Storage that just goes.
January 25, 2019
Storage that just goes.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Pure Storage FlashArray
We use Pure as our primary block storage; it backs our VMware, databases, and for misc block storage needs.
- Speed. We don't know how fast it can go because we've never been able to tax it.
- Ease of setup. Web or CLI it's trivial to provision, replicate, or snap volumes.
- Integration. There seem to be plugins for all of our current and upcoming software.
- Drive failures are stupid. We're a hands-on shop, the drive indicator should be lit by default, I shouldn't have to do it manually.
- Compression has not been as good as we'd hoped, but the failure was more likely on the sales side.
- I want to see the logs. I'm a Unix admin, I can read and understand. Passwording the log dump is irritating and increases costs for both sides.
- We'd really like more local users. It's stupid to have a dependency on windows in your storage, and it's also stupid to only have one user for your API calls.
- Our 4 Pures have replaced 6 full racks of storage, in about a half rack. It's a space, power, cooling, and management win.
- Have I mentioned the speed? Having a one-stop top tier that handles DBs and VMware has been great, it's almost completely removed "slowness" tickets from our radar.
There's not much comparison to be done, features, TCO, and raw speed are all on Pure's side initially, and in use reliability becomes a glaring benefit. We've never had a storage outage with Pure, I can't say the same for any storage I've ever used previously.