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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.
- 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.
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.
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.
- Reliability and upgrade process - We have never gone down. Yes, we have replaced drives and controllers but never had any downtime 5+ years straight.
- Easy to use. A few clicks and you HOST and Volumes ready to go. Need to copy your environment, a few clicks and you're done.
- Data compression and duplication.
October 26, 2020
Our FlashArray is being used as primary storage to support the virtualization of both servers and desktops across our local government. It supports dozens of servers with a wide range from Active Directory to databases to applications servers along with some active virtual desktops.
- Incredibly low latency.
- Great throughput, fast transfers.
- Excellent transparent data deduplication.
- Excellent support from pre-sales to setup to post sales followups.
- If I had to pick, orange is an unflattering color on me.
The Pure Storage FlashArray has been rock-solid. The management/monitoring interface is very straight-forward. The performance is a night and day improvement from our old storage, and the best part of all of this is that with the support cost guarantee, I know that we will be saving money over other solutions in a very short period of time.
August 12, 2020
The Pure Storage Flash Array is used for our VDI environment(s), of which we have three. This allows us to have the best performance for VDI, in regards to the storage aspect of it. We are currently using the VDI for mostly non-persistent desktops. We have also used the snapshot and replication features of the array(s) to provide backup from site to site.
- Very simple administration of the array.
- No training necessary.
- Fault tolerance is top notch.
- Pure Storage support monitors array(s) and is very responsive.
- Honestly can't think of anything that I wish the arrays had that they don't.
- Haven't had one problem to complain about.
- Pretty expensive, but you get what you pay for...
We have benefitted by not having any downtime due to the fault tolerance built into the product, as well as the monitoring and responsiveness of Pure support. We have also benefitted by the speed of the array. The dedupe and compression have allowed us to stay well below the capacity limits of the array(s).
The fault tolerance is probably the best feature of the array. We performed upgrades while the VDI environment was running production workloads with no discernible impact on performance. We have created data stores in our VMware environment quickly and easily due to the simple administration of the Pure array(s). Setting up snapshots and replication was pretty straightforward, following the documentation.
Currently, we have been testing the Pure Storage Arrays (M20) for 1 year. These POC's include single array, multisite arrays with async and sync replication, and now we have just completed VMware SRM integrated plugin with Pure Storage. If purchased, this product will be used across certain lines of business across the organization. It will address VMware replication across sites with minimal user intervention.
- Ease of use: The array itself is very user-friendly and does not require lots of training for teams to support it.
- VMware Analytics alerting is not available in Pure1. Analyzing VMware statistics is a manual process. I would like to see the ability to alert based on certain thresholds.
December 02, 2020

Our Pure M10 array supports a corporate vSphere environment, and is the primary storage for approximately 50 virtual machines. The workloads vary from file shares to SQL databases.
- Management is dead simple. Spinning up a new datastore is simple and straightforward.
- Data compression and deduplication are amazing. We're seeing 5-7:1 compression ratios without a performance hit.
- The Evergreen model Pure uses make updates/upgrades easy to do, and requires no downtime.
- Since data reduction is used to achieve more storage than is represented by the raw numbers, I'd like to see this figure more prominently in the user interface. Sometimes it's hard to know if you're making a good choice when you're used to dealing with legacy storage numbers.
The simplicity of the hardware cannot be overstated. The complexity of running this kit is not the end user's problem. It just works. It took a while to get used to the idea of not checking my storage on a regular basis, but it's to the point now where I don't think about it until I'm planning to use additional capacity.
vCenter integration is among the best. I can manage nearly all of the array's features from within vCenter, and if I choose to make changes from the array itself these are immediately reflected in vCenter. Additionally, where spinning disk required multiple datastores in vCenter to maintain IOPS and expected performance levels, I can now create huge datastores and aggregate workloads appropriately.
August 22, 2020

We use it across the company. It addresses speed and performance while encrypting our data. We needed a solution to secure our patient's health information and this was the best solution we were able to find. We also needed a high performing storage system to keep up with our growth of data as our company grew.
- Speed
- Performance
- Encryption
- Ever green controller replacement
- Cost
Simplicity, speed, and dependability. Pure has kept everything simple, even from the time they quoted us on it originally, the quote was only three lines. The simplicity of managing the system and upgrading has been outstanding. The Pure storage system also encrypts data as it's written, which really helps us protect our patient's data and meet compliance requirements.
