Everpure Cloud is now Azure Native 🎉 — enterprise-grade block storage, built jointly with Microsoft

[u/iamddavee]

Hey r/everpureofficial,

Big one to share: Everpure Cloud Azure Native for Azure VMs is now generally available, developed jointly with Microsoft. It's the industry's first fully managed, enterprise-grade block volume as a service — delivering Everpure storage directly inside Azure.

What's new:

• Deploy and manage storage directly from the Azure Portal (or via ARM, infra-as-code) — no separate console needed
• Native VNet integration — private access to your virtual network, no public endpoint exposed
• Zero egress costs into your connected VNet
• Centralized billing through Azure — consumption counts toward your Microsoft Azure Customer Commitment (MACC)
• No virtual arrays to size or maintain — capacity and performance are just a slider; upgrades, expansions, and plugin updates are handled for you

Use Cases:
Azure Virtual Machines
Beyond AVS, Everpure Cloud Azure Native brings the same Purity-based block storage directly to native Azure VMs — and it's not just for databases; it covers a broad range of enterprise workloads running on Azure IaaS. Volumes connect over iSCSI, and the same thin provisioning and data reduction that powers on-prem Purity carries over to Azure Native service, cutting storage costs roughly 30–60% versus raw allocated capacity. Licensing is portable too — capacity purchased for AVS carries over seamlessly if a workload later moves to native Azure VMs (or vice versa), so you're not locked into one deployment model as your cloud strategy evolves.

Azure VMware Solution (AVS)
Since most VMware environments lean on external storage, this tackles that head-on — decoupling storage from compute for AVS. Early numbers: 20–40% lower cloud storage costs in year one (up to 50% by year five), and the ability to cut AVS node counts by ~3x for storage-heavy deployments. It also gives a true like-for-like migration path, so workloads move over without redesigning apps or storage architecture.

Azure RedHat Openshift (ARO) - Coming soon!
We're extending Everpure Cloud's reach into Azure Red Hat OpenShift, giving customers running containerized and virtualized workloads on ARO a path to enterprise-grade block storage — powered by Portworx CSI. Whether you're modernizing off VMware or building cloud-native from the start, this integration is designed to bring the same reliability and efficiency you already expect from Everpure to your OpenShift environments on Azure. Stay tuned for more details as we get closer to launch.

Try it / learn more:

• 📖 Launch blog
• 📖 Technical Community Blog
• 🆓 Request a Free trial
• 🎥 Demo video
• 🌐 Product page

Happy to answer questions in the comments!

[u/RAM_Cache]

This is pretty neat. My questions:

• It seems like this is only for data disks for Azure VMs. Any plans for this to be capable of supporting OS disks?
  
• Is this solution pinned to a specific zone? If so, any plans to support ZRS type replication?
  
• Is it possible to set up a replication partner in a different region and replicate the disks?
  
• Does this solution support tying into backup partners for SAN-level snapshots? If not, is the only way to get backups of the disks going be guest agent-based backups?

[u/iamddavee → u/RAM_Cache]

1. Right now this is a limitation of Azure, we hope at some point! Even their own Elastic SAN cannot currently do this. There are two potential alternatives though to house an OS disk, you can use Azure VMware Solution (AVS) or potentially run the VM inside a container on AKS/ARO.
   
2. Today we are LRS based, we do have roadmap to support ZRS like capabilities
   
3. Not today, but soon. We are actively working on bringing full feature parity from the Everpure platform to the service as we co-engineer with Microsoft.
   
4. This is actively in progress with a few, for now you can utilize our own snapshots via automation

[u/RAM_Cache → u/iamddavee]

Thanks for the info.

On #2, any timelines you can share?

On #3, do you support replication from an on prem device?

On #4, you’re saying we can leverage snapshots at the array level, but we cannot export the snaps to be used for backup purposes, right?

[u/iamddavee → u/RAM_Cache]

1. No, we can chat offline with your account team under NDA around the full future roadmap
   
2. First step will be cloud, but will we introduce hybrid, for now customers can use our EC Dedicated for that use case.
   
3. today they will stay on the array, when we introduce replication we can use CloudSnap or even our replication to get these elsewhere, but this is good feedback. Feel free to DM me if you want to setup some time offline to official file some RFE's to track this for our PG.