), it must be installed inSlot 1.

The PCIe slot prioritization on the FlashArray//X R2/R3 controllers is strictly defined to ensure optimal performance and lane distribution:

Slot 0:Reserved primarily for frontend Host I/O cards (Fibre Channel or iSCSI/Ethernet). This slot usually connects to CPU 0 and offers high bandwidth for host traffic.

Slot 1:Designated as the primary expansion slot forbackend connectivity(SAS cards for expansion shelves) or secondary Host I/O if no SAS expansion is needed.

Slot 2:On smaller models (X10/X20), this is often theonlyhost I/O slot, but on the larger X50/X70/X90 chassis, it is used for additional Host I/O.

If an Implementation Engineer installs a SAS card in Slot 0, the system may fail to recognize the shelves correctly or may flag a configuration error, as the Purity software expects backend expansion traffic to route through the bus associated with Slot 1. Therefore, for SAS expansion cards, Slot 1 is the mandatory location.