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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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September 24, 2019
Once you go orange, nothing else is ever good enough!
Pure Storage FlashArray is now our primary platform for block data. All of our production databases and VMware environment live on Pure. This brings us great performance, along with improvements in manageability. We are now positioned for the future and the ability to take advantage of NVMe-oF when it becomes mainstream. No more limiting our options because of the technology already in house. The Evergreen process gets us away from fork-lift storage upgrades, and the support is top notch and fast.
- Support - I've never had a call passed off to a different party that I then have to wait to get back to me. The person responding to my support ticket has been able to help me every time.
- Non-disruptive upgrades. We were able to transition from a SAS based //m series array to a NVMe based //x series array with zero down time. This gave us greater performance and capacity with minimal disruption.
- Simplicity - Pure Storage aims to automate the complicated steps of storage management with superior software. You know they are still happening under the surface, but the administrator does not have to deal with keeping the process just right with a given vendor's command set.
- Licensing - All-in base licensing instead of expensive add-on licenses for additional features. There are very few exceptions to this rule.
- Reporting is too general. Being a tech nerd, I want to be able to see the nitty-gritty details. I also need to be able to define canned sets of reports for problem application systems.
- Pricing is a bit higher then some of their direct competitors .
- Seriously, I have nothing else.
September 24, 2019
My new storage solution provides PURE satisfaction!
We are currently housing and migrating data over from a deprecated storage solution. It is currently housing critical data and eventually will house file shares. The hardware itself is a glowing beacon that symbolizes room for my data and streamlined storage.
- Integrates with vSphere very well
- Adds breathing room to my data stores
- Looks great in the data center!
- I can't even think of a way to improve it!
September 24, 2019
Our experience with Pure Storage FlashArray
Our Pure Storage FlashArray is currently used to deliver the necessary storage capacity (block) to all our production servers.
- The performances are great/on track.
- The products are well finished.
- The support is of very good quality.
- The price (it's a little expensive).
- Native integration of a professional file server system.
September 24, 2019
Pure Storage FlashArray - Easy to set up, use, and maintain.
Our Pure Storage FlashArray is used for our general virtualization environment. We have application and database servers running on it. The business problem we're trying to address is latency.
- Software upgrades are done flawlessly by remote technicians. The techs are very prompt and you do not have to have a major lead time to get this accomplished.
- Support is stellar. Timely updates and resolutions.
- This storage array does not have a bunch of custom tuning. It is tuned for the best performance possible which gives it more predictable results.
- The GUI could be more intuitive. It takes a little getting used to if you're coming from other vendors.
- More performance statistics could be made customer-facing. Something simple like CPU utilization is not even available.
- Asynchronous replication could use improvement. Instead of sending the replication on a time schedule, just asynchronously replicate when possible.
September 24, 2019
Pure Magic
Pure Storage FlashArray provides superior performance at an attractive price point to support our organization's applications. Almost all workloads that we have moved to Pure Storage FlashAray have seen a noticeable improvement in processing times, not just noticed by IT metrics but also by end-users.
- Performance - Workloads moved to the Pure Storage from other mfg arrays saw significant performance improvements.
- Value - For the cost versus performance/capacity gain, Pure Storage FlashArray was an investment that provided great returns.
- Support - A high level of customer support across the board (sales, pre-sales, post-sales, technical). Our reps are always in contact with us to see if we need anything.
- Have not uncovered any yet.
September 24, 2019
Business continuity, reduction of energy consumption and consolidation of the IT structure
The final configuration involves the installation and configuration of a high-reliability infrastructure to provide a redundant system that can be resistant to possible blockage of one of the two site production sites. Network connectivity is provided via four 10Gb network cards and two 1Gb network cards for the management interface.
The SAN Pure Storage M20 enables the active/active HA functionality. The storage is composed of a Pure Storage m20 5TB containing 20 256GB SSD disks bundled with 2 for each disk slot. The total usable net of RAID3D used by the system is 2.7TB which, thanks to the deduplication tool, will provide between 6 and 10 TB usable space.
- It offers shared, accelerated storage with a data-centric architecture.
- It is always active. Never interrupted, even with software or patch updates.
- Prices that for the Italian market are a bit too high.
September 21, 2019
Fast, reliable and simple. All our wishes are granted!
We deployed two active-active arrays (m50r2) for our group datacenter and all our data workloads are hosted on Pure arrays. We use the Active Cluster feature to build our business continuity plan. Then, this year we have bought an x10 one for a production site (warehouse). Pure Storage FlashArray has solved our storage issues around latency, growth, and protection.
