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Pure Storage FlashBlade

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What is Pure Storage FlashBlade?

Pure Storage offers FlashBlade, a scale-out file and object storage – architected to consolidate complex data silos (like backup appliances and data lakes) while accelerating tomorrow's discoveries and insights.

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7 out of 10
March 26, 2021
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What is Pure Storage FlashBlade?

Pure FlashBlade is an all-flash storage solution for consolidating fast file and object data, designed to deliver cloud-like simplicity and agility with consistent high performance and control.

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Pure Storage offers FlashBlade, a scale-out file and object storage – architected to consolidate complex data silos (like backup appliances and data lakes) while accelerating tomorrow's discoveries and insights.

Reviewers rate FlashBlade Benefits highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Pure Storage FlashBlade are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Pure Storage FlashBlade is a versatile storage solution that has been widely adopted across various industries and departments. Users have found it particularly beneficial for storing large data sets with low latency requirements in fields such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation. Additionally, it serves as backend storage for virtual machines, primarily through NFS exports, allowing for fast data transfer and secure storage capabilities.

Many organizations have leveraged FlashBlade for database backup, taking advantage of its high performance and scalability. It also proves to be an ideal backup repository for critical applications and deployments, enhancing overall system stability. Moreover, FlashBlade is utilized as a backup target for high-priority data, addressing the challenge of efficient data restoration.

In terms of analytics workloads, proof-of-concept projects are being conducted to explore the potential of FlashBlade. The software shows promise in offering robust solutions for high-performance VM storage and serving as the main storage solution in large Kubernetes deployments. It enables the running of critical workloads with high IOPS throughput and low latency while easily scaling to meet business demands.

FlashBlade offers a user-friendly interface with seamless integration with existing Amazon Web Services solutions, paving the way for easy file management and sharing within the organization. Its utilization extends to being used in conjunction with Commvault for backups, primarily connected via NFS to Windows physical machines. Moreover, it supports the entire company's backup infrastructure by acting as a repository for all production backups.

Users highly value the reliability and uptime provided by Pure Storage FlashBlade. They appreciate its easy-to-use interface, which accommodates external users seamlessly. From archiving purposes to storing large log data for security reporting and analytics, FlashBlade consistently delivers reliable and fast access to applications. It has also proven effective in research departments for storing specific datasets and in clinical departments for digital imaging storage.

Overall, Pure Storage FlashBlade presents itself as a powerful solution across multiple use cases. With its secure and high-performance features, it effectively addresses the storage needs of organizations while ensuring data security, scalability, and ease of use.

Many users have praised NVMe Flash Storage for its fast and high-performance storage capabilities, with no storage latency troubleshooting. Some reviewers were particularly impressed with the massive throughput and the ability to handle larger volumes without sacrificing low latency and high throughput. The interface of NVMe Flash Storage has been described as simple and easy to navigate by several users. They appreciated the seamless integration with important tools like AWS and support for Kubernetes, making it easy to manage and administer the system. Several reviewers have commended the reliability of NVMe Flash Storage, noting good data security measures in place. They also mentioned the ability to easily scale out. Users highlighted that this solution reduces data center footprint compared to previous storage solutions, emphasizing its energy efficiency. Overall, reviewers have consistently highlighted the fast and high-performance storage capabilities of NVMe Flash Storage, along with its simple interface and ease of navigation. The reliability, scalability, and energy efficiency of the product were also commended.

Additionally, users appreciated features such as quick upgrades with no downtime, NFS target functionality for fast connectivity, efficient installation process, good support from the team, efficient data recovery with minimal latency, S3 object support with NAS/file options, and the overall scalability and simplicity of managing the system.

Limited Demo Window: Some users have expressed frustration with the limited window provided to use the demo environment/product, which has hindered their ability to fully understand its capabilities and make an informed purchasing decision.

Learning Curve: Several reviewers have mentioned that there is a learning curve associated with the product, which can minimize the potential cost savings compared to competitors like AWS. This learning curve may require additional time and resources for training and onboarding.

High Cost: The cost of the product as a whole has been a concern for many users. They feel that it is expensive compared to other options in the market, making it less accessible for smaller businesses or those on a tight budget.

