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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.
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What is Pure Storage FlashArray?
Pure Storage FlashArray is available in tow models: FlashArray//C is an all-QLC flash array thatdelivers the NVMe performance, hyper-consolidation, and simplified management. FlashArray//X is all-flash, 100% software-driven, and 100% NVMe storage optimized for corporate and enterprise environments.
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Current available models include:
- FlashArray//XL - Can be used to run everything from massive databases to cloud-native applications with faster transactions and more responsive customer experiences with enterprise availability and disaster protection. FlashArray//XL is designed to give businesses the freedom to innovate without storage as a constraint.
- FlashArray//X - Unified block and file storage designed to be easy to use but also powerful. Used to accelerate everything from Tier 1 databases to large-scale virtualized and cloud-native apps, with a non-disruptive upgrade path.
- FlashArray//C - Designed to provide a home to business-critical workloads and data, with 99.9999% availability, non-disruptive upgrades, and consistent single-millisecond latency.
- FlashArray//E - Designed to deliver simplicity and efficiency of flash for all file and block data repositories, from content libraries to backup sets to active archives. Released in June of 2023, FlashArray//E are offered to expand customers’ options to tackle data growth down to 1PB without the need for frustrating offline archives or expanding expensive disk systems.
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Pure Storage in Mountain View, California offers all-flash array data storage promising affordability, high availability, and consistent performance.
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Pure Storage FlashArray has been widely used across various industries and organizations to address a multitude of storage needs. Users have experienced a significant increase in speed and improved data handling by replacing their existing storage with Pure Storage FlashArray. With its high-speed, reliable block storage capabilities, the array has been effective in supporting performance-sensitive workloads and unifying different storage technologies and manufacturers. Organizations have utilized Pure Storage FlashArray to house virtual infrastructure environments, resulting in great compression rates and easy setup of replications. It has also served as a primary SAN for virtualized environments, improving performance and supporting various departments. Furthermore, the array has proven effective in handling batch job performance, reducing job times from hours to minutes and increasing overall productivity. In addition, by running mission-critical applications on Pure Storage FlashArray, users have experienced noticeable performance increases. The array's ability to handle thousands of VMs while providing primary storage and data protection through replication has made it a valuable asset in large-scale environments. Pure Storage FlashArray has also been deployed across multiple data centers to address performance, capacity, and data security needs. Its simplicity of administration, patching, and upgrading processes has earned user satisfaction. Overall, Pure Storage FlashArray has addressed crucial storage challenges for organizations by providing high-speed storage, easy management, scalability, and improved performance for a wide range of workloads.
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September 05, 2019
Great experience working with Pure Storage FlashArray
It is used across the whole organization, it is our central storage box. We have a replication towards our dr site and use VMware site recovery as part of its integration. We managed to merge 2 storage boxes located in two racks into one box as big as six racks.
- Ease of management.
- Pure support.
- High performance.
- We miss native NAS service.
September 05, 2019
Comparison of features and use for a VDi environment
Storage for ESXi environment and storage for VDi, used across the whole organization, solved speed issues with storage migrations and VDi issues.
- It's fast, very very fast.
- Dual controllers built-in so nothing goes down when we lose a controller.
- Data dedupe, so we are not growing and will have plenty of space.
- Better active design.
- The cost of the product is a little high but it is well worth it.
- They do not have a NAS front end.
Primary storage for corporate storage needs like virtual machines, collaboration, and ERP. It replaced two HP EVA 6400s with that were not able to keep up with I/O needs, while frequent failing components and the EOL made it a risk to keep them as primary storage. We use the built-in snapshot feature to snapshot 90% of all volumes every 30 minutes and keep them 6 days on the array. This will help us recover in case of ransomware. We have a second PURE X20 in our remote site 300 KM from here and use async replication to sync critical data off-site.
- Easy to manage. When compared to HP EVA the GUI and the available options are logical and easy to understand. Our administrator needed very little to none training to use it.
- Low Latency and high throughput. Normal business operation is around 20K IOPS and < 1 MS.
- Support. Knowledge engineers that will ' stay with you' till the issue is resolved and provide assistance even when the root cause is a, for example, a faulty transceiver in an FC Switch or an MPIO issue on AIX.
- Pure1 portal provides enough information for basic capacity planning and the new VM Topology is helpfull to quickly get information about which VM Vdisk is having latency issues.
- Excellent integration with VEEAM. For example, using the VEEAM console we can restore a file from any of about 130 snapshots that we take on the SAN.
- The portal provides some basic information on the deduplication and compression ratios but is not very helpful when troubleshooting a sudden increase in utilization.
August 30, 2019
Power, speed, and great uptime
Our Pure Storage Flash Array is our main data store. Spinning Disk was just too slow for the ERP application we use.
- Fast
- Works extremely well in a virtualized environment.
- The snapshot capabilities allow for easy creation of a test environment that takes very little extra space.
- The support is awesome.
