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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%
- Simplicity (154)10.0100%
- 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.
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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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March 23, 2021
My Pure Storage Experience
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 database OTLP & OLAP processing. Data duplication allows us to host many copies of the database and duplicate VM's for production, testing and development. Pure Storage has completely changed and improved our entire development. Things that used to take hours and days have turned into seconds and minutes.
- Data compression and data duplication.
- FAST FAST FAST and reliable It just works!
- Customer support is #1. We have never had a vendor better than Pure Storage.
- EASY EASY EASY It just works! Stupid simple and easy to configure and manage.
- Love to see the price come down. We want more units for data replication.
- More details on the mobile app.
- More support for Hyper-V.
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9.7
- [Pure Storage has turned] days and hours into seconds and minutes. We are dramatically more productive from development to servicing our clients.
- Consistent costs.
- No down time for upgrades and maintenance.
We reviewed Dell EMC and said no because of spin drives, hard upgrades. NetApp was not easy enough to use.
Pure Storage was easy of use, had reliability, evergreen, and we got much more in productivity than we could even imagine at the time.
Pure Storage was easy of use, had reliability, evergreen, and we got much more in productivity than we could even imagine at the time.
Yes
Upgrade process was easy easy easy. Zero down time or slowness. Pure support did it all. We have performed firmware upgrades, controller upgrades, model upgrades (/M to /X), storage shelf additions, drive swaps (SAS to NVME) and storage pack increases, drive replacements, and NVRAM module swaps . Never had a single performance issue ever.
- Storage size increase and speed with SAS to NVME
- Even more performance from /M to /X series
- Even more speed
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No
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Database use from processing, accounting, customer service, end user access
2
Only need 1 but have two for backup. Maintenance is simple and mostly hands off. Mainly just check if their are new firmware versions, if so we schedule Pure to do the upgrade. Extremely easy, simple, and reliable.
- Reliablity
- Speed
- Easy of use
- Easy to create test environments for developers.
- Cloud replication
Yes
DELL PowerVault MD's
No more spin drives
More speed
More reliably
No more big "upgrade" cycles and down times
No more spin drives
More speed
More reliably
No more big "upgrade" cycles and down times
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
We needed speed and reliability. Pure seemed more expensive than we wanted to pay but we have received much more than we expected.
Data reduction and compression have been much higher than we expected.
Snapshot feature and the ability to mount snapshots in seconds has changed the way we develop and increased the speed our product development.
Simple simple simple. We have time to deal with other IT issues and never worry about storage.
Data reduction and compression have been much higher than we expected.
Snapshot feature and the ability to mount snapshots in seconds has changed the way we develop and increased the speed our product development.
Simple simple simple. We have time to deal with other IT issues and never worry about storage.
Don't focus only "replacement" cost only. Look at other costs that will be reduced such as storage maintenance, down time. Look at things that will increase: Performance, productivity, reliability. You will sleep better knowing Pure will be up and running everyday.
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
Just have Pure do it and there are no issues.
- None once we had experienced support doing a firmware upgrade, we never worried again about any updates and upgrades.
- Online training
- in-person training
- no training
In many cases we didn't need any training. The GUI was very simple to use. In some cases we would attend a user group and some new thing was reviewed. We would then go back and look at it ourselves and figure out how to do what we needed very easily.
If you are setting up VM's and SQL review Pure's best practices articles. Easy and clear instructions how to configure for best performance and reliability.
No - we have not done any customization to the interface
No - we have not done any custom code
We haven't had the need to for any customization, everything we needed has been in the box already.
Yes, Gold support for new controllers when we want to renew them and to stay current with the latest technology improvements.
No
Late at night we got an alert that a drive was predicted to go bad. We didn't even have to call support, a replacement drive was already in our hands that morning. We swapped out the drive expecting it to take some time to fully rebuild. The rebuild was done in under a minute. Zero down time, zero slowness.
- Creating volumes
- Mounting and organizing volumes
- Taking snapshots, mounting them and using them.
- Swapping drives
- Upgrading the firmware - Pure does it and reviews any potential issues
- Maintenance basically none
- None so far
Yes
Simple metrics, you don't get lost in information overload.
- Veeam
Easy
- Cohesity
Yes
None
Pure is always simple and easy
Pricing and timing of delivery. Delivery ending up being weeks faster than we both expected making implementation so much easier.
Be honest on your needs and exactly what you want to use the product for. Ask lots of questions, especially if you have different growth options in the future so you can get the best product to fit your needs now and in the future.
September 27, 2019
Why we switched to Pure
We are a managed service provider, we use FlashArrays for shared storage for our private cloud customers and as dedicated storage for several of our larger customers. We have been steadily replacing all older spinning disk storage systems with FlashArrays. This has allowed us to greatly increase storage efficiencies and provide outstanding storage performance to all our customers. FlashArrays have solved varying issues for different customers, from database performance to storage efficiency of VDI applications.
- 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.
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9.7
- Return on investment has been great, lowering management costs and providing greater storage efficiencies.
- System reliability is awesome. We have several FlashArrays and very few hardware failures; something like 4 drives in 4 years, and no controller issues.
- No negative impacts with these systems for us at all.
At first, they most of our selection criteria but were missing some key components. We could use them for specialized deployments but not shared systems. They worked with us and added the components we required and we now are moving all storage needs to Pure Storage systems. Their service team is way ahead of the others we evaluated and have done nothing but improve since we moved to Pure.
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All of our internal business functions and all are client's environments (minus one) run on the Pure FlashArrays. We have replaced all but one array (it uses a specialized function only that manufacturer provides) for us and our clients. We will use nothing else in the future.
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The Pure FlashArrays have been so low maintenance all the administrators have had their duties greatly expanded. We used to have one fulltime admin and four that would help as needed maintaining storage systems, we now have two that spend less than 10% of their time with the Pure systems.
- Databases - mainly SQL
- VDI environments
- General virtualization - both VMware and Hyper-V
- We are examining disk to disk to cloud backups.
- Clustering arrays for business continuity and performance balancing
- Hybrid computing - moving between cloud providers and local virtualization
Yes
We replace Netapps FAS storage systems. They did not provide the density or features we needed for the future. They are using outdated technology in their flash systems and their service group of late has been lacking.
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We wouldn't. We were very though and went thru 5 vendors before making a final selection.
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
Limited change management was required. Once the FlashArrays were online and connected to the client environments it was a matter of vMotioning the virtual machines to their new homes.
- Poorly configured virtual machines
- Limited networking - environment required more addresses for implementation
- no training
A little help from our Sales Engineer was all that we needed.
Read the documentation from the Pure Support site, excellent references.
No - we have not done any customization to the interface
No - we have not done any custom code
Yes
Allows us access to the Evergreen program.
No
- Network configuration
- Volume allocation and configuration
- Support requests.
- None so far.
Yes
Very well, have been able to track open support cases and verify system performance on the go. New features are popping up all the time and some are very useful, like opening up remote access for support - they can fix the issue and you never have to sing into the FlashArray itself.
Yes
All upgrades have gone smoothly but one and that was handled with openness and candor. They identified the problem and explained how this would not happen in the future. Don't believe a vendor had been so honest with me before.
- Greater ease of operation
- Better monitoring and reporting
- Increased storage efficiencies
- new features
- increased storage efficiencies
- More integration with cloud
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No