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Pure Storage in Mountain View, California offers all-flash array data storage promising affordability, high availability, and consistent performance.https://media.trustradius.com/product-logos/3J/9l/6DTEESOELA5I.JPEGPure StorageA flash travel to the future2019-04-17T15:21:26.422ZPure Storage is used by the whole organization. We have consolidated all the VSI (55 VM) and VDI (100 VM) into the same storage, improving performance and overall virtual desktop acceptance. Our VDI with VMware Horizon includes 100 VM for office and graphics desktop with nVidia GRID, the low latency and the high deduplication permit us to reduce the storage footprint and power consumption, and to increase the consolidation on fewer VMware Hosts.,The most valuable features are extremely low latency, high IOPS with VMware, inline deduplication and compression. We have consolidated all of the SAN into the same box.
I liked the non-disruptive downgrade from FA-420 (POC) to FA-405 in production and the non-disruptive upgrade from FA-405 to M20. This is a great plus for the business.,Reports of performance and LUN utilization/deduplication could be improved. I’d love to view the average, minimum, and maximum performance in the reports but it is only graphics and you need to export the data into a CSV to find this information.,10,The Non-Disruptive Upgrade gives us the ability to do maintenance without out of hours work or downtime.
With the Forever Flash, you don't need to change your "old" SSD when you upgrade your storage to a new model
The performance is so high that we have consolidated all the SAN in one storage, Pure Storage, and it doesn't need maintenance!,It's simple, we have prepared SAN zoning and cable, everything else was done by Pure Storage in local and from remote for firmware upgrades. 30 minutes and we were ready for the POC, 1 hour and we made a Non-Disruptive Downgrade from POC to production, 1 hour and we made a Non-Disruptive Upgrade to M20... very easy for us,It's simple and gives you a lot of power, ask for a POC ;-),10,NetApp FAS series,The VDI experience with this kind of storage is much better especially with CAD, 3D and other software that uses very large files
We have consolidated VDI and VSI on one storage that now is pushed during the day from VDI and during the Night from the servers back up,VMware Horizon (formerly VMware View), CommVault, VMware ESXiAndrea SpazianiPure Flash Goodness2019-02-15T18:12:21.512ZWe utilize the Flash Array across our entire organization, from test/dev to production. This allows us to set, from a storage point of view, a consistent performance experience, which allows us to better troubleshoot problems in our stack. The Flash Array is simple enough to handle our most basic tasks, yet performant enough to handle our most demanding workloads with plenty of overhead to allow us to grow.,VASA provider for VVols being located on the controller is the most logical way to set that up. Have no idea why other vendors don't do it that way.
Support is top notch. Always responsive. Quick to resolution. We had an issue that involved multiple vendors, including Pure, and they ran it for us. Was definitely storage related, but ultimately the root cause did not like with them.
The amount of content their engineers release is great. People like Cody Hosterman and others add a lot of value to Pure and bring that to the community.,Pricing is definitely high. You get what you pay for, but you get a lot.
The lack of readily accessible deeper stats has been problematic in the past, especially when it comes to capacity planning.,9,The faster storage showed immediate returns in performance for our customers, both internal and external.
The feature set allowed us to add a significant number of internal business processes, as well as improve others. So, definitely some hidden or unaccounted for value.,Put in a ticket to upgrade. Specify a timeline. Enable remote assist. Maybe an alert or two from surrounding infrastructure as one of the controllers reboots. Doesn't get any easier. Adding in a pack of drives or upgrading them in place is not only easy, but fast. Same with evacuating those data packs to empty a shelf to move or return.,They have a whole team at your disposal. Don't be afraid to engage them.,9,,Clone a LUN, feed it through an obfuscation process, and you now have test data to work with. Or take that obfuscated LUN and clone it several times for multiple test environments. This lets us secure data, and provide devs with a full data set/schema to work against.Chris SchottPure Storage The Best Of The Best2019-01-22T19:56:18.730ZOur Pure Storage array is being used mainly by our SQL software, we provide software as a service to the health club industry. The 3 years that we have been using Pure Storage has taken our month end process from several hours to just a couple. We have been very pleased with the speed and reliability.,Speed of use compared to traditional drives.
Easy to provision.
Very insightful graphs and logistics.,Because of how fast they have been growing, employees are constantly changing or advancing in the company and you are having to deal with new people all the time.,10,Because of the speed and less issues, our customers have been happy with not having slowness or timing out because of low latency.,We can spin up a copy of our database in a matter of minutes to do dummy month end and other testing, were as before it would take days to spin up a copy.,Make sure you are utilizing an internal network that matches the purestorage array, you don't want your switches etc causing the bottle neck in your network.,10,We haven't had any issues with pure at all, any possible maintenance that could cause an issue pure support is meticulous making sure any updates wont cause an issue.Patrick SullivanPure Storage, no worries!2019-02-21T15:14:25.765ZOur FlashArray cluster is used as the main storage for all block data in headquarters. We provide IT services for users all around the world. It gives us the performance we need, high availability (via cluster setup) and easy management.,Easy management
Excellent fail-over
All-around performance,Haven't found anything yet!,10,Less maintenance needed in comparison with our old solution, hence fewer costs.