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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We introduced Pure Storage FlashBlade as a part of our company's disaster recovery plan which needed a solution that could efficiently and securely backup and restore any data. We chose this solution partially because of its ability to backup and then restore lost data with minimal corruption or loss of data. In comparison to a few other solutions we tested, Pure Storage FlashBlade came out on top. So far we haven't had any major issues with Pure Storage FlashBlade and the solutions has been suitable for a majority of our data storage needs. The interface is easy to use and the solution operates at an exceptional speed which minimises the amount of time we spend on storing and securing data, so that we have more time to analyse it.
  • High quality performance and speed.
  • Efficient data recovery.
  • Great UI and easy to use.
  • Minimal latency.
  • Can be costly.
  • Scalability options are limited.
  • Integration with external environments is difficult.
If you are looking for a rapid storage solution for your application then Pure Storage Flashblade is more than suitable option for large organisations. Generally we have found that its performance is robust, stable and secure and has been easily Managed by a small team within our organisation. The solution also offers a search engine functionality which makes it very easy to locate data and update or recover it as and when you need - a much faster solution than other options we have tried. I believe this solution is less suitable for smaller to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) due to the relatively high cost implication that this will have.
Tanay Arora | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
FlashBlade is being used by me and my department most of the time, whenever we got a need to. In many cases, whenever we have to solve a problem related to data optimization, and whenever we have to handle data more precisely or we have to make the data flow smooth and fast.
  • High processing power.
  • There is no risk of interruption while data handling.
  • Amazing speed.
  • Scalable.
  • Pure Storage FlashBlade needs to work on their documentation.
  • It's an expensive solution to use.
It's an expensive solution to pursue, but it's a great long-term investment. Pure Storage FlashBlade is recommended by me for bigger companies and whenever you've to deal with large data storage and management. In the case of smaller companies and data storage, you can go with some other cheaper solutions. If you need centralized data backup and your data is interrupted and not secure, then Pure Storage FlashBlade is the best solution for you.
Alexander Cooper | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
At our organization, we used Pure Storage FlashBlade to store data that had to be accessed with as little latency as possible. It was used by the Hyper-Automation team solely and was used as the storage for artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation purposes. It allowed integration with our existing Amazon Web Services solutions.
  • NVMe Flash Storage allows super fast reads and writes.
  • More energy-efficient and "green" compared to other solutions involving moving parts.
  • Easy integration with AWS and other important tools.
  • The demo environment/product only has a small window to use.
  • Savings over AWS can be minimalised by the necessary learning curve.
  • Cost of the product of a whole.
If data storage, access, and security [are] of the highest priority to your business then Pure Storage FlashBlade is an excellent tool that must be considered. Analytics or sharing that requires the fastest speeds available will benefit from the NVMe solid-state drives they use which are far superior to spinning rust. It is less ideal for those who do not require such time-critical work.
Chirag Deol | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are an IT company. We using Pure Storage FlashBlade to store our data securely and it is great for data management. Having a user-friendly interface: A simple file management and sharing system makes it easy to use across an organization. Our IT team also uses it for database backup. It is very fast in transferring data and secures storage.
  • Easy-to-scale archives.
  • Data protection.
  • High performance.
  • Easy to manage.
  • Pricing model.
  • Add more documentation.
Pure Storage FlashBlade is best for companies that want their data stored and secure. The big storage capacity and cloud integration secure our data and ensure no third-party access without authorization. It provides us a secure data storage services for our objects. Fast and easy to install and easy to use.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pure Storage Flash Blade was used by my client to hold site wide backups for high value targets. It was used to replace tape storage. Overall, this was a fantastic choice. Tapes were slow and unwieldy. The UI is a little funky, and if you are coming from an environment where NetApp, or another vendor's units were in place, you'll miss some features that FlashBlade doesn't provide at this time. It [is] also serving the business by enabling the running of critical workloads that demand high IOPs throughput and are latency sensitive. The solution also easily scales to meet business demands.
  • High performance.
  • Easy to manage.
  • Quick restores.
  • Quickly backup.
  • Replication.
  • Kubernetes support.
  • Good support.
  • Easy to use interface.
  • Pricing.
  • Performance.
  • No data replication.
  • Please increase analytics and reporting information.
Pure Storage Flash Blade is a great all purpose storage usage solution for our company data center and over time a big win over Amazon Web Service S3 in terms of both price as well as performance. Because of price many companies that are looking to have an on premises data lake will need to look at other HDD based systems for a tier 2 data lake that does not require the performance of Pure.

Also, we are currently using Pure Storage FlashBlade to provide high-speed storage for our container environments.
I'd like to expand its use more widely, but with no option to tier out to less performance storage for cold data, we have not been able to expand the footprint of it.

