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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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- Flash Array Performance (154)10.0100%
- Simplicity (154)10.0100%
- Non-Intrusive Upgrades (148)10.0100%
- Data Compression (153)8.080%
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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.
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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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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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September 09, 2019
Pure Storage - the best storage ever
- The ease of use of Pure Storage has taken away the ability for only a senior storage admin to manage the system.
September 09, 2019
Pure... What else!
- I can't tell it is too little impact.
- Users want performance, no matter what the cost is.
- OpEx is so low that CapEx is not an issue.
September 09, 2019
I like Pure Storage way too much
- It saves us a lot of engineer time relative to NetApp.
- It's priced competitively.
- A single M20 flasharray is supporting 64 blades of VMware compute without any problem.
September 09, 2019
Low latency, High Availability and High Speed Storage Solution
- Dedup does a really good job, but you pay for what you get, Flash is not cheap currently. It still performed better than expected.
- Pure was very clear with us about the benefits, the product delivered what we were told.
September 09, 2019
Pure Storage as your enterprise storage solution
- Lower maintenance cost, power, and rack space.
- Higher storage density per rack unit.
- Higher storage capacity per rack unit.
September 07, 2019
More Power with Pure Storage
- Administrative expenses have been reduced
- Calculable costs for renewal after expiry maintenance
- Fast data preparation thanks to Pure technology
September 07, 2019
Great all-flash storage appliance
- Save a lot of time and effort in maintaining the storage system.
- Save hours of batching time which results in the quality of service being greatly improved.
September 07, 2019
Pure Storage provides an all-around positive experience!
- Consolidation of workloads off of legacy disk arrays saved us >$30,000 per year in support costs.
- Performance of the single array removed the need to add shelves of spinning disks, saving $200,000 in equipment purchases.
- The positive impact the Pure Storage FlashArray has had on one of our business objectives is providing that easy DR capability and providing us with metrics to offer a reasonable SLA to the customers.
- Another positive impact the Pure Storage FlashArray has had on a business objective is the ability to shrink our footprint from 3 arrays to one, in addition to simplifying administration to a single pane of glass.
- One more positive impact the Pure Storage FlashArray has had on a business objective is the ability to soon integrate with other cloud providers if we needed to supplement our offsite backup requirements.
September 06, 2019
My Pure Storage FlashArray five year (so far) journey
- We have an average data reduction of 5.4 to 1 and a total reduction of 11 to 1 across three arrays.
September 06, 2019
It doesn't get any better than this! Pure Storage rocks!
- Time spent managing the array is drastically reduced. There's really nothing that has to be done on a regular basis. Software upgrades are handled remotely by Pure Storage.
- We've seen 200-300% speed increases on long-running, database-intensive processes in some of our larger enterprise applications.
September 06, 2019
Great storage for our requirements
- The FlashArray has allowed us to meet our objective of switching to a BYOD environment while providing the resources required to support effective learning. If the school had not followed a BYOD model, the college would have had to deploy and maintain many additional computer labs consisting of 40 - 60 desktop computers that require replacement every couple of years. Plus, students would have to continue provided lab storage in the form of a USB connected SSD which proved to be somewhat problematic.
- There has, so far, been an unexpectedly high level of storage efficiency which will likely allow the school to expand programs without purchasing additional storage. Pure guaranteed a 5:1 data reduction level and over the first year of operation, that ratio was closer to 35:1. Although not all programs have started using the infrastructure that utilizes the array, we are confident that we will continue to see that high level of efficiency.
September 06, 2019
Good performance and simplicity of use.
- The benefit of much higher performance is immediately seen, customers are much more happier.
- It's expensive for the price, but it might not be expensive if considering the good dedup ratio.
September 06, 2019
Pure Storage FlashArray - fast forward mirrored VM Storage
- It's scalable and worth the money.
September 06, 2019
Pure Storage delivers on their promise
- With a 5.x Data reduction in production, the solution has allowed the business to receive the benefit of peak performance at critical business events (admissions, results etc) without over-investing in Hardware that sits underutilized.
- The ease of provisioning via the Pure API's has removed the need for a dedicated Storage admin, the Platform team can now run via code and don't have to wait for manual zoning or carving out of storage, when new workloads need to be provisioned or scaled up it is done immediately inline with the business need.
- The Evergreen nature of the product removes the capital lumpy spend profile. This fact, augmented with the HW upgrade with no downtime, the business keeps running and scaling without IT being a roadblock, we are an enabler.
September 05, 2019
Pure Storage FlashArray - A happy story of a storage admin
- It delivers the needed performance and has helped tremendously with no downtime or performance bottlenecks.
- We have been managing storage infrastructure with minimal training and that has helped the company save on human resource expenditures.
- The 3-year controller upgrade promise has helped extend the refresh cycle saving hundreds of thousands of dollars.
September 05, 2019
Pure Storage FlashArray is the best SAN I've ever used!
- SAN devices are critical to any business processes using them, so downtime due to firmware upgrades multiple disk failures can easily cost $1M or more.
- Previous, competing SAN arrays had occasional downtime for patches and once suffered failure of too many disks, rendering storage inoperable.
- Pure Storage FlashArray has increased our uptime by eliminating patch outages and proactively warns of degrading disks so they can be replaced prior to failure.
- FlashArray also helped us achieve a
September 05, 2019
Pure Storage is the only way to go.
- Very low cost compared to our previous storage system. Yearly maintenance is unbelievably low cost.
- Super easy to manage compared to our previous storage systems.
- Positive impact on business cost planning since the data compression has been on target.
- YOY planning is simplified by adding more shelves each year at a fixed cost.
September 05, 2019
Migrating to Pure Storage: Is it worth it?
- The power savings we have after upgrading to Pure Storage is great. Less than half of what we were paying on our previous storage.
- Migrating to Pure storage allows us to run our virtual desktops and servers from the same flash array as opposed to using separate storage for each.
- Moving to Pure Storage allows us to consolidate rack space decreasing our footprint in our data center.
September 05, 2019
Why we use Pure!
- Application has been running solid.
- Not much maintenance needed.
September 05, 2019
Pure Arrays and the simplification of SANs
- We were able to save millions over refreshing our legacy storage array.
- Time to deployment is considerably faster with Pure.
- Maintenance renewals are easy to calculate and no fear of forced upgrades.
September 05, 2019
Pure has changed my life!
- It has had a positive impact , as our time to administer has been greatly reduced.
September 05, 2019
Pure Storage FlashArray Review
- Over its life cycle, the Flash Array units that we have purchased will almost pay for themselves in power savings alone. Reducing from hundreds of always spinning disks to two shelves of flash has reduced our data center power consumption by 60% or more.
- The Free Every Three program with Pure has meant we've already received a new controller on our main FlashArray unit, just for renewing maintenance. This gave us an incremental increase in every stat - welcome, even if unneeded!
- We are now able to easily spin up in minutes copies of entire production application frameworks - database servers, domain controllers, etc., to perform complex testing against *the real systems*, isolated in a safe little bubble, and without consuming any additional disk to speak of, thanks to the de-duplication performance.
September 05, 2019
Great experience working with Pure Storage FlashArray
- Reduction of rack footprint.
- Reduction of electric costs.
- Reduction of management costs.