Pure Storage FlashArray Reviews

[Pure Storage FlashArray is] used across the whole environment for both block and file storage

[There is a] lot less to manage. Not lots of "nerd knobs" so very little customization needed. Luckily it performs well in almost all situations.

Support. Hands down the best I've encountered in the industry.
Evergreen. Getting a new controller ever 3 years is much better than a forklift upgrade.

We use Pure Storage FlashArray as our Tier 1 storage platform across our entire organization. We have been using it since 2015 and it has worked out great so far. We don't have to deal with disk slowness complaints from our DBA's anymore.

The benefits of using it as our Tier 1 storage have been ease of use, speed, uptime, and confidence in the product and company.

Pure's data reduction is very good - so we are able to attain 3 to 4 times data reduction on a lot of workloads. We also see less than 1 ms latency across all of our arrays as well, so the performance is top-notch.

Pure Storage is used by the entire organization to host Microsoft SQL Server 2019 database as well as hosting multiple VM's. Pure Storage is extremely efficient for fast database OTLP & OLAP processing. Data duplication allows us to host many copies of the database and duplicate VM's for production, testing and development. Pure Storage has completely changed and improved our entire development. Things that used to take hours and days have turned into seconds and minutes.

It's hard to really explain simplicity of use other than it just works. We are not having to waste time fiddling around with settings and dealing with performance issues.
Upgrades are beyond easy. Pure Storage does all the testing prep work and upgrade. Our upgrade went as follows: Beginning of the day - Pure Storage is upgrading the array today during a busy production day. End of the day - Pure Storage is done. Zero downtime or performance issues.

Snapping our environment for development and testing has changed everything. Within seconds we can snap and present a full copy of the environment. Development and testing have increased 10 fold.

We are using Pure Storage in our organisation to provide datastores in our production VMware vSphere environment and have found it to be a great replacement for the EMC XtremIO that we previously had. The data reduction is brilliant. The ease of use, clear dashboards, online analytics, and smartphone app are all great additions.

Our biggest benefit, coming from a mix of flash and hybrid arrays has been that of performance. However, we have also been able to impress our sustainability groups with the amount of power we have saved and cost savings we have made.

Cost saving is particularly important to us as we are a charity organisation and every penny we can save means another penny going towards life-saving cancer research.

The most useful features of the array, if you can call it that, is the additional Pure1 website. This along with the app allows me to check on my arrays' performance, capacity, etc. from wherever I am. It's also a single pane of glass for support, alerts, etc., so makes everything very easy to find.

Pure Storage FlashArray is being used in UAT and Production environment. Pure Storage FlashArray is used within the cloud operation department to support the production application. The decision to move from a non-Flash array to Flash array has predominantly resolved several performance-related and latency-related issues within the application and improved the business goals.

There are several benefits that our organization has seen post implementing the Pure Storage FlashArray solution. The SQL licensing saving is one of the major benefits that we have seen. The time that it was taking to load the application has drastically improved because of the all-flash array running behind the VM's.

The replication part is one of the win-win situations for our organization. We have noticed the difference in our Disaster recovery exercise compared with the old storage replication technology that we had in place compared with the Pure Storage FlashArray. We have the pure replication set for every 5 minutes for all the Prod protection groups and since pure has very good compression and de-duplication, only the difference gets replicated and thus we were able to achieve our RPO just by losing very few seconds of data. Due to its solid performance, the VM's gets restarted in less than a few seconds compared to a minute plus earlier. there is a tremendous difference that we noticed during the Disk migration between the old technology v/s Pure and it's almost 90 times faster !!!

Pure Storage FlashArray is used by my department to support various customers. FlashArray helps my organization to resolve problems that our legacy storage lack in terms of IOPS, hardware issues, manageability, and performance.

Pure Storage FlashArray GUI is very user friendly which helped us transition from old storage to Pure without any challenge. It helped us achieve high IOPS as per customer requirements with accepted latency. Pure Storage integration with VMware also helped us configure SRM and protect VMs on DR site.

Pure Storage FlashArray IOPS and data reduction feature is quite impressive. Also integration with VMware to provide SRM replication to DR site.

We use Pure Storage FlashArray across the whole organization. It is our primary enterprise storage for general purposes from database to virtualization data. So far we have had an excellent return of investment with high performance and low latency. Pre-sales and after-sales support have been very positive.

We were using mechanical disk storage in a tier 3 environment, but data growth led to a gradual drop in performance. Pure Storage FlashArray's solution of NVMe flash module storage was a big step towards improving our applications and supporting the environment in the short and medium term. It was certainly a good solution for our facilities. The simplicity of use and performance demonstrated so far has been very satisfactory.

NVMe technology, data reduction features, deduplication and compression, ensuring encrypted data combined with security and performance are essential features in corporate environments. Last but not least, the ease and speed of performing snapshot operations with minimal additional storage footprint is useful.

Our Pure Storage FlashArray is currently being used as our main storage backend for VMWare. The virtual machines hosted on these systems support the entire company.

