Why Pure Storage FlashArray Should Be Your #1 Choice!
Updated March 23, 2021
Why Pure Storage FlashArray Should Be Your #1 Choice!
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Overall Satisfaction with Pure Storage FlashArray
We started with a Pure FlashArray back in 2014 for our VDI deployment. This was the beginning of a great relationship with Pure and the products they provide. We have since migrated from our original F420, to M20, to currently using X50's at both our production and secondary site locations. Through the years, working with the FA has been a pleasure compared to 95% of our other hardware administration. It's simple to use and easy to maintain. Upgrades have always been flawless with no disruption to the production environment.
Our Pure Storage account team and support have always been there, pre-preemptively on the most part, with support and suggestions on how to best get the most bang for our buck out of our arrays.
We are currently looking into migrating our file-level storage to Pure's FlashBlade technology. With that, we will have a single pane window into our storage environment, thereby easing the administration process even further. I would highly recommend the Pure FlashArray to any company looking to refresh their storage environment and move forward with a company that is bringing storage management into the future. Evergreen helps to know that you will always be moving to a more current platform every three years easily on the budgeting and management fronts.
Do yourself a favor...go PURE!
Our Pure Storage account team and support have always been there, pre-preemptively on the most part, with support and suggestions on how to best get the most bang for our buck out of our arrays.
We are currently looking into migrating our file-level storage to Pure's FlashBlade technology. With that, we will have a single pane window into our storage environment, thereby easing the administration process even further. I would highly recommend the Pure FlashArray to any company looking to refresh their storage environment and move forward with a company that is bringing storage management into the future. Evergreen helps to know that you will always be moving to a more current platform every three years easily on the budgeting and management fronts.
Do yourself a favor...go PURE!
- The integration with VMware's vSphere has made creating and expanding datastores/volumes easy for all of our admins. They can do everything from one browser tab.
- The ability to run future planning scenarios has been helpful in knowing what we need to purchase in future budget cycles.
- The preemptive parts replacement that Pure Storage provides has led to us never having an outage on our arrays.
- We have not seen much, as they seem to be keeping up with requested features and functions over the 5 years we have been consumers.
- When compared to what we have had to pay to get into some of our legacy storage arrays, Pure Storage has already put us in the black. The ROI writes itself when implementing a Pure FA.
- We have been able to scale back the need for a specific storage array admin, as our whole team can administrate a Pure FA due to its simplicity and ease of use.
We have talked to other vendors, but have not even gotten to the point where we think someone else has a viable solution to make us replace our Pure FlashArray. There might be faster storage, there might be cheaper storage, there might be easier storage, but there is nothing that is as complete. End of story!
Pure Storage FlashArray Feature Ratings
Upgrading Pure Storage FlashArray
Yes - All of our Pure Storage FlashArray upgrades have gone smoothly and with no interruptions at all. Pure Storage support always works on the scheduling of the upgrade. They have redundancy built-in so they can perform all of the upgrades with no interruption to production. The way that Pure Storage handles upgrades is one reason we decided on this hardware.
- Opened the access to cloud integration
- Allows the replication with Cloud Block Store
- More analytics from the arrays
- Better DR integration
- Increase performance when utilizing replication
- Better file capabilities
Using Pure Storage FlashArray
5 - The whole organization uses the Pure Storage FlashArray as it is our primary storage array for all business functions. All of our virtual environment runs on the Pure Storage FlashArray. These business functions include application analysts, DBAs, networking, client engineering, and infrastructure team members. These people support the whole IT organization, and the whole system. The four people who have direct usage of the Pure Storage FlashArray are administrators on the Infrastructure Services team.
1 - Due to the quality and build of the Pure FlashArray, there is not much on-going support needed.