Pure Storage FlashArray

pure storage flasharray is an all flash, high performance storage solution designed to accelerate data access and simplify storage management combining advanced nand flash technology, innovative data reduction techniques, and a user friendly interface, it delivers consistent, low latency performance and seamless scalability, making it ideal for organizations seeking to enhance their data centers and support mission critical applications to understand how the rapid data locking (rdl) feature fits in, it helps to know how data at rest encryption works on the pure storage flasharray device for information about data at rest encryption, refer to wp flasharray data security and compliance pdf in the pure storage flasharray folder on sharepoint rapid data locking (rdl) some environments require external key management for locking down a forward deployed array the pure storage flasharray kmip rdl solution enables you to use the {{ch}} for this purpose kmip rdl kmip rdl introduces a secondary user controllable key that enables unlocking the flash modules of the array you remotely access the kmip keys from a kmip server (such as {{ch}} ) without access to the server, the flash modules cannot be unlocked on power on you can enable rdl during installation or at any time after that after you enable it, rdl is permanent it applies to all the ssds of an array, including those added later