Pure Storage review
March 06, 2019
Pure Storage review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Pure Storage FlashArray
Used as our main storage in the datacenter for all of our VM's. We switched to flash from non-flash to provide growth ability of speed, size of unit, data reduction ability, and reliability.
- Fast, this thing is really fast.
- Size - what took most of a cabinet before is 4U in size. Meaning less cooling, less power, and less cost of housing it.
- Reliability - This thing is a tank.
- This storage is storage on child mode. It is simple and easy. Coming from NetApp where you may have needed a wiki to know all the commands you could at least get some info out of the unit (example how long it has been online) where now I need to call or open a ticket to get that info.
- I would like to see on the reporting the max let's use iOS as the example...if I'm sitting at X used on average out of Y max clocked for this unit to determine how much growth room I have before I should consider upgrading...that would be nice?
- My team spends less time each day babysitting the storage. Netapp was a few hours a day to make sure its still good.
- Upgrades... I can spend the hours I would of been upgrading a netapp on other work related things while they handle the upgrade
- NetApp FlashRay, HyperFlex, Nutanix and HPE Nimble Storage
Pure was the better product for our needs