Possibilities to grow (without investing in future storage needs).,Before using Pure Storage we needed to schedule maintenance, we called an external engineer to assist us and watched him do updates and upgrades for at least two days. All this is a thing of the past!,Do a POC, seeing is believing. The sales speech is too good to be true, but Pure makes it happen.,10,EMC VNX and NetApp FAS series,No specific use cases so far.
Just excellent all-round performance.Sascha De CuyperPure Storage is simply the best!2019-02-22T21:30:33.568ZWe replaced our older spinning disk arrays with Pure Storage M70s flash arrays to address latency issues that we were having with a number of applications. Pure Storage solved those issue and at a cost per TB that was on par with the cost of the spinning disk at that time. It also solved the problem of rip and replacing with Pure Storage's evergreen program with controlled maintenance cost.,In my testing of Pure Storage with its data reductions capabilities, I was able to conclude that its compression/dedup/zero detect thin provisioning results in about 43% less raw capacity requirements against vendors such as NetApp or nimble.
Pure Storage Support response time is positive and is based in the United States.
Pure Storage Employees such as my Account rep and SE have been very helpful after the sale with any questions I have had.,I am not 100 percent sure if Pure Storage NAS ability is up to snuff with the competition yet. I'm sure this will change over time.
Pure Storage can be expensive unless you get multiple bids from other vendors to get the price down.,9,Maintenance costs are controlled through the life of the product, so you don't need to worry about those costs getting jacked up after year five, which forces you, in turn, to rip and replace, so there's no re-buying your existing capacity and the time to mass migrate your data to other arrays.,The administration time is low and I feel you don't have to babysit the array to keep it going.,Pure Storage should be a storage vendor that you should differently evaluate on your next purchase. To not do so would be a mistake on your part.,8,Erik SmithThe Greatest Storage Buy Ever2018-12-14T16:30:00.860ZWe use Pure Storage as our Tier one storage connected to VMware environment via Fiber Channel. It hosts an array of critical applications from databases, to web servers and security. It solves the issue of disk and application performance.,Pure storage is able to be up 99.99 percent of the time
Upgrades and support are proactive and do not require downtime
Disk latency, snapshotting with VMware is fantastic,Make it part of a Hyper-Converged computer environment
Add the option of tiering data to less expensive disks,10,It has had positive ROI due to lower cost of ownership, re[pairs and downtime of critical apps.,100% we have benefitted from easy installation and simple maintenance. As long as you stay on maintenance, Pure Storage is fantastic at being proactive about the unis and staying on top of it to keep downtime to a minimum. We have upgraded firmware several times with no downtime at all. We get notifications when things are misconfigured or hosts lose connections. Support is excellent.,Take it for a spin. Pull out controllers and drives. See how it does not come down like other arrays or create errors.,10,EMC VNX,NA,2000,,Tier one storage for critical and high performing apps.
Lower your storage footprint to save on space, cooling and power.
Lower cost of maintenance.,Replication across sites to create an active/active data centers.,10Aaron SilversteinFilled with Flash, faster than Superman2019-02-19T18:33:55.473ZEver since we moved to Pure Storage, our performance issues just disappeared overnight. For the first time since, well, ever, the hundreds of VMs we're running all feel as fast as they would on individual hardware with SSDs. It is one of the most remarkable pieces of hardware and software I've ever come across. I didn't believe Pure's consultants on how many TBs we needed, but because they guaranteed they'd give us the difference, we went in anyway. It changed my professional life.
But the good stuff doesn't end there: Their support department is absolutely amazing and very proactive. If there's a release that fixes some updates or just a new general release that is their baseline for a healthy system from now on, they will contact you! Also, they'll contact you if they detect issues on the array of course.
We have an all-flash array from a different vendor as well. With the same amount of SSDs and less than a third of the VMs (and less than a tenth of the user base for this array), it is at least five times slower. We're phasing out almost all other storage in favor of Pure.,Performance
Support
Customer Relations
Truth in their message and advertising,Education field should get a higher discount. We are unable to increase revenue and can only spend money once
Higher capacity drives,10,We don't have a ROI, we're in public education.,It takes longer to get a Pure Array up and running than almost any other array I've seen, but the greatest thing is that you get consultants who'll do that for you for free! Attaching the storage to servers/clusters is trivial though.
