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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.

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.

Dell PowerMax NVMe, NetApp AFF A-Series, and HPE Nimble Storage are common alternatives for Pure Storage FlashArray.

Reviewers rate Flash Array Performance and Simplicity highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Pure Storage FlashArray are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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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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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pure Storage offers better IO performance and reliability compared to traditional SAN, it is a trusted platform for the entire business.
  • Better disk performance
  • Easy management
  • Builtin volume level performance monitoring.
Suited for intensive disk IO applications, i.e. DB, Hypervisor storage. Not suited for archive data due to the costs.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Currently, we are using Pure Storage FlashArray to house our many development database environments. With the Data Compression and Dedupe on FlashArray, we have significantly reduced our development footprint, bringing about cost savings and operational efficiencies.
  • Fast! More often than not, we're seeing sub-millisecond response times (latency).
  • A simple management console.
  • Data reduction. We're seeing far greater data reduction than we expected following the initial scoping exercise.
  • A small rack footprint.
  • The ability to export additional data from the array, such as capacity trending over time, would be helpful.
In our case, Pure Storage FlashArray has been well suited to hold database workloads, where we have multiple dev database copies. The data reduction is truly impressive! Performance is also impressive.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We provide LASS to credit unions and our Pure Storage array was purchased for this purpose. We purchased it for the speed VDI and other applications needed from disk.
  • Very fast. The latency rarely breaks 0.75 ms with significant traffic.
  • Easy interface. I was able to learn how to use it on my own.
  • Reliable. I haven't had to touch the array since I put it in except to add LUNs and monitor capacity. There have been no breaks in the 2 years we've had it.
  • Wide support. We have AIX, HP-UX and VMware all attached to the array. There are drivers and support for all three and not all disk vendors can say that.
  • Support. Responsiveness to an issue I'm having, even when Sales is pushing, has been lacking. Haven't had a system down issue, so may just be a severity thing.
  • Price. Flash has been falling like a rock over the last two years with 1 TB SSD selling for under $140. And while I know the software is part of the price, I haven't seen the hardware drop impact their prices at all
  • For us, deduplication has been about 65-75% of what what promised.
The only situation I wouldn't use Pure Storage FlashArray is where cost is a factor. I have flash from other companies too and the deduplication rates are even worse with similar loads, so that isn't enough to dissuade me that Pure Storage is the leader.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's the main-storage for different usage. Virtualization, database and so on.
  • Easy to use
  • Very fast
  • Reliable
  • Support for smb/nfs in FlashArray
The FlashArray is perfect for block storage, but no replacement for a NAS-system.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pure Storage FlashArray is being used by our central IT department, so it is a central point in our organization. It is used as storage for all corporate databases. It is used as storage for our VMWARE virtual equipment system. With Pure Storage FlashArray, we have managed to unify different storage, from different technologies and manufacturers. Performance has improved substantially. The cloning of databases has been several hours to a few minutes, with the use of cabin snapshots.
  • The cloning of databases has been several hours to a few minutes, with the use of cabin snapshots.
  • The degree of deduplication and compression is very good.
  • The instructions for use fit on a card.
  • For now, we are very happy and we have not found a point of improvement.
Databases, virtualization.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pure Storage FlashArray is used by the whole of engineering to build our testing and monitoring environment on. It addresses the problems of easily and seamlessly provisioning/de-provisioning our testing environment.
  • Monitoring
  • Provisioning
  • Alerting
  • API to monitor aspects of the flash array
  • More granular limit on volumes
Pure Storage FlashArray is appropriate where a high performing SAN is required and where a high number of IOPS are necessary. It is also appropriate where consistent performance is required even during a controller failure, as the controllers are on an active/standby configuration.

Pure Storage FlashArray is less appropriate if the emphasis is on the amount of raw storage provided. It is even less appropriate if you have encryption at rest as the compression and deduplication engine will not work.
July 24, 2019

