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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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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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May 20, 2020
Pure Storage: Feel the Speed
Pure Storage FlashArray is used throughout the organization, its use is for storage of the entire data store, database, and for virtual machines. With Pure Storage FlashArray we were able to reduce the processing times of our ERP reports, which were executed after working hours. On the other hand, our BI can work with real-time information without affecting storage performance.
- Latency reduction
- Speed ​​to obtaining information.
- Ease of equipment administration
- SnapShot Manager
- It would be of great value to be able to receive via email a report with the observations and/or recommendations the Support Team has towards the Pure Storage FlashArray.
- New functionalities or new PlugIns can be received via email or an online review
May 20, 2020
Pure Storage Review
It is our main SAN. It has helped address bottleneck issues and reduces backup times.
- Performance of the all flash array has increased the performance users see.
- The all-flash array has allowed us to perform quicker backups and eliminate the stun some servers would see while backing up.
- Being all flash allows for quicker migrations.
- Quick and setup and expansion
- Price. The product is good but the price is significantly more especially when you add the evergreen program to the purchase.
- Needs more information on the Pure website. The analytics seem to be lacking.
May 20, 2020
Pure Storage is the best!
It is our main storage for high load hosts. We use it for 2 VMware clusters and 100+ VMs. We use it for the whole organization and it always exceeds our expectations.
- Reliable storage with a high level of performance.
- Service support is good.
- User interface is simple and handy in every day tasks.
- Space reclamation should be on the array side.
- Better deduplication ratio.
- Cloud integration and management
May 20, 2020
The little array that could
We 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.
May 19, 2020
Pure Storage is good!
Pure 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.
May 19, 2020
One of the only vendors whose claims of hidden magical knowledge have stood the test of time!
I was initially skeptical, our plan was to boot 100% of our virtual machines and VFX render infrastructure from several Pure FlashArrays. The performance has been excellent as expected, but the compression/deduplication and reliability have vastly exceeded my expectations.
- Speed. It is fast, really fast. I'm not sure where Pure gets their magical go faster pixie dust, but it is the good stuff.
- Reliable. No problems and that is amazing.
- We are booting 400 render nodes off of 4 of the smaller FlashArrays and the deduplication is nothing short of magical.
- The UI can be confusing, but the CLI more than makes up for it.
- I would love to see more statistics, graphs help prove to users that their gut instinct about where the problem is, is wrong.
We have 2 Pure arrays and use them to serve around 95% of data to our hosts. We use other NVME cards for other applications like IBM Informix and Oracle ODA. We moved everything off of Compellent to Pure Storage. I think our Pure Storage arrays are both very solid and so far I am pleased with the performance and manageability of these arrays.
- IT servers up data with < 1ms
- It is very easy to configure new storage
- Make zoning data and expanding storage sizes very well
- The data can always be faster. We purchased NVME storage as the data was slower than what we were using before.
Pure Storage provided a FlashArray AFA for our environment. It is being used by our entire organization here at Ricoh and it solved the immediate storage issues that we had and the bottleneck we were seeing in performance. The snapshot capability also gave us great peace of mind by being able to retain a lot of version at the LUN level on the fly while taking up minimal logical space.
- Ease of Administration: Great web console with the ability to configure everything. Little to minimal console knowledge required.
- Deduplication and Compression: These features work extremely well at ensuring that our data usage remains low on the array even as the business grows.
- Support: Pure's support is quick to respond and able to connect directly to and manage the unit in the case of any issues we encounter.
- Performance: Pure's array is the best performing array according to Gartner's reviews of all-flash arrays (AFA).
- Better connectivity to cloud: While Cloudsnap supports AWS natively, it would be nice to see other vendors and platforms added.
- Better enhancements to reporting: While reporting is good, HPE has the edge when it comes to their Nimble Insights software.
The FlashArray is being used across our entire environment/organization. Internally, and customer clouds as well. Atmosera is a cloud service provider of both Private and public cloud offerings. We utilize the FlashArrays for our private cloud offerings, selling datastore volumes as managed storage. The FlashArray allows us to be scalable in our internal infrastructure, while also offering the huge benefits of Flash storage. The FlashArray fleet we have also given us a single vendor infrastructure, which eases management.
- The Pure Array is scalable (easy to add more storage, easy to split up/provision existing storage).
- The Pure Array handles deduplication and compression better than any storage array I've worked with.
- Pure Support is very knowledgeable and responsive to issues and questions.
- The Pure Web GUI is very intuitive and easy to use.
- VM Analytics is a great and easy to enable feature.
- While the GUI is easy to use, some management features are only available in the CLI.
December 06, 2019
Once you go Orange, you never go back!
