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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Everpure FlashArray

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AEverpure (formerly Pure Storage) offers all-flash array data storage promising affordability, high availability, and consistent performance.N/A

    Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)

    Score6.1 out of 10
    N/ARed Hat Virtualization (formerly Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, broadly known as RHEV) is an enterprise level server and desktop virtualization solution. Red Hat Virtualization also contains the functionality of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktop in later editions of the platform.

    $999

    Per Year Per Hypervisor

    Pricing
    Everpure FlashArrayRed Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
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    Standard
    $999.00
    Per Year Per Hypervisor
    Premium
    $1,499.00
    Per Year Per Hypervisor
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Everpure FlashArrayRed Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Everpure FlashArrayRed Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    Everpure
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    13 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    12 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    13 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
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    Features
    Everpure FlashArrayRed Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    Enterprise Flash Array Storage
    Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of Everpure FlashArray and Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    Feature
    Everpure FlashArray
    8.2
    155 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Flash Array Performance8.0155 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flash Array Integration10.0145 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Compression6.0154 Ratings00 Ratings
    Non-Intrusive Upgrades8.0149 Ratings00 Ratings
    Simplicity10.0155 Ratings00 Ratings
    Power Savings7.0132 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server Virtualization
    Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Everpure FlashArray and Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    Feature
    Everpure FlashArray
    -
    Ratings
    Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    7.7
    10 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Virtual machine automated provisioning00 Ratings7.910 Ratings
    Management console00 Ratings7.310 Ratings
    Live virtual machine backup00 Ratings7.29 Ratings
    Live virtual machine migration00 Ratings6.910 Ratings
    Hypervisor-level security00 Ratings8.99 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Everpure FlashArrayRed Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (208 ratings)
    6.6
    (11 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (25 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (17 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.8
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.3
    (75 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Everpure FlashArrayRed Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Everpure
    When you need speed, it's FAST, especially for MS SQL databases. If you are having bottlenecks, you can spend your time finding it in the code because it's not Pure Storage. Love the data reduction and duplication. We can store so much more on this unit than the base physical size. Love the data snapshots. When you need to complete copy your entire environment for testing etc. Nothing is easier, a few clicks and you are done. Extremely helpful for testing and training.
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    RHEV is well suited for organizations that need a cost-effective and flexible solution for their environment. As its vendor-independent software, easily install on any type of hardware. RHEV provides a GUI interface to manage the software, which makes the management of the software easier for the end-user. RHEV is best for non-production or less critical applications. RHEV can be easily integrated with other REDHAT software.
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    Pros
    Everpure
    • The Pure Array does data reduction particularly well. We've seen a 7x reduction on some of our volumes.
    • It is easy to get used to the system after coming from other storage arrays.
    • It has some welcome additions such as a smartphone app that makes it easier to view your cases, etc.
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    • RHV issues/bugs can be reported via Bugzilla to RH support. The service is great and typically responds soon.
    • Red Hat distribution integration is seamless as it is integrated into the kernel.
    • OpenStack support enables more customized VM templates and network configuration control.
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    Cons
    Everpure
    • Reporting is too general. Being a tech nerd, I want to be able to see the nitty-gritty details. I also need to be able to define canned sets of reports for problem application systems.
    • Pricing is a bit higher then some of their direct competitors .
    • Seriously, I have nothing else.
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    Discontinued Products
    • 1- RHVM API is pretty slow, especially after creating a VM it is not possible to retrieve the VM details (i.e VM's MAC Address) fast enough, where we need to place a pause in our Ansible Playbook, make the automation process slow.
    • 2- RHV is still using collected to monitor the hypervisors which is deviating from Red Hat policy for other RHEL based applications to use PCP to monitor, which is richer in features.
    • 3- It will be great if it is possible to patch the hypervisors using other tools such as satellite and not only via RHVM.
    • 4- In the past Red Hat used to present patches in the z release (i.e. 4.3.z), and features in the y release (i.e 4. y), but starting from 4.4 that is mixed together wherein the Z release you get both patches and features, that is not good because that requires a lot of time to test when we patch as it includes features as well.
    • 5- Engineering team has to be more reactive when new feature is requested.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Everpure
    It has so far been a very fast and stable product. We have had wonderful support when we have needed it and the account manager and engineer attached to our organization have been very responsive with any questions and concerns we have had.
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    Usability
    Everpure
    From the day our first array was put in (2017) we have had very little issues using it the way we wanted to and none of the setup or processes we incorporate this into have ever been complex. All of the interfaces in the GUI are very intuitive and do not require any CLI experience to do what we need it to do.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Everpure
    We have never had an outage with Purestorage. Yes we have had 2 drives go out but replacements were installed so fast there wasn't any issues. We have had a NVRAM module replaced but were noticed from Pure they were sending a replacement because they were predicting a failure so pure was proactive preventing any issues. Knowing Pure is monitoring our device 24x7 gives us peace of mind.
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    Performance
    Everpure
    The corporation has a very diverse data load and when we migrate from a hybrid storage to pure all-flash, significant gains have already been observed. Latency always remains below 1 ms regardless of the load and volumetry used. Application performance also depends heavily on whether or not the code is more permormatic and network access infrastructure. The product has been meeting expectations
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    Support Rating
    Everpure
    Pure Support is timely and communicative. They are always ready to assist and very skilled at what they do, no matter the time of day. Even at 12:10 a.m. on New Years Day when your array has a hiccup that causes some errors in your environment, they will be on the phone with you in an instant. If they are unable to determine the cause right away, because things appear to be normal, they will take your environment's configuration, lab it up in their support environment and then research until they figure out what caused the problem. Even if it takes 3 months. True story.
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    In-Person Training
    Everpure
    Excellent training and really you don't need that much. We received training at the Pure offices and also on site when the product was installed. 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.
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    Online Training
    Everpure
    Great videos and documentation. There is a common theme with PureStorage, "Keep it elegantly simple". They have great support network and great support user groups. Documentation has been very helpful with providing auditors with methods and procedures on security and other ways the product works. Great documentation on setting PureStorage to be the most effective with VM's, SQL Server, and other products.
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    Implementation Rating
    Everpure
    The install was very quick. The engineer that Pure sent said that if we started by 10 am we would be done by lunchtime, and he was not kidding.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Everpure
    Pure Storage FlashArray came up as being the most cost-effective of the lot plus the extras added like call-home support were very welcome. The competitors' options were a lot more expensive and the call-home support added a lot more to the already high costs.
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    RHEV is an excellent product, includes more features, is less expensive, and has rock solid reliability and is backed with the best Red Hat Support in the industry. RHEV uses KVM under the hood which is used by all the big players in the industry (AWS, Rackspace, etc) to lower their overall costs and improve efficiency and profits and that's why RHEV is an excellent solution!
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    Scalability
    Everpure
    The product suite scales well and the FA in particular can service any need for all but the most demanding file protocol environments
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    Return on Investment
    Everpure
    • Thanks to the deduplication that is built into the product we are seeing great reduction in total space required by consolidating similar data types on the same array.
    • Our users are very pleased with the performance.
    • The replication allowed us to move our workload from to another data center with minimal downtime.
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    • RHEV has provided a positive ROI as our customers are not experiencing as many outages during maintenances.
    • We have not experienced any catastrophic failures as a result of vsphere losing connection to the ntp.
    • There has been a level of stability in our environment that was not previously experienced with our previous vendor.
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