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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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- 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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September 24, 2019
Once you go orange, nothing else is ever good enough!
Pure Storage FlashArray is now our primary platform for block data. All of our production databases and VMware environment live on Pure. This brings us great performance, along with improvements in manageability. We are now positioned for the future and the ability to take advantage of NVMe-oF when it becomes mainstream. No more limiting our options because of the technology already in house. The Evergreen process gets us away from fork-lift storage upgrades, and the support is top notch and fast.
September 24, 2019
My new storage solution provides PURE satisfaction!
We are currently housing and migrating data over from a deprecated storage solution. It is currently housing critical data and eventually will house file shares. The hardware itself is a glowing beacon that symbolizes room for my data and streamlined storage.
September 24, 2019
Our experience with Pure Storage FlashArray
Our Pure Storage FlashArray is currently used to deliver the necessary storage capacity (block) to all our production servers.
September 24, 2019
Pure Storage FlashArray - Easy to set up, use, and maintain.
Our Pure Storage FlashArray is used for our general virtualization environment. We have application and database servers running on it. The business problem we're trying to address is latency.
September 24, 2019
Pure Magic
Pure Storage FlashArray provides superior performance at an attractive price point to support our organization's applications. Almost all workloads that we have moved to Pure Storage FlashAray have seen a noticeable improvement in processing times, not just noticed by IT metrics but also by end-users.
September 24, 2019
Business continuity, reduction of energy consumption and consolidation of the IT structure
The final configuration involves the installation and configuration of a high-reliability infrastructure to provide a redundant system that can be resistant to possible blockage of one of the two site production sites. Network connectivity is provided via four 10Gb network cards and two 1Gb network cards for the management interface.
The SAN Pure Storage M20 enables the active/active HA functionality. The storage is composed of a Pure Storage m20 5TB containing 20 256GB SSD disks bundled with 2 for each disk slot. The total usable net of RAID3D used by the system is 2.7TB which, thanks to the deduplication tool, will provide between 6 and 10 TB usable space.
September 21, 2019
Fast, reliable and simple. All our wishes are granted!
We deployed two active-active arrays (m50r2) for our group datacenter and all our data workloads are hosted on Pure arrays. We use the Active Cluster feature to build our business continuity plan. Then, this year we have bought an x10 one for a production site (warehouse). Pure Storage FlashArray has solved our storage issues around latency, growth, and protection.
September 20, 2019
Great Enterprise Storage Solution
It is used as the primary enterprise storage for all tiers of applications. Primarily for databases, VDI, laboratory systems, but also as community storage for ESXi clusters and standalone servers. It is replicated from coast to coast for DR purposes and recently we started to deploy smaller appliances of PureStorage into our Tier 2 data centers and laboratories to support local applications. It is easy to grow and upgrade. Our vendor was extremely quick to master the management and initial setup. Using this storage is giving us great business agility.
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
We are leveraging the FlashArray for our virtual environment, SQL data and WFS. We are also using the FlashArray as warm storage in our Splunk environment. This is accessed by the entire company and has primarily resolved latency issues.
September 20, 2019
Pure Storage has simplified my life
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
We use Pure Storage for critical workloads such as VDI and SQL. We are not using Pure Storage to its fullest at my current organization. At a previous organization we used snapshots, replication cross datacenter and to cloud.
September 20, 2019
Best Storage Performance
Across the whole organization to provide manages Sap service.
September 20, 2019
PUREWORLD
Mainly caters to VMs and VDIs which gives the best compression/dedupe ratio.
September 20, 2019
Pure Storage is the best storage in the industry
It is used from Oracle DB. It addresses dedupe, compression, and performance.
September 20, 2019
Everything we expected and more
Our Pure Storage deployment is in use across the entirety of our company as well as at our disaster recovery location. It is a mirrored solution where both sites are identical configurations. It is our primary storage. So it solves the problem of where we keep and maintain all of our company data.
September 20, 2019
FlashArray changed our performance goals
It is being used as the primary storage solution for all departments and core systems. We were at capacity with our old storage system and this has helped with relieving the congestion and utilizing the flash speeds has been great.
September 18, 2019
How Pure Storage made my job easier
The Pure Storage FlashArray is the primary SAN that runs the entire business. It solved all of the problems we were having with our prior arrays - its speed and dedupe technology allows the business to save money in the long term via its easy management and lower operating cost.
September 18, 2019
Pure Storage Review
Pure Storage is being used across our whole organization providing storage for 4 locations up/down the eastern seaboard. Through deduplication, it helps in saving considerable storage space, and through IOPS, it increases productivity of virtualized servers & applications. Using Flash has also reduced heat associated with moving parts replacing an HP SAN on lefthand network technology.
September 18, 2019
Don't be fooled by their marketing. They aren't BS-ing you, for a change. Try it out and check the TCO for the next decade.
We use Pure Storage Flash Array X and M for our primary and data recovery sites. Pure Storage is our primary storage mechanism for an enterprise workload that has a healthy mix of applications, databases, VMs and file systems. Deploying Pure Storage not only addressed our performance, cost, manageability, flexibility and investment protection (hardware support lifecycle) problems but also has introduced new avenues for us in supporting our business units to make decisions easily about dynamic business plans that explore IT systems' ability to support those plans with not much overhead - both people and money-wise.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
We are using them as a replicated SAN across our entire enterprise. It is our main storage source and has drastically improved performance over our old disc arrays. They have drastically reduced the data center space and maintenance required as compared to our old solutions.
September 16, 2019
Excellent solution across many different workloads and verticals
Backing our virtualized infra across many different clusters.
September 16, 2019
Experience Pure with a pure sense of humor
To support customer data. With the customer we have, we are managing Pure to be used only for HA type of infrastructure with enhanced performance using it's Flash storage module.
September 13, 2019
Why to choose Pure Storage
It was used for my department and it solved our high IOPS and latency issue for critical applications.
September 13, 2019
Storage that I never have to think about.
Our Pure Storage FlashArrays are our businesses primary data storage. Primarily used to host our virtual infrastructure, they provide high bandwidth, low latency storage with in-line dedupe and compression that hugely reduces our raw storage consumption whilst never being the bottleneck in any of hosted systems. Not a single storage failure to date.
September 13, 2019
Pure performance. Pure reliability. Pure.
Our Pure Storage arrays are used at multiple sites globally. They are the backend storage to our VMware and Citrix XenDesktop environments. The Pure systems replaced aging spinning disk systems that were out of support and maintenance. Pure Storage FlashArray systems provide ease of use, high performance, and reliability that our older spinning disk arrays could never match. In addition to those qualities, Pure's support model is wonderful - they contact us about issues before we even notice there's a problem (which has been very rare). Pure also performs all software/firmware upgrades remotely based on our change management schedules; we give them a time and they do all the work, notifying us at the beginning and end of the updates. The updates we've been provided have never caused us an issue, outage, or downtime. Advanced, simple, performant, robust...Pure.
September 11, 2019
Fast, easy, and reliable
Pure Storage FlashArray was brought in to relieve the IO from other arrays. We placed two high IO applications on the array, both physical and virtual.