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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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- Flash Array Performance (154)10.0100%
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- Non-Intrusive Upgrades (148)10.0100%
- Data Compression (153)8.080%
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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.
Current available models include:
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.
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 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 06, 2019
Great storage for our requirements
Nimble, NetApp and VSAN are all products that were evaluated and with which we had previous experience.
Nimble and NetApp at the time were both promoting hybrid systems rather than all flash. In both cases, we favoured all flash since it had become affordable and is much more reliable than traditional disk. In addition, experience with both of those vendors proved that complete system replacement was required after five to six years.
VSAN allowed for affordable all flash. To provide the desired level of high availability required eight vSphere hosts rather than six, plus more compute capacity on the hosts to allow for VSAN resources. The Pure solution proved to be less expensive than VSAN.
Nimble and NetApp at the time were both promoting hybrid systems rather than all flash. In both cases, we favoured all flash since it had become affordable and is much more reliable than traditional disk. In addition, experience with both of those vendors proved that complete system replacement was required after five to six years.
VSAN allowed for affordable all flash. To provide the desired level of high availability required eight vSphere hosts rather than six, plus more compute capacity on the hosts to allow for VSAN resources. The Pure solution proved to be less expensive than VSAN.
September 06, 2019
Good performance and simplicity of use.
NetApp storage was evaluated. It was a good product, stable and reliable, but it is a little bit more complicated for administrators. For performance, to be honest, NetApp storage was running on a hard drive, so it is not a fair game to compare with Pure. However, the performance difference is really big. For simplicity of use. NetApp is still good for NAS. However, Pure is really better on the SAN side.
September 06, 2019
Pure Storage FlashArray - fast forward mirrored VM Storage
At the time we have bought Pure FlashArray, we could not find any real alternative!
We have looked at some, but no real competitor was identified.
We have looked at some, but no real competitor was identified.
September 06, 2019
Pure Storage delivers on their promise
NetApp, at the time, was more a hybrid approach as did not have the same level of features and capabilities in the all-flash array market, newer products have since been released to market that would make a closer comparison now, but three years ago this was not the case.
Nimble, more suited to Silver/bronze (teir2/3) storage with Flash as a Cache.
HDS, has very solid products, compares favorably with the capacity and performance required, but at a higher price point and does not offer the benefits of the Pure solution in terms of features, monitoring, and reporting, support model and flexibility of upgrades.
Nimble, more suited to Silver/bronze (teir2/3) storage with Flash as a Cache.
HDS, has very solid products, compares favorably with the capacity and performance required, but at a higher price point and does not offer the benefits of the Pure solution in terms of features, monitoring, and reporting, support model and flexibility of upgrades.
September 05, 2019
Pure Storage FlashArray - A happy story of a storage admin
Pure Storage FlashArray beats all the mentioned storage products in terms of performance, price, and support.
September 05, 2019
Pure Storage FlashArray is the best SAN I've ever used!
Dell/EMC support was not as effective as Pure Storage's. Within days of selecting Pure Storage FlashArray, we had a team of technicians helping implement the array, integrate it with our existing systems, and test migration of VMware datastore to the array for proof-of-concept testing. Pure technicians and sales staff also helped supply us with documentation and best practices for our use cases and offered first-hand knowledge of edge cases for further tuning.
September 05, 2019
Pure Storage is the only way to go.
I have used HP EVA and HP 3Par as storage systems in the past. I have also evaluated Pivot3, Dell EMC, and Dell Compellent. We selected Pure Storage based off of three things: initial cost to purchase, renewal cost, and ease of use/maintenance work on our end. No one came close to touching Pure in any of those categories, much less all 3.
Pure Storage FlashArray cost was better than the others and offered more features.
September 05, 2019
Why we use Pure!
We have looked into EMC as well.
September 05, 2019
Pure Arrays and the simplification of SANs
We tested our Pure arrays agents a few alternatives. They're the only ones that built their platform to be future proof and had the simplest licensing agreement of the bunch (there was none!).
