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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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Popular Features

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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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Product Demos

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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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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Pure Storage FlashArray Integrations

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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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Victor Padro | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Ease of deployment.
  • Robustness at its core.
  • Helpful documentation.
  • Clear path to get compatibility matrices, it was hard to get it while doing it for Dell and VMware products.
  • More options regarding SMB, sometimes a few clients don't have a very big budget to implement a simple iSCSI SAN.
  • Spanish speaking techs, they need to improve that.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Solid performance
  • Easy to configure
  • Knowledgeable customer support
  • 9999 uptime
  • Hassle free firmware upgrades
  • Every month or frequently there is a firmware upgrade. I believe this should be released every quarter.
  • Very expensive to expand the disk capacity.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It is very robust, error free, and requires little maintenance.
  • The SAN is never a bottleneck in our environment, the performance is excellent.
  • A recent upgrade was completely online and was seamless.
  • We are completely happy with our array.
June 08, 2021

Pure Storage review

Sateesh Singh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Pure1 portal where you can see all your Pure Storage usage and other features is very impressive.
  • Pure Storage integration with VMware SRM makes it very easy to configure array-based replication.
  • Pure Storage Support is very good and the resolution time to fix a problem is impressive.
  • Pure GUI is very user-friendly and makes it very easy for new users to learn how to create LUNs and others in no time.
  • Introduce a new support tab in Pure Storage GUI for any individual storage would be great.
  • They offer few trainings for Customers who have invested in Pure Storage for free.
  • Suggest to Customers how they can improve Pure Storage functionality from time to time.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Speed - our VM's boot up in less then 10 seconds compared to about 90 seconds on the previous spinning disk arrays
  • Support - we have had great response / automated ticket creation for issues the may pop up
  • Up time - we have done numerous software upgrades and even hardware updates with ZERO down time in our virtual environments. We never could of done this with our previous Dell SANs
  • None that I can think of
Adam Morrison | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Mobile app. Allows quick view of the health of all of your arrays from your mobile device. You can also open a ticket from the app.
  • Unbelievable IOPS with the flash storage.
  • Extremely easy to install and configure. I installed it into the rack before the Pure engineer got onsite.
  • It could be less expensive. Pure storage is not cheap. But, outside of price I cannot thing of a thing it is lacking.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Performance: heads and tails above and beyond what a traditional array ever brought to the table.
  • Manageability: 8 hour, overnight upgrades are a thing of the past. Open a case with Pure's Support Team, give them an operating window for the upgrade and then they do the upgrades remotely, generally within an hour.
  • Deduplication: because of the 4:1 deduplication ratios that we are seeing in our environments, we reduced from a full rack of EMC VNX hardware, to 5RU of Rackspace in one of our data centers, while the rest of our arrays are sitting in a single 3RU chassis, providing all the storage we need for 100s of Windows Server and Desktop VMs.
  • I really cannot think of anything that Pure needs to do differently. They are constantly innovating their Pure1 SaaS interface with more benefits and providing on-array software updates that provide value to our IT Team.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Simple management
  • Dedupe and compression
  • Snapshot replication
  • Display of different data reduction rates can be confusing and could be noted better in the interface
  • Pure doesn't have an easy way to note who at the customer is responsible for management/maintenance of different units under the same overall account
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
  • Ease of operational management and provisions
  • Performance: low latency and high throughput
  • Ease of scale: online and non-disruptive
  • Ease of upgrades: online and non-disruptive
  • Better integration for CIFS/NFS services out of the box built into the array.
  • Better integration with VMWare VCD
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • A single pane of glass management that is incredibly simple to use.
  • Incredibly fast initial and subsequent deployments.
  • The deduplication/compression and speed exceed our expectations.
  • I can't think of a single thing, to be honest.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Customer service is fantastic. We have not had any issues with the array, but even doing a code upgrade is simple as support is very friendly and quick to respond.
  • The array is FAST! Being an all-flash array that is expected, but bundle that with their architecture and this thing is lightning quick in all storage operations.
  • We have not yet had the opportunity to take advantage of the Evergreen Model, but are looking forward to a hardware upgrade. This model is great and allows for quick and easy uplift to the newest hardware without replacing the array.
  • The array is so simple and easy to use that, we rarely need to manage it or do anything really. It really feels like a set and forget kind of system because it just works.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Pure's dedupe algorithm allows us to save storage space considering we have several stacks running the same software.
  • The evergreen program allows us to upgrade the controllers on our arrays every 3 years so we are always current.
  • Support is amazing, they will work at fixing a problem even if it isn't on their end.
  • There is nothing that I can think of that they could do better.
  • I would like better notifications of new features.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Data compression and data duplication.
  • FAST FAST FAST and reliable It just works!
  • Customer support is #1. We have never had a vendor better than Pure Storage.
  • EASY EASY EASY It just works! Stupid simple and easy to configure and manage.
  • Love to see the price come down. We want more units for data replication.
  • More details on the mobile app.
  • More support for Hyper-V.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Dedupe on file storage is great.
  • Active cluster allows for synchronous writes to multiple data centers for an active/active setup.
  • Management of volumes and hosts is very simple from the web UI.
  • 24/7 support is phenomenal.
  • Direct visibility of protection groups from the VMWare console would be helpful for restoring data.
  • Would like to be able to manage all FlashArrays from a single web UI.
Chris Saenz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • High performing storage IO.
  • Simple set-up, configuration, and administration.
  • Cost can be relatively high.
  • Capacity increases only come in specific sizes (2, 5, 10TB), so upgrades are not very customizable.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy to configure. The interface is simple and intuitive. You can tell that a lot of thought went into its design - both the previous 4.x and redesigned 5.x interface. I have configured and reconfigured many LUNs and Hosts/Host Groups as well as redeploying the hardware at a new location and the process is simple, and repeatable.
  • Solid. We have had zero stability issues with our devices. They have been our primary back end for several years at this point and have been absolutely dependable.
  • Support. Pure support takes care of upgrades on your schedule and are very quick with answers to usage questions. I've been through 3 production upgrades of live environments with support and they have been true zero-downtime upgrades.
  • Single purpose. If you aren't into iSCSI, this isn't for you. Can't share out a quick NFS/CIFS share off the fast storage. Not that this is a surprise, they are definitely marketed this way.
  • CLI is custom. No root, no standard *nix tools for doing things. It really is an appliance. It all works and is well documented, just non-standard way of doing things. Can also use the REST API for many tasks.
  • Cost. They are expensive. Upfront and ongoing. It feels like a premium product and you pay for it.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Instant snapshots and cloning.
  • Instant recovery from snapshots.
  • Asynchronous replication.
  • Minor - Snapshot creation from VMware takes an unusually long time if the memory snapshot is enabled.
  • Minor - FlashArray software does not currently support a much needed "keep last X snapshots (replicas)" option in protection groups.
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