#1 most frequent
United States of America
75.2%109 installations of 145
What is Pure Storage FlashArray?
Pure Storage in Mountain View, California offers all-flash array data storage promising affordability, high availability, and consistent performance.
Categories & Use Cases
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Top Performing Features
Flash Array Performance
Solid state flash arrays offer high speed compared to hard-disk drives
Category average: 9.7
Non-Intrusive Upgrades
Software upgrades are often seamless with no performance tuning required
Category average: 9.3
Simplicity
Flash arrays should be simple to use and require little training
Category average: 9
Areas for Improvement
Flash Array Integration
Integration with hypervisors and applications
Category average: 9.2
Power Savings
Flash arrays use significantly less power than hard-disk drives
Category average: 8.1
Data Compression
Flash Arrays include compression and deduplication features to reduce storage requirements
Category average: 8.5
Who Buys & Uses Pure Storage FlashArray
#2 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
9.0%13 installations of 145
#3 most frequent
Canada
4.1%6 installations of 145
Pure Storage FlashArray -- Still Wonderful After 7 Years
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The Pure Storage FlashArray is the primary storage platform for our VMware virtualized environment. We use it to host all of our storage needs, from test workstations to our primary databases. The flexibility of the platform along with its ease of use made it an easy decision. Utilizing native replication to an array at our secondary site makes disaster recovery effortless.
Pros
- Simple interface
- Excellent security (with SafeMode)
- Ease of use
Cons
- Slightly more flexible upgrade options
- Better options to watch "behind the scenes" operations
- Available software upgrade notifications
Return on Investment
- + Quickly able to provision storage to end users
- + Simple integrations steps when adding new hosts into the environment
- - Overall cost compared to other vendors is slightly higher
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Dell PowerScale
Other Software Used
VMware vSphere, Windows Server, Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series
All flash storage for all-round workload
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are using Pure Storage FlashArray for virtualization and for main datastore, and I think it is perfect for our environment that needs to process multiple real time transactions because it has super fast all-flash SSD NVMe disk. This is a huge improvement for us who previously only used hybrid disk. One of the important features that we use every day is storage snapshot which is equipped with ant-ransomware.
Pros
- Anti-ransomware
- Right-sized Guarantee
- Very fast SSD NVMe
Cons
- Snapshot Restore procedure needs to be improved
- Multifactor authentication
- Certification for user
Return on Investment
- Improve speed of business process
- Reduce time to market
- Improve Internal efficiency
Alternatives Considered
Dell PowerStore T Series and NetApp AFF A-Series
Other Software Used
Dell PowerStore T Series, NetApp AFF A-Series
Pure Flash always gets you there in time
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We deployed one array to a client's DRP which went pretty well. Currently it handles the DRP data and a few offsite production workloads which needed to be handled since this client is a wholefood distributor and didn't have enough infra to handle its load on the DRP and the offsite needs.
Pros
- Ease of deployment.
- Robustness at its core.
- Helpful documentation.
Cons
- Clear path to get compatibility matrices, it was hard to get it while doing it for Dell and VMware products.
- More options regarding SMB, sometimes a few clients don't have a very big budget to implement a simple iSCSI SAN.
- Spanish speaking techs, they need to improve that.
Return on Investment
- Seamless integration really takes the big screen.
- Speed on the vCenter cluster storage backend really was something everybody should have.
- The simplicity on getting deployed on a single work day is awesome.
Alternatives Considered
IBM Storwize (now part of FlashSystems), HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage, Dell EMC Unity, Dell EMC SC Series (Compellent), Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage and HPE Nimble Storage
We bet on PURE Storage, and have won performance and less stress.
Pros
- Easy to implement
- Always get a live transfer when calling in
- Proactive support
Cons
- Kinda like a black box in some situations, ie system space
Return on Investment
- Positive - Long-running jobs take less time with AFA
- Positive - no longer have to spend time looking at disk performance when events happen, it's rarely a storage issue these days.
Alternatives Considered
DDN IntelliFlash (formerly Tegile, from Western Digital), Dell EMC PowerMax NVMe and Dell EMC SC Series (Compellent)
My Pure Storage Experience
Pros
- Data compression and data duplication.
- FAST FAST FAST and reliable It just works!
- Customer support is #1. We have never had a vendor better than Pure Storage.
- EASY EASY EASY It just works! Stupid simple and easy to configure and manage.
Cons
- Love to see the price come down. We want more units for data replication.
- More details on the mobile app.
- More support for Hyper-V.
Return on Investment
- [Pure Storage has turned] days and hours into seconds and minutes. We are dramatically more productive from development to servicing our clients.
- Consistent costs.
- No down time for upgrades and maintenance.
Usability
Other Software Used
Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Visual Studio Code
