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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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FlashBlade offers a costly but highly reliable and effective recovery solution

Rating: 8 out of 10
November 10, 2021
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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...
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Employee
Pure Storage FlashBlade1 year of experience

Attention-catching storage solution

Rating: 8 out of 10
October 8, 2021
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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, ...
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Tanay Arora
Engineer - Information Technology
Engineer Intern
GREAT FUTURE TECHNOLOGY PRIVATE LIMITED
Pure Storage FlashBlade1 year of experience

Performance is the Name of the Game

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 5, 2021
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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 ...
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Alexander Cooper
Consultant - Corporate
RPA Developer
Randstad UK
Pure Storage FlashBlade1 year of experience

Pure Storage FlashBlade Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 5, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 manageme...
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Chirag Deol
C-Level Executive - Information Technology
Chief Marketing Officer
Boxinall
Pure Storage FlashBlade3 years of experience

Pure Best Storage FlashBlade

Rating: 9 out of 10
August 26, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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. Tap...
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Engineer
Pure Storage FlashBlade1 year of experience

My experience using Pure Storage FlashBlade

Rating: 9 out of 10
August 25, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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...
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Shivani Pandey
Engineer - Information Technology
Project Engineer
Wipro Limited
Pure Storage FlashBlade2 years of experience

Great for High speed mongers.

Rating: 9 out of 10
August 24, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 wit...
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Consultant
Pure Storage FlashBlade3 years of experience

Pure Storage FlashBlade

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 10, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 busine...
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Manager
Pure Storage FlashBlade3 years of experience

New to FlashBlade

Rating: 7 out of 10
March 26, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 depart...
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Technician
Pure Storage FlashBlade1 year of experience

Follow-up from a happy FlashBlade user

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 26, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 o...
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Administrator
Pure Storage FlashBlade1 year of experience

FlashBlade, Always On, Always Up and Always Running at Lightning Speeds

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 23, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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...
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Engineer
Pure Storage FlashBlade1 year of experience

Pure FlashBlade offers speed that is unmatched

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 23, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 infrastruct...
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Engineer
Pure Storage FlashBlade1 year of experience

My Pure Storage FlashBlade Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 5, 2020
Vetted ReviewVerified 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 Pur...
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Edward Hammond
Strategist - Engineering
Principal Solutions Architect
CogoLabs
Pure Storage FlashBlade4 years of experience

Pure Storage FlashBlade Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 22, 2020
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
My team manages a large number of Pure Storage FlashBlade systems that provide storage services to all departments in the company.
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Engineer
Pure Storage FlashBlade1 year of experience

Pure Storage FlashBlade Review

Rating: 5 out of 10
May 22, 2020
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 se...
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Julie Ulrich
Professional - Information Technology
Systems Engineer
Farm Bureau Insurance of Michigan
Pure Storage FlashBlade5 years of experience
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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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FlashBlade offers a costly but highly reliable and effective recovery solution

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
November 10, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pure Storage FlashBlade
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • High quality performance and speed.
  • Efficient data recovery.
  • Great UI and easy to use.
  • Minimal latency.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

Attention-catching storage solution

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
October 08, 2021
TA
Tanay Arora
Engineer Intern
GREAT FUTURE TECHNOLOGY PRIVATE LIMITED (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pure Storage FlashBlade
1 year of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • High processing power.
  • There is no risk of interruption while data handling.
  • Amazing speed.
  • Scalable.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

Performance is the Name of the Game

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
September 05, 2021
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

Pure Storage FlashBlade Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
September 05, 2021
CD
Chirag Deol
Chief Marketing Officer
Boxinall (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pure Storage FlashBlade
3 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Easy-to-scale archives.
  • Data protection.
  • High performance.
  • Easy to manage.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

Pure Best Storage FlashBlade

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
August 26, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pure Storage FlashBlade
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • High performance.
  • Easy to manage.
  • Quick restores.
  • Quickly backup.
  • Replication.
  • Kubernetes support.
  • Good support.
  • Easy to use interface.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

My experience using Pure Storage FlashBlade

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
August 25, 2021
SP
Shivani Pandey
Project Engineer
Wipro Limited (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pure Storage FlashBlade
2 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • High performance and 24/7 availability.
  • Reliable storage system with good data security in place.
  • Seamless integration and connectivity.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

Great for High speed mongers.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
August 24, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pure Storage FlashBlade
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

Pure Storage FlashBlade

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
May 10, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pure Storage FlashBlade
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • High performance - IOPs throughout
  • Low latency
  • Scale-out easily
  • S3 object support
  • Easy to manage
  • NAS/ File support
Likelihood to Recommend
It is really excels for NAS workloads that demand high throughput and are latency.