- The ability to update the controller to the latest firmware with no downtime.
- I have not run across a con to using Pure.
August 27, 2019
Pure Storage FlashArray is worth it
Cars Inc. uses Pure FlashArray (PF) as it's block storage solution.
Cars Inc wanted a partner that approached storage from a different perspective, giving its customers a flexible and affordable storage platform (Evergreen). Cars Inc's engineering team needed a solution that was easy to manage, performant, and and a small form factor.
Cars Inc wanted a partner that approached storage from a different perspective, giving its customers a flexible and affordable storage platform (Evergreen). Cars Inc's engineering team needed a solution that was easy to manage, performant, and and a small form factor.
- Management/Admin software - Unlike legacy storage platforms, PF's administration is simple and flexible. We no longer require an SME, all engineers can manage the arrays with a high degree of confidence.
- Excellent support organization - Pure requires very little engagement from the customer for issues. Simple email communications will address %100 of our issues.
- Evergreen program - Allows it's customers to upgrade to a new storage head assuring they can take advantage of Pure's technology road map.
- Cars Inc has always been interested in a file storage solution. However, the Flash Blade has lacked built-in replication.
August 27, 2019
Fast, simple and realiable AFA
2 Pure Storage FlashArray is distributed in 2 different datacenters (an active-active cluster) are being used as main storage (VM datastores) for the virtualization environment based on Vmware 6.5 (4+4 nodes stretch cluster). In few months it will also serve as storage of HIS main database (Intesystems Cache). This solution gives us a full solution for our structured data needs:
- - High-speed storage
- - High availability
- - Compression and deduplication
- - Easy administration
- Performance
- Easy administration
- Compression and deduplication
- Vvol (VMware) support in mirrored (pods) volumes.
- Add additional options to snapshots (maybe a webhook on finish).
August 24, 2019
Pure Storage FlashArray is AWESOME!
We are using the FlashArray for handling our virtualization and SQL database workloads across our whole organization. We have about 400 virtual machines and 4 SQL database clusters. It allows us to not have to worry about performance or constant management. It has reduced our day to day management of storage down to virtually nothing.
- Performs quickly
- Easy to manage
- Provides useful reporting
- OS updates can be slow to resolve problems
- Not all storage protocols are provided
- Replication options could be greater
August 23, 2019
The best Flash Array
We manage the Pure Storage arrays for our customer, Graphic Packaging. We have remote sites where we need a reliable infrastructure. We replaced the EqualLogic by Pure Arrays and, due to the success, we use it as part of migration into our primary site for a new acquisition.
- Support: the support is excellent. You can call or open a case using the web, and you always have someone willing to help, even if it's just a question or a complicated issue. Even with issues with other vendors, you can feel there is someone interested in helping you to solve the problem.
- Easy to use: The GUI is really intuitive and easy to use. There are a lot of videos and documents to guide you through.
- Performance: We have more than a year of managing these arrays, and we don't have any issues with performance.
- Some of the options at the GUI need some warnings. Even if you are supposed to know what are you doing, some warning or questions, such as "are you sure you want to do this," are always welcome.
- I would like to have a training class. It's good to have all the online training, but if you are taking the course on your laptop, there is always someone needing something, I'd rather have personal training where you can disconnect, provide your full attention, and receive feedback to your question at the moment.
August 23, 2019
This storage array is a Pure solution.
The organization had a need to replace an EOL, 250TB, production, spinning disk array, which was central to the entire datacenter. This replacement array would need to provide increased throughput and decreased latency for both physical and virtual workloads. The Pure solution easily outperformed the old array and our exceptions.
- The Pure Storage solution handles upgrades very well. We have both updates and upgrades in place with no outage or impact to our systems. This included hardware and software events.
- The management is very simple and straightforward. There are so complex options or need for Pure SMEs every time a storage change is needed.
- VMWare integration is simple and effective. You can use one screen to manage your complete environment.
- Initial expense. Although the solution with the recommended support had higher upfront costs, the ROI has been excellent.
- Limited NAS support, although there are options to enable support for file protocols.
August 23, 2019
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It is being used across the whole organization. It solves working in a centralized virtual environment.
- The product is fast and reliable.
- The graphical interface is easy to comprehend and use.
- The free 3-year upgrade plan saves OCB from costly upgrades and/or replacements.
- I have no examples of improvement.
August 23, 2019
Pure satisfaction
We use Pure Storage FlashArray as the core of our entire operations. The extremely fast IOPS, built-in encryption, and snapshotting have changed our way of life. From being able to check the "encrypt data at rest" box to crunching massive DB's, Pure has delivered!
- Fast IOPS.
- FIPS 140-2 Encryption baked in.
- Zero footprint snapshots.
- We wish our Pure Storage array was bigger.
August 22, 2019
A happy consumer of Pure Storage services
We use Pure across the whole organization, for internal and external customers.
- Simplicity.
- Low latency.
- Huge savings in space and deduplication.