Daily management of the array, of LUNs, and other Masking features, is incredibly simple. Much, much, MUCH simpler than any other array I've ever seen. You don't need training, just a few minutes of "click here, do this".,Be honest during the storage needs & calculations phase. Other than that, there are no special considerations. It's still just a storage array.,9,,We've been able to quickly and easily deploy a lot of new servers because of the array.,125000,3,Server virtualization
Desktop virtualization
End user file system storage,8,Yes,Prior Experience with the Product,I wouldn't change anything. There's nothing wrong with our evaluation and selection process.,Implemented in-house,No,No issues at all.,10,No,Our most recent case was a request from our side to upgrade the arrays to the most recent release of Purity (the operating system on our arrays). We planned it, and they came back to us a couple of days later, asking us if it is possible to postpone the upgrade because they might have found an issue in the release code. Engineering was investigating to see if it is actually an issue in the code or maybe misconfiguration. That is the kind of support and quality that I want. Don't be afraid to postpone things/releases if it otherwise breaks (yes Microsoft I mean you).,Everything is just extremely easy. You don't need training as you do with 3PAR just to create a LUN. Go ahead and "play"!,We've not encountered any.,10Bas PenrisPure storage, pound for pound the best industry features and ROI2019-02-15T15:13:00.098ZMy organization uses Pure storage M70 for Epic Clarity Reporting, Caboodle. My organization also uses Pure M20s at satellite locations, replicating to an M70. Finally, we utilize an M70 and 2x X70 for local storage hosting AIX, Windows, and Linux servers, Phy and Virt sever block storage as well as a replication target for Epic at our DR site.,Straightforward to manage, Pure Storage stays out of your way so that you can quickly provision storage, increase lun capacities, etc.
Snapshot-based replication works very well and is immensely less complex than other technologies such as srdf.
Rock solid, stable performance.,Upgrades to Pure are good but could be better. There is room for improvement in the upgrade process.
Rolling drive power cycles are necessary on some Pure versions.
The abundance of orange is quite gaudy.,10,It is hard to judge the overall ROI, but it has been positive.,Simplicity has allowed us to give engineers with less storage experience a platform to utilize while training on other larger and complex storage systems.,Try it out in your organization in a testing or dev role and expect to be impressed.,9,EMC VNX, XtremIO Flash Storage and EMC Symmetrix VMAX,Utilizing Purity snapshot and replication with scripts and replicate HPUX server data.
Utilizing snapshots for SQL cluster hw migrations.Mike DavisPure Storage FlashArray with VDI workloads2019-02-07T16:32:46.396ZThe pure storage M20 R1 & R2 array models are being used for managing the VDI workloads in our organization. The arrays are being used by my department and the whole organization as well. We have addressed the VDI performance issues with pure arrays, but the data reduction is drastically varying from 10x to 5x -7x which is a concerning factor. The data dedup factor needs to be considered based on throughput utilization, which is a key factor in sizing point of view,Up to 10x initial Data reduction,
Sub ms latency with VDI workloads
Easy to manage and real-time monitoring in the mobile app,Data reduction varying drastically sometimes based on the workloads like patches and schedule rollouts.
Capacity sizing is one of the key factors to handle the new workloads considering the data reduction variation.,7,OpEx cost increases as the data reduction changes based on the newer workloads, which require one to buy additional capacity.,The organization doesn't require any specialized skill resources to manage the Pure Storage Arrays as it is easy to manage and implement by system administrators.,Better data reduction up to 10x,10,Saikrishna KogantiPureStorage has storaged all the competitors2019-01-23T19:54:04.663ZWe've used Pure Storage FlashArray for three years in all our organization for several cases, like file servers, storages servers, virtualizations environments ( Openstack - Kvm, XEN ) it's being used by the whole organization around the world. With Pure Storage FlashArray we reduce the time to market problems for our cloud production environment managing the storage throughout API calls and reduce end user problems in each regional office with slow storages. We have replaced other vendors legacy storages like Net App and EMC.,Managing the Storage through API calls.
Upgrade is the best, you never have downtime, you can upgrade firmware controllers or physical controllers and have no downtime, High Availability works perfect.
Support of Pure is great and we never have a problem with them, from installing the Storage to implementations with Openstack and Cinder,Did not have any issue with Pure. every report we find, they resolve with fixes.,9,We find a positive ROI on it.
