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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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Product Demos

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Demo of Pure Storage UCS Director Adapter for Creating LUNs on Pure Storage FlashArray

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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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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Pure from the beginning and for the foreseeable future.

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
December 14, 2018
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Restaurants Company, 10,001+ employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pure Storage FlashArray
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Pure storage is our "Tier 1" storage for in house applications. It is being used across the entire organization for a number of mission critical and time sensitive workloads. The FlashArray has allowed us to reduce processing time in our Data Warehouse as well as increase performance along all analytics and statistical models.
Pros
  • Non-disruptive upgrades
  • Ease of use
  • Excellent Customer Support both in sales and technical aspects
Cons
  • Providing more detailed reporting on data reduction and deduplication
  • Lowering cost for barrier of entry
Likelihood to Recommend
Pure Storage is useful in high IO environments including SQL and Data and Analytics. Due to the increased cost of flash storage, it is not a good candidate for deep and cheap archival storage.

Pure Arrays and the simplification of SANs

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
September 05, 2019
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Company, 1001-5000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pure Storage FlashArray
7 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Our Pure array is used across our entire organization. It powers our entire software stack from the app/web/DB layers all the way to back office and end-user solutions.
Pros
  • An easy to manage interface.
  • Very fast performance.
  • Cost savings with dedupe and compression.
Cons
  • Limited native cloud support.
  • Limited precise metrics.
  • No automated reporting.
Likelihood to Recommend
The Pure Storage array is designed to fit in any environment, from the smallest local branch office to a primary data center running a site.

Pure Storage: Feel the Speed

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
May 20, 2020
Verified User
General Manager in Corporate
Wholesale Company, 51-200 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pure Storage FlashArray
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • Latency reduction
  • Speed ​​to obtaining information.
  • Ease of equipment administration
  • SnapShot Manager
Cons
  • 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
Likelihood to Recommend
Recommended for database desk virtualization.

Very happy!

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 04, 2019
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Drew Taylor
Senior Storage Engineer
FLIR Systems (Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pure Storage FlashArray
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • 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
Cons
  • I honestly can't think of an area that I am unhappy with
Likelihood to Recommend
The FlashArray excels at virtual workloads. The level of integration and reporting that they have achieved is phenomenal. For our purposes the only area that we have elected to not leverage these devices are where we have extremely large file storage where high performance is not paramount.

Pure Storage FlashArray replaced outdated NetApp and the benefits were outstanding

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
May 19, 2020
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Omar Khalid
Senior Information Technology Analyst
Ricoh Printing Systems America, Inc. (Printing, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pure Storage FlashArray
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • 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).
Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
I believe if the budget allows that a Pure Array or multiple arrays can be used in any configuration or any density regardless of how much data needs to be stored or how much performance is required.
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