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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Pure Storage FlashArray

    Score10 out of 10
    N/APure Storage in Mountain View, California offers all-flash array data storage promising affordability, high availability, and consistent performance.N/A

    VMware vSAN

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AVMware vSAN is an enterprise-class storage virtualization software that provides a simple path to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and multi cloud. VMware vSAN is no longer sold as a standalone product and is now available as a part of VMware Cloud Foundation.N/A
    Pricing
    Pure Storage FlashArrayVMware vSAN
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Pure Storage FlashArrayVMware vSAN
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Pure Storage FlashArrayVMware vSAN
    Considered Both Products
    Pure Storage
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    Nimble, NetApp and VSAN are all products that were evaluated and with which we had previous experience.

    Nimble and NetApp at the time were both promoting hybrid systems rather than all flash. In both cases, we favoured all flash since it had become affordable and is much more …
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    The FlashArray beat the hybrid arrays in performance, the other all-flash arrays we evaluated in price, and all of the legacy spinning-disk arrays in ease of management and in reliability. Their two huge advantages were their "Evergreen" upgrade-everything-forever option and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Pure Storage FlashArray
    During our POC against Tintri, our sales engineer said we should test failures to data and power! That we did! We live pulled all the plugs and cables and moved the Flash Array to another rack and reconnected everything. Our test virtual infrastructure, having paused for the …
    Incentivized
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Pure Storage FlashArrayVMware vSAN
    Enterprise Flash Array Storage
    Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of Pure Storage FlashArray and VMware vSAN
    Feature
    Pure Storage FlashArray
    9.3
    154 Ratings
    VMware vSAN
    -
    Ratings
    Flash Array Performance10.0154 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flash Array Integration9.0144 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Compression8.0153 Ratings00 Ratings
    Non-Intrusive Upgrades10.0148 Ratings00 Ratings
    Simplicity10.0154 Ratings00 Ratings
    Power Savings9.0131 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Pure Storage FlashArrayVMware vSAN
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (207 ratings)
    10.0
    (17 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (25 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (16 ratings)
    9.2
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.8
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.3
    (75 ratings)
    7.5
    (5 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    -
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    Configurability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
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    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    -
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