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The Superior Solution
Updated June 25, 2020

The Superior Solution

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Pure Storage FlashArray

Pure is our Tier 1 storage solution at two locations for VMware and Microsoft environments.
  • Rock solid SAN
  • Storage reduction
  • Ease of use/management
  • Ease of support and upgrading
  • Replication
  • Lower cost solutions for ROBO
  • A NAS solution
  • After implementation no one, once, has pointed as storage as a possible reason for slowness.
It beats them hands down on everything. It is faster with better compressions and dedup. Management is at the next level - not legacy at all. Upgrades are easier. Getting a unit online and working was faster, as was expanding storage. vCenter plug-in's are easier to use and rock solid vVOL support.
vSphere, SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor, Windows Server
Any use case for fast and reliable storage. If you can afford it I suggest using it everywhere. So easy to use.

Pure Storage FlashArray Feature Ratings

Enterprise Flash Array Storage
10.0
Flash Array Performance
10
Flash Array Integration
10
Data Compression
10
Non-Intrusive Upgrades
10
Simplicity
10
Power Savings
10

Using Pure Storage FlashArray

As soon as we went this route we never had to question if any issue we were/are having is storage related. I don't have to devote time to putzing around and pushing buttons and twisting knobs to fine tune the system. It does it's thing and it does it well - no babysitting or constant maintenance involved.
ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Well integrated
Consistent
Quick to learn
Convenient
Feel confident using
Familiar
None
  • New volumes from the vSphere plug-in
  • Expanding volumes from the vSphere plug-in
  • The plug-in works great and makes my life easier
  • Restoring/cloning volumes
  • There isn't much; mainly it's things that I manually do like going through the steps to manually add a server to a cluster (instead of doing the cluster and having it add and configure everything automatically)
Yes - Works, great - I've checked on the system away from the office and opened and managed tickets. I've shown it to other companies saying you need a mobile app and it should look like this. It's intuitive and easy to use.