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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.
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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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September 10, 2019
Where 911 calls when they need help.
- Speed. During testing, we could push the array to about 400,000 iops.
- Failover. The two controllers can failover to each other with only about 1-2 second blip.
- Size. The chassis is only 3 rack units, which is much smaller than the 10 rack units of a previous array.
- Cost. Pure Storage is pretty expensive.
- Upgrade options. You can only upgrade in certain "data pack" sizes, which are pretty big leaps when you only need a small upgrade.
September 09, 2019
Pure Storage - the best storage ever
- Ease of management, deployment (API), seamless capacity expansions and even array upgrades with zero downtime.
- Support. Knowledgable engineers that will ' stay with you' till the issue is resolved and provide assistance even when the root cause is.
- Data reduction. We are seeing 5.x in Production and 6.x in non-prod environments.
- Slightly higher cost than their competitors
September 09, 2019
Pure... What else!
- Monitoring with Pure1
- Upgrades are belonging to the past
- Performance is insane
- Very easy setup
- Very difficult to find bad points since this product is so good... Nope, I have no Cons, can't find any! Sorry!
September 09, 2019
I like Pure Storage way too much
- It's fast with low latency under load.
- It is supported by an evergreen support policy.
- Purestorage sees the under-the-hood issues on it before they become problems. They contact us and schedule maintenance to provide fixes and upgrades.
- The thing just works. We spend almost no time on it and it's in use for most of our production environments.
- There's very little improvement to be made. They even have a load prediction engine now that allows you to predict what will happen if you scale up one of your load types (choose a volume and tell it you're going to make ten more of them and see what it predicts).
September 09, 2019
Low latency, High Availability and High Speed Storage Solution
- Low latency storage serving
- Deduplication
- Backup license consolidation with CommVault
- It would be nice if there where more network-based services available, for example, NetApp
- K8S integration works but is not as clean as I would like to see it. Setting user limits would be nice, albeit a bit hard.
September 09, 2019
Pure Storage as your enterprise storage solution
- Compression, and de-duplication. It is doing this really well. We have an average of a one fourth compression ratio of our file storage system. Not to mention inline de-duplication.
- Longevity. We can upgrade the management blade should we have additional processing and capacity and support has been awesome.
- It has usage analytics and a great partner ecosystem.
- User events and I hope that you can manage your partner to keep giving us on the latest storage services support.
September 07, 2019
More Power with Pure Storage
- Easy to install
- Easy to use
- Very good support department
- Implementation of cheaper storage with the same simplicity
September 07, 2019
Great all-flash storage appliance
- Performance
- Active support
- Non-disruptive maintenance
- Could improve Pure1 app on mobile
September 07, 2019
Pure Storage provides an all-around positive experience!
- Simplified Management - Command line access is available, but everything you need to do can be done through the GUI.
- Excellent support - Proactive, very responsive and capable.
- Metrics - Right there on the homepage of the GUI, you can see what's going on with the array.
- Updates to the GUI - It takes a while to get used to where things are, and they could be better organized.
- Alerting - Often support gets notified of issues before we know about them. Not necessarily bad, but a heads up would be good.
- When we needed to increase our capacity, the Pure FlashArray provided us with the zero downtime scalability for critical and essential systems during critical production workloads.
- Our customer had an aggressive DR site replication requirement which needed to be implemented and tested in one month. With the Pure Storage FlashArray we were able to architect the data repositories, confirm site links, set up and replicate Protection Groups, test the replication process and timing, and successfully deliver a DR solution in the required 1-month window.
- We were having some serious issues with one of the arrays at the beginning, and I wanted to ship the equipment back because I was done with the product and felt like I was about to be let go. The Pure team set up a three-way discussion/troubleshooting session with VMWare and Cisco, and reviewed our existing certified configurations from a prior vendor, and provided a proposal on remediation. Since agreeing and implementing the final proposed configurations, we haven't had an issue since. Pure driving the conversation and giving us a recommendations really showed they cared and wanted their services to shine.
