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Pure Storage FlashArray

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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Pure Storage FlashArray has been widely used across various industries and organizations to address a multitude of storage needs. Users …
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Popular Features

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  • Flash Array Performance (154)
    10.0
    100%
  • Simplicity (154)
    10.0
    100%
  • Non-Intrusive Upgrades (148)
    9.9
    99%
  • Data Compression (153)
    8.0
    80%

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Product Demos

Pure Storage Demo in 8 Minutes

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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.

Pure Storage FlashArray Videos

FlashArray Architecture Overview
FlashArray//X: The Next Gen All-Flash Array
FlashArray Architecture Deep Dive Highlights

Pure Storage FlashArray Integrations

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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 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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TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

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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Cory Salvesen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We compared to Nimble and 3par. 3par required a lot more management and is complex to deploy storage. Nimble was similar to pure, however at the time we purchased, it could not run fiber channel and iscsi at the same time on the same controller. We had a specific need for this so that made the decision.
Robert Chen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use many other SAN storage from "traditional" vendors as well. We started to use Pure Storage in a small scale project at the beginning . We realized the benefit of the FlashArray after we use it for about 1 year. So we move all our critical servers to Pure Storage.
November 28, 2018

Better, Fast and Simple

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pure started with all FlashArray since beginning of the company and Nimble was just changing from convectional spin disk to flash, so we selected Pure because of the length on the business with FlashArray SAN and the review and reputation we read about it.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pure Storage was tested against 3 different arrays as we are a hospital system running EPIC we needed a system that could handle the large database load and still provide sub-millisecond latency. All systems came real close to the SLAs we were looking for, but in the end, Pure had the lowest latency, highest compression and what we viewed as possibly the best support operative. Oh, and the price of the controller upgrade can't be beat!
Carl van Eijk | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
During our POC against Tintri, our sales engineer said we should test failures to data and power! That we did! We live pulled all the plugs and cables and moved the Flash Array to another rack and reconnected everything. Our test virtual infrastructure, having paused for the duration, just continued where it left off 5 minutes earlier, as if nothing had happened.
None of the others are in the same game, let alone the same league as Pure when it comes to performance, support , features and stability.
EMX was a licensing nightmare! With Pure, you get all the features unlocked and useable.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized

It is an easy and fast Storage system with an high automated active cluster system.

We like the Evergreen Gold program. No more migration in about 5 years and no more full containers with old storage shelfs.

No down time at all and an excellent support.

Other customers are more then satisfied with the Pure Storage FlashArray stacks.

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Better price/usable storage, better performance, higher dedupe and compression, easy to use and self-explanatory GUI, good support, rack and stack and running in 4 hours were some of the reasons we selected Pure Storage.
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