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our team is using Pure Storage FlashBlade as a backup repository for the applications and critical deployments. We are successfully able to establish a secure content delivery network for the end-users and internal teams. It has helped us to improve the overall stability of the system.
  • High performance and 24/7 availability.
  • Reliable storage system with good data security in place.
  • Seamless integration and connectivity.
  • Costly.
  • The technology needs maturity when compared to other competitors like Hitachi NAS.
  • Scalability options need more flexibility and more robust functionality to quickly adapt to the system needs.
  • Integration with public cloud environments need improvement.
Pure Storage FlashBlade is well suited for medium to large enterprises that need a fast storage solution for their applications. It does not compromise on performance, reliability, security, and most importantly security. It has been used by our team for a couple of years now and we have not faced any issue so far.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pure Storage FlashBlade is a good product for organizations who are looking for high-speed storage solutions. Its capabilities of high-speed reading and writing are at par with any industry competition and exceed them in few cases. Pure Storage FlashBlade helped our organization in storing and retrieving our data with good performance.
  • Easy scalability by quickly adding new flash cards into Pure Storage FlashBlade.
  • High speed reading and writing.
  • Good support team to back up this good product.
  • Storing data in the back end on public cloud can be changed.
  • Data replication can be avoided on remote sites.
  • An efficient de-duplication algorithm would be great.
Pure Storage FlashBlade is particularly well-suited for organizations whose use cases demand high-speed data storage solutions since Pure Storage FlashBlade handles such operations with ease. With its very efficient algorithms, Pure Storage FlashBlade can make scalability just by simply adding new flashcards to the rack and the rest is taken care of by their algorithms. It may not be suitable for a few due to its high initial owning costs.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It serves the business by enabling the running of critical workloads that demand high IOPs throughput and are latency sensitive. The solution also easily scales to meet business demands.
  • High performance - IOPs throughout
  • Low latency
  • Scale-out easily
  • S3 object support
  • Easy to manage
  • NAS/ File support
  • I would like to see the product priced more competitively
  • No replication
  • More improvement in reporting and performance analytics
  • Improvements for windows SMB and lock clearing
It is really excels for NAS workloads that demand high throughput and are latency.
March 26, 2021

