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

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Pure Storage Demo in 8 Minutes

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Demo of Pure Storage UCS Director Adapter for Creating LUNs on Pure Storage FlashArray

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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
  • Fast! More often than not, we're seeing sub-millisecond response times (latency).
  • A simple management console.
  • Data reduction. We're seeing far greater data reduction than we expected following the initial scoping exercise.
  • A small rack footprint.
  • The ability to export additional data from the array, such as capacity trending over time, would be helpful.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Very fast. The latency rarely breaks 0.75 ms with significant traffic.
  • Easy interface. I was able to learn how to use it on my own.
  • Reliable. I haven't had to touch the array since I put it in except to add LUNs and monitor capacity. There have been no breaks in the 2 years we've had it.
  • Wide support. We have AIX, HP-UX and VMware all attached to the array. There are drivers and support for all three and not all disk vendors can say that.
  • Support. Responsiveness to an issue I'm having, even when Sales is pushing, has been lacking. Haven't had a system down issue, so may just be a severity thing.
  • Price. Flash has been falling like a rock over the last two years with 1 TB SSD selling for under $140. And while I know the software is part of the price, I haven't seen the hardware drop impact their prices at all
  • For us, deduplication has been about 65-75% of what what promised.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The cloning of databases has been several hours to a few minutes, with the use of cabin snapshots.
  • The degree of deduplication and compression is very good.
  • The instructions for use fit on a card.
  • For now, we are very happy and we have not found a point of improvement.
July 24, 2019

My Pure M20 Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Supporting latency sensitive workloads such as databases.
  • Ease of administration. The platform is very easy to setup and requires almost no day to day management.
  • Integration with VMWare vCenter.
  • VM level performance monitoring.
  • General improvement to management interface.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Best implementation of flash array in the storage industry.
  • Higher IOPs for lesser rack space and cooling.
  • Easily manageable dashboard.
  • Training to user community like storage administrators
  • Providing virtual machines for trying new solutions before implementation.
Andrea Spaziani | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The most valuable features are extremely low latency, high IOPS with VMware, inline deduplication and compression. We have consolidated all of the SAN into the same box.
  • I liked the non-disruptive downgrade from FA-420 (POC) to FA-405 in production and the non-disruptive upgrade from FA-405 to M20. This is a great plus for the business.
  • Reports of performance and LUN utilization/deduplication could be improved. I’d love to view the average, minimum, and maximum performance in the reports but it is only graphics and you need to export the data into a CSV to find this information.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • High performance, we have had our arrays in place for going on two years and have yet to have a storage based performance issue.
  • Space utilization, we see an average of 3:1 reduction of all data stored on the array.
  • Excellent support, I know you hear this about a lot of companies but Pure Storage has one of the best support structures I've ever worked with.
  • I wish they had an integrated NAS solution
March 06, 2019

Pure Storage review

John Paul Twardowski | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Fast, this thing is really fast.
  • Size - what took most of a cabinet before is 4U in size. Meaning less cooling, less power, and less cost of housing it.
  • Reliability - This thing is a tank.
  • This storage is storage on child mode. It is simple and easy. Coming from NetApp where you may have needed a wiki to know all the commands you could at least get some info out of the unit (example how long it has been online) where now I need to call or open a ticket to get that info.
  • I would like to see on the reporting the max let's use iOS as the example...if I'm sitting at X used on average out of Y max clocked for this unit to determine how much growth room I have before I should consider upgrading...that would be nice?
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • In my testing of Pure Storage with its data reductions capabilities, I was able to conclude that its compression/dedup/zero detect thin provisioning results in about 43% less raw capacity requirements against vendors such as NetApp or nimble.
  • Pure Storage Support response time is positive and is based in the United States.
  • Pure Storage Employees such as my Account rep and SE have been very helpful after the sale with any questions I have had.
  • I am not 100 percent sure if Pure Storage NAS ability is up to snuff with the competition yet. I'm sure this will change over time.
  • Pure Storage can be expensive unless you get multiple bids from other vendors to get the price down.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Pure storage is able to be up 99.99 percent of the time
  • Upgrades and support are proactive and do not require downtime
  • Disk latency, snapshotting with VMware is fantastic
  • Make it part of a Hyper-Converged computer environment
  • Add the option of tiering data to less expensive disks
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Our deduplication rate is above what we anticipated. This is likely due to consistently duplicating much of our environment for testing purposes as well as the nature of our primary warehouse management system.
  • We have found that integration with VMWare has been straightforward and quite useful. Expanding the size of a device from within VMWare is simple and effective.
  • Snapshots are quick and easily presented to other hosts.
  • Expansion into a new tray of disks was quick, easy, and did not provide any interruption.
  • Performance has been phenomenal, with latency well under 1/2 ms.
  • Analysis and feedback for any adjustments that should be made on the layout of devices.
  • Offer a more robust option, beyond the two controller layout, to allow for completely seamless failover/upgrades.
  • Continue to incorporate VMWare integration into reporting and monitoring from the Pure Array viewpoint.
February 15, 2019

