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Pure Storage FlashArray

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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Pure Storage FlashArray has been widely used across various industries and organizations to address a multitude of storage needs. Users …
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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)
    10.0
    100%
  • 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.

Pure Storage FlashArray Videos

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 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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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

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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Tulio Conrado Campos da Silva | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We achieve proactive hardware support through the use of the Pure1 and Call Home features. It does work as announced. They gave precise and simple solutions for the non-trivial deployment, security and high availability questions we had.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pure's support is fantastic. We have not needed them very often but when we have they have been quite responsive. When our array has dialed home, they usually know about it before we do. We have used them for code upgrades in the past and they are very proactive about letting us know about upgrades as they come out to get them scheduled.
Jack Garvey | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The techs are very knowledgeable. There was something we couldn't find at the beginning of our use of Pure Storage (the specific issue slips my mind) but we got a hold of tech support and were helped right away. It's hard to really say how good they are, because we have had no issues! Knock on wood, I do give a 10/10 for the support we did get.
January 08, 2019

Love Pure Storage!!

Jody Gosnell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have had the unit for over 3 years and have not had a single issue out of it. Upgrades require a support case to be opened, but support personnel are extremely knowledgeable and fast.
January 07, 2019

I Love My Pure!!!!!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
On the rare times we have had to call for support, we get a technician on the telephone right away and the issue gets resolved quickly. More often-than-not, we'll get an email advising us that there is an issue with the array and what steps are needed to repair the issue. If we are unable to repair the issue Pure will schedule a time to remotely fix the issue. It's really that easy.
December 11, 2018

Quick and easy!

Bryan McLeod | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
While they may take more than a business day to get back to you they come back with all of the information that you need the first time. Firmware and maintenance is done with nothing more than allowing access to their support teams. If any roll back is necessary they are quick and decisive in actions. Currently have yet to have a hardware failure from the PURE. Support is proactive in their maintenance requests and work around your timelines.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I'm only picking 10 because there is no 1000 (rating)! When you've been abused by the other offerings and are used to dealing with "specialists" who only know how to read a script after getting back with you hours later only to end up going off shift so you can start the adventure all over with the next person.... The PURE support will have already answered, worked and resolved the issue. Software upgrades? They go like this: Dear support@purestorage.com, can we upgrade to the latest release this weekend on both arrays? Thanks! Seriously, that easy.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
They monitor or infrastructure and contact us if they notice anything. Any time we've had an issues, they are with us until the issue is resolved. Doesn't matter which member of the team needs assistance, they're always ready to jump in and help. The response time is extremely quick as well.
November 28, 2018

Better, Fast and Simple

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
No long time holding to talk to support. Fast support help. Always available even after hours (I created a pre-ticket to move the PURE from one rack to another rack, and support was on stand-by 1 AM in our local time).
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
From the beginning they talked up the "new" way to provide support by continuous monitoring of the system 24/7/365. We were skeptical at first, but they have stood behind that promise. We have had no outages since our first purchase over 4 years ago and have been happy since. We have done multiple controller replacements and upgrades with no issues or outages. They "Provide".
November 26, 2018

In love with Pure Storage

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
From all supports I've contacted, Pure Storage is clearly the best. They are qualified, test before doing any kind of maintenance and are proactive. You don't have to call them, they will call you. In fact, you don't have to check your arrays, they'll do it for you and reach you in case of a failure or bad performances.
Carl van Eijk | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Every experience with the Pure support team has been exceptional. The remote support tunnel makes it easy for any engineer to assist quickly. Every engineer has been knowledgeable, friendly and professional. Software updates have been performed during whatever window we choose, with zero interruption of service. I don't have a single criticism.
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