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

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Product Demos

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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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FlashArray Architecture Overview
FlashArray//X: The Next Gen All-Flash Array
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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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Aaron Bryant | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Performance, low admin overhead, high IO requirement on SAN are all scenarios that fit well. Ease of use to maintain and administer the storage is a very big plus especially when your administrators are struggling with workloads.

Bulk storage of static files such as file servers are not the best use case for this type of SAN
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pure FlashArray excels when performance and reliability are driving factors. If you need a lot of data, and fast, Pure FlashArray can deliver. If your process doesn't require sub-ms response times, full disk encryption, or massive datasets, you could save money with a cheaper product. Even 'small' models of the FlashArray line are very performant and could be considered overkill for a small workload.
January 24, 2019

Pure Gold

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
PurityOS and Pure Storage FlashArray are recommended for High Availability Clustering where two sites have less than 10ms network latency. Applied with VSphere you can have an enterprise-grade single Virtual DC which is spread across two sites, meaning loss of one site is not a problem.Through DRS, guests will just migrate to available hosts on the other working site.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are finding it to be very well-suited to the VMware workloads that our business depends on for development and quality assurance of our software products. We have not found any workloads for which it is NOT well-suited so this is a tough one.
Tulio Conrado Campos da Silva | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is appropriate for achieving storage space economy through data reduction and as a high velocity, high availability storage hardware. It is easy to integrate/provide storage. Less appropriate for non-critical information which can be stored in a cheaper storage layer.
Jack Garvey | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I think any new startup should consider using Pure Storage as opposed to cloud storage. The compression and dedupe work great and you will need less storage. I really don't have any scenarios I can think of where it wouldn't be appropriate.
January 07, 2019

I Love My Pure!!!!!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The Pure Storage Flash Array is well suited for organizations that run VMware or Hyper-V, the data reduction is significant. Pure is great when it comes to disaster recovery and backups, snapshots and replication happen very quickly and do not consume a huge amount of storage space. We snapshot and replicate every hour, currently we have over 700 snapshots stored on each array which makes it really easy and fast to restore a file, folder or server if the need should arise.
December 11, 2018

Quick and easy!

Bryan McLeod | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you need fast, dependable, block storage for file servers, database servers, high I/O applications then PURE has been the best at what you need. If you need this to be an all in one solution that can provide other services than just high speed storage this not something recommended. This is definitely tier 1 storage not made to be used for archiving.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our Production system currently has 188.14 T of provisioned space, containing roughly 400ish VMs. The actual amount of storage used is 31.94 T out of the 41 T available. This thing is like the bottomless pit of Sparta and I just keep donkey kicking more VMs into it. It smiles back with a "Please sir, may I have some more?"
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If low latency is your goal, it can't be beat. If stability is your goal, it can't be beat. If you're looking for cool plugins and features, it's improved on those, but I'm sure there's some better "feature-tastic" options.

If you're looking just for some cold, hard, massively storage for data that doesn't need to be accessed on a regular basis, there are probably better options out there.
Cory Salvesen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pure is best suited to being the storage for virtual machines. It's probably worst suited as a NAS. It's overkill performance wise, and doesn't have an exotic filesystem to handle large complex file sets. This isn't a complaint, just that NAS is not the focus of Pure. Block storage and running VMs is.
November 30, 2018

Pure Storage Array Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pure Storage FlashArrays are well suited for cloud service provider companies that need scalable solutions for multiple customers and use cases. Also well suited when trying to build a fast SAN. Pure Storage Flash Arrays may not be well suited for smaller organizations who do not have a use case for flash storage, due to their higher cost.
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