Pure Storage FlashArray Information Reviews & Insights

Score10 out of 10

358 Reviews and Ratings

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Business Problems Solved

Pure Storage FlashArray has been widely used across various industries and organizations to address a multitude of storage needs. Users have experienced a significant increase in speed and improved data handling by replacing their existing storage with Pure Storage FlashArray. With its high-speed, reliable block storage capabilities, the array has been effective in supporting performance-sensitive workloads and unifying different storage technologies and manufacturers. Organizations have utilized Pure Storage FlashArray to house virtual infrastructure environments, resulting in great compression rates and easy setup of replications. It has also served as a primary SAN for virtualized environments, improving performance and supporting various departments. Furthermore, the array has proven effective in handling batch job performance, reducing job times from hours to minutes and increasing overall productivity. In addition, by running mission-critical applications on Pure Storage FlashArray, users have experienced noticeable performance increases. The array's ability to handle thousands of VMs while providing primary storage and data protection through replication has made it a valuable asset in large-scale environments. Pure Storage FlashArray has also been deployed across multiple data centers to address performance, capacity, and data security needs. Its simplicity of administration, patching, and upgrading processes has earned user satisfaction. Overall, Pure Storage FlashArray has addressed crucial storage challenges for organizations by providing high-speed storage, easy management, scalability, and improved performance for a wide range of workloads.

Pure Storage FlashArray Reviews

25 Reviews

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Flash our Data

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

September 27, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are currently using Pure Storage FlashArray in a productive environment used to deploy core and customer services. The FlashArray is our main storage where all the time-critical application and secured data are stored. Over this duty, the FlashArray solves the day by day operation of our business bringing fast access & reliability of data.

Pros

FlashArray provides a guaranteed R/W time to data, using the great 3D array functionality.
FlashArray has an easy and understandable interface to overview performance and usage.
The compression of data is great for databases and virtual machines.

Cons

There is not much flexibility for upgrade storage capacity, they only offer in standardized sizes.

Likelihood to Recommend

FlashArray is well suited for time-critical applications where the reading & writing of data is time-critical for the performance. Also, the compression of data is nicely developed. I will not recommend the use of FlashArray for scenarios where data backup is the only purpose. It can surely be done but will not be a cost-effective solution.

Verified User

Manager in Engineering (Telecommunications company, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Pure Storage is the best storage in the industry

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

September 20, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is used from Oracle DB. It addresses dedupe, compression, and performance.

Pros

Compression
Dedupe
Performance

Cons

Replication
Active cluster in a different city

Likelihood to Recommend

Any high performance and low latency application such as Oracle.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (Internet company, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Pure Storage Flash Array

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

September 18, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the Pure Storage SAN as our primary storage for our entire infrastructure across the whole organisation.

Pros

Easy to configure
Very fast
Easy to intergrate
Great Technical support

Cons

Clearer pricing

Likelihood to Recommend

Suited for any application \ deployment that requires high speed storage

Dave Hornby

IT Manager in Information Technology at Total Systems plc (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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How Pure Storage made my job easier

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

September 18, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Pure Storage FlashArray is the primary SAN that runs the entire business. It solved all of the problems we were having with our prior arrays - its speed and dedupe technology allows the business to save money in the long term via its easy management and lower operating cost.

Pros

Dudupe and compression is very power and space efficient
All flash based array solved all performance problems
Easy to expand and upgrade solved the fork-lift upgrade problems of past arrays

Cons

It was a little bit more expensive up front, but worth it in the long term

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited for companies that have a sizable need for storage. I don't know how small they go, but I'd imagine its not a good fit for someone needing only 5-10 TB. To my understanding it grows well beyond 100 TB. Compression and dedupe doesn't work well for already compressed files such as video and pictures, so another technology would be good for that. Does well with database and file servers.

Verified User

Vice-President in Information Technology (Internet company, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Pure Storage - the best storage ever

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

September 9, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pure Storage is being used across our data centers supporting over 3,000 VMs running enterprise workloads. The solution addresses the issue of provisioning & supporting thousands of disparate workloads with various performance characteristic (medium/high IOPs and low latency requirements) cost-effectively with minimal administrative overhead. The data reduction in production is over 5x which allows great performance with a compelling value proposition.

Pros

Ease of management, deployment (API), seamless capacity expansions and even array upgrades with zero downtime.
Support. Knowledgable engineers that will ' stay with you' till the issue is resolved and provide assistance even when the root cause is.
Data reduction. We are seeing 5.x in Production and 6.x in non-prod environments.

Cons

Slightly higher cost than their competitors

Likelihood to Recommend

If you are looking for an enterprise-grade storage solution for mixed/high workloads, Pure Storage FlashArray is a fantastic option. It has a very easy to use interface, and advanced features like replication, snapshots, etc. are very easy to configure.

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Corporate (Computer Games company, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Pure... What else!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

September 9, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pure Storage FlashArray is our SAN storage array worldwide for all the sites inside the company. It solves many issues and the main one is the OpEx link to storage management. This is so easy that we prefer to have it everywhere rather than any other boxes for our sites, even the smallest.