My Pure M20 Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our Pure Storage FlashArray is used as a primary storage platform and supports all of our on-premise workloads. The entire platform is currently used for a VMWare cluster.
  • Supporting latency sensitive workloads such as databases.
  • Ease of administration. The platform is very easy to setup and requires almost no day to day management.
  • Integration with VMWare vCenter.
  • VM level performance monitoring.
  • General improvement to management interface.
Pure Storage FlashArray is well suited to high-performance computing, virtualisation, hybrid cloud, and VMWare. I am not so sure it would be as capable as some other systems in large multi-tenant environments.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have moved an entire VNX 5400 storage array of 40 U to PURE 6 U with better IOPs. It gives assurance of higher availability.
  • Best implementation of flash array in the storage industry.
  • Higher IOPs for lesser rack space and cooling.
  • Easily manageable dashboard.
  • Training to user community like storage administrators
  • Providing virtual machines for trying new solutions before implementation.
It is more suited for demanding IOPs, applications that are sensitive to heartbeat for pear machines. More suited to test and Dev environments.
Andrea Spaziani | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pure 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.
In my experience is perfect for VSI & VDI, it's not perfect for big file share.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We 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.
Pure Storage is perfect for shared storage in a virtual environment.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Currently 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
The biggest thing for us isn't even the super high performance ( but this is awesome ) it comes down to the space reduction. We went from more than one full rack of storage to 5U. Since we rent space in a colo this was a huge savings for us, and has nearly paid for itself already.
March 06, 2019

Pure Storage review

John Paul Twardowski | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Used 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?
While I do understand budget restrictions exist out there I would honestly fight for the amount needed to get Pure Storage FlashArray. Based on the size of your environment, it is affordable.
Sascha De Cuyper | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our 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!
Reliable storage for virtualized environments. If there's a need for HA Pure Storage is a great solution. Not for small companies, I think.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We 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.
Pure Storage is well suited when performance is required, and with getting the most effective capacity out the of raw capacity that is available if you want to get the best cost per TB. Scaling is a concern if your growth outpaces the performance and capacity of Pure Storage biggest controllers, but most customers may not have this problem.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We 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
I find Pure excellent for critical apps, low latency needs and integration with VMWare. It out performs any other disk arrays I tested. We have found that is not cost effective for video storage. There is little to no compression or dedupulication in video.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pure 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.
Particularly well suited to environments with a lot of duplication based on test copies. Also in environments where performance is key. Integration with VMWare making use of SAN switches is smooth.

Possibly not as well suited to locations with large amounts of unstructured data (use FlashBlade instead). It's my sense that environments requiring direct connection to hardware may be more challenging.
Bas Penris | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ever 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
At first I'd have said it's good for virtual desktop infrastructure, high IOPS, and loads of redundancy, but that has changed to "use it for everything if possible, except maybe video files or storage of large amounts of static data." Unless you sweat, drool or bleed money, don't buy it for stuff like storing videos.
February 15, 2019

Pure Flash Goodness

Chris Schott | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We 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.
It's a good fit for any enterprise and any workload. The ability to replicate data between arrays is a big help for DR scenarios, as well as things like mirroring data from production into development.
Mike Davis | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My 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.
Excellent for a small branch office storage refresh. Great management via webUI AND cli. Love the process of snapshot replication, local snapshot protection, and the smooth mechanics to implement this.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
FlashArray 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)..
In a VDI environment, the deduplication rate is very interesting. In a Database environment, the deduplication rate is not good (for us).
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pure 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.
PureStorage is working very well in Power IBM and VMware. Additionally, in the Oracle VM environment it is working well without easy tools. The space Reclamation should be well understood for this.
Saikrishna Koganti | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
The 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.
The Pure Storage array is well suited for initial VDI workloads, and it provides the data reduction up to 13x but later point of time due to new workloads like patches and other rollouts the data reduction can be considered as 5x - 7x. Based on the new workloads and data reduction changes, you need to size the array initially or add additional capacity.
Nicolas Pla | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We'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.
Pure Storage Flash Array is well suited for virtualization environments, like Hyper-V, OpenStack, VMware, XEN, in this case it works perfectly with the cinder drivers with OpenStack. (We test Icehouse, Mitaka and Manila.) I think that Pure Storage FlashArray is less appropriate just to do backups and to have it like a legacy storage system. It is much more than that. The best use of the storage is for performance uses.
Edmund Joseph Tynan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We 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.
SQL server data with high transactions and large virtual infrastructure where a diverse group of employees from multiple remote sites is accessing via S2S. VPN for data sharing is another good scenario, as it's the central storage for data that everyone is reaching for. If there is critical data that needs solid backups, the Pure snapshots are a proven way to restore them quickly and easily.
January 25, 2019

Storage that just goes.

Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
We 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.
We've been quite pleased [with it] as a VMware back end (200 nodes, thousands of VMs), and have even started virtualizing high io machines because it's so fast. It's nice to just not worry about disk io problems anymore.

Cost: We use other storage for tier 3/low priority data simply due to cost. Having cheap spinning disks available in the same array might be a management benefit.
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