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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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Popular Features

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  • Flash Array Performance (154)
    10.0
    100%
  • Simplicity (154)
    10.0
    100%
  • Non-Intrusive Upgrades (148)
    10.0
    100%
  • Data Compression (153)
    8.0
    80%

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Bagit Airlangga | TrustRadius Reviewer
Bagit Airlangga
Junior Manager Data Center
PT Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero) (Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 10,001+ employees)
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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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Avg 9.1
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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 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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July 27, 2019

Pure Storage FlashArray -- High Performance Storage meets Smart Software.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Insurance Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
In our case, Pure Storage FlashArray has been well suited to hold database workloads, where we have multiple dev database copies. The data reduction is truly impressive! Performance is also impressive.
July 27, 2019

Awesome Product with Caveats

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Jonathan Biviano
Information Technology Manager
Information Management Solutions, Inc (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
The only situation I wouldn't use Pure Storage FlashArray is where cost is a factor. I have flash from other companies too and the deduplication rates are even worse with similar loads, so that isn't enough to dissuade me that Pure Storage is the leader.
July 24, 2019

Pure Storage FlashArray is the simplest product I have ever used

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Banking Company, 201-500 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Pure Storage FlashArray is appropriate where a high performing SAN is required and where a high number of IOPS are necessary. It is also appropriate where consistent performance is required even during a controller failure, as the controllers are on an active/standby configuration.

Pure Storage FlashArray is less appropriate if the emphasis is on the amount of raw storage provided. It is even less appropriate if you have encryption at rest as the compression and deduplication engine will not work.
July 24, 2019

My Pure M20 Review

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Non-Profit Organization Management Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Pure Storage FlashArray is well suited to high-performance computing, virtualisation, hybrid cloud, and VMWare. I am not so sure it would be as capable as some other systems in large multi-tenant environments.
March 08, 2019

I purely love Pure Storage

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Law Practice Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
The biggest thing for us isn't even the super high performance ( but this is awesome ) it comes down to the space reduction. We went from more than one full rack of storage to 5U. Since we rent space in a colo this was a huge savings for us, and has nearly paid for itself already.
February 22, 2019

Pure Storage is simply the best!

ES
Erik Smith
Systems Administrator II
Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society (Hospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Pure Storage is well suited when performance is required, and with getting the most effective capacity out the of raw capacity that is available if you want to get the best cost per TB. Scaling is a concern if your growth outpaces the performance and capacity of Pure Storage biggest controllers, but most customers may not have this problem.
February 20, 2019

The Greatest Storage Buy Ever

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Aaron Silverstein
Senior Project Manager
Enherent Corporation (Consulting) (Government Administration, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I find Pure excellent for critical apps, low latency needs and integration with VMWare. It out performs any other disk arrays I tested. We have found that is not cost effective for video storage. There is little to no compression or dedupulication in video.
February 19, 2019

A Flashy Array of Storage Quality

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Warehousing Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Particularly well suited to environments with a lot of duplication based on test copies. Also in environments where performance is key. Integration with VMWare making use of SAN switches is smooth.

Possibly not as well suited to locations with large amounts of unstructured data (use FlashBlade instead). It's my sense that environments requiring direct connection to hardware may be more challenging.
February 19, 2019

Filled with Flash, faster than Superman

Bas Penris | TrustRadius Reviewer
Bas Penris
Identity Management Consultant
Stichting Carmelcollege (Primary/Secondary Education, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
At first I'd have said it's good for virtual desktop infrastructure, high IOPS, and loads of redundancy, but that has changed to "use it for everything if possible, except maybe video files or storage of large amounts of static data." Unless you sweat, drool or bleed money, don't buy it for stuff like storing videos.
February 15, 2019

Pure storage, pound for pound the best industry features and ROI

Mike Davis | TrustRadius Reviewer
Mike Davis
Senior Storage Engineer
Baylor Scott & White Health (Hospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Excellent for a small branch office storage refresh. Great management via webUI AND cli. Love the process of snapshot replication, local snapshot protection, and the smooth mechanics to implement this.
February 07, 2019

Pure Storage FlashArray with VDI workloads

Saikrishna Koganti | TrustRadius Reviewer
Saikrishna Koganti
Solutions Architect
Tech Mahindra (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
The Pure Storage array is well suited for initial VDI workloads, and it provides the data reduction up to 13x but later point of time due to new workloads like patches and other rollouts the data reduction can be considered as 5x - 7x. Based on the new workloads and data reduction changes, you need to size the array initially or add additional capacity.
February 04, 2019

PureStorage has storaged all the competitors

Nicolas Pla | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nicolas Pla
Gerente de Tecnologia
Despegar.com (Internet, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Pure Storage Flash Array is well suited for virtualization environments, like Hyper-V, OpenStack, VMware, XEN, in this case it works perfectly with the cinder drivers with OpenStack. (We test Icehouse, Mitaka and Manila.) I think that Pure Storage FlashArray is less appropriate just to do backups and to have it like a legacy storage system. It is much more than that. The best use of the storage is for performance uses.
February 01, 2019

Rock Solid, Crazy Fast, and Pays For Itself

Edmund Joseph Tynan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Edmund Joseph Tynan
Senior Systems Engineer
WatchGuard Technologies (Computer & Network Security, 501-1000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
SQL server data with high transactions and large virtual infrastructure where a diverse group of employees from multiple remote sites is accessing via S2S. VPN for data sharing is another good scenario, as it's the central storage for data that everyone is reaching for. If there is critical data that needs solid backups, the Pure snapshots are a proven way to restore them quickly and easily.
January 25, 2019

Storage that just goes.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
We've been quite pleased [with it] as a VMware back end (200 nodes, thousands of VMs), and have even started virtualizing high io machines because it's so fast. It's nice to just not worry about disk io problems anymore.

Cost: We use other storage for tier 3/low priority data simply due to cost. Having cheap spinning disks available in the same array might be a management benefit.
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