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Pure Storage in Mountain View, California offers all-flash array data storage promising affordability, high availability, and consistent performance.https://dudodiprj2sv7.cloudfront.net/product-logos/3J/9l/6DTEESOELA5I.JPEGPure StorageThe little array that could2018-11-30T23:39:08.505ZWe have 5 FlashArrays, shared in a 5 organization multi-tenant environment. Two are for file servers, two are general purpose, and one is for Oracle and SQL databases. These were purchased over a two year period, to replace aging monolithic SAN arrays. They resolved all of our storage bandwidth bottlenecks and capacity issues.,They are excellent for virtual environments. The speed and dedupe/compression is extremely valuable.
We have had excellent performance running Oracle and SQL databases on the FlashArray.
The maintenance couldn't be easier. Downtime is virtually non-existent because of the design of the architecture.
With Evergreen, we will receive free controller upgrades with support renewal.,It would be nice to be able to perform storage copies directly between volumes on a FlashArray.
Integration with VMware where you could replicate a volume, then point vms to the new volume.
Bring the price of a disk pack (10 disks) down to a reasonable amount. It's almost the same price to purchase an entire new FlashArray.,10,Very little management after initial setup.
It is quite expensive, so we haven't noticed an ROI on hardware costs, but many less man hours are required to manage the FlashArrays.
The performance provided using a FlashArray over legacy SAN, is probably the biggest ROI we see.,We have absolutely benefited from the simplicity of the FlashArrays. We almost never have to even log in to do anything other than provision Storage. Maintenance is performed by support when we schedule after hours, and we have had virtually no issues with upgrades or hardware problems. The man hours saved has been huge.,If you can, purchase drive packs to fill up what hardware you are purchasing. To purchase disk packs (10 drives) afterwards, if extremely costly, even prohibitively so. A disk pack can cost upwards of 90% of a whole new array with the same amount of space included.,10,,I have replicated from one FlashArray to another at a remote data center. Once the replication was complete, we were able to bring up our virtual environment very quickly.
I have migrated many virtual machines between datastores on an array in minutes, enabling me to use smaller datastores where needed.Toby WenzelPure Storage Flash Array, the Only Storage you will Need!2018-11-23T21:08:29.996ZPure Storage has replaced our entire NetApp Storage Infrastructure. We have used Pure Storage in all of our use case scenarios. VMware, SQL, Oracle, and even file servers. This storage expands across our whole organization and it satisfies all of our previous issues we used to have such as IO issues and also encryption. Pure Storage is encrypted by default at rest and this was a huge benefit for all the audits we go through.,Ease of installation – The Pure system was by far 10x easier to setup/configure and begin to use than our NetApp devices were
Simplicity – The GUI of PureStorage is by far the simplest storage solution I have had to manage in my 10 years of IT. This makes is really simple to create and provision storage to any host.
Better Data Reduction – Compared to our NetApp it uses 4k block sizes, while our Pure implements a variable block size for data reductions, yielding better results. With the combination of deduplication and compression we are currently getting a 4.3 to 1 ratio with our data! This is compared to our NetApp which we were only able to get about 1.5 data reduction ratio since It wasn’t recommended to do both deduplication and compression with the NetApp due to overhead on the controllers. We have provisioned 18 TB of data on our Pure storage and are only using 3.20 TB with the rates were getting with Pure. This is amazing and we are only at 50% disk utilization.
Upgrades – When updating the software with NetApp it is a pain staking process since you have several components to update (Controllers, Hard Drives, RLM, Shelves, etc.). During the upgrades you also have to bring your CPU and disk utilization down to 50% before you can perform the upgrades. This forces us to shut down servers to decrease the utilization. The Pure makes it so simple since the technical support teams schedule the upgrades with us and then do them for us! This requires no shutting down of servers and also we will never lose any performance on the controllers during an upgrade.
Performance – This is the key to the Pure storage since they offer 100,000 IOPS as opposed to our NetApp which was barely getting a maximum of 7,000 IOPS. Also NetApp was unable to retain performance during an upgrade or failure of a drive compared to Pure which retains performance period!
Customer Support – During the times that I have had to call support they have responded and resolved things very quickly compared to NetApp.
Forever Flash – This was a huge sales point and a great advantage to our team since we normally always refresh our systems every 3 to 4 years. The Forever Flash model now makes this process painless to our department.
Security – Pure offers us by default an encrypted “at rest” volume compared to NetApp which has no such feature. This was huge for us to meet certain security requirements for compliance.
Rack Space – This Pure storage solution is a no brainer when it comes to rack space. We will be saving almost a full rack of space once we have fully migrated over to our new M-series which will save us money!