We could have better prices than other vendors.,Our organization benefitted greatly from the simplicity of use of Pure Storage FlassArray. It is very easy to purchase to install and to use the storage. Support also works great and the configuration of the unit it is very simple. It is just like plug and play and you can start using it.,Compare prices with other vendors, and plan what would be the case of use for you.,10,NetApp All Flash FAS, EMC Symmetrix VMAX, HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage, HPE Nimble Storage, INFINIDAT InfiniBox and Violin Memory,500,2,We use it as an storage in our hybrid openstack cloud. more than 500 users deploys and use their development in Pure Storage
We use it as File System for all the users in the company around the world
we use it for the most important applications that needs the best performance over IO and security (backup retention),9,No,Price
Product Features
Product Usability,I think i will do it the same again.
we ask for a Probe of concept (POC) to know the unit and performance, we trust in benchmarks, but we always want to test is in our environments. after we did the POC the performance and times of I/O were excellent and start negotiation, that was great too.Nicolas PlaRock Solid, Crazy Fast, and Pays For Itself2019-02-01T19:28:04.875ZWe use our FlashArrays to support all of our critical business operations companywide. We needed to have a compact, dense, and high IOPS storage device to allow us to have future growth and improve existing performance while replacing deprecated equipment at the same time. The FlashArray was surprisingly very cost competitive and allowed us to improve IOPS and reduce latency by an order of magnitude.,Super low latency.
High IOPS.
Excellent deduplication.
HA design is ROCK SOLID.,Not able to do native CFS/NFS/SMB file shares. Its workaround is an "embedded" windows cluster, but you have to supply your own windows key.
It would be nice to have some improvements in the UI - Right now there's no graphical display showing how much of each volume is actually consumed vs. what's allocated. You can see that for the entire array, but not per volume. It would also be nice to have a breakdown of what snapshots were consuming how much space, etc.,10,We have seen SQL backup errors drop to pretty much zero.
"Intermittent" SCSI bus errors that we'd see occasionally from our Linux VMs have completely disappeared.
With our integration in Veeam for backups, we've been able to streamline and improve our backups significantly. Restores take, at most, a few minutes.,Absolutely! We replaced 45U of storage with a single 3U Flash Array. You can't get much better than that! We were able to reduce our colocation facility footprint and drop our power usage significantly, and that alone will allow the FlashArray to pay for itself before it's scheduled EOL.,Pure Storage FlashArray is now an enterprise mature storage solution. Costwise, it pays for itself in reduced power and improved storage density. The increased IOPS, and with Pure's deduplication technology as well, are practically icing on the cake.,10,,Improved backups with Veeam integration, allows us to be more daring with deployments since we have higher confidence that we can fall back quickly if it's needed.
Faster replication between sites allows us to be more nimble with data migrations.
Ultimately, the PureArrays have allowed us to expand and include more HA configurations where previously we just didn't have the resources for them. With that alone, we provide a better back-end for our customers and in the long run that always pays dividends.Edmund Joseph TynanPure is purely awesome - Just try it and you will see2019-01-25T19:31:51.352ZPure Storage is used for our entire VMware environment which consists of ~100 virtual machines including many SQL Server workloads. It is used across the entire staff base running all critical business systems.
Traditional storage was poor performing and expensive to maintain support without ripping and replacing the entire infrastructure while also being difficult to manage and configure. Pure addressed all performance issues and the interface is so easy to use which essentially lowers the administrative burden on the IT infrastructure team.,Performance - this is exceptional and better than any other providers I have used, sub-millisecond performance is standard across our SAN.
Support - Pure support is great and has always been helpful and friendly. Upgrades are a seamless experience and their support fills you with the confidence that it will be done with no issues whatsoever. Response times for support is great.
Ease of use - The Pure GUI is very easy to use and the most simplest GUI on storage I have ever used by far, so simple in fact that once set you don't have to spend much time working in it until you need to make a change to a volume or hosts.,Pure Storage is simple to use, I find it really hard to find anything that really needs to be suggested improvement wise. Maybe some more documentation or design templates for stretched cluster might be useful.,10,Previously we had core business systems that required dedicated physical hardware due to slow spinning disk storage and very poor performance when virtualised. This was a considerable cost not only in the hardware itself but licensing and having to use other software for backups etc which increased admin overhead. Moving to a Pure array we were able to virtualise the systems with the same level of performance as when they were on physical servers saving us a considerable amount of time and money.,Infrastructure administrators are heavily relied upon for a huge array of tasks, by simpllifying the storage administration it has freed up some additional time meaning they can focus on deliverying technology that helps drive business objectives.,Do a proof of concept before your existing storage comes out of maintenance, you will be amazed at how well it performs and is easy to manage. Talk to current users of the storage and see how happy they are with the product. Oh and start liking the colour orange as you will want to promote the storage once you try it!,10,,Traditionally our core business systems required physical disks as the IO latency on these servers was too high for normal SAN capabilities. As an example running a process on a physical server would take 21 seconds to do but via an auto-tiering SAN that same process would take 8 minutes and 32 seconds. Virtualising the server and running the process using Pure Storage the process took 21 seconds.Aaron BryantDon't drink the kool aid2019-01-23T19:05:05.449ZPure is used throughout the entire organization for VDI and Corporate SAN storage to include Active Cluster.,It performs well.
