Overview
What is Pure Storage FlashArray?
Pure Storage in Mountain View, California offers all-flash array data storage promising affordability, high availability, and consistent performance.
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Pure offers the best-in-class all-flash storage array with ease of uses and hands off management that you need
Pure Storage FlashArray's are a great addtion to any environment.
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Popular Features
- Flash Array Performance (154)10.0100%
- Simplicity (154)10.0100%
- Non-Intrusive Upgrades (148)10.0100%
- Data Compression (153)8.080%
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Product Demos
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Features
Enterprise Flash Array Storage
All-flash array storage is a solid state, high performance storage option.
- 10Flash Array Performance(154) Ratings
Solid state flash arrays offer high speed compared to hard-disk drives
- 9Flash Array Integration(144) Ratings
Integration with hypervisors and applications
- 8Data Compression(153) Ratings
Flash Arrays include compression and deduplication features to reduce storage requirements
- 10Non-Intrusive Upgrades(148) Ratings
Software upgrades are often seamless with no performance tuning required
- 10Simplicity(154) Ratings
Flash arrays should be simple to use and require little training
- 9Power Savings(131) Ratings
Flash arrays use significantly less power than hard-disk drives
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What is Pure Storage FlashArray?
Current available models include:
- FlashArray//XL - Can be used to run everything from massive databases to cloud-native applications with faster transactions and more responsive customer experiences with enterprise availability and disaster protection. FlashArray//XL is designed to give businesses the freedom to innovate without storage as a constraint.
- FlashArray//X - Unified block and file storage designed to be easy to use but also powerful. Used to accelerate everything from Tier 1 databases to large-scale virtualized and cloud-native apps, with a non-disruptive upgrade path.
- FlashArray//C - Designed to provide a home to business-critical workloads and data, with 99.9999% availability, non-disruptive upgrades, and consistent single-millisecond latency.
- FlashArray//E - Designed to deliver simplicity and efficiency of flash for all file and block data repositories, from content libraries to backup sets to active archives. Released in June of 2023, FlashArray//E are offered to expand customers’ options to tackle data growth down to 1PB without the need for frustrating offline archives or expanding expensive disk systems.
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- Business Problems Solved
Pure Storage FlashArray has been widely used across various industries and organizations to address a multitude of storage needs. Users have experienced a significant increase in speed and improved data handling by replacing their existing storage with Pure Storage FlashArray. With its high-speed, reliable block storage capabilities, the array has been effective in supporting performance-sensitive workloads and unifying different storage technologies and manufacturers. Organizations have utilized Pure Storage FlashArray to house virtual infrastructure environments, resulting in great compression rates and easy setup of replications. It has also served as a primary SAN for virtualized environments, improving performance and supporting various departments. Furthermore, the array has proven effective in handling batch job performance, reducing job times from hours to minutes and increasing overall productivity. In addition, by running mission-critical applications on Pure Storage FlashArray, users have experienced noticeable performance increases. The array's ability to handle thousands of VMs while providing primary storage and data protection through replication has made it a valuable asset in large-scale environments. Pure Storage FlashArray has also been deployed across multiple data centers to address performance, capacity, and data security needs. Its simplicity of administration, patching, and upgrading processes has earned user satisfaction. Overall, Pure Storage FlashArray has addressed crucial storage challenges for organizations by providing high-speed storage, easy management, scalability, and improved performance for a wide range of workloads.
Attribute Ratings
- 9.1Likelihood to Renew25 ratings
- 9.1Availability5 ratings
- 8.8Performance5 ratings
- 9.1Usability16 ratings
- 9.3Support Rating75 ratings
- 9.1Online Training1 rating
- 8.8In-Person Training3 ratings
- 9.1Implementation Rating6 ratings
- 9.1Configurability2 ratings
- 9.1Product Scalability4 ratings
- 9.1Ease of integration3 ratings
- 9.1Vendor pre-sale5 ratings
- 9.1Vendor post-sale5 ratings
Reviews
(1-4 of 4)My Pure Storage Experience
- Data compression and data duplication.
- FAST FAST FAST and reliable It just works!
- Customer support is #1. We have never had a vendor better than Pure Storage.
- EASY EASY EASY It just works! Stupid simple and easy to configure and manage.
- Love to see the price come down. We want more units for data replication.
- More details on the mobile app.
- More support for Hyper-V.
- Flash Array Performance
- 100%10.0
- Flash Array Integration
- 100%10.0
- Data Compression
- 100%10.0
- Non-Intrusive Upgrades
- 100%10.0
- Simplicity
- 100%10.0
- Power Savings
- 80%8.0
- [Pure Storage has turned] days and hours into seconds and minutes. We are dramatically more productive from development to servicing our clients.
- Consistent costs.
- No down time for upgrades and maintenance.
Pure Storage was easy of use, had reliability, evergreen, and we got much more in productivity than we could even imagine at the time.
- Storage size increase and speed with SAS to NVME
- Even more performance from /M to /X series
- Even more speed
- Reliablity
- Speed
- Easy of use
- Easy to create test environments for developers.
- Cloud replication
No more spin drives
More speed
More reliably
No more big "upgrade" cycles and down times
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
Data reduction and compression have been much higher than we expected.
Snapshot feature and the ability to mount snapshots in seconds has changed the way we develop and increased the speed our product development.
Simple simple simple. We have time to deal with other IT issues and never worry about storage.