- Our reps have been fantastic! Whenever this is an error/alarm, they're on the situation within minutes. Sometimes they respond before we can show they've acknowledged the issue and that they're ready to review the system when we provide access.
- The Pure Storage FlashArray has given us a much better dedupe and compression ratio/storage utilization than our other storage arrays, allowing us to consolidate from 3 very large arrays to one small footprint.
- We have a very strict password policy, and upon integrating the array to our authentication source, some characters were not supported and I couldn't log in to the array. This was more of an annoyance, and I'd expect the FlashArray to support a larger range of special characters.
- Pure could have been a little more proactive on some of the errors we were seeing and getting back to us that there was a patch that would correct some issues. This really would have helped us in the beginning as we were moving our entire workload to the array.
September 06, 2019
My Pure Storage FlashArray five year (so far) journey
- Handles bursty (IOPS and bandwidth) workloads very well.
- Has great VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols) support/implementation.
- Upgrades are quick and painless.
- Pure 1 site for aggregated telemetry data is very useful.
- Pure Storage is expensive, but worth the premium.
- I would like an easier way to identify a particularly hot (IO) VM on vVols during specific, narrow, user-selected time windows.
- I would like to see an indicator on the support site for a Pure Support recommended code version of the Purity OS to more easily identify what version we should be running.
September 06, 2019
It doesn't get any better than this! Pure Storage rocks!
- Initial implementation is incredibly easy. After plugging the array in, a few minutes of configuration and you're up and running. Prior storage arrays required weeks of conference calls and planning with the vendor. Pure was up and running in less than an hour, and I took my time.
- Flexibility. Unlike other arrays that require you to select RAID levels, create RAID groups, storage pools, allocate hot spares, etc., this thing just works! No complex planning required, no long-term decisions to make. Want more capacity? Plug in more disks! Done!
- No forklift upgrades. Every component in the array (controllers and disks) can be upgraded and migrated on-line with no loss in performance. You can purchase a Pure array today and keep it current over many generations without having to migrate data between arrays.
- Easy management. A simple, modern web GUI makes it very quick and easy to perform all management tasks. No Java, Flash, etc. A CLI, REST API, and PowerShell modules are also included.
- Tech support. In the three years that we've owned the array, I've never had a major issue with it, but the half-dozen or so times I've contact support (mostly for upgrades), the experience has been incredible. Response times are the quickest I've seen and the engineers are knowledgeable. Pure sets the bar here.
- It's expensive. While I'd love to store everything on our FlashArray, we just can't justify the cost. Things like historical logs, software archives, video surveillance footage, etc. are still stored on traditional arrays.
September 06, 2019
Great storage for our requirements
- High performance allows great flexibility in the classroom. You can ask an entire class of students to deploy a VM and they are done in seconds rather than minutes.
- Lower long term cost through controller upgrade program. Having a large capital expenditure every five to six years as is typical with storage arrays is very difficult in an educational environment.
- Excellent automation saves hours of time. Each semester, resources are destroyed and reconfigured in the virtual infrastructure for hundreds of students. That requires the destruction and creation of hundreds of volumes. Since that process is completed automated, it only takes a couple of hours time to configure the required data to allow the automation scripts process the required changes.
- I would recommend changing the deployment process schedule that it can be completed without a Pure engineer on site. I thought the process would be much more complex than it was. As it turned out, we could have easily handled the process.
- A very specific feature is the requirement for actual Intel 40Gb optical transceivers. We faced a challenge during deployment that the array would not work with any third party 40Gb optical transceiver that we had, although it would work with a third party 40Gb DAC with no problem. Pure did provide a document stating only Intel optics were supported, but that was provided after purchase. We have the perception that Pure did not have much experience with 40Gb networking.
September 06, 2019
Good performance and simplicity of use.
- The first thing is performance. It really performs well compared to our old storage (as expected).