We had two VNX 5600's a vplex dual engine for a stretched VMware cluster between two data centers. We replaced all of that with two M20R2's so it saved a lot of rack space / cooling / electricity / san ports, etc.,When you put Pure in your data center it becomes a black box. Issues will happen with the Pure and you will receive no notifications from it. We've had controller failures, which you would think you'd want to be notified of, but you don't get those notifications. We've had numerous issues where we aren't made aware of issues with Pure. You just don't have the visibility into what's going on with a Pure that you would have with say an EMC array where you can look at every possible metric. Pure deems what the customer should be notified of and what performance metrics they can see which is not that detailed. We have discussed this with Pure and they indicate we are one of the only customers that would like to see this which seems to me to be a little odd. Who would not want to know what is going on with there storage environment?
Support does not communicate that well and they come out with code updates way to frequently. You can subscribe to their feed that lets you know when a code upgrade comes out. The release notes for the code upgrade will be very generic and you have no idea if they are applicable in your environment so you have no idea the sense of urgency to apply these fixes. They've been coming out pretty frequently also. We'll test an upgrade on one of our arrays for a few weeks to a month and by the time we've finished testing and burning in they will have come out with a newer version. Then you'll contact support to have them apply the version you've been testing on your other arrays and you'll have to be very clear with them on which version and why you want that version applied. There support representatives don't communicate that well either. We experienced a significant issue that caused a significant outage and the support representatives were not involved, even though they were aware of the issue, until we expressed our displeasure with Pure.
We experienced a significant bug with Active Cluster which brought a large portion of our production environment down. First response from Pure was not very timely nor effective in addressing the issue. Within a couple of weeks we experienced the issue again. At that point we got everything off of Active Cluster. After several weeks of pointing fingers at VMware and our configuration we were able to get more senior people at Pure engaged. It took almost 5 months for the issue to be identified and it was a Pure bug with Active Cluster. We have not put anything back onto Active Cluster as of yet and it's 7 months after the issue. Pure would have not stepped up to help us out without us letting Pure know how we feel about the product.
They give you great pricing to get in the door, but then when you have to grow you'll get sticker shock.,5,As a mentioned before they'll give you a great price to get in the door and then when you have to expand you'll be surprised by how much it costs.,Personally, this is one of the issues we have with Pure. When we did a POC of several vendors this was one of the weaknesses of Pure, but they performed excellently and had a great price to get into them so we went with Pure (Active Cluster wasn't out yet so we didn't have the opportunity to POC that feature). The amount of metrics that are visible to you are limited. If you would like some specific metrics you have to email support and they can send you them, but obviously at that point it won't be real time. Also, aren't privy to everything going on with the arrays. We've had failures on the Pure's where we were not notified of the issue. We had an issue with Active Cluster and they mentioned we had a controller failure as part of the analysis of the problem and we never received any type of call home in regard to that controller failure. To me that is a notification I would like to receive. We've had several issues similar to that over the time we've had Pure. As far a simplicity to use it's no different than any other array when it comes to provisioning storage.,Be prepared for sticker shock when you want to expand an array.,4,,We were using Active Cluster, until our issues, which allowed us to stretch our VMware environment between two data centers.Russ GivensPure Storage review2019-03-06T15:47:02.527ZUsed as our main storage in the datacenter for all of our VM's. We switched to flash from non-flash to provide growth ability of speed, size of unit, data reduction ability, and reliability.,Fast, this thing is really fast.
Size - what took most of a cabinet before is 4U in size. Meaning less cooling, less power, and less cost of housing it.
Reliability - This thing is a tank.,This storage is storage on child mode. It is simple and easy. Coming from NetApp where you may have needed a wiki to know all the commands you could at least get some info out of the unit (example how long it has been online) where now I need to call or open a ticket to get that info.
I would like to see on the reporting the max let's use iOS as the example...if I'm sitting at X used on average out of Y max clocked for this unit to determine how much growth room I have before I should consider upgrading...that would be nice?,10,My team spends less time each day babysitting the storage. Netapp was a few hours a day to make sure its still good.
Upgrades... I can spend the hours I would of been upgrading a netapp on other work related things while they handle the upgrade,Yes, it is storage on child level of hardness. I feel I could put my 11 year old on the UI and he could support it.
