Pure Storage in Mountain View, California offers all-flash array data storage promising affordability, high availability, and consistent performance.
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Pure Storage FlashBlade
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Pure Storage offers FlashBlade, a scale-out file and object storage – architected to consolidate complex data silos (like backup appliances and data lakes) while accelerating tomorrow's discoveries and insights.
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Pure Storage Flashblade and Pure Storage FlashArray are both storage solutions used by businesses to allow for affordable, scalable storage for business data. Pure Storage FlashBlade is an Object Storage software built to store files and objects in a blade architecture that can be accessed by servers. Pure Storage FlashArray is an Enterprise Flash Array Solution that compresses files to store for access from servers. PureStorage FlashArray is most popular with mid-sized businesses, while Pure Storage FlashBlade is most popular with larger enterprises.
Features
Pure Storage FlashBlade and Pure Storage FlashArray are both all flash storage solutions, but they have some unique features that set them apart from each other.
Pure Storage FlashBlade provides support for large amounts of data storage and analysis, which makes it a popular choice for larger enterprises. Additionally, implementation and management of Pure Storage FlashBlade is simple, allowing new users to get their storage set up easily, with dashboards to provide information about their storage solution. Additionally, storage backups are simple to set up, and data restoration is efficient.
Pure Storage FlashArray includes data compression and deduplication, allowing Pure Storage arrays to hold larger amounts of data then one would normally expect in a single array. In addition to storing large amounts of data, Pure Storage FlashArray also has high reliability, with many users stating they never experienced unplanned downtime. Lastly, Pure Storage FlashArray offers high speed and performance in virtual environments.
Limitations
Pure Storage FlashBlade and Pure Storage FlashArray both provide storage solutions, but they also have some limitations that are important to consider.
Pure Storage FlashBlade has limited replication features, which can be a problem for businesses seeking to replicate large amounts of data. Additionally, Pure Storage FlashBlade doesn’t include block-level deduplication.
Pure Storage FlashArray provides an API for building integrations with other software, but there aren’t many connectors out of the box. Businesses with many needed integrations may need to consider other options if they aren’t comfortable building out integrations.
Pricing
Pure Storage FlashBlade and FlashArray both offer free trials businesses can use to see if the solutions will work for them before making a purchasing decision. Detailed pricing for either solution is not available online, but businesses can reach out to the vendor for an exact quote.
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Enterprise Flash Array Storage
Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of Product A and Product B
When you need speed, it's FAST, especially for MS SQL databases. If you are having bottlenecks, you can spend your time finding it in the code because it's not Pure Storage. Love the data reduction and duplication. We can store so much more on this unit than the base physical size. Love the data snapshots. When you need to complete copy your entire environment for testing etc. Nothing is easier, a few clicks and you are done. Extremely helpful for testing and training.
Pure Storage FlashBlade is best for companies that want their data stored and secure. The big storage capacity and cloud integration secure our data and ensure no third-party access without authorization. It provides us a secure data storage services for our objects. Fast and easy to install and easy to use.
Support - I've never had a call passed off to a different party that I then have to wait to get back to me. The person responding to my support ticket has been able to help me every time.
Non-disruptive upgrades. We were able to transition from a SAS based //m series array to a NVMe based //x series array with zero down time. This gave us greater performance and capacity with minimal disruption.
Simplicity - Pure Storage aims to automate the complicated steps of storage management with superior software. You know they are still happening under the surface, but the administrator does not have to deal with keeping the process just right with a given vendor's command set.
Licensing - All-in base licensing instead of expensive add-on licenses for additional features. There are very few exceptions to this rule.
When reporting out a user has exceeded there quote, it only references the UID. It would certainly be nice it calls out the UID name that is clearly present in the Dashboard.
The ability to determine a snapshot total size would be helpful.
Proactive reachout to discuss new versions and assist in planning the upgrade would be a key win.
It has so far been a very fast and stable product. We have had wonderful support when we have needed it and the account manager and engineer attached to our organization have been very responsive with any questions and concerns we have had.
From the day our first array was put in (2017) we have had very little issues using it the way we wanted to and none of the setup or processes we incorporate this into have ever been complex. All of the interfaces in the GUI are very intuitive and do not require any CLI experience to do what we need it to do.
We have never had an outage with Purestorage. Yes we have had 2 drives go out but replacements were installed so fast there wasn't any issues. We have had a NVRAM module replaced but were noticed from Pure they were sending a replacement because they were predicting a failure so pure was proactive preventing any issues. Knowing Pure is monitoring our device 24x7 gives us peace of mind.
The corporation has a very diverse data load and when we migrate from a hybrid storage to pure all-flash, significant gains have already been observed. Latency always remains below 1 ms regardless of the load and volumetry used. Application performance also depends heavily on whether or not the code is more permormatic and network access infrastructure. The product has been meeting expectations
Pure Support is timely and communicative. They are always ready to assist and very skilled at what they do, no matter the time of day. Even at 12:10 a.m. on New Years Day when your array has a hiccup that causes some errors in your environment, they will be on the phone with you in an instant. If they are unable to determine the cause right away, because things appear to be normal, they will take your environment's configuration, lab it up in their support environment and then research until they figure out what caused the problem. Even if it takes 3 months. True story.
Without exception, the contacts with support have been quick and extremely knowledgeable. I do not fear getting an underqualified engineer to assess or work on my arrays. In addition to this support structure, the sales engineers are top notch as well.
Excellent training and really you don't need that much. We received training at the Pure offices and also on site when the product was installed. Simple things like how to login to the GUI interface, how to setup users, how to create volume and mount it. How to make a snapshot, how to copy it and mount it. Really is pretty self explanatory on how to do things with the GUI interface. We were expecting complicated base on other vendor products, we got super simple.
Great videos and documentation. There is a common theme with PureStorage, "Keep it elegantly simple". They have great support network and great support user groups. Documentation has been very helpful with providing auditors with methods and procedures on security and other ways the product works. Great documentation on setting PureStorage to be the most effective with VM's, SQL Server, and other products.
Pure Storage FlashArray came up as being the most cost-effective of the lot plus the extras added like call-home support were very welcome. The competitors' options were a lot more expensive and the call-home support added a lot more to the already high costs.
Pure Storage FlashBlade is in our experience far faster, performance-wise, compared to its close competitors. However, if you factor in any packages you currently have with IBM or AWS for example, you can get more value for money for your data requirements. However, if performance is a must, the increased cost is not an issue.
We run what seems to me to be a crazy number of hosts (800), backed by 2 pure arrays. Around 400 hosts per array, including database servers, render farm, application servers, etc.
Pure has greatly narrowed the performance gap between file storage and fiber channel block storage with FlashBlade. Exotic file systems and costly FC fabrics are no longer needed to run performant storage.
Training is not required for a storage admin who has never touched a Pure array. Everything is where you would expect to find it.
