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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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- Flash Array Performance (154)10.0100%
- Simplicity (154)10.0100%
- Non-Intrusive Upgrades (148)10.0100%
- Data Compression (153)8.080%
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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:
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 Non-Intrusive Upgrades 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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Pure FlashArray is being utilized across the enterprise for out Tier0 and Tier1 applications. It addressed the needs for reducing latency times across our entire system, being a hospital system this has greatly improved our status within the organization. The support we receive is beyond expectations, as what they provided from day 1 has never been offered by any storage company. Being able to swap out the controllers "live" has been an added experience I am happy to brag about, the cost was even better.
- The increase in data reduction from their compression is better than expected.
- Our latencies dropped dramatically in IT terms to sub-millisecond.
- The ability to swap out and upgrade to new controllers with no "fork-lifting" just saves on everything, migrations, downtime you name it.
- Possibly more reporting on the compression of the data
- Management of the snapshot environment.
- Though support likes to do all the work, they should listen closely to the clients' needs and environment. Not everyone is the same.
November 26, 2018
In love with Pure Storage
We use FlashArray's volumes to host virtual machines. Pure Storage is being used by the IT Department.
- Simplicity to administer.
- Data reduction.
- Qualified support.
- The pricing can be difficult to explain to the financial teams.
November 23, 2018
Best storage I've ever used.
We use Pure Storage FlashAray as a storage for our VMware infrastructure. We use it because we need very low latency for our VMs. We also use the storage replication to our DR site. All of our company systems depend on it being stable and fast. No problems for a year and a half.
- Excellent integration with VMware
- Very easy and intuitive interface
- Excellent monitoring and support via cloud portal
- I'd really like more administrative control over SSH
November 17, 2018
Why be duped by others, when you can be de-duped by Pure
We use Pure Storage FlashArrays to underpin our virtual infrastructure and intrusion detection systems. In the high-end Mayfair gaming world latency is the enemy. Our customers demand a level of service that requires instantaneous results.
Our business purpose is to remain the market leader in Mayfair and the UK.
Simply put, Pure Storage FlashArrays help enable that.
Our business purpose is to remain the market leader in Mayfair and the UK.
Simply put, Pure Storage FlashArrays help enable that.
- It just works.
- And works.
- It's rock solid.
- What initially sold me on it, during our POC, our sales engineer said we should test failures to data and power! That we did! We live pulled all the plugs and cables and moved the flash array to another rack and reconnected everything. Our test virtual infrastructure, having paused for the duration, just continued where it left off 5 minutes earlier, as if nothing had happened.
- 0 downtime or issues in 3 years, including several major software revision updates.
- It's fast. Fast enough run all of our virtual infrastructures and Intrusion Detection System writes for our entire network without missing a beat
- It's simple. Having set up many storage systems in the past, I was blown away by how plug and play it was.
- None
Two Pure Storage FlashArray is used in two datacenters with an active cluster. It is used across the whole organization with high reliability.
- The setup and migration was very simple.
- The administration of this active cluster is easy. As a new customer it is clear and the Storage Array is working like promised.
- The Pure support is excellent and really fast. To schedule firmware upgrades and execute these upgrades goes very smoothly and without problems during business hours.
- It should be possible for adminstrators, to pause the alerting in the administration WebGui. For example for failover testing or network maintenance with impact of the Pure Storage active cluster.
October 30, 2017
PureStorage, an absolute must for any VDI environment
We use the m20 storage array for hosting our VDI environment. It is part of an initiative to replace our hybrid storage platform hosting the current VDI environment. We are currently limited by storage silos and after a POC, we found PureStorage to be very competitive as it had better performance, gave more usable storage, higher dedupe and compression. We also tested it for other use cases such as hosting CIFS via SMB and running a SQL database which had good results.
- Performance of the array is very high. We immediately noticed users reboot times, Read/Write's and overall user experience improve.
- Dedupe and compression gave us more available storage.
- Best solution out in the market for any VDI environment as it provides the users an experience that cannot be achieved using spinning disks.
- CIFS support. Enterprises that are using NAS solutions for hosting CIFS are not comfortable moving to SMB solution. There are other flash array products in the market that currently support CIFS.
- Better DB handling. Had a scenario where the IOPS spiked without any reason.
- We had a scenario where the storage array brought down an entire ESXi host. It could be a one off thing but good to keep in mind.
March 28, 2016
My 2 cents over Pure Storage
This is being used by the Enterprise Infrastructure team to have some of the business critical application databases hosted on the Pure Storage for better performance. Migrating from typical SAN to Pure Storage significantly improved the performance challenges which we were facing earlier.
- READ and WRITES operation (I/O) were way higher than the traditional SAN.
- Migration from Mainframe to SQL during the time of staging where millions of records were dumped and the Pure Storage hosted DB worked really well. The ETA for having the data loaded to SQL environment was tough but we managed to have it using Pure Storage.
- SQL TempDB performance also performed exceptionally well when BI & Analytics folks were performing major query against the TempDB.
- Easy mechanism or GUI for creating a SNAPSHOT of the storage where the DB files are hosted. We have encountered some challenges when trying to create a SNAPSHOT of the storage for reporting purpose on demand.
- SNAPSHOT performance counter to monitor impact of the source storage if any impact.