Coming from NetApp where you need a full-time person dedicated to babysitting that you no longer need that. We can have that tech work on other things that benefit the company instead of babysitting storage.,Check out pure, it is affordable to get into flash. I also no longer wake up with nightmares that we will find another "1 in a million" bugs from netapp that takes down everything again and again.,10,NetApp FlashRay, HyperFlex, Nutanix and HPE Nimble Storage,n/aJohn Paul TwardowskiSimplicity/Performance and trust2019-02-13T20:32:27.920ZFlashArray is used by my customers. We sell IAAS to customers. We want to sell a "gold" Private cloud to "local" customers.,Simple administration Array (No need experts for control the storage Infrastructure)
Fast installation (The array was installed in 1 day)
Easy to upgrade,The Upgrade of Storage Flash Array (We have got an error when we have upgrade the array M20 to M50)..,9,Perfomance
Stability of storage array environnement,Yes! We have not needed to maintain the Array, we trust in support team of PureStorage. The Upgrade of the Array is planned by the Support.,Test PureStorage Array!!! The installation/administration is easy and the perfomance is here!,8,,The Volume Snapshot (We can restore an Virtual machine with the snapshot of the array)
Active/active replication,4,4,VDI
Database (Performance)
File,No idea,9,Yes,Price
Product Features
Product Usability
Product Reputation
Prior Experience with the Product,No changeFranck TRUETPure - The leader of the future.2019-01-25T22:23:50.284ZPure Storage FlashArray (Pure) has been a very stable and excellent product for the last 18 months and all the latency issue 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.,Compression.
Deduplication, Real-time replication.
Easy to use and configure; reliable.
High IOPS.,I haven't noticed anything so far.,10,The performance of the application has increased dramatically after we started using the All Flash Array.
Overall SQL licensing cost reduced due to better latency and IOPS.,Pure Storage FlashArray (Pure) uses just 3U space in our rack and configuring the new storage and provisioning the LUN to a host took a max of one hour. This includes the mounting of the storage as well. There isn't any downtime noticed when it comes to maintaining, as a Pure engineer performs the maintenance remotely upon scheduling.,Just try POC with Pure and see the result.,10,,We have been using Pure Storage FlashArray for almost two years and there haven't been any issues experienced by internal or end-user customers.Jeeva KumarFeel Freedom and confident with Purestorage2019-02-08T17:42:59.950ZPure Storage is our main storage for most of our applications. It was a solutions for performance issues in our systems, so it has made for safer, faster and more confident systems. We have been working with different Pure Storages, such as FA405, M10 and the last one X10 models having experience with Snapshots, Replications and ActiveCluster. Our company is very happy with these innovations because it has transformed our process to be faster and more confident. On the other hand, the Pure Storage tool is very easy and simple to manage, having a good add value for the IT Department and a whole company.,The user experience have found a faster running process and the projects are running fluently.
IT Departement has had a better response time for infrastructure requirements and easy management.
Infrastructure process like backups, snapshots, etc are faster and confident.,Better time response interconecting SAP with legacy systems
The SAP Backup used to be of 11 hours and with Pure Storage it is just 1 hour.
Some process can not run on SAP, because those process were too long and with Pure Storage are strikingly fast.,10,Our private Cloud is very competitive with Could as Services.
Quick ROI comparing with the competence.,Well, we used to have an expert support to create a disk for any Virtual Machine or host and now with pure is very easy this manegement with our own people.,First to all, understand how Purestorage works, take accound the space reclamation, try to use application certified by Purestorage as you can as possible.,10,IBM FlashSystem and EMC vVNX,The speed is key in this kind of business, because this company takes advance when you exibit your products first than their competitors, so purestorage has made it possible.
Rapid Analytical Reports helps our people take actions faster.Verified UserFlashArray for the Performance Oriented.2019-01-25T19:14:12.851ZWe use Pure Storage FlashArray across our entire organization to provide sub-millisecond latency to sensitive databases and applications. Decoupling our servers from local storage allowed us to design a proper HA environment and leverage growth in the compute and network layers without impacting our storage reliability and performance. Data Encryption at Rest also enabled us to guarantee full data encryption without the costly CPU overhead of a local solution.,Data deduplication has saved us many TB of space, as much of our data is copied and reused for QA, staging and testing environments.
Encryption at Rest allows us to offload the management, overhead and cost of encryption with to a single source.
