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Pure Storage in Mountain View, California offers all-flash array data storage promising affordability, high availability, and consistent performance.https://dudodiprj2sv7.cloudfront.net/product-logos/3J/9l/6DTEESOELA5I.JPEGPure StoragePure 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 FlashArray: Enterprise-wide Benefits More Than Worth the Cost2019-01-18T19:13:11.570ZChapman 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.,10,Our FlashArray implementations have had extremely positive impact on our business goals. Our main, heavy-lifting Oracle and MS Sql databases and apps run much faster and provide much faster response times. Our data warehouse ETL completes in much, much less time. (From >12 hours to <2 hours.) Our research workloads complete much more quickly (at least the ones that are storage-bound.)
Since Pure Storage's storage administration is so much simpler, we've freed up a lot of storage admin and database admin time to work on other business needs. The reduction in combined DBA/SAN admin time is maybe as much as 50%.
Overall, after implementing the FlashArrays, our campus surveys of user satisfaction rose, with respondents mentioning the improved perceived speed and responsiveness of centralized campus student, faculty, and staff applications (ERP and others).,The Pure arrays have been very reliable. Once our storage-migration processes completed, we went for months without really even thinking about the FlashArrays. For each array, the time from the Pure SE opening the box to starting the first data copy was less than an hour. All of this has freed up our SAN admins for other work. The reduction in SAN admin time (and it affected our DBA's, too) has been as much as 50%.,The price curve for storage has reached the point where any enterprise, even smaller ones, should be considering all-flash storage arrays first. All all-flash arrays are not created equal, nor are all-flash array vendors. Price is important, but full-featured storage like Pure's FlashArrays are much more "future-proof". A customer can be very confident that Pure's arrays will continue to move forward in features, support, and compatibility.,10,Tintri, Dell/EMC CX4 series, EMC Celerra, EMC Clariion CX4 Series, EMC Isilon Scale-Out NAS, EMC VNX, VMware vSAN and XtremIO Flash Storage,Pure's truly excellent support for automation and integration programming has allowed us to build a completely new database- and application-automation solution. This solution allows us to clone, manage, and deploy complex, integrated database-plus-application environments as dev/test copies in less than 10% of the time it previously took, using less than 10% of the previous DBA/SAN admin effort. This has allowed our development teams to complete their projects faster, delivering features and performance to our entire campus community, increasing customer satisfaction and other higher-ed key performance metrics.James KellyThe little array that could2018-11-30T23:39:08.505ZWe have 5 FlashArrays, shared in a 5 organization multi-tenant environment. Two are for file servers, two are general purpose, and one is for Oracle and SQL databases. These were purchased over a two year period, to replace aging monolithic SAN arrays. They resolved all of our storage bandwidth bottlenecks and capacity issues.,They are excellent for virtual environments. The speed and dedupe/compression is extremely valuable.
We have had excellent performance running Oracle and SQL databases on the FlashArray.
The maintenance couldn't be easier. Downtime is virtually non-existent because of the design of the architecture.
With Evergreen, we will receive free controller upgrades with support renewal.,It would be nice to be able to perform storage copies directly between volumes on a FlashArray.
Integration with VMware where you could replicate a volume, then point vms to the new volume.
Bring the price of a disk pack (10 disks) down to a reasonable amount. It's almost the same price to purchase an entire new FlashArray.,10,Very little management after initial setup.
It is quite expensive, so we haven't noticed an ROI on hardware costs, but many less man hours are required to manage the FlashArrays.
The performance provided using a FlashArray over legacy SAN, is probably the biggest ROI we see.,We have absolutely benefited from the simplicity of the FlashArrays. We almost never have to even log in to do anything other than provision Storage. Maintenance is performed by support when we schedule after hours, and we have had virtually no issues with upgrades or hardware problems. The man hours saved has been huge.,If you can, purchase drive packs to fill up what hardware you are purchasing. To purchase disk packs (10 drives) afterwards, if extremely costly, even prohibitively so. A disk pack can cost upwards of 90% of a whole new array with the same amount of space included.,10,,I have replicated from one FlashArray to another at a remote data center. Once the replication was complete, we were able to bring up our virtual environment very quickly.
I have migrated many virtual machines between datastores on an array in minutes, enabling me to use smaller datastores where needed.Toby WenzelPure storage, 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 Davis
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