Speed, performance, simplicity. Data encryption was also a very useful feature for us. Some storage companies charge extra and will nickel and dime you, whereas Pure gives you everything you need right out of the box. They keep everything simple and that makes it a win-win for everyone. We wouldn't even think about switching to another storage vendor.
Pure Storage FlashArray runs the entire infrastructure for one of my clients. It initially replaced Equallogic arrays that did not meet our performance needs. Our database applications average 30k+ IOPS and the old array just wasn't enough.
- Storage performance is outstanding.
- Service has been excellent.
- Ease of use is wonderful.
- Array didn't integrate well with our old v-center and we were not notified about the incompatibility.
- Documentation can be difficult to access.
Ease of management, it just works.
May 22, 2020
Chapman University owns two M20 FlashArrays. One provides primary high-speed storage for our production Oracle ERP database and middleware environments, for our highest-performance-tier VMWare clusters, and for our MS SQLServer-based university data warehouse. The second M20 provides ultra-high-speed shared scratch storage for our primary High-Performance Computing (HPC) computational-research supercomputing cluster. Our entire campus community, faculty, staff, students, researchers, use the resources hosted on these arrays every day. The applications, databases, and research workloads running on these arrays are literally how the university does its work.
- Our FlashArrays have been 100% reliable. In the four-years-plus we have been relying on them, we have not experienced a single moment of unplanned downtime due to these arrays. Their hardware design is solid-state and fault-tolerant, redundant everywhere. This allows zero-downtime upgrades for all of their OS, management, and driver software. We've been through numerous (10+) software upgrades on two arrays and have never experienced any interruption in service or data loss.
- Pure Storage's FlashArray support, phone-home, monitoring, and analytics services through their centralized Pure1 web portal have been head-and-shoulders above every other storage vendor we've worked with. Their tools allow their staff to be expert, professional, confident, and, best of all, proactive. Their platform allows them to know far more about the array than we do, and in real time.
- Our FlashArrays have been blazingly fast. When we copied our production Oracle databases over to the first array for the first time, the databases immediately benchmarked out 2.5 to 3 times faster, with no other changes. Every one of the workloads we migrated to our FlashArrays experienced similar speed increases.
- Compared to legacy hybrid or spinning-disk storage-array administration, managing our FlashArrays is extremely simple. No more external spreadsheets tracking raid categories, LUN sizes, or storage pools built on different underlying types and arrangements of disks. Allocate a volume, give it a name, hook it up to a host or a cluster. Rescan the storage, and start using it.
- Pure's implementation of data reduction/data deduplification has been amazing for us. Absolutely a game-changer. It has allowed our arrays to function like arrays five or even ten times their actual size. It works especially well (really, really, really well) with large database and database-development environments, where dev/test/qa databases are close copies of production databases. You basically get all of the copies for free, storage-wise. Something very similar happens with array storage for VMWare VM's, also. Copies of VM's are basically free.
- In our environment, Pure could provide additional network interconnect technologies. HPC is not that common a market niche, though. Pure could at least test and validate limited compatibility with third-party hardware, even if they then needed to limit their support or warranty if customers chose to implement it.
- Pure provides a lot of API support for building your own integration solutions for things like VMWare administration, container orchestration, and hybrid cloud environments. They do seem to be investing in these technologies, but full-featured, pre-packaged, tested and supported solutions would be a lot better. Most enterprises don't want to build their own automation and integration, they want things to just work, out of the box.
May 22, 2020
The FlashArray is being utilized by our entire organization. We currently have 2 arrays. The first was specifically bought to correct storage performance issues that we were encountering in our VDI environment with a prior storage vendor. We were so impressed with that array that the following year we secured a second array to migrate our entire server workload to.
- Deduplication and compression
- PERFORMANCE!
- Support
- I honestly can't think of anything.
Simplicity of management has greatly reduced the time spent managing our storage. Extremely reliable, we have not had any storage-related outages since implementation 2 years ago. Speed is never a question as all latency remains well under 1ms.
All-inclusive licensing. You don't get hit on individual feature licenses. Any time a new feature is released, it is backported to all supported arrays and there is never any additional charge. Compression and deduplication rates are excellent, which in turn lowers the TCO of the units. Asynchronous replication works great to replicate data to our DR site.
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.
- 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.
- It would have been good to see vvol support for ESX 6.0.
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.
