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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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Pure offers the best-in-class all-flash storage array with ease of uses and hands off management that you need
Pure Storage FlashArray's are a great addtion to any environment.
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Pure Storage FlashArray: simplicity, ease, and performance
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Popular Features
- Flash Array Performance (154)10.0100%
- Simplicity (154)10.0100%
- Non-Intrusive Upgrades (148)10.0100%
- Data Compression (153)8.080%
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Features
Enterprise Flash Array Storage
All-flash array storage is a solid state, high performance storage option.
- 10Flash Array Performance(154) Ratings
Solid state flash arrays offer high speed compared to hard-disk drives
- 9Flash Array Integration(144) Ratings
Integration with hypervisors and applications
- 8Data Compression(153) Ratings
Flash Arrays include compression and deduplication features to reduce storage requirements
- 10Non-Intrusive Upgrades(148) Ratings
Software upgrades are often seamless with no performance tuning required
- 10Simplicity(154) Ratings
Flash arrays should be simple to use and require little training
- 9Power Savings(131) Ratings
Flash arrays use significantly less power than hard-disk drives
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What is Pure Storage FlashArray?
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 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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- 9.1Likelihood to Renew25 ratings
- 9.1Availability5 ratings
- 8.8Performance5 ratings
- 9.1Usability16 ratings
- 9.3Support Rating75 ratings
- 9.1Online Training1 rating
- 8.8In-Person Training3 ratings
- 9.1Implementation Rating6 ratings
- 9.1Configurability2 ratings
- 9.1Product Scalability4 ratings
- 9.1Ease of integration3 ratings
- 9.1Vendor pre-sale5 ratings
- 9.1Vendor post-sale5 ratings
Reviews
(1-25 of 49)All flash storage for all-round workload
- Anti-ransomware
- Right-sized Guarantee
- Very fast SSD NVMe
- Snapshot Restore procedure needs to be improved
- Multifactor authentication
- Certification for user
- Speed - our VM's boot up in less then 10 seconds compared to about 90 seconds on the previous spinning disk arrays
- Support - we have had great response / automated ticket creation for issues the may pop up
- Up time - we have done numerous software upgrades and even hardware updates with ZERO down time in our virtual environments. We never could of done this with our previous Dell SANs
- None that I can think of
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- Deduplication.
- Processing speed.
- Price is high.
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- Fast - very fast.
- We found our main IT vendor is no longer a partner with Pure Storage :(
Pure Storage is simple to use, implement and manage.
- 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.
Pure Storage Flash in a Flash
- 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
- High performance (low latency and high throughput)
- Small data center footprint
- Low power (as opposed to an equivalent array sized with disk platers.)
- Ease of operational management
Pure Storage is a leader in the all flash array market.
- 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.
- High performing storage IO.
- Simple set-up, configuration, and administration.
- Cost can be relatively high.
- Capacity increases only come in specific sizes (2, 5, 10TB), so upgrades are not very customizable.
Pure Storage FlashArray.. Its time to get on board
- Speed and response time.
- Ease of management and Powershell support.
- Replication, Pure Snap independence and offloading are very useful.
- Add better support for file protocols to directly access the array.
- Instant snapshots and cloning.
- Instant recovery from snapshots.
- Asynchronous replication.
- Minor - Snapshot creation from VMware takes an unusually long time if the memory snapshot is enabled.
- Minor - FlashArray software does not currently support a much needed "keep last X snapshots (replicas)" option in protection groups.
Pure Storage Flash Array
- Easy to configure
- Very fast
- Easy to intergrate
- Great Technical support
- Clearer pricing
Pure reliability, pure simplicity, Pure Storage
- 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.
- 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!
An example where you probably would not want to implement Pure Storage FlashArray is in an unstructured data environment. For this, you would use another product they have called Flash Blade.
- Probably the best support that I've ever seen
- Designed to be all-flash from the very beginning
- Very, very, very easy to use
- Easy to deploy
- During our initial deployment, there are things that should be automated (I think they may already be automated with the current versions) like IP address assignment and finalising the configuration.
- Although documentation is plentiful and very well written, at times one might feel lost searching for a specific document. A "beginner section" in the portal would be very helpful for new users.
- More descriptive error messages would be very helpful.
- Our FlashArrays have been 100% reliable. In the four-years-plus we have been relying on them, we have not experienced a single moment of unplanned downtime due to these arrays. Their hardware design is solid-state and fault-tolerant, redundant everywhere. This allows zero-downtime upgrades for all of their OS, management, and driver software. We've been through numerous (10+) software upgrades on two arrays and have never experienced any interruption in service or data loss.
- Pure Storage's FlashArray support, phone-home, monitoring, and analytics services through their centralized Pure1 web portal have been head-and-shoulders above every other storage vendor we've worked with. Their tools allow their staff to be expert, professional, confident, and, best of all, proactive. Their platform allows them to know far more about the array than we do, and in real time.
- Our FlashArrays have been blazingly fast. When we copied our production Oracle databases over to the first array for the first time, the databases immediately benchmarked out 2.5 to 3 times faster, with no other changes. Every one of the workloads we migrated to our FlashArrays experienced similar speed increases.
- Compared to legacy hybrid or spinning-disk storage-array administration, managing our FlashArrays is extremely simple. No more external spreadsheets tracking raid categories, LUN sizes, or storage pools built on different underlying types and arrangements of disks. Allocate a volume, give it a name, hook it up to a host or a cluster. Rescan the storage, and start using it.
- Pure's implementation of data reduction/data deduplification has been amazing for us. Absolutely a game-changer. It has allowed our arrays to function like arrays five or even ten times their actual size. It works especially well (really, really, really well) with large database and database-development environments, where dev/test/qa databases are close copies of production databases. You basically get all of the copies for free, storage-wise. Something very similar happens with array storage for VMWare VM's, also. Copies of VM's are basically free.
- In our environment, Pure could provide additional network interconnect technologies. HPC is not that common a market niche, though. Pure could at least test and validate limited compatibility with third-party hardware, even if they then needed to limit their support or warranty if customers chose to implement it.
- Pure provides a lot of API support for building your own integration solutions for things like VMWare administration, container orchestration, and hybrid cloud environments. They do seem to be investing in these technologies, but full-featured, pre-packaged, tested and supported solutions would be a lot better. Most enterprises don't want to build their own automation and integration, they want things to just work, out of the box.
PureStorage - Why look at anything else?
- Deduplication and compression
- PERFORMANCE!
- Support
- I honestly can't think of anything.
Pure Storage is good!
- Ease of manageability.
- Great support.
- Online hardware and software updates.
- A costly solution, but worth every penny.
- 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.
Once you go Orange, you never go back!
- 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.
Why we switched to Pure
- 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.
Once you go orange, nothing else is ever good enough!
- 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.
Pure Storage FlashArray - Easy to set up, use, and maintain.
- 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.
Business continuity, reduction of energy consumption and consolidation of the IT structure
- 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.
- 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.
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- 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.