Pure Flash Goodness

Chris Schott | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • VASA provider for VVols being located on the controller is the most logical way to set that up. Have no idea why other vendors don't do it that way.
  • Support is top notch. Always responsive. Quick to resolution. We had an issue that involved multiple vendors, including Pure, and they ran it for us. Was definitely storage related, but ultimately the root cause did not like with them.
  • The amount of content their engineers release is great. People like Cody Hosterman and others add a lot of value to Pure and bring that to the community.
  • Pricing is definitely high. You get what you pay for, but you get a lot.
  • The lack of readily accessible deeper stats has been problematic in the past, especially when it comes to capacity planning.
Mike Davis | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Straightforward to manage, Pure Storage stays out of your way so that you can quickly provision storage, increase lun capacities, etc.
  • Snapshot-based replication works very well and is immensely less complex than other technologies such as srdf.
  • Rock solid, stable performance.
  • Upgrades to Pure are good but could be better. There is room for improvement in the upgrade process.
  • Rolling drive power cycles are necessary on some Pure versions.
  • The abundance of orange is quite gaudy.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Simple administration Array (No need experts for control the storage Infrastructure)
  • Fast installation (The array was installed in 1 day)
  • Easy to upgrade
  • The Upgrade of Storage Flash Array (We have got an error when we have upgrade the array M20 to M50)..
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The user experience have found a faster running process and the projects are running fluently.
  • IT Departement has had a better response time for infrastructure requirements and easy management.
  • Infrastructure process like backups, snapshots, etc are faster and confident.
  • Better time response interconecting SAP with legacy systems
  • The SAP Backup used to be of 11 hours and with Pure Storage it is just 1 hour.
  • Some process can not run on SAP, because those process were too long and with Pure Storage are strikingly fast.
Saikrishna Koganti | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
  • Up to 10x initial Data reduction,
  • Sub ms latency with VDI workloads
  • Easy to manage and real-time monitoring in the mobile app
  • Data reduction varying drastically sometimes based on the workloads like patches and schedule rollouts.
  • Capacity sizing is one of the key factors to handle the new workloads considering the data reduction variation.
Nicolas Pla | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Managing the Storage through API calls.
  • Upgrade is the best, you never have downtime, you can upgrade firmware controllers or physical controllers and have no downtime, High Availability works perfect.
  • Support of Pure is great and we never have a problem with them, from installing the Storage to implementations with Openstack and Cinder
  • Did not have any issue with Pure. every report we find, they resolve with fixes.
Edmund Joseph Tynan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Super low latency.
  • High IOPS.
  • Excellent deduplication.
  • HA design is ROCK SOLID.
  • Not able to do native CFS/NFS/SMB file shares. Its workaround is an "embedded" windows cluster, but you have to supply your own windows key.
  • It would be nice to have some improvements in the UI - Right now there's no graphical display showing how much of each volume is actually consumed vs. what's allocated. You can see that for the entire array, but not per volume. It would also be nice to have a breakdown of what snapshots were consuming how much space, etc.
January 25, 2019

Storage that just goes.

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Speed. We don't know how fast it can go because we've never been able to tax it.
  • Ease of setup. Web or CLI it's trivial to provision, replicate, or snap volumes.
  • Integration. There seem to be plugins for all of our current and upcoming software.
  • Drive failures are stupid. We're a hands-on shop, the drive indicator should be lit by default, I shouldn't have to do it manually.
  • Compression has not been as good as we'd hoped, but the failure was more likely on the sales side.
  • I want to see the logs. I'm a Unix admin, I can read and understand. Passwording the log dump is irritating and increases costs for both sides.
  • We'd really like more local users. It's stupid to have a dependency on windows in your storage, and it's also stupid to only have one user for your API calls.
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