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.
We 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.
The simplicity and performance has transformed our business. I used to spend a considerable amount of time managing legacy storage, but now I have time to run POCs on other products as well as managing the health of my virtual environment.
Simplicity of configuring the Flash Array and of provisioning storage would be the number one useful feature. Besides that, I would say the ability to easily create snapshots of storage and replication to another array.
May 19, 2020
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.
- Technical support from Pure has been great. They are very proactive and responsive when necessary.
- Pure Storage FlashArray is very easy to install, configure and administer.
- We have been very satisfied with the performance of FlashArray - under 1 millisecond latency.
- Pure Storage FlashArray is not cheap, but you definitely get what you pay for.
- We have seen a few too many necessary firmware updates to fix software bugs in 2019.
- There is a bit of "sticker shock" to see how much usable disk you end up with from the raw TB total.
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.
May 26, 2020
Pure Storage replaced a legacy array, and now serves as our primary storage for both our virtual server and VDI needs. It is being used across the entire organization. It's given us high efficiencies in storage capacity needs, and response times are no longer a topic of discussion. It has simplified overall storage management and has given us a pathway to operational management.
- Deduplication: Not counting thin provisioning and compression, we are realizing 4 to 1 on our deduplication. It works and it works well. I realize this is totally dependent on the workload. High-level summary, our workloads consists of Windows server, Application Servers, and SQL. And yes, it works really well with VDI.
- Simplified Management/maintenance: Simple, simple, simple.
- Support: support has been exceptional both on the phone and from our local SEs. Not that we've had many issues, but our local SEs are ready and willing to answer any questions we have.
- After having used another storage vendor for years and now using Pure Storage, I'm struggling with improvements. There are some new tools that have been introduced to assist with troubleshooting and forecasting that can be somewhat challenging, but no complaints from an operational view.
I can't say it enough, but working in the past with tiered storage, Pure Storage makes it simple. You certainly need someone who is knowledgeable with enterprise arrays. However, (and I realize this is dependent on the size of the organization and array needs), Pure Storage nearly nullifies the need for a dedicated storage administrator. There is no question on it handling our needs with IOPS, bandwidth, or latency.
Deduplication and performance. From a deduplication standpoint, Pure Storage is giving us 4x our usable capacity! At the array, we consistently see sub-millisecond, and through our hypervisor, it may jump up to 1-2ms.
We use it for all storage requirements in NSA. The speed and flexibility allow easy deployment and growth. Did I mention SPEED! It is truly sub-1ms IO, so storage is no longer the single bottleneck in processing.
- Very easy to assign storage to any server.
- Really fast disk IO.
- Uptime is remarkable!
- Explaining to management that something so small with so little lights does so much is a challenge. So we always keep an old MFM drive around just to show them that size has changed. So I'd love some clever way or change to make it look flashier! Seriously, for what we use it for, it does the job.
Uptime and ease of configuration have reduced support effort.
Snap feature is really useful, and I believe not used enough!
May 22, 2020
Pure Storage is used by our entire organization because it is our sole storage solution going forward. All of our VMs run from Pure and we integrated vCenter with Pure to ease management. Whenever our business analysts discuss performance issues with databases and applications, I remind them that we cannot put the data on faster storage because Pure is the fastest.
- Increasing LUN sizes as the business needs grow is very easy. The easiest I have ever managed when I compare with other major vendors.
- As stated earlier, the performance with Pure is the fastest available.
- I never worry about growth because I know I just need to add more shelves and not redesign my architecture.
- NFS support would be nice but not really needed. Some people feel NFS is a requirement but I don't agree.
- Snap shots of SQL will be the biggest area of improvement that I can give to my business users. Giving them an almost real time copy of a production database that they can use without impacting production performance would be a huge win.
- Support for Azure storage would also be helpful since it is our primary cloud provider.
The installation was fastest of any I have ever seen. It was easy and straight forward. I allowed the Pure engineer and sales engineer access to the rack and the next thing I knew they were done. Absolutely amazing and seamless integration with our network and overall architecture. Very easy in all areas to use.
Implementing new storage is super fast and growing existing storage is also super easy. The interface is easy to navigate because there are not a lot of things to tweak.
May 22, 2020
Our FlashArray is the primary storage array within our datacenter. With the quality of dedupe and compression that FlashArray provides, it is economical enough to run not only SQL, but all other datasets in our datacenter.