Score 10 out of 10
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Our two Flash Array SANs are used by the whole organization to house the Databases and Virtual Environments. It solves problems we were having with batch job performance. Job performance went from hours to minutes. Time saved allowed us to create more jobs to increased productivity. This showed up on ROI and the bottom line.
- Sub-millisecond response times
- Increased IOPS
- Data snapshots natively
- It hard to think of new ways to do something Pure Storage does so well already.
November 14, 2019
Pure Storage FlashArray Review
Score 10 out of 10
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We currently use the array to run mission critical applications in our VMware environment. It is supporting a few different departments and we have noticed a performance increase since switching over.
- Good customer support, very helpful and they know their stuff.
- You really don't have to do much with it once you have it setup. It's been running for years now and we have done minimal work to keep it that way. You just set it and forget it, so to speak.
- They have a predictive monitoring system that looks for possible failures in your system and lets them know so they can act pro-actively. They notified us that a system drive might be going bad with some of the logs they saw and sent out a replacement. That way it could be swapped out before it failed.
- They are expensive, but you get what you pay for. I have very little issues with their products and how they run. It would make it easier to get more of their equipment through my door if they weren't so expensive.
November 12, 2019
Believe what they say...You won't be sorry.
Pure Storage is being used organization-wide. It is the primary storage for our Production virtualization workload.
- Compression/Dedup.
- Simple setup and management.
October 31, 2019
Pure storage, set up in a Flash.
Currently, we use the M 20 Pure FlashArray and I have to say it is pretty great. It took little to no effort to set up so from an engineering standpoint we had very little need to go through in depth training and setup like other storage arrays such as Dell, Hitachi, etc. We use it primarily for our virtual desktops to have redundant fast storage.
- Their support is outstanding, always quick to respond with valid answers each time.
- Updates are completely seamless with never a drop to service for our users which is really helpful with us being a hospital.
- The product just works. The intervention and maintenance in this is slim to none. It makes it really easy to implement and maintain.
- They are still a growing company so there are always some things that you aren't sure if you could meet the actual expectations that they put forward.
- Some of the events I go to are very geared towards sales and making you want to buy the product, not really learning about them as a company.
- More things to add to a storage array that don't include additional costs.
October 29, 2019
Pure Storage Array is a game changer for us
We're using it in an environment where code is being tested by thousands of VM's at once. They spin up, test code, and then spin down and generate the results.
- Provides the ability to create tens of thousands of VM's virtually instantly.
- The ability to work with large amounts of data rapidly.
- Zero downtime updates and maintenance, and power failures are basically nonexistent.
- Rock-solid reliability.
- VVOL's could be implemented in a clearer manner.
October 04, 2019
Very happy!
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
We are currently using the FlashArray as backing storage for our virtual server environment, virtual desktop environment, and our high transaction databases. We currently have devices deployed at our major sites and are in the process of deploying to all of our second tier locations. We were struggling with our previous storage providers to deliver the performance, scalability, and cost targets. Pure Storage was able to deliver on all of our key metric areas and continue to work diligently in maintaining the value in our relationship.
- VMWare Integration
- Pro-active support and an active on-going investment in our relationship to maintain outstanding results
- Flawless service delivery
- Straightforward and powerful device management
- turn-key centralized reporting
- I honestly can't think of an area that I am unhappy with
September 30, 2019
Pure delivers ease of use
It is used as primary storage for all servers. We use replication to protect our data.
- Simple to manage
- Fast
- Easy to upgrade
- The ability to use NFs
- Better replication options
- Better visibility into raw vs useable
September 30, 2019
Pure FlashArray: minimal latency production workload
Pure FlashArray addresses our major production workload with Pure POD. We use Pure snapshot to perform database testing effectively.
- POD
- Snapshot
- Simple administration
- Max array size is 3PB
- Few bugs in purity code
September 27, 2019
Why we switched to Pure
We are a managed service provider, we use FlashArrays for shared storage for our private cloud customers and as dedicated storage for several of our larger customers. We have been steadily replacing all older spinning disk storage systems with FlashArrays. This has allowed us to greatly increase storage efficiencies and provide outstanding storage performance to all our customers. FlashArrays have solved varying issues for different customers, from database performance to storage efficiency of VDI applications.
- Ease of management - both the local administration and PureOne dashboard allow us to monitor systems as well as provide life-cycle management.
- Storage efficiency - the de-dupe and compression ratios are fantastic. We can provide our customers better cost to usage ratios.
- Service and support - online upgrades for both software and hardware means no downtime for the customers.
- Evergreen controllers - upgrades to the latest hardware as part of the service contract means we don't have any more data lifts when upgrading to the new system.
- Ease of configuration and integration with our hypervisor providers - just another way not to spend all our time managing storage.
