Pure Storage insights

Unsupported Third-Party Backup Corruption Risk

Using third-party backup solutions (Veeam, Cohesity, Rubrik) or Protection Domains to back up Pure Storage management VMs can result in corrupted instances with inconsistent data post-recovery, despite appearing functional.

After disaster recovery or migration, failing to decommission the original management VM before bringing up a recovered instance creates two controllers managing the same infrastructure, causing conflicts and data corruption.

Continuous backup replication to target clusters every 30 minutes fails when NTP synchronization is misconfigured, causing data consistency issues and extending actual RPO beyond the documented 30-minute window.

Pure Storage arrays fail to register with management interfaces due to TCP connection timeouts on port 443, preventing centralized monitoring and management. This is often misdiagnosed as a network issue when it may be timeout configuration.