- Data reduction is the best we have ever seen. It is always improved at each release.
- Managing PureStorage FlashArray is very simple and secured, it unloaded the storage from over 80% of charge.
- Support is the most efficient and reliable we have. They are amazingly proactive and reactive in case of failure.
- Design and features are great.
- Growth steps. Increasing arrays is quite expensive because steps between tiers are high.
September 20, 2019
Great Enterprise Storage Solution
It is used as the primary enterprise storage for all tiers of applications. Primarily for databases, VDI, laboratory systems, but also as community storage for ESXi clusters and standalone servers. It is replicated from coast to coast for DR purposes and recently we started to deploy smaller appliances of PureStorage into our Tier 2 data centers and laboratories to support local applications. It is easy to grow and upgrade. Our vendor was extremely quick to master the management and initial setup. Using this storage is giving us great business agility.
- Databases - Extremely low latency
- VDI - Great data reduction rates and response times.
- Community storage - Mixed workloads.
- Never had any production issues
- Excellent support, proactively notifying before we can see any manifestation of the problem.
- For the basic use, the storage is excellent. However, it needs improvement in the replication department. We have difficulties sharing replication circuits between different vendors.
Score 10 out of 10
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We are leveraging the FlashArray for our virtual environment, SQL data and WFS. We are also using the FlashArray as warm storage in our Splunk environment. This is accessed by the entire company and has primarily resolved latency issues.
- I'll put NDUs at the top of the Pros list. The ability to upgrade software or hardware with no disruption and completed by support for an entirely hands-off experience is simply beautiful. Just to clarify, I'm referring to in-place upgrades and not migrations that you'll receive from other vendors.
- FlashArray does data reduction extremely well. We receive approximately 4 to 1 on our virtual environment and just over 3 to 1 on our database environments.
- The FlashArray can be expensive if you're a small shop or have a ton of multimedia. It's excellent for virtualization extremely fast.
September 20, 2019
Pure Storage has simplified my life
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
We use Pure Storage for critical workloads such as VDI and SQL. We are not using Pure Storage to its fullest at my current organization. At a previous organization we used snapshots, replication cross datacenter and to cloud.
- Replication
- Vcenter and vrops integration
- Snapshot restore
- Monitoring and alerting
September 20, 2019
Best Storage Performance
Across the whole organization to provide manages Sap service.
- Innovation
- Snapshots
- Performance
- Performace
- Backups in min
- Restore in min
September 20, 2019
PUREWORLD
Mainly caters to VMs and VDIs which gives the best compression/dedupe ratio.
- Reliable and robust
- User-friendly GUI
- 99 uptime
- Great backend support team
- NA
September 20, 2019
Pure Storage is the best storage in the industry
It is used from Oracle DB. It addresses dedupe, compression, and performance.
- Compression
- Dedupe
- Performance
- Replication
- Active cluster in a different city
September 20, 2019
Everything we expected and more
Our Pure Storage deployment is in use across the entirety of our company as well as at our disaster recovery location. It is a mirrored solution where both sites are identical configurations. It is our primary storage. So it solves the problem of where we keep and maintain all of our company data.
- Proactive support.
- Making a case for their own excellence and supporting it with actual performance.
- Pure Storage FlashArrays are very scalable and expandable.
- We have no complaints.
- The arrays have been reliable and as advertised.
September 20, 2019
FlashArray changed our performance goals
It is being used as the primary storage solution for all departments and core systems. We were at capacity with our old storage system and this has helped with relieving the congestion and utilizing the flash speeds has been great.
- Extremely simple to manage.
- The tech support when you call is amazing at fixing your issue in a timely manner.
- I think that the initial system requirements checks could be an automated process so that you don't have to check the 50 best practices.
September 18, 2019
How Pure Storage made my job easier
The Pure Storage FlashArray is the primary SAN that runs the entire business. It solved all of the problems we were having with our prior arrays - its speed and dedupe technology allows the business to save money in the long term via its easy management and lower operating cost.
- Dudupe and compression is very power and space efficient
- All flash based array solved all performance problems
- Easy to expand and upgrade solved the fork-lift upgrade problems of past arrays
- It was a little bit more expensive up front, but worth it in the long term
September 18, 2019
Pure Storage Review
Pure Storage is being used across our whole organization providing storage for 4 locations up/down the eastern seaboard. Through deduplication, it helps in saving considerable storage space, and through IOPS, it increases productivity of virtualized servers & applications. Using Flash has also reduced heat associated with moving parts replacing an HP SAN on lefthand network technology.
