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We are using Pure Storage FlashArray for virtualization and for main datastore, and I think it is perfect for our environment that needs …
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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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January 04, 2024
All flash storage for all-round workload
We are using Pure Storage FlashArray for virtualization and for main datastore, and I think it is perfect for our environment that needs to process multiple real time transactions because it has super fast all-flash SSD NVMe disk. This is a huge improvement for us who previously only used hybrid disk. One of the important features that we use every day is storage snapshot which is equipped with ant-ransomware.
- Anti-ransomware
- Right-sized Guarantee
- Very fast SSD NVMe
- Snapshot Restore procedure needs to be improved
- Multifactor authentication
- Certification for user
August 30, 2021
Pure Flash always gets you there in time
We deployed one array to a client's DRP which went pretty well. Currently it handles the DRP data and a few offsite production workloads which needed to be handled since this client is a wholefood distributor and didn't have enough infra to handle its load on the DRP and the offsite needs.
- Ease of deployment.
- Robustness at its core.
- Helpful documentation.
- Clear path to get compatibility matrices, it was hard to get it while doing it for Dell and VMware products.
- More options regarding SMB, sometimes a few clients don't have a very big budget to implement a simple iSCSI SAN.
- Spanish speaking techs, they need to improve that.
Our Pure Storage array is used as our primary SAN for our virtualized environment. As the primary SAN, it serves all end-user and IT workloads. When designing the system we sought a solution that would provide plenty of performance and robust uptime. The Pure Storage array fits that description perfectly.
- It is very robust, error free, and requires little maintenance.
- The SAN is never a bottleneck in our environment, the performance is excellent.
- A recent upgrade was completely online and was seamless.
- We are completely happy with our array.
June 08, 2021
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Pure Storage FlashArray is used by my department to support various customers. FlashArray helps my organization to resolve problems that our legacy storage lack in terms of IOPS, hardware issues, manageability, and performance.
- Pure1 portal where you can see all your Pure Storage usage and other features is very impressive.
- Pure Storage integration with VMware SRM makes it very easy to configure array-based replication.
- Pure Storage Support is very good and the resolution time to fix a problem is impressive.
- Pure GUI is very user-friendly and makes it very easy for new users to learn how to create LUNs and others in no time.
- Introduce a new support tab in Pure Storage GUI for any individual storage would be great.
- They offer few trainings for Customers who have invested in Pure Storage for free.
- Suggest to Customers how they can improve Pure Storage functionality from time to time.
Score 10 out of 10
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[Pure Storage FlashArray is] used across the whole environment for both block and file storage
- Easy to implement
- Always get a live transfer when calling in
- Proactive support
- Kinda like a black box in some situations, ie system space
We use Pure Storage FlashArray across the whole organization. It is our primary enterprise storage for general purposes from database to virtualization data. So far we have had an excellent return of investment with high performance and low latency. Pre-sales and after-sales support have been very positive.
- Simple management
- High performance
- Excellent support
- Quick installation and setup
- Trend line in local management
- Performance analysis for more concurrent disks
- More accurate data reduction information by volume.
April 01, 2021
Pure Storage FlashArray Review
We use Pure as our primary storage array. This has been an outstanding investment and the performance has been a huge improvement. The box has done everything we asked it to do! We are nearly out of storage capacity on our EMC and when we saw Pure as an option we jumped at the opportunity.
- Deduplication.
- Processing speed.
- Price is high.
March 26, 2021
Pure Storage is simple to use, implement and manage.
Pure Storage is used in all of our data centers across the Pacific Northwest, including in our Candian operations as well. Since moving from traditional RAID, disk-based arrays (EMC, HP/LeftHand) we have left behind the 'old ways' of storage implementations. Implementation, provisioning, and management of storage with Array has been greatly simplified. We have undergone multiple Array upgrades from one model to the next, non-disruptively, 100% as advertised. We have even seen the new controllers upon renewal of support at the end of year 3, as well. Support costs remained relatively stable and predictable based on capacity and since moving to Pure we have not had to migrate all our data to a new SAN because it was cheaper to buy a new array than to continue support on the existing. All of these benefits have revolutionized our data center management strategy, all the while giving us amazing performance for our virtual workloads.
- Performance: heads and tails above and beyond what a traditional array ever brought to the table.
- Manageability: 8 hour, overnight upgrades are a thing of the past. Open a case with Pure's Support Team, give them an operating window for the upgrade and then they do the upgrades remotely, generally within an hour.
