Pure Storage FlashArray Reviews

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ease of management, it just works.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Uptime and ease of configuration have reduced support effort.

Snap feature is really useful, and I believe not used enough!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 is very easy to use and training juniors with Pure Storage is simple.

De-dupe and compression are very impressive.

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.

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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 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!

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.

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.

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.