Speed, speed, speed! Backups, migrations, and database queries all run so much faster. With the excellent deduplication features, we can spin up copies of databases or VMs without worrying about the initial storage hit.

Ease of use has been most useful. The GUI is extremely well designed. The CLI is there when needed, but everything we've needed to do can be done through the GUI. If you really want to, there is an API as well.

Pure Storage is used to provide storage as a service (STaaS) to our cloud and managed services customers. Pure is also leveraged in infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for our virtualized environments to provide customers with dedicated compute and storage. In today's world where rapid response is required, ease of management, availability, low latency, and high throughput are key metrics for a business. Pure Storage enables us to meet these tight SLAs.

Refer to my previous comments.

We are using Pure Storage FlashArray for the entire organization to replicate to identical array in our co-lo site. This array is blazing fast and it solved I/O and latency issues we had with our databases. Our VMs are lightning quick on the array making any storage migrations a breeze. Management of the array is also very simple and easy to use. Overall this is a great product!

The array is super simple to use. We rarely need to login to manage the array. The speed is also absolutely incredible! This is a very fast array and we don't even have the NVMe model yet. And, we will not be required to do an array upgrade ever again with the Evergreen model, which is nice.

The most useful thing for us is how simple it is to navigate the UI and make configurations. This allows for any user to be able to get up to speed and start working with the array with very minimal effort. They really don't lie when they say that it is built from the ground up with customer experience in mind. Everything simply makes sense and does not force you to constantly reference manuals and guides.

We have 3 Pure arrays that are used across the whole organization. We run a VDI environment on it and lots of SQL that benefits from the all flash array. We have an array for development, production, and DR. Using the arrays in these 3 environments ensures that we do not have to sacrifice performance.

we have great speeds from a highly utilized san. Our DBAs enjoy crazy fast database performance.

PureOne is the best feature. you can track usage, performance, and plan future upgrades.

Pure Storage is our Tier 1 storage platform for all servers and services hosted in our datacenter. That's dozens of applications, big and small, in a diverse technical environment with lots of different workloads. The workloads on Pure Storage arrays are 99% virtualized. While it was originally brought in to host our largest workloads that require the highest performing IO, it quickly became the standard for storage performance. Any system engineer will tell you that storage performance issues are a pain, and with shared storage, are not easy to manage. Pure Storage has made storage performance issues a thing of the past and high performing storage is the new normal.

We have benefited from many aspects of Pure Storage. Performance is our number one benefit. Our one array will support up to 100k IOPS and I think more when we upgrade. The performance combined with the ease of use has made the overall administration costs of supporting enterprise storage very low; freeing us up to do other things than troubleshoot storage issues.

All-flash storage is a complete shift from traditional spinning-drive arrays. The performance difference is like night and day. The simple administration and effective use of capacity with deduplication and compression have allowed us to make the most out of our array and stretch our dollars. The FlashArray comes fully loaded with APIs for every function, which makes us excited to see how future products integrate with it.

We started with a Pure FlashArray back in 2014 for our VDI deployment. This was the beginning of a great relationship with Pure and the products they provide. We have since migrated from our original F420, to M20, to currently using X50's at both our production and secondary site locations. Through the years, working with the FA has been a pleasure compared to 95% of our other hardware administration. It's simple to use and easy to maintain. Upgrades have always been flawless with no disruption to the production environment.
Our Pure Storage account team and support have always been there, pre-preemptively on the most part, with support and suggestions on how to best get the most bang for our buck out of our arrays.
We are currently looking into migrating our file-level storage to Pure's FlashBlade technology. With that, we will have a single pane window into our storage environment, thereby easing the administration process even further. I would highly recommend the Pure FlashArray to any company looking to refresh their storage environment and move forward with a company that is bringing storage management into the future. Evergreen helps to know that you will always be moving to a more current platform every three years easily on the budgeting and management fronts.
Do yourself a favor...go PURE!

The simplicity of administration, installation, upgrades...this has been a life-changer for my team. The proactive support calls to say they want to replace a drive, as it shows that it might fail in the near future. My management loves this support model.

The compression and deduplication provided by Purity are top-notch! It has allowed us to maximize our storage and minimize our footprint at our data centers. Incredible!

We use the Pure Storage SAN as our primary storage for our entire infrastructure across the whole organisation.

Storage is easier to increase; it's easier to deploy new servers, backups run quicker and VMs deploy quicker.

Dedupe, compression, speed and evergreen refresh

On Cloud, a Mexican based cloud service provider, Pure Storage, is one of our secrets to improve our SLA and user performance. The heterogeneous environment that we have is well supported by FlashArray, helping us to deliver any kind of application.

The heterogeneous environment that we have is the best example of the adaptability of the FlashArray because we have many types of apps.

We are a Cloud Service Provider and we have Pure Storage for our virtual machines. Pure works very fast and improve the storage volumes with its greate compression and deduplication.
Pure works very well with VMware Hypervisor.

Speed, Performance, simplicity, power saving, money-saving.

Deduplication, we can use at least 3:1 deduplication ratio.

