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Pure Storage FlashArray

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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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All flash storage for all-round workload

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 4, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 transact...
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Bagit Airlangga
Administrator - Information Technology
Junior Manager Data Center
PT Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero)
Pure Storage FlashArray2 years of experience

Pure Flash always gets you there in time

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 30, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 ...
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Victor Padro
Engineer - Information Technology
Service Engineer
SCAT - Servicios en Computación y en Alta Tecnología
Pure Storage FlashArray3 years of experience

We bet on PURE Storage, and have won performance and less stress.

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 19, 2021
Vetted ReviewVerified User
[Pure Storage FlashArray is] used across the whole environment for both block and file storage
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Ben Bullock
Technician - Information Technology
Sr. Systems Administrator
Blue Cross of Idaho
Pure Storage FlashArray6 years of experience

My Pure Storage Experience

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 23, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 datab...
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Todd Rasmussen
C-Level Executive - Corporate
CIO (Chief Information Officer)
Paramount Acceptance
Pure Storage FlashArray5 years of experience

Pure-ly fast storage!

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 23, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 XtremI...
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Muhammad Mulla
Engineer - Information Technology
Systems Administrator, Core Infrastructure & Microsoft Systems
Cancer Research UK
Pure Storage FlashArray1 year of experience
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Features

Enterprise Flash Array Storage

All-flash array storage is a solid state, high performance storage option.

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Product Details

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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Frequently Asked Questions

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 with VDI workloads

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
February 07, 2019
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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
Pros
  • Up to 10x initial Data reduction,
  • Sub ms latency with VDI workloads
  • Easy to manage and real-time monitoring in the mobile app
Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

Business continuity, reduction of energy consumption and consolidation of the IT structure

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
September 24, 2019
MG
Michele Gottardi
IT Project Manager
Gruppo Nuova Castelli (Food Production, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pure Storage FlashArray
3 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.

Pros
  • It offers shared, accelerated storage with a data-centric architecture.
  • It is always active. Never interrupted, even with software or patch updates.
Cons
  • Prices that for the Italian market are a bit too high.
Likelihood to Recommend
Suited for all the scenarios in which business continuity is a priority for the project. Optimize the infrastructure with a density that supports Direct Flash. Place all company workloads on flash. Pure's data reduction, QoS and availability make secure and cost-effective consolidation possible. Save not only racks but also data center space rows.

Flash Array delivers storage space and new opportunities!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
January 10, 2019
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Here at the Brazilian Space Agency, we use Pure Storage FlashArray across the whole organization. There were two main problems we accounted for when we decided to purchase an all-flash array solution:
1) We had a great variety of hardware in our storage layer, which in turn was expensive and difficult to manage & maintain.
2) We predicted growth of applications and data from ongoing research projects.
The main features that we looked at were their data reduction algorithm and Pure Storage Orchestrator. We were able to attain a 3:1 reduction ratio. With a much smaller investment, we achieved considerable free storage area without consuming all our datacenter free rack-space. Orchestrator provided an automation layer that provided ways for us to fully use our storage layer directly to applications, through automated provisioning and containers. This sped up development and helped coalesce our newly born DevOps paradigm. When we needed snapshots of backups, Pure and Pure resellers provided precise and fast information.
Pros
  • Data reduction
  • Proactive post-selling support and technical advice
  • Provisioning alternatives
  • Data replication for highly available environment
  • Simple to use and intuitive interface
  • Good performance/general information about data usage/access
Cons
  • Improve with more management features. Today, there is provisioning but limited management. Other features, such as data group protection management through this interface could be a killer feature.
  • We had some difficulties integrating flash array with our alarmistic monitoring system. Maybe this could be a little bit easier.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is appropriate for achieving storage space economy through data reduction and as a high velocity, high availability storage hardware. It is easy to integrate/provide storage. Less appropriate for non-critical information which can be stored in a cheaper storage layer.

I Love My Pure!!!!!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
January 07, 2019
CM
Casey McKnew
Assistant Director of IT - Infrastructure
Hodges University (Higher Education, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pure Storage FlashArray
3 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We have two Pure Storage FlashArrays in our organization, one on each campus. We use our Pure Storage FlashArrays as datastores for VMWare and image stores for Citrix PVS servers.
Pros
  • No downtime ever. We have updated firmware, hardware and had to restart controllers etc., without any downtime.
  • Pure support is awesome. We haven't had to use their support much, but when we have, they fix our issues quickly (and again no downtime). They continually monitor the health of our arrays and notify us if and when any issues / problems are encountered (most of the time before we even know there is a problem).
  • Disaster recovery. We snapshot and replicate between campuses every hour. Hurricane Irma disrupted service on our Naples campus and we had to failover to our Fort Myers campus. In less than 20 minutes, all of our Naples servers we up-and-running on our Fort Myers campus (I love my PURE!!!!!).
  • Speed. Migrating a VM from one datastore to another takes less than 60 seconds, seriously our average time is 38 seconds.
Cons
  • With VMs our data reduction 52.4 to 1. With flat files, data reduction is only 1 to 1.
Likelihood to Recommend
The Pure Storage Flash Array is well suited for organizations that run VMware or Hyper-V, the data reduction is significant. Pure is great when it comes to disaster recovery and backups, snapshots and replication happen very quickly and do not consume a huge amount of storage space. We snapshot and replicate every hour, currently we have over 700 snapshots stored on each array which makes it really easy and fast to restore a file, folder or server if the need should arise.

Flash our Data

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
September 27, 2019
Verified User
Manager in Engineering
Telecommunications Company, 11-50 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pure Storage FlashArray
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • 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.
Cons
  • There is not much flexibility for upgrade storage capacity, they only offer in standardized sizes.
Likelihood to Recommend
FlashArray is well suited for time-critical applications where the reading & writing of data is time-critical for the performance. Also, the compression of data is nicely developed. I will not recommend the use of FlashArray for scenarios where data backup is the only purpose. It can surely be done but will not be a cost-effective solution.
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