Pure Storage FlashArray

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Storage snapshots

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.

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.

Not applicable. It's just disk for us with standard uses.

We use FlashArray as often as we can.

We reduced lags in applications, databases and everything runs much smoother.

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.

We were able to increase frequency of replication to improve DR RPO and RTO.

PURE has withstood the unexpected huge demand on IOPs in our environment.

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

API integration with Rubrik allows for shorter backup windows and less vCenter clutter

SRM SRA for DR Tier 1 applications

n/a

No specific use cases so far.

Just excellent all-round performance.

NA

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.

We've been able to quickly and easily deploy a lot of new servers because of the array.

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.