- Deduplication: because of the 4:1 deduplication ratios that we are seeing in our environments, we reduced from a full rack of EMC VNX hardware, to 5RU of Rackspace in one of our data centers, while the rest of our arrays are sitting in a single 3RU chassis, providing all the storage we need for 100s of Windows Server and Desktop VMs.
- I really cannot think of anything that Pure needs to do differently. They are constantly innovating their Pure1 SaaS interface with more benefits and providing on-array software updates that provide value to our IT Team.
March 25, 2021
5 years with Pure Storage FlashArray
We originally started using Pure Storage FlashArray for our VDI workload. We have subsequently expanded usage to include general virtualization workloads. This has been a perfect storage platform for fast disk with data that can be deduplicated and compressed. In our VDI environment, we are seeing better than 7:1 data reduction, and for our other use cases we are seeing 5:1 or better.
- Simple management
- Dedupe and compression
- Snapshot replication
- Display of different data reduction rates can be confusing and could be noted better in the interface
- Pure doesn't have an easy way to note who at the customer is responsible for management/maintenance of different units under the same overall account
March 25, 2021
Pure Storage Flash in a Flash
Pure Storage is used to provide storage as a service (STaaS) to our cloud and managed services customers. Pure is also leveraged in infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for our virtualized environments to provide customers with dedicated compute and storage. In today's world where rapid response is required, ease of management, availability, low latency, and high throughput are key metrics for a business. Pure Storage enables us to meet these tight SLAs.
- Ease of operational management and provisions
- Performance: low latency and high throughput
- Ease of scale: online and non-disruptive
- Ease of upgrades: online and non-disruptive
- Better integration for CIFS/NFS services out of the box built into the array.
- Better integration with VMWare VCD
March 24, 2021
Ultra Fast Array with Simple UI
We are using Pure Storage FlashArray for the entire organization to replicate to identical array in our co-lo site. This array is blazing fast and it solved I/O and latency issues we had with our databases. Our VMs are lightning quick on the array making any storage migrations a breeze. Management of the array is also very simple and easy to use. Overall this is a great product!
- Customer service is fantastic. We have not had any issues with the array, but even doing a code upgrade is simple as support is very friendly and quick to respond.
- The array is FAST! Being an all-flash array that is expected, but bundle that with their architecture and this thing is lightning quick in all storage operations.
- We have not yet had the opportunity to take advantage of the Evergreen Model, but are looking forward to a hardware upgrade. This model is great and allows for quick and easy uplift to the newest hardware without replacing the array.
- The array is so simple and easy to use that, we rarely need to manage it or do anything really. It really feels like a set and forget kind of system because it just works.
March 23, 2021
Pure Storage is a leader in the all flash array market.
We have 3 Pure arrays that are used across the whole organization. We run a VDI environment on it and lots of SQL that benefits from the all flash array. We have an array for development, production, and DR. Using the arrays in these 3 environments ensures that we do not have to sacrifice performance.
- Pure's dedupe algorithm allows us to save storage space considering we have several stacks running the same software.
- The evergreen program allows us to upgrade the controllers on our arrays every 3 years so we are always current.
- Support is amazing, they will work at fixing a problem even if it isn't on their end.
- There is nothing that I can think of that they could do better.
- I would like better notifications of new features.
March 23, 2021
My Pure Storage Experience
Pure Storage is used by the entire organization to host Microsoft SQL Server 2019 database as well as hosting multiple VM's. Pure Storage is extremely efficient for fast database OTLP & OLAP processing. Data duplication allows us to host many copies of the database and duplicate VM's for production, testing and development. Pure Storage has completely changed and improved our entire development. Things that used to take hours and days have turned into seconds and minutes.
- Data compression and data duplication.
- FAST FAST FAST and reliable It just works!
- Customer support is #1. We have never had a vendor better than Pure Storage.
- EASY EASY EASY It just works! Stupid simple and easy to configure and manage.
- Love to see the price come down. We want more units for data replication.
- More details on the mobile app.
- More support for Hyper-V.
March 23, 2021
PURE PODs - not just for eating
We use FlashArray for our file data, SQL data, and Exchange DB's. Its Dedupe is great and allows for lots of storage at a good price.
- Dedupe on file storage is great.
- Active cluster allows for synchronous writes to multiple data centers for an active/active setup.
- Management of volumes and hosts is very simple from the web UI.
- 24/7 support is phenomenal.
- Direct visibility of protection groups from the VMWare console would be helpful for restoring data.
- Would like to be able to manage all FlashArrays from a single web UI.
March 23, 2021
Pure-ly fast storage!
We are using Pure Storage in our organisation to provide datastores in our production VMware vSphere environment and have found it to be a great replacement for the EMC XtremIO that we previously had. The data reduction is brilliant. The ease of use, clear dashboards, online analytics, and smartphone app are all great additions.