Upgradability between models has allowed us to grow fast when needed, and save money when not.,Pure is still one of the most costly solutions on the market. Though they provide best in class service and equipment - you pay for it.,10,We've seen a great ROI on our FlashArrays, along side an easy-to-swallow upgrade path that has helped us grow without overspending.,Pure engineers have always been very available for any installation, upgrade, or troubleshooting. Their first-class support and ease of use have made continued use a no-brainer. Occasionally, the lack of 'knobs and levers' presented to use is frustrating from an Engineers point-of-view. It can feel a little oversimplified with what options are presented, but calling support is quick and painless.,If you need something very fast, very reliable, and able to do anything you want - go with Pure. If uptime, support and response are important factors - go with Pure. If cost is a major factor, you may need to look elsewhere. We've had nothing but amazing interactions with Pure and their engineering team during growth/capacity planning and all stages of the experience - from initial quote to actual installation, they're available, responsive and do a lot of the heavy lifting.,10,Tegile and NetApp V-SeriesVerified UserI purely love Pure Storage2019-03-08T16:09:19.086ZCurrently we use a pair of FlashArray m50s, one in our production data center and one in our DR site and replicate between the two with VMWare SRM. One of the major drivers to Pure Storage was data center space, when we migrated from an EMC VNX 5500 to a single m50 in each data center we went from around 60U of storage down to 5U.,High performance, we have had our arrays in place for going on two years and have yet to have a storage based performance issue.
Space utilization, we see an average of 3:1 reduction of all data stored on the array.
Excellent support, I know you hear this about a lot of companies but Pure Storage has one of the best support structures I've ever worked with.,I wish they had an integrated NAS solution,10,Reduced overall data center spend by allowing us to remove an entire rack
We have yet to see any performance issue in our virtual environment that was caused by storage
API integration with our backup solution decreases overall backup time,We were go from shipping box to VM on the array in less than two hours.,Go for it, Pure Storage is awesome.,10,EMC VNX, Nimble and NetApp All Flash FAS,API integration with Rubrik allows for shorter backup windows and less vCenter clutter
SRM SRA for DR Tier 1 applicationsVerified UserA Flashy Array of Storage Quality2019-02-19T18:54:12.949ZPure Storage FlashArray is in use as our primary Storage array, across our entire company. We run a mixed Production and Dev / Test workload, primarily within a Virtualized Environment. We still have several Physical DB Hosts. It provides a performant and flexible storage platform that does particularly well with deduplicating the many copies of data and environments that our use involves. We replicate from one array to a remote array, which provides the basis for our Disaster Recovery strategy.,Our deduplication rate is above what we anticipated. This is likely due to consistently duplicating much of our environment for testing purposes as well as the nature of our primary warehouse management system.
We have found that integration with VMWare has been straightforward and quite useful. Expanding the size of a device from within VMWare is simple and effective.
Snapshots are quick and easily presented to other hosts.
Expansion into a new tray of disks was quick, easy, and did not provide any interruption.
Performance has been phenomenal, with latency well under 1/2 ms.,Analysis and feedback for any adjustments that should be made on the layout of devices.
Offer a more robust option, beyond the two controller layout, to allow for completely seamless failover/upgrades.
Continue to incorporate VMWare integration into reporting and monitoring from the Pure Array viewpoint.,9,Positive impact in that it has allowed us to quickly and easily grow through size constraints that have been troublesome in the past.
Time and effort required for management are much less than our earlier EMC environments.
Evergreen maintenance allows us to plan on controller upgrades at the end of three years, rather than forcing us into a full replacement cycle.,Simplicity and ease of use have certainly been a benefit we have realized. It is easy enough for any of our team to make storage changes, we don't have to rely on a single resource the way we used to. Integration with VMWare is particularly smooth and useful. Routine maintenance is minimal, with Purity upgrades maybe two or three times per year.,Don't get too hung up on IOPs. In a Small/Medium business, we have never come close to needing all of the performance it could give.
Evergreen maintenance can seem to offset specific cost-savings that might be realized on maintenance. However, it does tie you into a three-year refresh cycle for the controllers, and this can be useful to stay closer to industry standards without a new purchase every three years.,9,EMC Clariion CX4 Series, EMC Symmetrix VMAX and EMC VNX,It has allowed us to keep more copies of test environments, and this has improved the testing of programs, helping eliminate mistakes that slip through.
In the past, we have often hit performance limitations with storage, where moving data would take a certain amount of time and we couldn't get below that based entirely on the storage back end. Pure Storage FlashArray has allowed us to increase copy performance significantly.
Replication has allowed us to maintain a remote copy of even non-production data. This has allowed us to improve our positioning for Disaster Recovery, particularly when it comes to Tier 2 applications.Verified UserPure Storage POC review.2019-02-07T16:08:24.838ZCurrently, 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.,7,Nothing as of yet. We still are working on moving and implementing the product into production.,The product is almost plug and play. Very easy to implement and support, which helps the support teams focus on more important issues.,Test thoroughly before purchase to make sure it meets all of the requirements of the business.,6,,Currently, we have no VMware replication in our environment. When implemented it will be able to provide DR recovery to our applications. The integrated plugin for VROPs will also help the VMware team in reporting in the environment on Pure Storage.Verified UserPure Gold2019-01-24T01:58:01.466ZThe deployment replaced an existing mechanical storage SAN array. The main requirements were to avoid another forklift upgrade for storage, improve environmental credentials and lifespan, improve data accessibility, 24/7/365 support options, flexibility for growth and expansion.,Improves Performance. Older VM guests now run at SSD performance which has positive feedback to our end users.