- I can't see any cons.
August 22, 2019
Pure Storage FlashArray! Very attractive.
We have model X50. This production is running to all production side now. Connection type ISCSI but we want to go NVME in this year. We want more performance in write/read than ISCSI.
- More IOPS.
- More read/write.
- Less latency With NVME cards.
- Integrated with Cloud but with cheap disks
August 22, 2019
Pure Storage FlashArray is great!
It is used as the central storage of our company. It is also the base of our internal private cloud where all VMs are stored. It solves our problems in several areas: 1. All upgrade and maintenance needs with no downtime 2. The upgrade path is very easy 3. Performance is outstanding and 4. Price is competitive.
- Performance is excellent.
- No downtime for upgrades or maintenance.
- Simple licensing and competitive pricing.
- User management is still not role-based.
- The Support team may need to improve in the area of communication.
August 22, 2019
Pure Storage FlashArray Review
Our Pure Array is being used as our production datastore. It eliminated any bottlenecks from our traditional setup we had and improved our dedupe numbers tenfold.
- Easy to manage.
- Great IOPs.
- Great support.
- More APIs
- Better SNMP compatibility.
August 22, 2019
Why you want Pure Storage FlashArray
It is used across the whole organization. It has lowered latency across all environments and the TCO has been amazing.
- Dedupe and compression, especially for VDI.
- Speed.
- Forever flash and TCO.
- The underlying code is upgraded quite a bit. That means more upgrades than other arrays. It is really both a pro and a con.
August 21, 2019
Pure Storage FlashArray Review
We use it to store our most valuable data that requires fast access.
- Fast
- Reliable
- Price point
August 21, 2019
Reliability, Consistency, Dependable
It is used for backing up our data across the entire company.
- Backup
- It's reliable.
- It's dependable.
- I do not have any suggestions at this time.
August 21, 2019
Simplicity!
We use it across all systems and applications.
- It's easy to manage.
- It's easy to implement.
- It has very little physical footprint.
- I can't think of any cons.
August 21, 2019
Pure Bliss
It's being used across the whole organization as part of our self-managed data center to host our VM environment.
- It hosts our virtual machines with great performance.
- It's used for RDMs to attach to clustered VMs.
- It's easy to manage and configure volumes, and connect to VM hosts and host groups.
- De-dupe works very well and results in great space savings.
- The ability to present CIFS/SMB storage is lacking, but I believe this is being addressed very soon.
August 09, 2019
Pure FlashArray. Head and Shoulders above the rest.
The Pure FlashArray with VVOLs has reduced our management of storage to near zero. We are able to just set it and forget it to focus on more productive tasks that help the business serve our customers better. I've used almost every storage product on the market and any perceived premium for Pure is erased with the increased productivity. Not only is it easy to use, but all our applications also run faster.
- Very simple to use
- Very fast
- Excellent Support
- Ability to upgrade
- All inclusive support
- Space reduction
- Price
- All upgrades go through support
August 02, 2019
The best storage and support in its category!
It is used across the whole organization for:
- Performances
- Compression
- Deduplciation.
- Compression 17 to 1.
- Performance process BI from 6 hours to 45 minutes.
- Integration with Veeam backup performance.
- Development Software fast clone of TEST QA and prod environment.
- BI re process if needed.
August 01, 2019
Purely Magic
We use FlashArray to support several internal product engineering groups. This support a variety of operations such as MySQL databases, hyper-v, and VMware virtual environments. We primarily use it for the higher IOPs requirement work loads. We have also developed an in house Prometheus exporter utilizing the API. We are looking to switch to the vendor provided exporter.
- Ease of use - The general layout and order of operations is very logical, unlike a Hitachi array.
- The functionality of the API and CLI is very intuitive and easy to learn.
- Utilizing support for upgrades and repair.
- The initial configuration of the flash array is a real pain point. The need for physical presence to configure things is burdensome and slow. We would prefer to connect a serial connection and configure remotely, like an Isilon cluster.
July 30, 2019
Great FlashArray
We are using the FlashArray as our Enterprise block storage. We have our entire Virtual Environment running on it. The FlashArray is providing the growth capacity the performance we were looking for.
- The FlashArray is easy to setup and maintain once it is up and running.
- The data reduction helps increase the usable capacity of the array.
- The speed of the array helps our application users get more from their applications.
- The type of maintenance Pure has to cover the arrays is great.
- The overall data reduction is dependent on the type of data you have. So, make sure your account team knows your type of data before they size the array.
- Make sure you test the stated vendor integration with the PureArray in your environment to make sure it works as expected.
July 29, 2019
Facts
It is used for the whole organization.
- Easy to install and to manage.
- Data reduction mechanisms work perfectly.
- Lot of functionalities without additional cost.
- Excellent support structure and well educated experts 24-7.
- Remote Copy also via Fibre Channel (SAN), not only via Ethernet (LAN/WAN).
- Better reports/inside look in case of problem determination.