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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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  • Flash Array Performance (154)
    10.0
    100%
  • Simplicity (154)
    10.0
    100%
  • Non-Intrusive Upgrades (148)
    9.9
    99%
  • Data Compression (153)
    8.0
    80%

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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 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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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pure Storage FlashArray is used throughout the organization, its use is for storage of the entire data store, database, and for virtual machines. With Pure Storage FlashArray we were able to reduce the processing times of our ERP reports, which were executed after working hours. On the other hand, our BI can work with real-time information without affecting storage performance.
Toby Wenzel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have 5 FlashArrays, shared in a 5 organization multi-tenant environment. Two are for file servers, two are general purpose, and one is for Oracle and SQL databases. These were purchased over a two year period, to replace aging monolithic SAN arrays. They resolved all of our storage bandwidth bottlenecks and capacity issues.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pure Storage FlashArray is used as a tier 1 storage for production applications. It is being used by multiple departments in our organization. The main requirement was to provide maximum performance for multiple databases in our environment.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I was initially skeptical, our plan was to boot 100% of our virtual machines and VFX render infrastructure from several Pure FlashArrays. The performance has been excellent as expected, but the compression/deduplication and reliability have vastly exceeded my expectations.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have 2 Pure arrays and use them to serve around 95% of data to our hosts. We use other NVME cards for other applications like IBM Informix and Oracle ODA. We moved everything off of Compellent to Pure Storage. I think our Pure Storage arrays are both very solid and so far I am pleased with the performance and manageability of these arrays.
Omar Khalid | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pure Storage provided a FlashArray AFA for our environment. It is being used by our entire organization here at Ricoh and it solved the immediate storage issues that we had and the bottleneck we were seeing in performance. The snapshot capability also gave us great peace of mind by being able to retain a lot of version at the LUN level on the fly while taking up minimal logical space.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The FlashArray is being used across our entire environment/organization. Internally, and customer clouds as well. Atmosera is a cloud service provider of both Private and public cloud offerings. We utilize the FlashArrays for our private cloud offerings, selling datastore volumes as managed storage. The FlashArray allows us to be scalable in our internal infrastructure, while also offering the huge benefits of Flash storage. The FlashArray fleet we have also given us a single vendor infrastructure, which eases management.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Our two Flash Array SANs are used by the whole organization to house the Databases and Virtual Environments. It solves problems we were having with batch job performance. Job performance went from hours to minutes. Time saved allowed us to create more jobs to increased productivity. This showed up on ROI and the bottom line.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We currently use the array to run mission critical applications in our VMware environment. It is supporting a few different departments and we have noticed a performance increase since switching over.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Currently, we use the M 20 Pure FlashArray and I have to say it is pretty great. It took little to no effort to set up so from an engineering standpoint we had very little need to go through in depth training and setup like other storage arrays such as Dell, Hitachi, etc. We use it primarily for our virtual desktops to have redundant fast storage.
October 04, 2019

Very happy!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are currently using the FlashArray as backing storage for our virtual server environment, virtual desktop environment, and our high transaction databases. We currently have devices deployed at our major sites and are in the process of deploying to all of our second tier locations. We were struggling with our previous storage providers to deliver the performance, scalability, and cost targets. Pure Storage was able to deliver on all of our key metric areas and continue to work diligently in maintaining the value in our relationship.
September 27, 2019

Why we switched to Pure

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are a managed service provider, we use FlashArrays for shared storage for our private cloud customers and as dedicated storage for several of our larger customers. We have been steadily replacing all older spinning disk storage systems with FlashArrays. This has allowed us to greatly increase storage efficiencies and provide outstanding storage performance to all our customers. FlashArrays have solved varying issues for different customers, from database performance to storage efficiency of VDI applications.
September 27, 2019

Flash our Data

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are currently using Pure Storage FlashArray in a productive environment used to deploy core and customer services. The FlashArray is our main storage where all the time-critical application and secured data are stored. Over this duty, the FlashArray solves the day by day operation of our business bringing fast access & reliability of data.
September 26, 2019

Pure saved my life!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Pure Storage FlashArray as our only SAN technology across 2 sites. It is across the whole organization. It addresses a number of business problems from simple storage to DR due to protection groups and replication.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have implemented a couple of different models over the past two years and have been very pleased with the performance of each array. I am also very pleased with how easy it is to operate. No training was required and it is easier to manage than the other arrays that we currently have installed.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
We resell the product - It's used in various use case where clients need to access data without any compromise to speed. It solves space disk problem by showing an amazing deduplication and compression ratio. Also, their business model to refresh controllers every 3 years changes the game since clients will be saving overtime by not doing a forklift upgrade every 3-5 years.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Pure Storage FlashArray across the whole on-prem estate for everything from file servers to MSSQL databases.
The problems it addresses are mainly performance and capacity.
September 25, 2019

Pure Is A Good Solution

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our Pure Storage array is being used as storage for our financial cores and Cisco UCS hosts. Our old platter drive SANs were end of life and we needed modular, expandable storage that would grow with our organization for years to come.
September 25, 2019

FlashArray Review

Garrick Dunkley | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pure Storage FlashArray is CBH Group's primary storage system and hosts all of CBH's system across the board. It enables us to provide excellent storage performance without having to worry about where data has to go for it to perform. Because of this, the day to day management of the storage infrastructure has almost disappeared completely. It also allowed us to consolidate the physical footprint for data center relocation.
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