Item: Pure Storage FlashArray
Rating: 7
Author: Saikrishna Koganti

Overall Satisfaction with Pure Storage FlashArray

Support Rating

> Proactive alerting from the support team to address the potential issue and verify the system health checks.
> Remote firmware upgrade installation during the scheduled windows with customer approvals.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The pure storage M20 R1 & R2 array models are being used for managing the VDI workloads in our organization. The arrays are being used by my department and the whole organization as well. We have addressed the VDI performance issues with pure arrays, but the data reduction is drastically varying from 10x to 5x -7x which is a concerning factor. The data dedup factor needs to be considered based on throughput utilization, which is a key factor in sizing point of view

Pros and Cons

Pros

Up to 10x initial Data reduction,
Sub ms latency with VDI workloads
Easy to manage and real-time monitoring in the mobile app

Cons

Data reduction varying drastically sometimes based on the workloads like patches and schedule rollouts.
Capacity sizing is one of the key factors to handle the new workloads considering the data reduction variation.

Return on Investment

OpEx cost increases as the data reduction changes based on the newer workloads, which require one to buy additional capacity.

Alternatives Considered

Better data reduction and sub ms latency with VDI workloads

Likelihood to Recommend

The Pure Storage array is well suited for initial VDI workloads, and it provides the data reduction up to 13x but later point of time due to new workloads like patches and other rollouts the data reduction can be considered as 5x - 7x. Based on the new workloads and data reduction changes, you need to size the array initially or add additional capacity.

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Pure Storage FlashArray with VDI workloads