New to FlashBlade

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pure Storage FlashBlade is being used primarily for our research department for certain data sets. It will also be used for digital imaging storage for certain clinical department. We were looking for something to provide reliable and fast access with attached storage to some applications.
  • High performance storage
  • Highly scalable solution
  • Simple management
  • SMB file sharing should be more user friendly and have more Windows file system-like features.
  • When turning on Window mode, it should impose limitations for future volume expansion to the next units.
  • Configuration screen for Directory service is confusing and difficult to setup.
It's well suited for high-performance storage requirements used to support NFS. Windows SMB share is less flexible than other NAS storage.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our FlashBlade is an evaluation unit. My team tests storage arrays from various vendors to determine compatibility & performance with our software. We share results with our internal storage team and write white papers on how to best config an array for optimal performance without software.
  • Ease of manageability. A manual isn't needed to navigate the GUI. Config options are easy to locate.
  • The FlashBlade helps to overcome some of the performance limitations built into the NFS protocol.
  • Quick and simple installation.
  • Granular control of alerting.
  • Inability to serve FC block storage.
  • Performance analysis feature needs the ability to quickly pull up the heavy-hitters.
Shared file systems are needed in nearly all large environments. most options are considered exotic & many of SAS's customers do not want to run them. Everyone knows NFS, but traditional NFS lacked performance. Pure offers a performant NFS with their FlashBlade
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pure FlashBlade is used solely as a backup target for our enterprise backup solution. It stores all of our server backups both physical and virtual. We utilize two FlashBlades for this purpose, one at our primary data center and a second one at our offsite for long term retention and archiving.
  • Reliable backup storage.
  • Quick backups.
  • Quick restores.
  • Easy to manage.
  • Increased analytics and reporting.
Since we only use our FlashBaldes for backup storage, I can only state that it is well suited for that purpose.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The FlashBlade is being used to protect our Veeam backups. The Systems Engineering team are the only ones that use it, but because it is used as part of our backup infrastructure it supports the entire company. The FlashBlade is a repository to store all production backups. We've enabled Safemode on the FlashBlade to protect production backups from ransomware.
  • Speed of read and write
  • Familiar interface to that of Pure Storage FlashArray
  • Ability to scale out
  • Initial configuration is complex/confusing
  • Capacity
Since implementing FlashBlade into our backup infrastructure, the speed at which the backups complete on a nightly basis has increased tremendously. On the reverse, the time it takes to restore from the FlashBlade is very minimal. Couple the FlashBlade with a FlashArray and the backup and restores are insanely fast. The FlashBlade works well in our scenario as a backup target/ It would not work so well as a standard SAN scenario. While it would be fast, the cost does not make it feasible.
Edward Hammond | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
The initial use case for our 1st FlashArray was for high performance VM storage. We were rolling our our initial Kubernetes cluster and needed a good storage solution. The Pure Storage Orchestrator plugged right into our initial deployment and worked so well we used it for all the storage for our new 150+ node Kubernetes deployment at our new datacenter with almost all our production systems utilizing it.
  • Kubernetes support
  • Replication
  • Great support
  • Price
  • BYO keys to S3 storage
Pure Storage FlashBlade is a great all-purpose storage solution for our datacenter and over time a big win over AWS S3 in both price and performance. Due to the price, many companies looking to have an on-prem data lake will need to look at other HDD bases systems for a tier2 data lake that doesn't require the performance of Pure.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My team manages a large number of Pure Storage FlashBlade systems that provide storage services to all departments in the company.
  • Very easy to administrate
  • Highly performant
  • Excellent support
  • I have a requirement for inexpensive on-prem archival storage. Partnering with another platform or developing an in-house solution to use cheaper storage for cold data would be a great benefit for me.
We're currently using Pure Storage FlashBlade to provide high-speed storage for our container environments.
I'd like to expand its use more widely, but with no option to tier out to less performant storage for cold data, I have not been able to expand the footprint.
Julie Ulrich | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are a bit different than others. We got on early and were using Pure Storage FlashBlade as a tier 2 type storage. So we don't use it for analytics. It has served as file server storage, it has been used for backup archive, and it has been used to hold our security data.
  • NFS mounts to VMware
  • It's a solid Pure product in support basis
  • A lot of things promised early on didn't come to fruition.
  • No replication
Pure Storage FlashBlade is well suited for tier 2 high data dump situations or NFS shares.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pure Storage FlashBlade is primarily used in PCF and Kubernetes POD design. It is used in these POD designs for object storage and has been very reliant in uptime and has a very easy use to interface for external users.
  • Easy to use interface.
  • Very customer eccentric upgrades with virtually no down time needed.
  • Performance and space savings through Dedupe and compression.
  • Synchronous replication functionality to DR sites.
  • More denser and price effective arrays for mass market.
  • Ability to perform Host migration using Pure tools.
Pure Storage FlashBlade has been really useful in POD designs in our environment because of being very denser and small but providing the same performance and resilience. Its space savings through Dedupe and compression also helped us oversubscribe the array and helped us reduce power and rack usage. FlashBlade being a 1RU panel has helped us be in 1 rack but serve multiple AZ (availability )zones.
May 20, 2020

Overkill

Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The device is used for backups in conjunction with Commvault. It is connected via NFS to windows physical machines and it the main storage library.
  • Ease of use
  • Speed
  • Cost
  • Use case scenario
This would probably be good in niche environments or maybe for DB caching.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We required a robust and fast file storage array for our engineering staff across the enterprise. It allows us to easily manage directories, quotas, and have real-time visibility into the various aspects of its usage and health.
  • Very efficient.
  • The dashboard provides useful information.
  • We can utilize the dashboard to manage quotas, setup new snapshots, make adjustments, and review the health of the system.
  • When reporting out a user has exceeded there quote, it only references the UID. It would certainly be nice it calls out the UID name that is clearly present in the Dashboard.
  • The ability to determine a snapshot total size would be helpful.
  • Proactive reachout to discuss new versions and assist in planning the upgrade would be a key win.
It's a very easy system to manage and monitor. The speed and efficiencies have completely stifled our previous issues with the previous system we had in play. Adding blades can be done in minutes, requires no downtime and no maint window. We have had a couple of NFS response issues, which were not founded, so we had to reset the unit.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We intend to replace our current storage infrastructure for a particular carrier in 2 data centers with FlashBlades due to our requirement for fast NFS storage with encryption at rest. We are still in the process of integrating and are possibly at a point of implementing. Until release 3 came out, the snapshots did not suit our needs and we were unable to integrate it with our 389ds LDAP, but after a bunch of RFEs, it's finally usable. We are still not out of the woods in that the new replication, it doesn't yet meet our needs. On the positive side, Pure is good to work with, my account managers and support engineers have been receptive to my requests and I think their product is improved by this process. The hardware and support are good, but it's very focussed on what it does and needs a better feature set.
  • Performance
  • Simple to use
  • Non-disruptive upgrades
  • Encryption at rest
  • Scalability
  • NFS version support, v4.1 is not fully featured to the RFC and v4 support would be nice.
  • Simple feature set, need to be more enterprise focussed.
  • No tool to clear NFS locks.
  • No expert mode for troubleshooting no ping, trace route, etc.
  • Logs are passworded.
  • RBAC roles are limited and not granular enough.
  • No local user options other than pure user LDAP/AD only.
  • No SSH key trust, so no ansible automation possibilities.
  • Replication needs work, can't manage bandwidth without involving support.
  • Replication can't mount replica as it only reads normal filesystems, only snapshot view.
FlashBlade is well suited to performance NFS applications that require encryption at rest, it is good with metadata and scale-out, it would make a good backup target. Integration requires a bit of work since the infrastructure like LDAP servers, etc. are required since the features are external to the device. Compared to my other arrays like NetApp, Oracle, etc., it lacks features that mean I have to log support calls where I could otherwise reasonably troubleshoot or fix the issue myself. I think this is a Pure Storage design choice that has been taken a little bit too far. In my case, this means it has taken a lot longer for me to be productive with the array. We had to rewrite backup scripts to use REST since that was the only option, etc.
Nathan Chitwood | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Primarily, we use Pure Storage Flashblade as a backup target for high priority data. IT is the only department utilizing this. The main problem we wanted to address with backup, was actually the restoration. Many storage targets tout they are a great option for backup, but when it comes to restoring data, they fall down hard. The data is highly compressed and de-duped on slow low-tier storage. Getting it 'rehydrated' takes FAR too long. Pure Storage Flashblade solved that problem!
  • NFS target
  • Large data analysis processing
  • High performant block and object storage
  • Data protection target
  • Windows environment based NAS support
  • Block level de-dupe
  • Smaller storage options
In our situation, the primary use for Pure Storage Flashblade is data protection. We wanted a performant backup target. Most of these options are slow, and data restoration is abysmal. This is not the case with Flashblade.