- The second thing is its simplicity. The GUI design is really thoughtful. It takes much fewer click to achieve the same thing that some other products take more steps to do.
- The replication is on network, not on fiber channel. It is a design decision, but personally I feel fiber channel is faster. However, we haven't seen any performance issue on replication.
- Active clusters function well, but there is only one way (network) to prevent split-brain. It might be more solid if there were more ways to prevent it.
September 06, 2019
Pure Storage FlashArray - fast forward mirrored VM Storage
- Easy to install.
- Easy to configure.
- You don't have to touch it anymore - it's there and it's doing the job.
- The support team does a great job in case you need them.
- Cannot say anything negative.
September 06, 2019
Pure Storage delivers on their promise
- Data reduction, we are seeing 5.x in Production and 6.x in non-prod environments.
- Ease of management, deployment (API), seamless capacity expansions and even array upgrades with zero downtime.
- Support, Pure One Dashboard is dynamically updated with all the relevant performance, capacity, and health on all devices (e.g. IOS). Pure is proactive in addressing issues the moment they are detected and are extremely responsive to any questions or queries.
- Still niche products - would like an expanded portfolio to cover all storage use cases.
- Slightly higher cost than their competitors.
September 05, 2019
Pure Storage FlashArray - A happy story of a storage admin
- Compression
- Very easy-to-use management interface
- High IOPS performance
- Scalability. Would like the ability to add more capacity without swapping the SSDs.
- More integration into cloud/virtualization solutions
September 05, 2019
Pure Storage FlashArray is the best SAN I've ever used!
- Pure Storage FlashArray has the very best implementation of Virtual Volumes (VVols) for VMware.
- Pure Storage has very good documentation for best practices for accommodating different types of workloads and access patterns.
- FlashArray outperformed other all-flash SANs by 35% in our testing.
- FlashArray's integrated VASA provider helps avoid many configuration mistakes with VVols on VMware.
- Pricing is still a little steep (but worth it).
- Could use better training for SAN admins so they can fully utilize its features.
September 05, 2019
Pure Storage is the only way to go.
- We were able to transfer from a 200TB HP 3Par storage system down to a 25 TB Pure Array based off how Pure uses the space and their amount of de-duplication.
- Pure is the absolute easiest tool that I have to manage as it is so simple. In 4 years of using the system we have never had any issues whatsoever other than receiving notifications that they were planning on doing updates to firmware for us and when did we want it scheduled.
- The cost of the system and renewal of maintenance is extremely cheap and easy as well.
- I really have no issues that I can think of at this time.
- Low amount of hands-on maintenance.
- Replication to another Pure is simple.
- Patching is a non-event.
- High price for extra shelves and storage.
September 05, 2019
Migrating to Pure Storage: Is it worth it?
- Deduplication of data in Pure Storage is good. Getting between 4 and 6 to 1 reduction.
- Latency on Pure Storage is good also averaging around 1 ms.
- Virtual desktops and servers have great response time and we have never experienced any performance degradation from the flash array.
- I'd like to see some more details on the NVRAM flash module usage from the console.
- I'd like to see alerts from the console about the version of Purity and the latest stable version we can upgrade to.
- I would like more details on the shared capacity usage.
September 05, 2019
Why we use Pure!
- Speed.
- Low latency.
- Slow OS boot up.
- Cost.
September 05, 2019
Pure Arrays and the simplification of SANs
- An easy to manage interface.
- Very fast performance.
- Cost savings with dedupe and compression.
- Limited native cloud support.
- Limited precise metrics.
- No automated reporting.
September 05, 2019
Pure has changed my life!
- Administration
- Replication
- Data reduction
- The Vcenter plugin has had a few bugs that have caused us a few minor issues.
September 05, 2019
Pure Storage FlashArray Review
- Ease of use and setup.
- Deduplication/data reduction.
- Cloning data for lab environments/testing scenarios.
- Web UI can be a bit confusing when you're trying to perform an atypical task - it's not always intuitive. Sometimes less is not more.