- The Pure Array does data reduction particularly well. We've seen a 7x reduction on some of our volumes.
- It is easy to get used to the system after coming from other storage arrays.
- It has some welcome additions such as a smartphone app that makes it easier to view your cases, etc.
- It would have been good to see vvol support for ESX 6.0.
March 23, 2021
PURELY Positive
We are currently using this product to support one of our vmware clusters. We are utilizing the High availability features for a specific product.
- It is very easy to use the management interface.
- So far the product has been incredibly fast.
- It has a very robust feature set and they are constantly improving upon its capabilities.
- We are waiting for support of VVOLs along with the active clustering at the same time.
- I really don't have any more negatives as the product thus far has been wonderful.
December 02, 2020
Pure reliability, pure simplicity, Pure Storage
Our Pure M10 array supports a corporate vSphere environment, and is the primary storage for approximately 50 virtual machines. The workloads vary from file shares to SQL databases.
- Management is dead simple. Spinning up a new datastore is simple and straightforward.
- Data compression and deduplication are amazing. We're seeing 5-7:1 compression ratios without a performance hit.
- The Evergreen model Pure uses make updates/upgrades easy to do, and requires no downtime.
- Since data reduction is used to achieve more storage than is represented by the raw numbers, I'd like to see this figure more prominently in the user interface. Sometimes it's hard to know if you're making a good choice when you're used to dealing with legacy storage numbers.
October 26, 2020
Pure storage, great value, fast storage, no headaches.
Score 10 out of 10
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Our FlashArray is being used as primary storage to support the virtualization of both servers and desktops across our local government. It supports dozens of servers with a wide range from Active Directory to databases to applications servers along with some active virtual desktops.
- Incredibly low latency.
- Great throughput, fast transfers.
- Excellent transparent data deduplication.
- Excellent support from pre-sales to setup to post sales followups.
- If I had to pick, orange is an unflattering color on me.
We use it across the company. It addresses speed and performance while encrypting our data. We needed a solution to secure our patient's health information and this was the best solution we were able to find. We also needed a high performing storage system to keep up with our growth of data as our company grew.
- Speed
- Performance
- Encryption
- Ever green controller replacement
- Cost
June 25, 2020
The Superior Solution
Pure is our Tier 1 storage solution at two locations for VMware and Microsoft environments.
- Rock solid SAN
- Storage reduction
- Ease of use/management
- Ease of support and upgrading
- Replication
- Lower cost solutions for ROBO
- A NAS solution
Pure Storage has replaced our entire NetApp Storage Infrastructure. We have used Pure Storage in all of our use case scenarios. VMware, SQL, Oracle, and even file servers. This storage expands across our whole organization and it satisfies all of our previous issues we used to have such as IO issues and also encryption. Pure Storage is encrypted by default at rest and this was a huge benefit for all the audits we go through.
- Ease of installation – The Pure system was by far 10x easier to setup/configure and begin to use than our NetApp devices were
- Simplicity – The GUI of PureStorage is by far the simplest storage solution I have had to manage in my 10 years of IT. This makes is really simple to create and provision storage to any host.
- Better Data Reduction – Compared to our NetApp it uses 4k block sizes, while our Pure implements a variable block size for data reductions, yielding better results. With the combination of deduplication and compression we are currently getting a 4.3 to 1 ratio with our data! This is compared to our NetApp which we were only able to get about 1.5 data reduction ratio since It wasn’t recommended to do both deduplication and compression with the NetApp due to overhead on the controllers. We have provisioned 18 TB of data on our Pure storage and are only using 3.20 TB with the rates were getting with Pure. This is amazing and we are only at 50% disk utilization.
- Upgrades – When updating the software with NetApp it is a pain staking process since you have several components to update (Controllers, Hard Drives, RLM, Shelves, etc.). During the upgrades you also have to bring your CPU and disk utilization down to 50% before you can perform the upgrades. This forces us to shut down servers to decrease the utilization. The Pure makes it so simple since the technical support teams schedule the upgrades with us and then do them for us! This requires no shutting down of servers and also we will never lose any performance on the controllers during an upgrade.
- Performance – This is the key to the Pure storage since they offer 100,000 IOPS as opposed to our NetApp which was barely getting a maximum of 7,000 IOPS. Also NetApp was unable to retain performance during an upgrade or failure of a drive compared to Pure which retains performance period!
- Customer Support – During the times that I have had to call support they have responded and resolved things very quickly compared to NetApp.