We migrated from a cloud services provider using a NetApp storage array to a self-hosted solution. Moving to the PureArray we saw tremendous performance gains across the board with a fraction of the storage utilization that we were being charged for on the NetApp.
It solved all of our performance and storage utilization issues.
We migrated from a cloud services provider using a NetApp storage array to a self-hosted solution. Moving to the PureArray we saw tremendous performance gains across the board with a fraction of the storage utilization that we were being charged for on the NetApp.
It solved all of our performance and storage utilization issues.
- Dedupe and compression. It always amazes me how much logical data we have compared to how much we are actually using on the array.
- Speed. We measure response time in micro seconds, not milliseconds.
- Support. They know something is wrong or misbehaving before I do.
- As they grow, they become more like the large corporations that are frustrating to work with (EMC, NetApp, etc). I hope they don't lose the core qualities that made them so attractive to begin with.
Easy to use, fantastic support team, and fast does not accurately describe it. Jobs run faster, systems fun faster, I can spin a server up from scratch to configuring the OS in less than 3 minutes.
I so rarely have to manage it that I hardly remember any features other than ease of use. The reporting and ability to analyze storage metrics are fantastic. It is easy to analyze and plan for future growth and consumption. It also makes it easy to brag to your colleagues at other companies about how fast your Storage is compared to theirs.
May 22, 2020
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.
- High performing storage IO.
- Simple set-up, configuration, and administration.
- Cost can be relatively high.
- Capacity increases only come in specific sizes (2, 5, 10TB), so upgrades are not very customizable.
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 are using Pure Storage as a storage platform for our multi-tenant cloud environment as well as for customers with dedicated hardware environments. It provides a solution for high IO environments as well as eases the burden of array management.
- Management: The interface makes it easy to define hosts, host groups and LUNs. Very quick, very intuitive and simple. AD authentication is also a huge bonus for us. Allows for customers to view but not manage their own array.
- Performance Metrics: Pure Storage has good metrics across the array as well as at the individual LUN. We have begun separating LUNs based on customers and it has been huge when trying to trouble shoot performance for a single customer whose compute is on a multi-tenant cloud.
- Speed: I don't have specific metrics, but all customers that are on the array have never complained about speed. We did have one customer that we were throttling based on the original contract. We opened that up to get them over a couple of initial deployment tasks and they were pleased with the speed.
- VLAN support: The VLAN support in the newer version of Purity was also huge for us. It allowed us to keep SAN networks separate in a multi-tenant environment.
- Support is great: We had a support engineer dig through Microsoft settings for multipathing on iSCSI iniators. He did this on two different occasions!
- See more under the hood: I came from an array environment where there was a little more visibility into what was going on the in the background of the array. It would be nice to have the option to see what type of RAID is being used, and more details on the compression and deduplication that is going on.
- The ability to throttle a specific LUN on the Pure Storage would be nice. Not sure of the implications though.
May 20, 2020
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.
- Pure's dedupe algorithm allows us to save storage space considering we have several stacks running the same software.
- The evergreen program allows us to upgrade the controllers on our arrays every 3 years so we are always current.
- Support is amazing, they will work at fixing a problem even if it isn't on their end.
- There is nothing that I can think of that they could do better.
- I would like better notifications of new features.
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.
May 19, 2020
I was initially skeptical, our plan was to boot 100% of our virtual machines and VFX render infrastructure from several Pure FlashArrays. The performance has been excellent as expected, but the compression/deduplication and reliability have vastly exceeded my expectations.
- 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.
Simplicity in a number of areas, including imaging, virtualization and software development. Also, the raw performance continues to be impressive, as it out performs anything but local NVMe in our testing. The main thing for us is its reliability though. We just never have to think about it, except when it provides some feature that saves us time or money unexpectedly.
Hitless upgrades and cloning snapshots are probably our two most used features. These days we test out our imaging process and generate a golden disk image for virtual machines, and then quickly clone of multiple copies of this image in seconds for imaging a fleet of servers. The hitless upgrades keep us up to date and secure without down time for our users. We even perform these upgrades during the week while the systems are under normal usage.
May 19, 2020
We have 2 Pure arrays and use them to serve around 95% of data to our hosts. We use other NVME cards for other applications like IBM Informix and Oracle ODA. We moved everything off of Compellent to Pure Storage. I think our Pure Storage arrays are both very solid and so far I am pleased with the performance and manageability of these arrays.