Metrics – Pure has built in to the console analysis metrics that you can obtain quickly to monitor and troubleshoot compared to NetApp which you have to build a separate server to configure and license! It’s a no brainer!,I honestly can't think of anything. I love Pure Storage!,10,SQL Performance is off the charts. No delays like we used to have with NetApp.
Oracle Performance is off the charts. No delays like we used to have with NetApp.
VM Performance is off the charts. No delays like we used to have with NetApp.,The simplicity of the GUI that they have is by far the simplest I have used with any storage vendor. I have used HP, NetApp, Dell, and others and Pure Storage surpasses them all by a long shot.
When it comes to upgrades or maintenance, the Pure Storage team does them for you with NO DOWNTIME! It does not get any easier than that! Just send them an email with the date and time and you can sit back and relax!,The advice I would give is to stop waiting and just get it! Since we moved our storage environment to the FlashArray, not only have we been happy but everyone else who uses our systems and applications has been happy with the huge gain on performance. Another thing that most people do not think about also is rack space. We saved over an entire rack of NetApp storage with only 6Us of Pure Storage!,10,NetApp FAS seriesChris GomezWhy we switched to Pure2018-12-08T15:54:20.740ZWe are a managed service provider, we use FlashArrays for shared storage for our private cloud customers and as dedicated storage for several of our larger customers. We have been steadily replacing all older spinning disk storage systems with FlashArrays. This has allowed us to greatly increase storage efficiencies and provide outstanding storage performance to all our customers.,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.,10,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.,We have benefited greatly, we solve customer problems by moving their data onto FlashArrays. We spend less time maintaining storage systems and investigating performance issues. We don't need storage engineers spend time troubleshooting day to day issues, the admins can handle all the issues that now appear and most of those are file restores and minor system config issues. Engineers can now help customers with more innovative ways of handling their data and moving more customers to our private clouds.,Buy a FlashArray now and start retiring your old SAN and NAS systems.,10,NetApp All Flash FAS, NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays, NetApp FAS series, SolidFire and Violin MemoryTrey PautschPure is fantastic enterprise storage.2018-12-07T22:29:45.127ZWe use Pure FlashArray to run the majority of our VMWare environment. Pure has been an enormous performance upgrade. The web interface is lightning fast and fantastic. The UI is minimal, logical, and easy to figure out. Incidents caused by storage performance/reliability have entirely stopped. One I put a VM on pure, I never hear about it again.,Great web interface.
Extremely fast performance
Excellent vmware documentation and support.,Pure has trouble with delivering hardware fast.
Our first one had a DOA slot and the entire m20 had to be replaced which took longer than it should have
Not particularly compelling as a NAS. Excels mainly at block storage.,10,Our business can very easily estimate how much money we lose for every minute of downtime. Pure helps us eliminate storage as a cause of this.
Fast throughput gives us the ability to move workloads around quickly to adapt to business needs.,It helps us having all our storage in one large pool w/o having to manage groups of disks which is the case in the netapp/3par world. Pure requires no extra management. You only carve out your luns and connect them. You don't worry about the disks or the raid levels or anything.,Don't try to compare iops specs. No reviewer can afford to buy a bunch of expensive enterprise storage systems to do any kind of comparison. I can tell you that my pure m20 is totally limited by the 2x 10gbps fcoe interfaces on the blades we run our VMs on. It totally maxes the capabilities of this interface easily hitting 20gbps. If you want to compare vendors, try to analyse the path forward and what happens when your device is EOL.,10,,We've recently looked into vvols on Pure which will further simplify our environment. Storage native snapshots would be huge.
End users experience more consistent performance on any software running on our Pure storage.Cory SalvesenPure Storage FlashArray quick review2018-12-05T20:22:36.928ZPure Storage hosts all mission-critical databases for the whole corporation. It helps to improve the reliability and performance of our database environment.,The active/active design increase the reliability. If one controller has problem, the other controller is always there to handle the IO. There is NO need to do failover in other active/passive storage which may cause timeout or failure.
Pure Storage has nvram which increase the performance of write IO. The read performance is also good since the Pure Storage always try to avoid the reading and writing on the same block in the flash disk.
The active cluster feature provides the redundancy on the storage array level. So our database cluster not only can tolerant the server failure, it can also tolerant the storage array failure.
The built-in deduplication and compression feature can save lots of storage space.,Pure Storage is block storage using fiber channel or iSCSI. It doesn't have the NAS ability.,10,We have about 5 to 1 data reduction rate since Pure Storage always has Dedup and compression enabled. This means that we can put more data on the storage.,The installation of the FlashArray is less than 3 hours which includes some testing. So it is fairly easy to install. The GUI is also easy to use. You don't need days of training for that.,10,,As a system administrator, Pure Storage makes our routing maintenance works easier. Our end users also enjoy the performance improvement.Robert Chen
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