- Pure reduces storage space via deduplication, particularly when the same OS is used across the board.
- Flash storage's speed has increased productivity by increasing the speed of server performance.
- Over the coarse of one year, only one maintenance issue needed addressed. It requires little to no maintenance to operate.
- It is monitored 24/7 by the vendor remotely. Any issues that do come up, will be known by the vendor at essentially the same time the company will.
- Training courses for managing and creation of storage, CLI usage, etc.
September 18, 2019
Don't be fooled by their marketing. They aren't BS-ing you, for a change. Try it out and check the TCO for the next decade.
We use Pure Storage Flash Array X and M for our primary and data recovery sites. Pure Storage is our primary storage mechanism for an enterprise workload that has a healthy mix of applications, databases, VMs and file systems. Deploying Pure Storage not only addressed our performance, cost, manageability, flexibility and investment protection (hardware support lifecycle) problems but also has introduced new avenues for us in supporting our business units to make decisions easily about dynamic business plans that explore IT systems' ability to support those plans with not much overhead - both people and money-wise.
- For a change, it's the first storage system I've used in about 20 years that works as it is written on the brochure. In fact, it over delivers. We have had several bad experiences in many ways with storage systems and when you speak about Pure Storage from their datasheets or any other material, it feels like they are going overboard with what they say. But then, only when you deploy it completely would you realize that in fact, at least some of what they mention is underrated and the system is not marketing BS.
- The support is awesome. In addition, we could never imagine upgrading a production storage system during business hours without missing a beat and without dropping any sweat. In fact, you don't need to do anything but log a call with support 2 days in advance and allow them to provide remote assistance. They just do it for you and no downtime or loss in performance. We tried it twice and it still feels unreal.
- In addition, when we didn't get their promised data reduction at our DR site initially, by the time we discussed internally and called them to check what to do, they told us that they had already assessed the situation, made a report for it and submitted it internally for upgrading our disk capacity free of cost. No words. Just great. By the way, funnily enough, after they added capacity, we started getting far more data reduction than they promised. Not sure why it acted up initially.
- Performance. Be it - IOPS, latency, redundancy when disks/controller/network cables fail (yes, we yanked everything to make it fail, and it was fun) it doesn't fail. Even the unreal looking data reduction, they nailed it.
- They said it takes maybe 30 minutes to learn their system and no training is needed. We laughed at them. Not once, but many times. I don't think it took us any more than 30 minutes. This is about the easiest system we manage in our datacenter. Almost zero learning curve.
- There aren't many gaps and they've been closing those few very quickly. An NFS/SMB server without having to worry about MS licenses would be great.
- More VM based usage analytics. We understand the technology limitations in getting the details when using VMFS volumes instead of NFS volumes but it can be slightly better.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
We are using them as a replicated SAN across our entire enterprise. It is our main storage source and has drastically improved performance over our old disc arrays. They have drastically reduced the data center space and maintenance required as compared to our old solutions.
- Easy to maintain.
- Easy to upgrade.
- Easy to link into our hyper converged cloud disaster recovery solution.
- We initially had some issues tuning our arrays and getting them to deliver the compression ratios we were expecting. We have been able to correct most of this but think that they could improve the initial sizing and implementation specs prior to rather than during install.
September 16, 2019
Excellent solution across many different workloads and verticals
Backing our virtualized infra across many different clusters.
- Ease of use
- Very straightforward implementation and support
- Excellent customer service
- Could have a more robust feature set.
September 16, 2019
Experience Pure with a pure sense of humor
To support customer data. With the customer we have, we are managing Pure to be used only for HA type of infrastructure with enhanced performance using it's Flash storage module.
- Performance factor at applications end which are using Pure SAN Infra are running smoothly
- It's very user-friendly to do administrative kind of work. Not too complex to manage the Pure environment when we have a basic understanding of storage engineering.
- Pure1 monitoring tool is a bigger plus point of Pure as it handles multiple things, advance reporting, even migration, prediction, scheduling, high-level planning etc.
- You don't need any third-party software to do and manage multipathing like MPIO for Netapp or PowerPath for EMC in Windows Environment when you have inbuilt Microsoft multipathing software at OS end.
- Should introduce for NAS infra along with SAN infra (ignore if already implemented and useful for NAS infra).
- Must integrate some more features for solid marketing and productivity and competition in today's market. Say, for example, can integrate some backup concepts along with storage structure and check the product cohesion with its hyper-converged cluster style.