- Cost is still a little high, increasing storage is pricey but things are getting better. Aside from cost though, the new features released and the fact there are no extra costs for any of these features can make up for the overall price.
September 27, 2019
Flash our Data
We are currently using Pure Storage FlashArray in a productive environment used to deploy core and customer services. The FlashArray is our main storage where all the time-critical application and secured data are stored. Over this duty, the FlashArray solves the day by day operation of our business bringing fast access & reliability of data.
- FlashArray provides a guaranteed R/W time to data, using the great 3D array functionality.
- FlashArray has an easy and understandable interface to overview performance and usage.
- The compression of data is great for databases and virtual machines.
- There is not much flexibility for upgrade storage capacity, they only offer in standardized sizes.
September 26, 2019
Pure saved my life!
We use Pure Storage FlashArray as our only SAN technology across 2 sites. It is across the whole organization. It addresses a number of business problems from simple storage to DR due to protection groups and replication.
- 0 byte snapshots, particularly useful for a point in time restore without taking up any additional space.
- De-Dupe & Compression works particularly well globally, no need to silo data of the same kind in order to maximize these technologies.
- Ease of use and administration. Nothing takes more than a few mouse clicks and the interface is easy to use and understand.
- Honestly, cannot think of anything. Pure does everything I use it for well.
September 26, 2019
Great perormance and ease of use!
We have implemented a couple of different models over the past two years and have been very pleased with the performance of each array. I am also very pleased with how easy it is to operate. No training was required and it is easier to manage than the other arrays that we currently have installed.
- It is easy to create new volumes.
- It is easy to add new hosts to an existing array.
- It is easy to expand volumes.
- Performance is great.
- My only complaint is pricing.
September 26, 2019
Pure Storage is Purely magic
We resell the product - It's used in various use case where clients need to access data without any compromise to speed. It solves space disk problem by showing an amazing deduplication and compression ratio. Also, their business model to refresh controllers every 3 years changes the game since clients will be saving overtime by not doing a forklift upgrade every 3-5 years.
- VDI environment.
- AI environment.
- Opex financial operations.
- Price is high when comparing traditional vendors.
We use Pure Storage FlashArray across the whole on-prem estate for everything from file servers to MSSQL databases.
The problems it addresses are mainly performance and capacity.
- Performance is the main area of strength. This is a huge increase over our previous storage providers.
- The deduplication is also a huge plus as this can give us 19 to 1 reduction is data footprint.
- There have been a lot of new versions of Pure Storage released over a very short period of time. This gives us a headache trying to keep up to date as we have many arrays.
- We have had reliability issues, and strange bugs causing problems. We did suffer a complete outage, with a resolution still not applied almost a year after the event.
September 25, 2019
Pure Is A Good Solution
Our Pure Storage array is being used as storage for our financial cores and Cisco UCS hosts. Our old platter drive SANs were end of life and we needed modular, expandable storage that would grow with our organization for years to come.
- Storage density. Having over 20TB of space in less than half a 3U shelf is great. When we're ready for our first expansion we won't even need a new shelf.
- Compression. I was skeptical of how much performance would be available since the array compresses all data stored. It's been faster than I thought. Boot times of VMs are very SSD-like.
- Replication. The compressed replication makes synching data between the arrays fast.
- Setting up replication to other arrays. I pretty much blundered into the solution. Documentation was not clear, mostly because the documentation available from Pure wasn't updated for the new Pure user interface yet. Left me hanging.
- Making changes to replication. The way I understand it, if I want to make any kinds of changes to the replication link (like renaming it) I have to destroy it and recreate it. I still haven't figured it out completely.
- Veeam can't look inside replicated volumes. It would be nice if Veeam could see, open, browse, and restore VMs from inside the replicated volumes on the other side of Pure replication. This would solve some big problems for us.
- Need documentation on how to configure/optimize VM OSes to take advantage of the Pure. We're coming from a 1Gb network infrastructure (including all the virtual NICs) moving to a 10Gb infrastructure. Intra-VM file transfers are slow.
- Growing reliability concerns. We've had our Pure arrays for less than 6 months and have had a drive failure in each of our chassis so far. I do like that the Pure array emails statuses immediately. Support from Pure to fix or replace drives has been good.
September 25, 2019
FlashArray Review
Pure Storage FlashArray is CBH Group's primary storage system and hosts all of CBH's system across the board. It enables us to provide excellent storage performance without having to worry about where data has to go for it to perform. Because of this, the day to day management of the storage infrastructure has almost disappeared completely. It also allowed us to consolidate the physical footprint for data center relocation.
- Deduplication and compression - Allows us to have a minimal footprint and power consumption in our datacenters.
- Support - Pure Storage support is better than any I have had to deal with and the included proactive management allows us to essentially set and forget.
- None - Does everything we want it to do.