All flash storage for all-round workload
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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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- During our initial scoping exercise we observed ~5:1 data reduction. This had us very impressed. Now that we are running FlashArray in the "wild" we're getting ~12:1 data reduction across Oracle workloads -- I still scratch my head every time I see this number!
- Although we haven't gone through an upgrade yet, the Evergreen model is very appealing.
July 27, 2019
Awesome Product with Caveats
- The speed of the SAN has been impressive. Rebooting a Windows 10 virtual desktop takes less than a minute. Our hosted customers have never once mentioned speed issues on their servers.
- While we are getting twice the deduplication of our other flash solution, our cost calculations were for 33% more than we're getting, so our bottom line IS taking a hit. That being said, we are getting 3:1 deduplication with no loss of performance. This means we have consumed the disk slower than our other solutions and had more time before needing more disk.
July 27, 2019
FlashArray: My love!
- Less administration time.
- More power, faster applications.
July 25, 2019
Manage the storage of your databases in a "Flash"
- Our organization does not have general commercial objectives, but the maintenance price of old equipment has been compensated with the acquisition of Pure equipment, in addition to the increase in performance.
- The high amount of deduplication/compression specifically for a testing environment increases our ROI massively.
- Seamless upgrade performed by support reduces our support overhead.
- Simple monitoring further reduces the amount of administration required.
July 24, 2019
My Pure M20 Review
- Lower support overhead with quick and easy implementation.
- Increased performance of virtual workloads.
July 24, 2019
FLASH: PURE FOR SURE
- More IOPS for less .
- Less rack space
- Ease of usage
April 19, 2019
A flash travel to the future
- The Non-Disruptive Upgrade gives us the ability to do maintenance without out of hours work or downtime.
- With the Forever Flash, you don't need to change your "old" SSD when you upgrade your storage to a new model
- The performance is so high that we have consolidated all the SAN in one storage, Pure Storage, and it doesn't need maintenance!
- Pure Storage saves loads of personnel time because it is so effortless to maintain and upgrade.
March 08, 2019
I purely love Pure Storage
- Reduced overall data center spend by allowing us to remove an entire rack
- We have yet to see any performance issue in our virtual environment that was caused by storage
- API integration with our backup solution decreases overall backup time
March 06, 2019
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- My team spends less time each day babysitting the storage. Netapp was a few hours a day to make sure its still good.
- Upgrades... I can spend the hours I would of been upgrading a netapp on other work related things while they handle the upgrade
March 06, 2019
Pure Storage, no worries!
- Less maintenance needed in comparison with our old solution, hence fewer costs.
- Possibilities to grow (without investing in future storage needs).
February 22, 2019
Pure Storage is simply the best!
- Maintenance costs are controlled through the life of the product, so you don't need to worry about those costs getting jacked up after year five, which forces you, in turn, to rip and replace, so there's no re-buying your existing capacity and the time to mass migrate your data to other arrays.
February 20, 2019
The Greatest Storage Buy Ever
- It has had positive ROI due to lower cost of ownership, re[pairs and downtime of critical apps.
February 19, 2019
A Flashy Array of Storage Quality
- Positive impact in that it has allowed us to quickly and easily grow through size constraints that have been troublesome in the past.
- Time and effort required for management are much less than our earlier EMC environments.
- Evergreen maintenance allows us to plan on controller upgrades at the end of three years, rather than forcing us into a full replacement cycle.
February 19, 2019
Filled with Flash, faster than Superman
- We don't have a ROI, we're in public education.
February 15, 2019
Pure Flash Goodness
- The faster storage showed immediate returns in performance for our customers, both internal and external.
- The feature set allowed us to add a significant number of internal business processes, as well as improve others. So, definitely some hidden or unaccounted for value.
February 15, 2019
Pure storage, pound for pound the best industry features and ROI
- It is hard to judge the overall ROI, but it has been positive.
February 13, 2019
Simplicity/Performance and trust
- Perfomance
- Stability of storage array environnement
February 08, 2019
Feel Freedom and confident with Purestorage
- Our private Cloud is very competitive with Could as Services.
- Quick ROI comparing with the competence.
February 07, 2019
Pure Storage FlashArray with VDI workloads
- OpEx cost increases as the data reduction changes based on the newer workloads, which require one to buy additional capacity.
February 04, 2019
PureStorage has storaged all the competitors
- We find a positive ROI on it.
- We could have better prices than other vendors.
February 01, 2019
Rock Solid, Crazy Fast, and Pays For Itself
- We have seen SQL backup errors drop to pretty much zero.
- "Intermittent" SCSI bus errors that we'd see occasionally from our Linux VMs have completely disappeared.
- With our integration in Veeam for backups, we've been able to streamline and improve our backups significantly. Restores take, at most, a few minutes.
January 25, 2019
Storage that just goes.
- Our 4 Pures have replaced 6 full racks of storage, in about a half rack. It's a space, power, cooling, and management win.
- Have I mentioned the speed? Having a one-stop top tier that handles DBs and VMware has been great, it's almost completely removed "slowness" tickets from our radar.
January 25, 2019
Pure is purely awesome - Just try it and you will see
- Previously we had core business systems that required dedicated physical hardware due to slow spinning disk storage and very poor performance when virtualised. This was a considerable cost not only in the hardware itself but licensing and having to use other software for backups etc which increased admin overhead. Moving to a Pure array we were able to virtualise the systems with the same level of performance as when they were on physical servers saving us a considerable amount of time and money.