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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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- 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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January 25, 2019
Pure is purely awesome - Just try it and you will see
Pure Storage is used for our entire VMware environment which consists of ~100 virtual machines including many SQL Server workloads. It is used across the entire staff base running all critical business systems.
Traditional storage was poor performing and expensive to maintain support without ripping and replacing the entire infrastructure while also being difficult to manage and configure. Pure addressed all performance issues and the interface is so easy to use which essentially lowers the administrative burden on the IT infrastructure team.
January 25, 2019
FlashArray for the Performance Oriented.
We use Pure Storage FlashArray across our entire organization to provide sub-millisecond latency to sensitive databases and applications. Decoupling our servers from local storage allowed us to design a proper HA environment and leverage growth in the compute and network layers without impacting our storage reliability and performance. Data Encryption at Rest also enabled us to guarantee full data encryption without the costly CPU overhead of a local solution.
January 24, 2019
Pure Gold
The deployment replaced an existing mechanical storage SAN array. The main requirements were to avoid another forklift upgrade for storage, improve environmental credentials and lifespan, improve data accessibility, 24/7/365 support options, flexibility for growth and expansion.
January 23, 2019
Don't drink the kool aid
Pure is used throughout the entire organization for VDI and Corporate SAN storage to include Active Cluster.
January 22, 2019
Pure Storage The Best Of The Best
Our Pure Storage array is being used mainly by our SQL software, we provide software as a service to the health club industry. The 3 years that we have been using Pure Storage has taken our month end process from several hours to just a couple. We have been very pleased with the speed and reliability.
January 10, 2019
Another happy customer with Pure Storage
Our Pure Storage array hosts the entire VMware workload; we have at multiple sites. We have 2 private clouds (vrealize automation & vcloud director) and 3 vcenters hosting over 5000 vms all on 3 Pure Storage arrays. Since implementing these, latency problems are a thing of the past and both clouds are up to 97-99% successful deployments! This alleviates some load on IT so that we can focus on more important work than managing storage; we never have to worry about our Pure arrays. The arrays were easy to implement and have reduced vApp deployment times by hours even when compared to the hybrid flash arrays we were using previously. I sleep better at night knowing Pure is in our data center and managing our workloads.
January 10, 2019
Flash Array delivers storage space and new opportunities!
Here at the Brazilian Space Agency, we use Pure Storage FlashArray across the whole organization. There were two main problems we accounted for when we decided to purchase an all-flash array solution:
1) We had a great variety of hardware in our storage layer, which in turn was expensive and difficult to manage & maintain.
2) We predicted growth of applications and data from ongoing research projects.
The main features that we looked at were their data reduction algorithm and Pure Storage Orchestrator. We were able to attain a 3:1 reduction ratio. With a much smaller investment, we achieved considerable free storage area without consuming all our datacenter free rack-space. Orchestrator provided an automation layer that provided ways for us to fully use our storage layer directly to applications, through automated provisioning and containers. This sped up development and helped coalesce our newly born DevOps paradigm. When we needed snapshots of backups, Pure and Pure resellers provided precise and fast information.
January 08, 2019
Very happy with our FlashArray
We currently use the Pure Storage FlashArray as general use block storage for a VMware environment with around 450 guest VM's for a single department. When we replaced out Vmax array, we were looking for an all-flash solution that was easy to manage and delivered great performance with very high uptime. Pure Storage FlashArray has delivered on all of these.
January 08, 2019
Pure is a no-brainer choice for storage.
Our Pure Storage FlashArray is our main storage for our VM ware infrastructure. It has been everything we hoped it would be and more. We made a big decision by going to Pure, and it turned out to be a great decision. All of our programs are running on Pure Storage. It has made a big difference in speed according to our users. It has also made our lives as VMware administrators so much easier.
January 08, 2019
Pure Storage is a solid performer!
