My Pure Storage FlashArray five year (so far) journey
Overall Satisfaction with Pure Storage FlashArray
We implemented Pure Storage FlashArrays for our tier 1 storage to meet the high IOPS, low latency demands of our applications. All tier 1 storage resides (currently) on one of three arrays. We have a very bursty workload and Pure Storage is able to handle the workload better than any other storage that we have used.
Pros
- Handles bursty (IOPS and bandwidth) workloads very well.
- Has great VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols) support/implementation.
- Upgrades are quick and painless.
- Pure 1 site for aggregated telemetry data is very useful.
Cons
- Pure Storage is expensive, but worth the premium.
- I would like an easier way to identify a particularly hot (IO) VM on vVols during specific, narrow, user-selected time windows.
- I would like to see an indicator on the support site for a Pure Support recommended code version of the Purity OS to more easily identify what version we should be running.
- We have an average data reduction of 5.4 to 1 and a total reduction of 11 to 1 across three arrays.
We originally purchased one Pure Storage FlashArray and one XtremIO X-Brick. When we needed an additional array, we added a second Pure Storage FlashArray. When the XtremIO X-Brick came up for its first warranty renewal after the block of support originally purchased with the storage we opted to retire the X-Brick and purchase a third FlashArray. The simplicity of management was the primary factor in these decisions.
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