September 05, 2019
Pure has changed my life!
In the end, Pure distanced itself from competitors not only through aggressive pricing, but through simplicity, performance, and stability.
September 05, 2019
Pure Storage FlashArray Review
We previously ran EMC Clariion CX3 disk-based SANs, with FibreChannel back-plane. This setup worked for many years and provided reliable service. However, compared to FA it was slow, complicated, static (not easy to update or refresh), and consumed tens of kilowatts across many shelves of 10-15k rpm spinning disks.
September 05, 2019
Comparison of features and use for a VDi environment
Pure beats the Dell Compellent hands down on implementation, support, speed, dedupe, use, and management interface.
It beats Quantum on everything but dedupe. Quantum has the best dedupe capabilities.
It beats Quantum on everything but dedupe. Quantum has the best dedupe capabilities.
We were looking for a SAN with a large capacity in a small footprint and easy to use interface. The 3Par had a much larger footprint and cost a lot more. Compellent had fewer features then Pure and seem not as easy to use while the dedupe and compression process seemed not as efficient.
August 27, 2019
Pure Storage FlashArray is worth it
Cars Inc doesn't use other Pure Storage solutions.
August 24, 2019
Pure Storage FlashArray is AWESOME!
Dell and Netapp require constant touching and management in our experience. The Flash Array is the opposite of that. The monitoring that PureOne provides for free is also awesome and costs money from other competitors. The other vendors really didn't have a great answer to the evergreen model as well.
August 23, 2019
The best Flash Array
August 23, 2019
This storage array is a Pure solution.
Pure Storage FlashArray was chosen due to the performance, reduced management complexity, and support features as compared to other solutions. Some vendors did not offer a support model that fit, compatibility with legacy HPUX, or offered the compression and dedupe features. Our alternative was the 3PAR, but a file protocol feature we wanted was not ready for the heavy use we were expecting. That feature may have negated more difficult integration and management.
August 23, 2019
Pure Storage FlashArray Review
There is no comparison between our Pure FlashArray and the EMC SAN equipment we used in the past.
August 23, 2019
Pure satisfaction
- NetApp FAS series and Dell EMC Celerra (Discontinued)
At the time of our purchase, Pure Storage FlashArray was the most mature product.
August 22, 2019
A happy consumer of Pure Storage services
To be honest, we have evaluated other players in the market but everyone was more expensive and more complicated solutions that we don't need.
August 22, 2019
Pure Storage FlashArray! Very attractive.
I haven't used any others.
August 22, 2019
Pure Storage FlashArray is great!
I compare PureStorage M20 to 3Par 8600 with all SSD disks.
- Performance - Pure is far better than 3Par.
- License - 3Par is very expensive and complicated. Pure is simple and all included in one package.
- Maintenance - 3Par maintenance cost increases every year but Pure is a straight through for 10 years.
- Upgrade - Upgrade of 3Par is destructive while Pure is non-destructive and seamless.
- Easy of use - 3Par's management system is complicated and difficult to use while Pure is simple and knit.
- Performance - Pure is far better than 3Par.
- License - 3Par is very expensive and complicated. Pure is simple and all included in one package.
- Maintenance - 3Par maintenance cost increases every year but Pure is a straight through for 10 years.
- Upgrade - Upgrade of 3Par is destructive while Pure is non-destructive and seamless.
- Easy of use - 3Par's management system is complicated and difficult to use while Pure is simple and knit.
August 22, 2019
Pure Storage FlashArray Review
- Nimble and Nutanix
Pure was cheaper in the long run and suited our business model more.
August 22, 2019
Why you want Pure Storage FlashArray
- Dell/EMC CX4 series, IBM Storwize V7000, NetApp FAS series, Dell EMC Avamar, Dell EMC Celerra (Discontinued) and IBM XIV
None of the arrays that we had in production could touch what Pure is capable of doing. I evaluated the EMC and NetApp AFA offerings at the same time I did the Pure POC. There was no comparison. That is why we now have 20 Pure arrays.