Pure Storage's FlashArray has become the defacto standard for our SAN needs, delivering blisteringly fast performance for our core databases and our virtual environments, and handles our busiest events with ease. It's incredibly powerful as well as being easy to manage, making our day to day support much easier.
January 08, 2019
Love Pure Storage!!
We use PureStorage FlashArray as our production storage for all applications. We have also just purchased another PureStorage SAN for our disaster recovery site. We are extremely happy with the performance and ease of use.
January 07, 2019
I Love My Pure!!!!!
We have two Pure Storage FlashArrays in our organization, one on each campus. We use our Pure Storage FlashArrays as datastores for VMWare and image stores for Citrix PVS servers.
December 27, 2018
Excellent storage solution
We purchased 3 flash arrays from Pure Storage for our production UA and DR environments as well as for development and quality assurance departments. Its lightning-fast performance solves a lot of performance issues of the team, as well as the backup restore process.
December 14, 2018
Pure from the beginning and for the foreseeable future.
Pure storage is our "Tier 1" storage for in house applications. It is being used across the entire organization for a number of mission critical and time sensitive workloads. The FlashArray has allowed us to reduce processing time in our Data Warehouse as well as increase performance along all analytics and statistical models.
December 12, 2018
Very happy customer - would recommend Pure Storage if needed for high performance applications
The Pure Storage FlashArray is used across the whole organisation. It allows us to have a high performance application running on it and allows us to compress data and obtain additional storage.
December 12, 2018
Pure Storage FlashArray - You Can't Go Wrong!
We utilize the Pure Storage FlashArray for a department. The department had a need for an all flash array that provided flexibility with snapshot technology. The Pure array has exceeded the performance and snapshot requirements.
December 11, 2018
Quick and easy!
We use it for our most critical database applications. It fixed our latency issues from our services trying to connect to the db servers. It also provides 3 times the amount of data compression than other SAN systems which allowed us to move more mission critical systems onto higher quality storage.
December 11, 2018
Nothing is more expensive than regret, and you will NOT regret this!
We are using a PUREStorage M50 at our home office supported with an M10 at our co-location. It handles our Production as well as some Test/Dev environments. Coming from a VNX/Unity platform, this is a thing of beauty. It actually works as expected and as described. It has truly been a game changer.
December 11, 2018
Great product, great team - you won't be disappointed.
We use it as our primary storage for all corporate file shares, VM data files, and databases. It is used by the whole organization (although many don know it). We had a huge latency and stability issue with our previous solution. This addressed all of that. It also has much better reporting and diagnostics than our previous solution that helps us keep everything running smoothly.
December 11, 2018
Great Product and Company!
We use the Pure Flash Array to host our Citrix XenDesktop VDI environment for around 300 users
December 07, 2018
It's really as good as they say!
Pure Storage is used at two of our data centers. It is the primary storage at both data centers and is used by all business groups. Pure Storage was implemented to replace aging legacy SANs that were getting to costly to maintain and had significant performance issues.
December 07, 2018
Pure is fantastic enterprise storage.
We use Pure FlashArray to run the majority of our VMWare environment. Pure has been an enormous performance upgrade. The web interface is lightning fast and fantastic. The UI is minimal, logical, and easy to figure out. Incidents caused by storage performance/reliability have entirely stopped. Once I put a VM on Pure, I never hear about it again.
December 05, 2018
Pure Storage FlashArray quick review
Pure Storage hosts all mission-critical databases for the whole corporation. It helps to improve the reliability and performance of our database environment.
November 30, 2018
Pure Storage Array Review
Our organization uses multiple Pure flash arrays across multiple environments, servicing multiple needs from datastore volumes to SQL clustered disks. The device provide us with fast, reliable storage, and the ability to scale out our environments thanks to the compression and deduplication that Pure Storage provides across the entire array.
November 28, 2018
Better, Fast and Simple
Our datacenter is 100% virtualized (VMware ESXi) and we upgraded our SAN to Pure Storage over 2 years ago which improved greatly the speed and performance of the servers and applications (especially MS SQL systems).