September 13, 2019
Why to choose Pure Storage
It was used for my department and it solved our high IOPS and latency issue for critical applications.
- Due to all flash disks, it supports very high IOPS. It also has very good compression and deduplication ratio.
- It helped run a very critical application with > 0.5 ms latency.
- It has a very friendly user interface and support portal.
- We couldn't create local users on this array.
September 13, 2019
Storage that I never have to think about.
Our Pure Storage FlashArrays are our businesses primary data storage. Primarily used to host our virtual infrastructure, they provide high bandwidth, low latency storage with in-line dedupe and compression that hugely reduces our raw storage consumption whilst never being the bottleneck in any of hosted systems. Not a single storage failure to date.
- Hugely reliable and with amazing support staff. This is probably the most critical factor for us and makes our PURE arrays my favourite bits of kit in our environment. Many occasions where PURE storage support staff have identified and resolved issues with our virtual platform better than the support staff of the virtual platform (and so far never something that was caused by the PURE storage arrays). Really quick and easy to raise cases through the management web interface and always good quick responses.
- Very high speed (average read and write latencies of between 0.2 and 0.4ms). Never had storage speed being a bottleneck.
- Great dedupe and compression. We can massively over-allocate storage, confident that the PURE storage arrays will crunch it down as much as possible. On average between 4 and 10 times reduction (although of course, it does depend on the data).
- Great extra features at no extra cost, such as Veeam plugins and the amazing Active Cluster synchronous replication.
- The EverGreen option (only if you get 3 years support in one go) has already replaced our FA-420 controllers with the newer FA-m20 controllers at no extra cost. Really good to know that controller upgrades are included in the support costs so we won't fall behind and have to start from scratch again with newer hardware.
- I suppose the only real downside we have seen has been that these are definitely a premium cost item. However, so far they have been worth every penny in reliability, performance and features so until someone finds me something as good for less money then I will keep these, thank you very much.
- Okay, just scraping the barrel for negatives, but these are an expensive way to store media content as it doesn't compress or dedupe well.
September 13, 2019
Pure performance. Pure reliability. Pure.
Our Pure Storage arrays are used at multiple sites globally. They are the backend storage to our VMware and Citrix XenDesktop environments. The Pure systems replaced aging spinning disk systems that were out of support and maintenance. Pure Storage FlashArray systems provide ease of use, high performance, and reliability that our older spinning disk arrays could never match. In addition to those qualities, Pure's support model is wonderful - they contact us about issues before we even notice there's a problem (which has been very rare). Pure also performs all software/firmware upgrades remotely based on our change management schedules; we give them a time and they do all the work, notifying us at the beginning and end of the updates. The updates we've been provided have never caused us an issue, outage, or downtime. Advanced, simple, performant, robust...Pure.
- Performant - the Pure arrays are fast. Even with the workload of 800+ virtual machines, including Oracle and MS SQL, and applications like SAP, we've still not hit a performance boundary with the Pure systems we use.
- Reliability - none of our Pure systems have ever caused us an outage; even during upgrades and maintenance we've never had to shut down the workload they support for any reason. From a storage point of view, they've provided us 100% uptime since we've been using them.
- Ease of support - Pure's remote management and support are like nothing we've seen before. The upgrades and patches provided are installed remotely based on our schedule, by trained, knowledgeable staff. Beyond that, Pure alerts us to failing components before we have any issues and before we have to call them; replacements are scheduled and performed onsite by experienced technicians.
- Reporting - Pure's analytics generate reports that Pure reviews with us on a periodic basis. They explain to us how our systems are performing and if we should consider upgrading if we start pushing the performance of our current system. Upgrades to faster / larger models haven't been needed yet, but with the periodic reviews, we'll know in advance if we are approaching a threshold we need to be concerned with.
- Ease of use - Pure has taken out the difficulties of managing a SAN. We no longer have to think about which disks need to be in what part of the array, or how we should tier the storage, or worry about "hot spots". It's just "the array" that we can carve up how we need. The management interface is simple, and the vSphere plugins make configuration and day to day management straight forward.
- Having used arrays from IBM, EMC, and NetApp, the Pure system is the easiest, simplest system we've ever used. I can't find an area of improvement simply because no one else has had better ideas that surpass Pure's design.
September 11, 2019
Fast, easy, and reliable
Pure Storage FlashArray was brought in to relieve the IO from other arrays. We placed two high IO applications on the array, both physical and virtual.
- Ability to server high IP, latency-sensitive applications.
- Data reduction ration has beat our expectations.
- Very intuitive set-up and management.
- No notable cons at this time.