Pros

Monitoring with Pure1
Upgrades are belonging to the past
Performance is insane
Very easy setup

Cons

Very difficult to find bad points since this product is so good... Nope, I have no Cons, can't find any! Sorry!

Likelihood to Recommend

All scenarios can be addressed now with the active cluster architecture with synchronous replication. We are using PureStorage FlashArray to handle our IO aggressive workloads that go and look for many metadata info all day long. Pure has been able to deliver increasing performance just by OS upgrades managed centrally by Pure support.

Thomas Marteau

Senior Manager WW Systems & Storage in Information Technology at Dassault Systemes (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees)

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6 years of experience

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I like Pure Storage way too much

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

September 9, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Flasharray backs most of our VMware datastores. It also is the backend to our Linux-HA implementation running SMB and NFS.

Pros

It's fast with low latency under load.
It is supported by an evergreen support policy.
Purestorage sees the under-the-hood issues on it before they become problems. They contact us and schedule maintenance to provide fixes and upgrades.
The thing just works. We spend almost no time on it and it's in use for most of our production environments.

Cons

There's very little improvement to be made. They even have a load prediction engine now that allows you to predict what will happen if you scale up one of your load types (choose a volume and tell it you're going to make ten more of them and see what it predicts).

Likelihood to Recommend

Backend for block-storage needs. Backend VMware with it. Backend Kubernetes with it. Write things fast. Read them faster.

Verified User

Engineer (Information Services company, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Pure Storage FlashArray from an administrator perspective

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

September 6, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Currently, we use Pure Storage FlashArray for array-based replication. The organisation is using it to develop software to work on top of the infrastructure, and they are testing how the array performs under different test cases (light and heavy workloads, different types of failures etc). These arrays are quite nimble and at times too easy to work with. I'm used to working with big enterprise arrays and most of the time these arrays are as simple to use as a home NAS but at the same time provide the same amount of analytics and performance as the big enterprise arrays.

Pros

Probably the best support that I've ever seen
Designed to be all-flash from the very beginning
Very, very, very easy to use
Easy to deploy

Cons

During our initial deployment, there are things that should be automated (I think they may already be automated with the current versions) like IP address assignment and finalising the configuration.
Although documentation is plentiful and very well written, at times one might feel lost searching for a specific document. A "beginner section" in the portal would be very helpful for new users.
More descriptive error messages would be very helpful.

Likelihood to Recommend

We are using and testing on the SAN capabilities of the array. So far, it's a very good system overall. We haven't extensively tested the NAS side of things. That doesn't mean it doesn't perform well - only that I have no overview on it

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (Computer Software company, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

My Pure Storage FlashArray five year (so far) journey

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

September 6, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We implemented Pure Storage FlashArrays for our tier 1 storage to meet the high IOPS, low latency demands of our applications. All tier 1 storage resides (currently) on one of three arrays. We have a very bursty workload and Pure Storage is able to handle the workload better than any other storage that we have used.

Pros

Handles bursty (IOPS and bandwidth) workloads very well.
Has great VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols) support/implementation.
Upgrades are quick and painless.
Pure 1 site for aggregated telemetry data is very useful.

Cons

Pure Storage is expensive, but worth the premium.
I would like an easier way to identify a particularly hot (IO) VM on vVols during specific, narrow, user-selected time windows.
I would like to see an indicator on the support site for a Pure Support recommended code version of the Purity OS to more easily identify what version we should be running.

Likelihood to Recommend

Pure Storage arrays are perfect for any tier 1 storage need. It excels in VMware environments and particularly with data sets that lend well to deduplication and compression. We have many postgres database servers that can run very hot. Pure Storage has helped us to remove IO bottlenecks that we have run into in the past.

Chad Skinner

Manager of Infrastructure Engineering in Information Technology at Entrata (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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Pure Storage FlashArray - A happy story of a storage admin

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

September 5, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our organization needed a high-performance storage array to meet the growing IOPS demand and we looked at many options before selecting Pure Storage FlashArray. I was very impressed with the data management capabilities especially dedup, compression, and the written guarantee that came along with the product. The per gig price point compared to big-boys all flash arrays (read EMC,HP) was very aggressive and FlashArray is built future ready being NVMe-Ready. It's been a few years since I have deployed Flasharray and I've never had any issue. It's a solid performer.

Pros

Compression
Very easy-to-use management interface
High IOPS performance

Cons

Scalability. Would like the ability to add more capacity without swapping the SSDs.
More integration into cloud/virtualization solutions

Likelihood to Recommend

If you are looking for an enterprise-grade storage solution for mixed/high workloads, Pure Storage FlashArray is a fantastic option. It has a very easy to use interface and advance features like replication, snapshots etc. are very easy to configure. The reporting section looks and works well.

Mandeep Singh

Computer and Information Systems Manager in Information Technology at Broadband Telecom Inc (Telecommunications, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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