How to create Protection Group in Pure Flash Array using CLI

A pure Flash Array protection group is a collection of volumes, hosts, or host groups that are protected together with a point-in-time consistency across the member volumes. To achieve point-in-time consistency, Flash array uses snapshot schedules. The snapshot is an immutable representation of the volume data at that point in time that are either direct members of the protection group or are linked to any of the protection group's hosts or host groups. The members in a protection group will have common retention criteria and a snapshot schedule to achieve data integrity. 

How to Create Protocol endpoints in Pure Flash Array using CLI

A Protocol Endpoint(PE) in Pure Storage terminology is a zero-capacity volume with a unique configuration that effectively functions as an ESX vVol mounting point. It is the only Pure FlashArray volume that requires a manual connection to ESX hosts in order to use ESX vVols. The vVols are connected to VMs through PEs acting as Sub-luns.

How to increase the provisioned size of a volume in Pure Flash Array storage using CLI

In a "storage administrator" profession, it is quite common to receive requests for space
expansion/increase on SAN volumes. Pure Flash Array has both CLI and GUI options available to increase provisioned space of a storage volume. in this article, we will be exploring the possible CLI options for the same.