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Pure Flash Goodness
February 15, 2019

Pure Flash Goodness

Chris Schott | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Pure Storage FlashArray

Only rarely have they had issues, or things gone sideways, or there being an engineer on the call who missed a key feature or step. We then work with support to address that issue, and it doesn't happen again.
We utilize the Flash Array across our entire organization, from test/dev to production. This allows us to set, from a storage point of view, a consistent performance experience, which allows us to better troubleshoot problems in our stack. The Flash Array is simple enough to handle our most basic tasks, yet performant enough to handle our most demanding workloads with plenty of overhead to allow us to grow.
  • VASA provider for VVols being located on the controller is the most logical way to set that up. Have no idea why other vendors don't do it that way.
  • Support is top notch. Always responsive. Quick to resolution. We had an issue that involved multiple vendors, including Pure, and they ran it for us. Was definitely storage related, but ultimately the root cause did not like with them.
  • The amount of content their engineers release is great. People like Cody Hosterman and others add a lot of value to Pure and bring that to the community.
  • Pricing is definitely high. You get what you pay for, but you get a lot.
  • The lack of readily accessible deeper stats has been problematic in the past, especially when it comes to capacity planning.
  • The faster storage showed immediate returns in performance for our customers, both internal and external.
  • The feature set allowed us to add a significant number of internal business processes, as well as improve others. So, definitely some hidden or unaccounted for value.
I was not around for the original decision, and my history is around incomparable storage solutions.
  • Clone a LUN, feed it through an obfuscation process, and you now have test data to work with. Or take that obfuscated LUN and clone it several times for multiple test environments. This lets us secure data, and provide devs with a full data set/schema to work against.
It's a good fit for any enterprise and any workload. The ability to replicate data between arrays is a big help for DR scenarios, as well as things like mirroring data from production into development.