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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.
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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- Business Problems Solved
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 26, 2021
Pure Storage is simple to use, implement and manage.
- Snapshot integration with Veeam has given even more performance to our backup processes.
- Pure online management console provides insight into our technical AND management teams without the need for full array access for people who don't need it.
March 23, 2021
Pure Storage is a leader in the all flash array market.
- We have been able to start using the VMAnalytics that is just recently released by Pure. THis has helped to track down issues with VMs and resolve them quickly.
March 23, 2021
Pure is simple and effective
- We haven't been particularly clever with ours. We bought it to dedupe and compress our VM disk images and to speed up our VMs. It has done that effectively and in a very stable fashion.
March 23, 2021
PURELY Positive
- We have been utilizing the VMware built in tools to further reduce our need to log into the arrays
- We have leveraged our ability to clone databases to greatly reduce the wait time of restores
- We have begun using stretched volumes for redundency
May 27, 2020
A Pure pleasure to use!
- End users have been very happy with the performance and complaints due to storage have disappeared.
- Zero Down time with the array
- Pure's truly excellent support for automation and integration programming has allowed us to build a completely new database- and application-automation solution. This solution allows us to clone, manage, and deploy complex, integrated database-plus-application environments as dev/test copies in less than 10% of the time it previously took, using less than 10% of the previous DBA/SAN admin effort. This has allowed our development teams to complete their projects faster, delivering features and performance to our entire campus community, increasing customer satisfaction and other higher-ed key performance metrics.
May 22, 2020
Pure, the only choice for flash!
- Doing data refreshes on products has been made very simple with the snapshot feature of Pure Storage FlashArray.
- We’ve been able to move to virtual volumes with ease
- Little to no impact to our customers or internal staff
May 20, 2020
Pure Storage: Feel the Speed
- The speed with which a large number of invoices can be processed. Gives a prompt response to our customers regarding their ventras and product deliveries.
May 20, 2020
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May 20, 2020
The little array that could
- I have replicated from one FlashArray to another at a remote data center. Once the replication was complete, we were able to bring up our virtual environment very quickly.
- I have migrated many virtual machines between datastores on an array in minutes, enabling me to use smaller datastores where needed.
May 19, 2020
One of the only vendors whose claims of hidden magical knowledge have stood the test of time!
- We boot all of our virtual desktops directly from Pure FlashArray and it makes it trivial to roll out new operating system versions.
- Our new kubernetes cluster uses the Pure Service Orchestrator to provide persistent volumes for containers.
July 27, 2019
Awesome Product with Caveats
- Not applicable. It's just disk for us with standard uses.
July 27, 2019
FlashArray: My love!
- We use FlashArray as often as we can.
- We reduced lags in applications, databases and everything runs much smoother.
July 25, 2019
Manage the storage of your databases in a "Flash"
- We are quite conservative and have not had such innovations in our clients.
- Doing multiple clones of the production environment for testing is almost free due to the deduplication and compression feature.
- Zero impact and zero touch upgrade means upgrade can be done at any time with no downtime.
- Fast provisioning saves on project implementation time.
July 24, 2019
My Pure M20 Review
- We were able to increase frequency of replication to improve DR RPO and RTO.
July 24, 2019
FLASH: PURE FOR SURE
- PURE has withstood the unexpected huge demand on IOPs in our environment.
April 19, 2019
A flash travel to the future
- The VDI experience with this kind of storage is much better especially with CAD, 3D and other software that uses very large files
- We have consolidated VDI and VSI on one storage that now is pushed during the day from VDI and during the Night from the servers back up
March 08, 2019
I purely love Pure Storage
- API integration with Rubrik allows for shorter backup windows and less vCenter clutter
- SRM SRA for DR Tier 1 applications
March 06, 2019
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March 06, 2019
Pure Storage, no worries!
- No specific use cases so far.
- Just excellent all-round performance.
February 20, 2019
The Greatest Storage Buy Ever
February 19, 2019
A Flashy Array of Storage Quality
- It has allowed us to keep more copies of test environments, and this has improved the testing of programs, helping eliminate mistakes that slip through.
- In the past, we have often hit performance limitations with storage, where moving data would take a certain amount of time and we couldn't get below that based entirely on the storage back end. Pure Storage FlashArray has allowed us to increase copy performance significantly.
- Replication has allowed us to maintain a remote copy of even non-production data. This has allowed us to improve our positioning for Disaster Recovery, particularly when it comes to Tier 2 applications.
February 19, 2019
Filled with Flash, faster than Superman
- We've been able to quickly and easily deploy a lot of new servers because of the array.
February 15, 2019
Pure Flash Goodness
- Clone a LUN, feed it through an obfuscation process, and you now have test data to work with. Or take that obfuscated LUN and clone it several times for multiple test environments. This lets us secure data, and provide devs with a full data set/schema to work against.