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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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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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- Business Problems Solved
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 28, 2019
Thank you Pure Storage
Pure Storage offers better IO performance and reliability compared to traditional SAN, it is a trusted platform for the entire business.
Currently, we are using Pure Storage FlashArray to house our many development database environments. With the Data Compression and Dedupe on FlashArray, we have significantly reduced our development footprint, bringing about cost savings and operational efficiencies.
July 27, 2019
Awesome Product with Caveats
We provide LASS to credit unions and our Pure Storage array was purchased for this purpose. We purchased it for the speed VDI and other applications needed from disk.
July 27, 2019
FlashArray: My love!
It's the main-storage for different usage. Virtualization, database and so on.
July 25, 2019
Manage the storage of your databases in a "Flash"
Pure Storage FlashArray is being used by our central IT department, so it is a central point in our organization.
It is used as storage for all corporate databases.
It is used as storage for our VMWARE virtual equipment system.
With Pure Storage FlashArray, we have managed to unify different storage, from different technologies and manufacturers.
Performance has improved substantially.
The cloning of databases has been several hours to a few minutes, with the use of cabin snapshots.
Pure Storage FlashArray is used by the whole of engineering to build our testing and monitoring environment on. It addresses the problems of easily and seamlessly provisioning/de-provisioning our testing environment.
July 24, 2019
My Pure M20 Review
Our Pure Storage FlashArray is used as a primary storage platform and supports all of our on-premise workloads. The entire platform is currently used for a VMWare cluster.
July 24, 2019
FLASH: PURE FOR SURE
We have moved an entire VNX 5400 storage array of 40 U to PURE 6 U with better IOPs. It gives assurance of higher availability.
April 19, 2019
A flash travel to the future
Pure Storage is used by the whole organization. We have consolidated all the VSI (55 VM) and VDI (100 VM) into the same storage, improving performance and overall virtual desktop acceptance. Our VDI with VMware Horizon includes 100 VM for office and graphics desktop with nVidia GRID, the low latency and the high deduplication permit us to reduce the storage footprint and power consumption, and to increase the consolidation on fewer VMware Hosts.
We use Pure Storage as shared storage for our virtual infrastructure, which is used for enterprise services.
March 08, 2019
I purely love Pure Storage
Currently we use a pair of FlashArray m50s, one in our production data center and one in our DR site and replicate between the two with VMWare SRM. One of the major drivers to Pure Storage was data center space, when we migrated from an EMC VNX 5500 to a single m50 in each data center we went from around 60U of storage down to 5U.
March 06, 2019
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Used as our main storage in the datacenter for all of our VM's. We switched to flash from non-flash to provide growth ability of speed, size of unit, data reduction ability, and reliability.
March 06, 2019
Pure Storage, no worries!
Our FlashArray cluster is used as the main storage for all block data in headquarters. We provide IT services for users all around the world. It gives us the performance we need, high availability (via cluster setup) and easy management.
February 22, 2019
Pure Storage is simply the best!
We replaced our older spinning disk arrays with Pure Storage M70s flash arrays to address latency issues that we were having with a number of applications. Pure Storage solved those issue and at a cost per TB that was on par with the cost of the spinning disk at that time. It also solved the problem of rip and replacing with Pure Storage's evergreen program with controlled maintenance cost.
February 20, 2019
The Greatest Storage Buy Ever
We use Pure Storage as our Tier one storage connected to VMware environment via Fiber Channel. It hosts an array of critical applications from databases, to web servers and security. It solves the issue of disk and application performance.
February 19, 2019
A Flashy Array of Storage Quality
Pure Storage FlashArray is in use as our primary Storage array, across our entire company. We run a mixed Production and Dev / Test workload, primarily within a Virtualized Environment. We still have several Physical DB Hosts. It provides a performant and flexible storage platform that does particularly well with deduplicating the many copies of data and environments that our use involves. We replicate from one array to a remote array, which provides the basis for our Disaster Recovery strategy.