New to FlashBlade

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
March 26, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pure Storage FlashBlade
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • High performance storage
  • Highly scalable solution
  • Simple management
Likelihood to Recommend
It's well suited for high-performance storage requirements used to support NFS. Windows SMB share is less flexible than other NAS storage.

Follow-up from a happy FlashBlade user

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
March 26, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pure Storage FlashBlade
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
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

FlashBlade, Always On, Always Up and Always Running at Lightning Speeds

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
March 23, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pure Storage FlashBlade
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Reliable backup storage.
  • Quick backups.
  • Quick restores.
  • Easy to manage.
Likelihood to Recommend
Since we only use our FlashBaldes for backup storage, I can only state that it is well suited for that purpose.

Pure FlashBlade offers speed that is unmatched

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
March 23, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pure Storage FlashBlade
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Speed of read and write
  • Familiar interface to that of Pure Storage FlashArray
  • Ability to scale out
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

My Pure Storage FlashBlade Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 05, 2020
EH
Edward Hammond
Principal Solutions Architect
CogoLabs (Internet, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pure Storage FlashBlade
4 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Kubernetes support
  • Replication
  • Great support
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

Pure Storage FlashBlade Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
May 22, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pure Storage FlashBlade
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
My team manages a large number of Pure Storage FlashBlade systems that provide storage services to all departments in the company.
Pros and Cons
  • Very easy to administrate
  • Highly performant
  • Excellent support
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

Pure Storage FlashBlade Review

Rating: 5 out of 10
Incentivized
May 22, 2020
JU
Julie Ulrich
Systems Engineer
Farm Bureau Insurance of Michigan (Insurance, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pure Storage FlashBlade
5 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • NFS mounts to VMware
  • It's a solid Pure product in support basis
Likelihood to Recommend
Pure Storage FlashBlade is well suited for tier 2 high data dump situations or NFS shares.

FlashBlade review from a POD perspective (PCF, Kubernets, VRA)

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
May 21, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pure Storage FlashBlade
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Easy to use interface.
  • Very customer eccentric upgrades with virtually no down time needed.
  • Performance and space savings through Dedupe and compression.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

Overkill

Rating: 5 out of 10
Incentivized
May 20, 2020
DM
David McKinney
Sr. Systems Engineer
Advanced Disposal Services (Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pure Storage FlashBlade
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Ease of use
  • Speed
Likelihood to Recommend
This would probably be good in niche environments or maybe for DB caching.

Pure Storage FlashBlade: No other solution needed

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
May 17, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pure Storage FlashBlade
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

FlashBlade is almost ready

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
May 10, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pure Storage FlashBlade
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Performance
  • Simple to use
  • Non-disruptive upgrades
  • Encryption at rest
  • Scalability
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

If you want a 'Purely' superior experience!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
May 08, 2020
NC
Nathan Chitwood
Sr. Systems Administrator
Delta Star (Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pure Storage FlashBlade
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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!
Pros and Cons
  • NFS target
  • Large data analysis processing
  • High performant block and object storage
  • Data protection target
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

FlashBlade for NFS

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
August 30, 2019
CS
Chris Stotler
Manager Platform and Storage Engineering
The Auto Club Group (Insurance, 5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pure Storage FlashBlade
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • NFS Target.
  • Allows for fast 40GB uplinks.
  • Storage is resizable on the fly with no downtime.
Likelihood to Recommend
NFS Target is hands down the best use of this product. It can be utilized by almost any technology that supports NFS.

FlashBlade: Lots of potential

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
July 27, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pure Storage FlashBlade
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • NFS: for NAS use cases the FlashBlade excels/
  • Backup target: dumping SQL files to the FlashBlade is simple and fast.
Likelihood to Recommend
The FlashBlade is well suited to NFS only NAS workloads.

Flasharray review of awesomeness

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
July 24, 2019
JC
Jeremy Calcamuggio
Senior Systems Engineer
Scantron (Education Management, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pure Storage FlashBlade
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
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