- IT servers up data with < 1ms
- It is very easy to configure new storage
- Make zoning data and expanding storage sizes very well
- The data can always be faster. We purchased NVME storage as the data was slower than what we were using before.
It is very easy to use and training juniors with Pure Storage is simple.
De-dupe and compression are very impressive.
May 19, 2020
Pure Storage provided a FlashArray AFA for our environment. It is being used by our entire organization here at Ricoh and it solved the immediate storage issues that we had and the bottleneck we were seeing in performance. The snapshot capability also gave us great peace of mind by being able to retain a lot of version at the LUN level on the fly while taking up minimal logical space.
- Ease of Administration: Great web console with the ability to configure everything. Little to minimal console knowledge required.
- Deduplication and Compression: These features work extremely well at ensuring that our data usage remains low on the array even as the business grows.
- Support: Pure's support is quick to respond and able to connect directly to and manage the unit in the case of any issues we encounter.
- Performance: Pure's array is the best performing array according to Gartner's reviews of all-flash arrays (AFA).
- Better connectivity to cloud: While Cloudsnap supports AWS natively, it would be nice to see other vendors and platforms added.
- Better enhancements to reporting: While reporting is good, HPE has the edge when it comes to their Nimble Insights software.
Performance
Data reduction
Power savings
Data protection
Data reduction
Power savings
Data protection
- Performance
- Deduplication and compression
- Non-disruptive upgrades
- Best cost per GB
May 19, 2020
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!
- Customer service is fantastic. We have not had any issues with the array, but even doing a code upgrade is simple as support is very friendly and quick to respond.
- The array is FAST! Being an all-flash array that is expected, but bundle that with their architecture and this thing is lightning quick in all storage operations.
- We have not yet had the opportunity to take advantage of the Evergreen Model, but are looking forward to a hardware upgrade. This model is great and allows for quick and easy uplift to the newest hardware without replacing the array.
- The array is so simple and easy to use that, we rarely need to manage it or do anything really. It really feels like a set and forget kind of system because it just works.
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.
May 19, 2020
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!
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 integration with VMware's vSphere has made creating and expanding datastores/volumes easy for all of our admins. They can do everything from one browser tab.
- The ability to run future planning scenarios has been helpful in knowing what we need to purchase in future budget cycles.
- The preemptive parts replacement that Pure Storage provides has led to us never having an outage on our arrays.
- We have not seen much, as they seem to be keeping up with requested features and functions over the 5 years we have been consumers.
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!
May 19, 2020
The FlashArray is being used across our entire environment/organization. Internally, and customer clouds as well. Atmosera is a cloud service provider of both Private and public cloud offerings. We utilize the FlashArrays for our private cloud offerings, selling datastore volumes as managed storage. The FlashArray allows us to be scalable in our internal infrastructure, while also offering the huge benefits of Flash storage. The FlashArray fleet we have also given us a single vendor infrastructure, which eases management.
- The Pure Array is scalable (easy to add more storage, easy to split up/provision existing storage).
- The Pure Array handles deduplication and compression better than any storage array I've worked with.
- Pure Support is very knowledgeable and responsive to issues and questions.
- The Pure Web GUI is very intuitive and easy to use.
- VM Analytics is a great and easy to enable feature.
- While the GUI is easy to use, some management features are only available in the CLI.
Simplicity: Once set up, the FlashArray's web GUI is extremely simple to manage and configure. Adding storage to hosts is easy to do.
Speed: The FlashArray's I/O speeds are very quick, which is expected from modern flash arrays.
Utilization: The deduplication ratio allows us to replace nearly 10 SAS arrays with just one FlashArray.
Speed: The FlashArray's I/O speeds are very quick, which is expected from modern flash arrays.
Utilization: The deduplication ratio allows us to replace nearly 10 SAS arrays with just one FlashArray.
The compression and dedupe ratio is by far, in my opinion, the best feature available. As stated before, we were able to consolidate nearly our entire storage environment (a mixture of Synology and Netapps) with just a handful of FlashArrays. Our average dedupe ratio across our fleet is about 4.2 to 1.
Pure Storage FlashArray Scorecard Summary
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What is Pure Storage FlashArray?
Pure Storage in Mountain View, California offers all-flash array data storage promising affordability, high availability, and consistent performance.
Categories: Enterprise Flash Array Storage
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