February 19, 2019
Filled with Flash, faster than Superman
Ever since we moved to Pure Storage, our performance issues just disappeared overnight. For the first time since, well, ever, the hundreds of VMs we're running all feel as fast as they would on individual hardware with SSDs. It is one of the most remarkable pieces of hardware and software I've ever come across. I didn't believe Pure's consultants on how many TBs we needed, but because they guaranteed they'd give us the difference, we went in anyway. It changed my professional life.
But the good stuff doesn't end there: Their support department is absolutely amazing and very proactive. If there's a release that fixes some updates or just a new general release that is their baseline for a healthy system from now on, they will contact you! Also, they'll contact you if they detect issues on the array of course.
We have an all-flash array from a different vendor as well. With the same amount of SSDs and less than a third of the VMs (and less than a tenth of the user base for this array), it is at least five times slower. We're phasing out almost all other storage in favor of Pure.
But the good stuff doesn't end there: Their support department is absolutely amazing and very proactive. If there's a release that fixes some updates or just a new general release that is their baseline for a healthy system from now on, they will contact you! Also, they'll contact you if they detect issues on the array of course.
We have an all-flash array from a different vendor as well. With the same amount of SSDs and less than a third of the VMs (and less than a tenth of the user base for this array), it is at least five times slower. We're phasing out almost all other storage in favor of Pure.
February 15, 2019
Pure Flash Goodness
We utilize the Flash Array across our entire organization, from test/dev to production. This allows us to set, from a storage point of view, a consistent performance experience, which allows us to better troubleshoot problems in our stack. The Flash Array is simple enough to handle our most basic tasks, yet performant enough to handle our most demanding workloads with plenty of overhead to allow us to grow.
February 15, 2019
Pure storage, pound for pound the best industry features and ROI
My organization uses Pure storage M70 for Epic Clarity Reporting, Caboodle. My organization also uses Pure M20s at satellite locations, replicating to an M70. Finally, we utilize an M70 and 2x X70 for local storage hosting AIX, Windows, and Linux servers, Phy and Virt sever block storage as well as a replication target for Epic at our DR site.
February 13, 2019
Simplicity/Performance and trust
FlashArray is used by my customers. We sell IAAS to customers. We want to sell a "gold" Private cloud to "local" customers.
February 08, 2019
Feel Freedom and confident with Purestorage
Pure Storage is our main storage for most of our applications. It was a solutions for performance issues in our systems, so it has made for safer, faster and more confident systems. We have been working with different Pure Storages, such as FA405, M10 and the last one X10 models having experience with Snapshots, Replications and ActiveCluster. Our company is very happy with these innovations because it has transformed our process to be faster and more confident. On the other hand, the Pure Storage tool is very easy and simple to manage, having a good add value for the IT Department and a whole company.
February 07, 2019
Pure Storage FlashArray with VDI workloads
The pure storage M20 R1 & R2 array models are being used for managing the VDI workloads in our organization. The arrays are being used by my department and the whole organization as well. We have addressed the VDI performance issues with pure arrays, but the data reduction is drastically varying from 10x to 5x -7x which is a concerning factor. The data dedup factor needs to be considered based on throughput utilization, which is a key factor in sizing point of view
February 04, 2019
PureStorage has storaged all the competitors
We've used Pure Storage FlashArray for three years in all our organization for several cases, like file servers, storages servers, virtualizations environments ( Openstack - Kvm, XEN ) it's being used by the whole organization around the world. With Pure Storage FlashArray we reduce the time to market problems for our cloud production environment managing the storage throughout API calls and reduce end user problems in each regional office with slow storages. We have replaced other vendors legacy storages like Net App and EMC.
February 01, 2019
Rock Solid, Crazy Fast, and Pays For Itself
We use our FlashArrays to support all of our critical business operations companywide. We needed to have a compact, dense, and high IOPS storage device to allow us to have future growth and improve existing performance while replacing deprecated equipment at the same time. The FlashArray was surprisingly very cost competitive and allowed us to improve IOPS and reduce latency by an order of magnitude.
January 25, 2019
Storage that just goes.
We use Pure as our primary block storage; it backs our VMware, databases, and for misc block storage needs.