- Evergreen Model – This was a huge sales point and a great advantage to our team since we normally always refresh our systems every 3 to 4 years. The Evergreen model now makes this process painless to our department.
- Security – Pure offers us by default an encrypted “at rest” volume compared to NetApp which has no such feature. This was huge for us to meet certain security requirements for compliance.
- Rack Space – This Pure storage solution is a no brainer when it comes to rack space. We will be saving almost a full rack of space once we have fully migrated over to our new M-series which will save us money!
- Metrics – Pure has built in to the console analysis metrics that you can obtain quickly to monitor and troubleshoot compared to NetApp which you have to build a separate server to configure and license! It’s a no brainer!
- I honestly can't think of anything. I love Pure Storage!
May 27, 2020
A Pure pleasure to use!
We use the Pure Array to provide storage for a VMware ESX infrastructure supporting security operations and testing. We replaced two racks of spinning disks (over 200TB) in use with one "small" 3-4 RU Pure Array with significantly less power requirements and significant performance improvements. Probably the best part (of moving from a major storage provider known by 3 letters) was the improved support and ease on the support staff. We are no longer concerned with storage issues from running out or missing a significant issue or upgrade.
- Support over the last 18 months we have been 2-3 upgrades - no down time, we just schedule it and the tech gets it done.
- Notification of potential issues - they told us that one of our servers was throwing storage errors, while we were aware of the issue, it is nice knowing that there is another party following up.
- Performance - the array has done exactly what they claimed from density of deduplication to work load support.
- The only con I can think of going in is the expense - the array seems expensive for what you get, but when the value is considered, it really is not a concern. I have to say of all the tech purchased, we have not found a good solid Con.....
May 26, 2020
Pure Storage: A Simplified Effective Flash Array
Pure Storage replaced a legacy array, and now serves as our primary storage for both our virtual server and VDI needs. It is being used across the entire organization. It's given us high efficiencies in storage capacity needs, and response times are no longer a topic of discussion. It has simplified overall storage management and has given us a pathway to operational management.
- Deduplication: Not counting thin provisioning and compression, we are realizing 4 to 1 on our deduplication. It works and it works well. I realize this is totally dependent on the workload. High-level summary, our workloads consists of Windows server, Application Servers, and SQL. And yes, it works really well with VDI.
- Simplified Management/maintenance: Simple, simple, simple.
- Support: support has been exceptional both on the phone and from our local SEs. Not that we've had many issues, but our local SEs are ready and willing to answer any questions we have.
- After having used another storage vendor for years and now using Pure Storage, I'm struggling with improvements. There are some new tools that have been introduced to assist with troubleshooting and forecasting that can be somewhat challenging, but no complaints from an operational view.
May 22, 2020
Pure Storage is purely awesome!
Pure Storage is used by our entire organization because it is our sole storage solution going forward. All of our VMs run from Pure and we integrated vCenter with Pure to ease management. Whenever our business analysts discuss performance issues with databases and applications, I remind them that we cannot put the data on faster storage because Pure is the fastest.
- Increasing LUN sizes as the business needs grow is very easy. The easiest I have ever managed when I compare with other major vendors.
- As stated earlier, the performance with Pure is the fastest available.
- I never worry about growth because I know I just need to add more shelves and not redesign my architecture.
- NFS support would be nice but not really needed. Some people feel NFS is a requirement but I don't agree.
- Snap shots of SQL will be the biggest area of improvement that I can give to my business users. Giving them an almost real time copy of a production database that they can use without impacting production performance would be a huge win.
- Support for Azure storage would also be helpful since it is our primary cloud provider.
May 22, 2020
Pure Storage FlashArray makes me happy
Our FlashArray is the primary storage array within our datacenter. With the quality of dedupe and compression that FlashArray provides, it is economical enough to run not only SQL, but all other datasets in our datacenter.
We migrated from a cloud services provider using a NetApp storage array to a self-hosted solution. Moving to the PureArray we saw tremendous performance gains across the board with a fraction of the storage utilization that we were being charged for on the NetApp.
It solved all of our performance and storage utilization issues.
We migrated from a cloud services provider using a NetApp storage array to a self-hosted solution. Moving to the PureArray we saw tremendous performance gains across the board with a fraction of the storage utilization that we were being charged for on the NetApp.
It solved all of our performance and storage utilization issues.
- Dedupe and compression. It always amazes me how much logical data we have compared to how much we are actually using on the array.
- Speed. We measure response time in micro seconds, not milliseconds.
- Support. They know something is wrong or misbehaving before I do.
- As they grow, they become more like the large corporations that are frustrating to work with (EMC, NetApp, etc). I hope they don't lose the core qualities that made them so attractive to begin with.