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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
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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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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The storage FlashArray is suited when you are using a SAN environment. It is recommended when you need high-performance service. It could be great on your migration road to the cloud since Pure has an appliance that works on Amazon Web Services. It is less useful when you need NAS services
Eric van Ingen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
An excellent solution to consolidate all your corporate storage but don't waste its capacity with multimedia files as this dedupe and compress poorly. Excellent solution if you want to simplify SAN management.
William Winslow | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
PF is a great solution for organizations that are either firmly planted in the data center, in a hybrid mode moving some or all of its workload to a public cloud. Their support organization is exceptional as is their account management team. By far the easiest partner to work with.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pure Storage FlashArray is well suited for any application with high performance requirements: virtualization, vdis (vdi boot storms and deduplication), databases (latency and iops) and building CI chains with its easy api for taking snapshots and creating clones
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I would suggest that the Pure solution would fit many applications. It is easy to manage, acquire, and is cost-effective to maintain. Although in our case it did not meet the bonus criteria of being as fast as local Fusion storage, it handily outperforms all of our other past solutions. I might suggest that it may be overkill for smaller use cases where the scalability is not needed.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
During the POC period, the product already showed its outstanding performance against the other brands. After the product delivered, the setup time was lightning fast (around 3 hours) and we were good to go! The management of the device is easy, though, there is room to improve. The performance and reduction ratio is up to what it is advertised so that we can make an accurate estimation of the usage.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The FlashArray will always excel at any workload that needs ultra-low latency. Database operations are extremely fast. Cloning operations of all types are extremely easy, space-efficient and fast. With VVOLs it reduces the complexity and management to compete with hyper-converged systems to the point where our use case does not benefit. Arguably it is worse under a hyper-converged architecture.
August 01, 2019

Purely Magic

Sean Murphy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The reduced toil and ease of operations makes it worth the additional cost of purchase. The technical capabilities ready add to the experience, though we have not really pushed these to the max yet. The data deduplication gives you more storage than you expect so that needs to factor into the cost per TB.
July 30, 2019

Great FlashArray

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In our environment the PureArray is working great. Our application speed has increased once we migrated to the PureArray. We are currently migrating our Oracle databases to the PureArray. So far our data reduction is less that what is should be.
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