NFS works great. We use NFS between the Flashblade and our backup environment.

I personally don't care for it as a NAS in a Windows heavy environment. It does support basic Windows SMB, but not well. If IT is well suited for Linux/Unix sysadmin, then Pure Storage Flashblade is highly recommended.
August 30, 2019

FlashBlade for NFS

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
FlashBlade is primarily used as an NFS target for log archiving, Database backups, and VM image-based backups. FlashBlade is used exclusively by the infrastructure team to facilitate backups at our remote data center. We had a business requirement to backup data in our remote data center, and it fit the bill.
  • NFS Target.
  • Allows for fast 40GB uplinks.
  • Storage is resizable on the fly with no downtime.
  • The user interface is a little clunky.
  • Monitoring is a challenge - The flash array does send disk space alerts but proactive system monitoring is lacking.
NFS Target is hands down the best use of this product. It can be utilized by almost any technology that supports NFS.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We currently use FlashBlade as a standard NFS share. It mainly houses large log data for security reporting and analytics. While the FlashBlade is capable of much more, it fit this small use case need very nicely.
  • NFS: for NAS use cases the FlashBlade excels/
  • Backup target: dumping SQL files to the FlashBlade is simple and fast.
  • The lack of CIFS support is a real shortfall.
The FlashBlade is well suited to NFS only NAS workloads.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are currently using Flashblade as backend storage for VMs, utilizing NFS exports. Flashblade is only installed at our primary datacenter, so remote sites with local VMs are using local storage (non-Flashblade).
Additionally, we are working on proof of concept projects to use Flashblade for future analytics workloads.
Primary business problems solved by Flashblade:
  • secondary storage that is very fast and scalable (our primary storage is Pure Flasharray).
  • consolidating storage vendors and platforms to a single vendor Pure Storage.
  • Eliminates any storage latency troubleshooting we used to do on other platforms for virtual machines.
  • Massive throughput!
  • Simple interface.
  • Eliminates volume sprawl as we can present much larger volumes and still enjoy very low latency and high throughput.
  • Need replication capability.
  • HTTP functionality to use Flashblade like an HTTP server with directory browsing would be great. For storing common content for internal use like package repositories, installers, system images, etc.
  • Syslog support for system logs and audit logs.
It's not appropriate for storage workloads that need replication to another site, for instance, disaster recovery.
It's also not appropriate for storage processes that rely on cloning and snapshot capability, for instance, database server volume cloning for refreshing data between application environments.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This is used for high-speed cross-platform unstructured file storage.
  • Ease of connectivity
  • Fast storage
  • Great Deduplication
  • Security options are limited
  • SMB connectivity was limited
If you need fast storage with easy setup with a simple environment, this excels.
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