Migrating to Pure Storage: Is it worth it?
September 05, 2019
Migrating to Pure Storage: Is it worth it?
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Pure Storage FlashArray
We use Pure Storage for our production and DR storage for our servers and virtual desktops which addressed issues with boot storms when users log in to their virtual desktops and to improve disk performance to our servers. We also like the footprint that we currently have on the Pure Storage FlashArray, the deduplication that it offers and the upgrade options that were presented to us.
- Deduplication of data in Pure Storage is good. Getting between 4 and 6 to 1 reduction.
- Latency on Pure Storage is good also averaging around 1 ms.
- Virtual desktops and servers have great response time and we have never experienced any performance degradation from the flash array.
- I'd like to see some more details on the NVRAM flash module usage from the console.
- I'd like to see alerts from the console about the version of Purity and the latest stable version we can upgrade to.
- I would like more details on the shared capacity usage.
- The power savings we have after upgrading to Pure Storage is great. Less than half of what we were paying on our previous storage.
- Migrating to Pure storage allows us to run our virtual desktops and servers from the same flash array as opposed to using separate storage for each.
- Moving to Pure Storage allows us to consolidate rack space decreasing our footprint in our data center.