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

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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.

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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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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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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you are looking for an enterprise-grade storage solution for mixed/high workloads, Pure Storage FlashArray is a fantastic option. It has a very easy to use interface, and advanced features like replication, snapshots, etc. are very easy to configure.
September 09, 2019

Pure... What else!

Thomas Marteau | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
All scenarios can be addressed now with the active cluster architecture with synchronous replication. We are using PureStorage FlashArray to handle our IO aggressive workloads that go and look for many metadata info all day long. Pure has been able to deliver increasing performance just by OS upgrades managed centrally by Pure support.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The normal 80/20 read/write load of a transactional database is ideally suited for an all-flash array. Essentially, storage latency is removed as a bottleneck, CPU wait times are more than halved and read performance is greatly increased. Heavier write loads such as Citrix or VDI solutions work but the increase in performance isn't quite as impressive.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We've seen that almost all VM workloads have been drastically improved when moving to the Pure Storage FlashArray. One scenario that hasn't worked well, and seems to be an expensive investment, are the encrypted SQL database systems that do not dedupe or compress. The data consumption on this workload was a 1:1 ratio, which killed our overall capacity right off the bat.
Chad Skinner | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pure Storage arrays are perfect for any tier 1 storage need. It excels in VMware environments and particularly with data sets that lend well to deduplication and compression. We have many postgres database servers that can run very hot. Pure Storage has helped us to remove IO bottlenecks that we have run into in the past.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I would recommend using Pure wherever your budget allows. It seems to especially excel for virtualization. It may not be appropriate for storing video surveillance footage or data that doesn't need flash-level performance.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I believe Pure Storage FlashArray is suitable for any application that requires high-performance storage over a projected longer term. The performance of the array was better than other solutions we compared during the evaluation phase - in some cases much better. Although the initial cost was a little higher than some of the other solutions we explored, there was an advantage over the longer term.

When providing storage for a shorter-term project, assuming performance requirements can be met, other solutions generally offer a better cost benefit. In that case, Pure would not be my first choice.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is well suited for any I/O intensive application or database, for example, VMware, Oracle Database, etc. It might be expensive for NAS, backups, or archive solutions. Most NAS users don't need flash storage since the performance of their hard drives is more than enough. However, if NAS is holding some I/O intensive applications, then Pure Storage FlashArray will be a good candidate.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's a storage for a virtual environment, hosting disk for the VMs, etc.. We use it for our VM Ware products like virtual desktop environment.
We also use it for our virtual server for the VMDKs. For better resilience, we have two clusters in different locations. It's clearly not useable as an archive or file storage solution.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Block is where Pure Storage excels, such as enterprise VM hosting, Critical Oracle, SQL, MySQL Databases, and farms. Basically any high/medium performance workload, they cover easily. Their product is rock solid from an availability and performance perspective. General file and object storage is not their play. The value proposition is only effective at a large scale, so small/medium enterprises may not get the value from the product.
Mandeep Singh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you are looking for an enterprise-grade storage solution for mixed/high workloads, Pure Storage FlashArray is a fantastic option. It has a very easy to use interface and advance features like replication, snapshots etc. are very easy to configure. The reporting section looks and works well.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pure Storage FlashArray is ideal for high-throughput, low-latency storage needs such as a VM or VVol datastore for database storage. It can be used as a simple SAN or LUN disk array and outperforms many of them, but to fully realize its potential the proper workload must be applied and configured.
Trevon Fubler | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our Pure Storage flash array works really well with virtual desktops when users log in at the start of the work day at the same time. Pure Storage also handles spikes in IOPS during the day very well and there is no notice of any performance degradation when this happens. VM backups are also much faster on the Pure Storage FlashArray.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I think, assuming that it's feasible from a cost perspective, FlashArray is a good storage solution for just about any organization or use case. The data de-duplication and compression squeeze an incredible amount of space out of a small physical footprint. The storage bandwidth and possible IOPs are astonishing. I really can't say enough good things about how the FA has improved our ability to deliver smooth and consistent service to our users. Storage is no longer a bottleneck at any time in our organization.
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