Pure Storage FlashArray (Pure) has been a very stable and excellent product for the last 18 months and all the latency issues that we had experienced in the past with other storage arrays disappeared after we started using Pure. Pure has a rock-solid support team who address issues before they become critical.

We always had 100% uptime and the array was performing at its best without having any issues related to either IOSP, bandwidth, latency, etc. We also gained a positive result when we performed the disaster recovery exercise where the RTO and the RPO were impressive, which wasn't the case with our old storage.

First and foremost, implementing and setting up the hardware in the data center is a seamless job. Creating the LUN, adding the LUN under the protection group for the data replication is something that is most useful and appealing. Monitoring the Pure Storage FlashArray through the mobile app is very impressive as you can look for the basic status without being in front of a computer.

We use the Pure Storage FlashArray as our main storage system for all of our Hyper-V Virtual Machines (around 150 on 4 different hosts) and we use it across the county in multiple locations.

Moving to an all-flash array has meant that ALL of our systems performance has increased, plus the system is VERY easy to use and manage and having Pure do all support remotely is an added bonus that ensures the systems is running optimally at all times.

All flash array and 24-7 call-home support, really, I can't empathize how good this is because it practically means this system's support is basically handled by Pure themselves which know the system inside [and] out.

Pure Storage is used in all of our data centers across the Pacific Northwest, including in our Candian operations as well. Since moving from traditional RAID, disk-based arrays (EMC, HP/LeftHand) we have left behind the 'old ways' of storage implementations. Implementation, provisioning, and management of storage with Array has been greatly simplified. We have undergone multiple Array upgrades from one model to the next, non-disruptively, 100% as advertised. We have even seen the new controllers upon renewal of support at the end of year 3, as well. Support costs remained relatively stable and predictable based on capacity and since moving to Pure we have not had to migrate all our data to a new SAN because it was cheaper to buy a new array than to continue support on the existing. All of these benefits have revolutionized our data center management strategy, all the while giving us amazing performance for our virtual workloads.

We originally started using Pure Storage FlashArray for our VDI workload. We have subsequently expanded usage to include general virtualization workloads. This has been a perfect storage platform for fast disk with data that can be deduplicated and compressed. In our VDI environment, we are seeing better than 7:1 data reduction, and for our other use cases we are seeing 5:1 or better.

Much simpler to configure and manage than traditional storage arrays. Because of this, it requires much less training and much less daily care than traditional arrays. In addition, we've gotten better visibility into our workload. Built-in snapshot replication has also improved how we handle some of our backup and off-site DR requirements.

The Pure1 management portal for a great view into multiple arrays - performance, status, capacity planning, etc. Simple management interface. Outstanding support both from the local sales team and SE as well as from back-end support staff during upgrades, issues, etc. Great data reduction with minimal to no impact on performance.

We are currently using this product to support one of our vmware clusters. We are utilizing the High availability features for a specific product.

Our Pure Storage array is used as our primary SAN for our virtualized environment. As the primary SAN, it serves all end-user and IT workloads. When designing the system we sought a solution that would provide plenty of performance and robust uptime. The Pure Storage array fits that description perfectly.

Aside from the raw performance, the biggest benefits have been Pure Storage FlashArray's reliability, and ease of use. I go months in between logging into the interface to check on the device. We did an online controller upgrade to switch platforms all completely seamless with no downtime. The array has been running for 3 years without a single issue.

It's hard to pick a single feature. Pure Storage FlashArray does a great job on all the features we've used. There are other features that are available that we haven't had a chance to test/use yet but I have no doubt they'd work exactly as advertised.

We purchased Pure Storage FlashArray's to replace aging Dell Equallogic SANs that were going end of support. We had had the Dell SANs for over 10 years and our replacement cycle for our Storage is a long term investment. We were looking to go all flash to get ahead of the technlogy and in the end did not even consider a hybrid solution due to the performance increases we obtained when doing a proof of concept with Pure. We deploy Pure FlashArrays and FlashBlades in all of our datacenters located across the city.

We have seen our maintenance patch nights go from 4-5 hours to only about 2 hours since the VM's are so much faster applying windows patches and rebooting

SPEED

We use Pure as our primary storage array. This has been an outstanding investment and the performance has been a huge improvement. The box has done everything we asked it to do! We are nearly out of storage capacity on our EMC and when we saw Pure as an option we jumped at the opportunity.

We run a sizable load on it and have seen no performance issues and no uptime issues. This array has been a godsend and checks all the boxes for speed and data reduction, and it is beyond simple to set up. The tech that came onsite was here less than 2 hours to get it online.

The first has to be simplicity. It could not be easier to set up and it is easy to use going forward from there. Second would be speed. This storage array is the fastest we have ever used and we have had some big names come to the table, including Net App and Dell EMC.

We use Pure Storage FlashArray with integration in OpenStack with our private cloud. We also have the boxes connected directly to the physical servers, and in turn, by VMware and Xen. We have no commercial problems.

In our case, pure storage arrangements with Openstack is the best we saw since it integrates efficiently with our private cloud