- Implemented in-house
- None once we had experienced support doing a firmware upgrade, we never worried again about any updates and upgrades.
- Online training
- in-person training
- no training
Simple things like how to login to the GUI interface, how to setup users, how to create volume and mount it. How to make a snapshot, how to copy it and mount it.
Really is pretty self explanatory on how to do things with the GUI interface.
We were expecting complicated base on other vendor products, we got super simple.
- Creating volumes
- Mounting and organizing volumes
- Taking snapshots, mounting them and using them.
- Swapping drives
- Upgrading the firmware - Pure does it and reviews any potential issues
- Maintenance basically none
- None so far
- Veeam
- Cohesity
Pure Storage FlashArray.. Its time to get on board
- Speed and response time.
- Ease of management and Powershell support.
- Replication, Pure Snap independence and offloading are very useful.
- Add better support for file protocols to directly access the array.
- Flash Array Performance
- 100%10.0
- Flash Array Integration
- 100%10.0
- Data Compression
- 100%10.0
- Non-Intrusive Upgrades
- 100%10.0
- Simplicity
- 100%10.0
- Power Savings
- 100%10.0
- It was massively cheaper than the old guard, EMC, HP, IBM. And has performed as well if not better than their much more expensive products.
- IBM XIV, HPE EVA P6000 (Discontinued), HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage, Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage, IBM FlashSystem and XtremIO Flash Storage
- Security Improvements
- Purity Enhancements - File Protocol Addition
- Continuous Replication Technology and Unified Block and File Capabilities.
- VDI
- High Performance Virtualization
- Ease of Snapshots
- Ability to offload standalone snapshots to cheaper storage
- They recently introduced file protocol access to the FlashArray; So some potential NAS replacement opportunities now exist.
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- in-person training
Disk replacements are rare, but when necessary they happen within hours on the same day.
They have proactively alerted me to SFP issues on the array that I hadn't noticed myself and we swapped the optic out the same day.
- Snapshots - Protection Grouping, Offloading (optional), and rollback to snapshots is a breeze. They are each fully independent and recoverable. No chain to break or worry about. Also no need to use external software to quiesce the volume prior to snap creation.
- Code upgrades - just schedule in Pure1 portal; complete pre-checks sign off, open remote assist connection to Pure and let them do the upgrade at the scheduled time.
- Replication - Volume and Snapshot/Protection Group Replication over Ethernet to other Pure FlashArray's is simple and works without the complexity of FCoE routing.
- Volume Creation and Host Path validation is easily confirmed via the port maps
- nothing
One of the only vendors whose claims of hidden magical knowledge have stood the test of time!
- Speed. It is fast, really fast. I'm not sure where Pure gets their magical go faster pixie dust, but it is the good stuff.
- Reliable. No problems and that is amazing.
- We are booting 400 render nodes off of 4 of the smaller FlashArrays and the deduplication is nothing short of magical.
- The UI can be confusing, but the CLI more than makes up for it.
- I would love to see more statistics, graphs help prove to users that their gut instinct about where the problem is, is wrong.
- Flash Array Performance
- 100%10.0
- Flash Array Integration
- 100%10.0
- Data Compression
- 100%10.0
- Non-Intrusive Upgrades
- 100%10.0
- Simplicity
- 90%9.0
- Power Savings
- 100%10.0
- It has simplified imaging.
- It has improved VM reliability and performance.
- We boot all of our virtual desktops directly from Pure FlashArray and it makes it trivial to roll out new operating system versions.
- Our new kubernetes cluster uses the Pure Service Orchestrator to provide persistent volumes for containers.
Why we switched to Pure
- Ease of management - both the local administration and PureOne dashboard allow us to monitor systems as well as provide life-cycle management.
- Storage efficiency - the de-dupe and compression ratios are fantastic. We can provide our customers better cost to usage ratios.
- Service and support - online upgrades for both software and hardware means no downtime for the customers.
- Evergreen controllers - upgrades to the latest hardware as part of the service contract means we don't have any more data lifts when upgrading to the new system.
- Ease of configuration and integration with our hypervisor providers - just another way not to spend all our time managing storage.
- Cost is still a little high, increasing storage is pricey but things are getting better. Aside from cost though, the new features released and the fact there are no extra costs for any of these features can make up for the overall price.
- Flash Array Performance
- 100%10.0
- Flash Array Integration
- 100%10.0
- Data Compression
- 90%9.0
- Non-Intrusive Upgrades
- 100%10.0
- Simplicity
- 90%9.0
- Power Savings
- 100%10.0
- Return on investment has been great, lowering management costs and providing greater storage efficiencies.
- System reliability is awesome. We have several FlashArrays and very few hardware failures; something like 4 drives in 4 years, and no controller issues.
- No negative impacts with these systems for us at all.
- Databases - mainly SQL
- VDI environments
- General virtualization - both VMware and Hyper-V
- We are examining disk to disk to cloud backups.
- Clustering arrays for business continuity and performance balancing
- Hybrid computing - moving between cloud providers and local virtualization
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Vendor Reputation
- Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
- Implemented in-house
- Poorly configured virtual machines
- Limited networking - environment required more addresses for implementation
- no training
- Network configuration
- Volume allocation and configuration
- Support requests.
- None so far.
- Greater ease of operation
- Better monitoring and reporting
- Increased storage efficiencies
- new features
- increased storage efficiencies
- More integration with cloud