Improves Availability. More of our devices have access to data volumes.
Online hardware and software updates. Saves costs for out-of-hours work.,Cannot run Active Cluster feature with Purity Run.,9,Able to capitalise the cost longer as avoiding forklift upgrades.
Able to run guest VM databases, which were struggling under tiered storage, so now on path to 100% virtualised infrastructure.
iSCSI has meant storage can be shared easily across network.,The setup does not require intensive training. The CLI has great API documentation, the web GUI is intuitive, and if there is a problem the Pure Support channel is responsive, and they can be remoted in within minutes. Particular recognition should be given towards the Pure 1 Dashboard and App, these are just fantastic.,I would recommend that you ask for a PoC device or view a demo to see the Array in action. Seeing is believing, and pushing your current workloads onto the device should see a massive difference in responsiveness of your applications and services. The device is particular good a shifting database loads.,10,HPE Nimble Storage, HPE SimpliVity (formerly OmniCube), NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays and Dell EMC Unity,Been able to utilise physical host assets outside our Virtual Infrastructure due to iSCSI provisioning.
For the first time ever, able to carry out firmware updates without working weekends or out-of-hours.
Breathing life into legacy apps which were extremely slow on tiered storage.,10,5,Underpins VM Infrastructure.
iSCSI gives flexibility to make storage available to the entire network.,Flashstack creation.,10Verified UserPure Storage is good!2019-03-09T20:55:28.525ZPure Storage FlashArray is used as a tier 1 storage for production applications. It is being used by multiple departments in our organization. The main requirement was to provide maximum performance for multiple databases in our environment.,Ease of manageability.
Great support.
Online hardware and software updates.,A costly solution, but worth every penny.,10,Great ROI on our FlashArrays.,Pure Storage engineers provide fast response to installation, upgrade, or troubleshooting requests. It's very easy to manage with very little training required.,If you looking are for very fast and very reliable storage, go with Pure Storage.,10,XtremIO Flash StorageVerified UserPure Storage is fast, reliable, and effortless to support.2019-03-08T16:12:47.569ZWe use Pure Storage as shared storage for our virtual infrastructure, which is used for enterprise services.,Pure Storage is extremely fast.
Pure Storage is effortless to maintain and upgrade because it does most of the work.
Pure Storage is very reliable.,I honestly can't think of any way where Pure Storage could improve.,10,Pure Storage saves loads of personnel time because it is so effortless to maintain and upgrade.,Yes, the simplicity of supporting Pure Storage should be the standard that other companies strive towards.,Get Pure storage, it is worth your time and money.,10,Verified UserStorage that just goes.2019-01-25T20:12:51.413ZWe use Pure as our primary block storage; it backs our VMware, databases, and for misc block storage needs.,Speed. We don't know how fast it can go because we've never been able to tax it.
Ease of setup. Web or CLI it's trivial to provision, replicate, or snap volumes.
Integration. There seem to be plugins for all of our current and upcoming software.,Drive failures are stupid. We're a hands-on shop, the drive indicator should be lit by default, I shouldn't have to do it manually.
Compression has not been as good as we'd hoped, but the failure was more likely on the sales side.
I want to see the logs. I'm a Unix admin, I can read and understand. Passwording the log dump is irritating and increases costs for both sides.
We'd really like more local users. It's stupid to have a dependency on windows in your storage, and it's also stupid to only have one user for your API calls.,10,Our 4 Pures have replaced 6 full racks of storage, in about a half rack. It's a space, power, cooling, and management win.
Have I mentioned the speed? Having a one-stop top tier that handles DBs and VMware has been great, it's almost completely removed "slowness" tickets from our radar.,So far we've had no down time at all, and unblemished confidence in the platform despite a controller upgrade and a complete controller failure. It probably does a bunch of automated maintenance and consistency checks, but we don't think about it, it just goes.
Setup of course has been absolutely trivial, and the addition of tools to speed large scale provisioning in the web interface have been intuitive and available when expected.,This platform is worth pushing the budget for if you're on the small end, and if you're using EMC it's worth switching from their all flash product. The cost model is complete, there's no nickel and diming, you buy it, it goes, you move on.
Our Pure units are the rare case where the product is as good as it looked in the demo.,9,HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage and Dell EqualLogic PS SeriesVerified User
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