Filled with Flash, faster than Superman

Ever since we moved to Pure Storage, our performance issues just disappeared overnight. For the first time since, well, ever, the hundreds of VMs we're running all feel as fast as they would on individual hardware with SSDs. It is one of the most remarkable pieces of hardware and software I've ever come across. I didn't believe Pure's consultants on how many TBs we needed, but because they guaranteed they'd give us the difference, we went in anyway. It changed my professional life.

But the good stuff doesn't end there: Their support department is absolutely amazing and very proactive. If there's a release that fixes some updates or just a new general release that is their baseline for a healthy system from now on, they will contact you! Also, they'll contact you if they detect issues on the array of course.

We have an all-flash array from a different vendor as well. With the same amount of SSDs and less than a third of the VMs (and less than a tenth of the user base for this array), it is at least five times slower. We're phasing out almost all other storage in favor of Pure.

I wouldn't change anything. There's nothing wrong with our evaluation and selection process.

Our most recent case was a request from our side to upgrade the arrays to the most recent release of Purity (the operating system on our arrays). We planned it, and they came back to us a couple of days later, asking us if it is possible to postpone the upgrade because they might have found an issue in the release code. Engineering was investigating to see if it is actually an issue in the code or maybe misconfiguration. That is the kind of support and quality that I want. Don't be afraid to postpone things/releases if it otherwise breaks (yes Microsoft I mean you).