New to FlashBlade
Updated March 26, 2021

New to FlashBlade

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Pure Storage FlashBlade

Pure Storage FlashBlade is being used primarily for our research department for certain data sets. It will also be used for digital imaging storage for certain clinical department. We were looking for something to provide reliable and fast access with attached storage to some applications.
  • High performance storage
  • Highly scalable solution
  • Simple management
  • SMB file sharing should be more user friendly and have more Windows file system-like features.
  • When turning on Window mode, it should impose limitations for future volume expansion to the next units.
  • Configuration screen for Directory service is confusing and difficult to setup.
  • FlashBlade is well suited for our research and can provide storage to handle our genome research project.
FlashBlade is high capacity and much higher performance than other disk based NAZ servers.
  • We may look into using it as a backup media for our enterprise data protection system. We'll wait and see.
It's well suited for high-performance storage requirements used to support NFS. Windows SMB share is less flexible than other NAS storage.

Using Pure Storage FlashBlade

1 - Currently no active user using the flashblade. Myself is the only test user

Pure Storage FlashBlade Support

The engineer we worked with had been helpful in providing extra help in implementation which made us more comfortable to proceed.