TrustRadius Insights for Pure Storage FlashBlade are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Many users have praised NVMe Flash Storage for its fast and high-performance storage capabilities, with no storage latency troubleshooting. Some reviewers were particularly impressed with the massive throughput and the ability to handle larger volumes without sacrificing low latency and high throughput. The interface of NVMe Flash Storage has been described as simple and easy to navigate by several users. They appreciated the seamless integration with important tools like AWS and support for Kubernetes, making it easy to manage and administer the system. Several reviewers have commended the reliability of NVMe Flash Storage, noting good data security measures in place. They also mentioned the ability to easily scale out. Users highlighted that this solution reduces data center footprint compared to previous storage solutions, emphasizing its energy efficiency.
Overall, reviewers have consistently highlighted the fast and high-performance storage capabilities of NVMe Flash Storage, along with its simple interface and ease of navigation. The reliability, scalability, and energy efficiency of the product were also commended.
Additionally, users appreciated features such as quick upgrades with no downtime, NFS target functionality for fast connectivity, efficient installation process, good support from the team, efficient data recovery with minimal latency, S3 object support with NAS/file options, and the overall scalability and simplicity of managing the system.
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Pure Storage FlashBlade Reviews
3 Reviews
Engineering
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The initial use case for our 1st FlashArray was for high performance VM storage. We were rolling our our initial Kubernetes cluster and needed a good storage solution. The Pure Storage Orchestrator plugged right into our initial deployment and worked so well we used it for all the storage for our new 150+ node Kubernetes deployment at our new datacenter with almost all our production systems utilizing it.
Pros
Kubernetes support
Replication
Great support
Cons
Price
BYO keys to S3 storage
Likelihood to Recommend
Pure Storage FlashBlade is a great all-purpose storage solution for our datacenter and over time a big win over AWS S3 in both price and performance. Due to the price, many companies looking to have an on-prem data lake will need to look at other HDD bases systems for a tier2 data lake that doesn't require the performance of Pure.
We intend to replace our current storage infrastructure for a particular carrier in 2 data centers with FlashBlades due to our requirement for fast NFS storage with encryption at rest. We are still in the process of integrating and are possibly at a point of implementing. Until release 3 came out, the snapshots did not suit our needs and we were unable to integrate it with our 389ds LDAP, but after a bunch of RFEs, it's finally usable. We are still not out of the woods in that the new replication, it doesn't yet meet our needs. On the positive side, Pure is good to work with, my account managers and support engineers have been receptive to my requests and I think their product is improved by this process. The hardware and support are good, but it's very focussed on what it does and needs a better feature set.
Pros
Performance
Simple to use
Non-disruptive upgrades
Encryption at rest
Scalability
Cons
NFS version support, v4.1 is not fully featured to the RFC and v4 support would be nice.
Simple feature set, need to be more enterprise focussed.
No tool to clear NFS locks.
No expert mode for troubleshooting no ping, trace route, etc.
Logs are passworded.
RBAC roles are limited and not granular enough.
No local user options other than pure user LDAP/AD only.
No SSH key trust, so no ansible automation possibilities.
Replication needs work, can't manage bandwidth without involving support.
Replication can't mount replica as it only reads normal filesystems, only snapshot view.
Likelihood to Recommend
FlashBlade is well suited to performance NFS applications that require encryption at rest, it is good with metadata and scale-out, it would make a good backup target. Integration requires a bit of work since the infrastructure like LDAP servers, etc. are required since the features are external to the device. Compared to my other arrays like NetApp, Oracle, etc., it lacks features that mean I have to log support calls where I could otherwise reasonably troubleshoot or fix the issue myself. I think this is a Pure Storage design choice that has been taken a little bit too far. In my case, this means it has taken a lot longer for me to be productive with the array. We had to rewrite backup scripts to use REST since that was the only option, etc.
As of now, we use it for all our NFS mounts to store production customer facing data. For us, speed and agility is key and UPTIME. Since deployment in 2016, we have had 0 downtime and upgrades have all gone successfully.
Pros
Speed. We are seeing large transactions take very little time.
Upgrades- In-place upgrades of both hardware and software are extremely easy.
Ease of use- I have several engineers working on this and from setup to day to day operations it is extremely easy to maintain.
Cons
Replication- I know it is on the roadmap, but that needs to happen sooner rather than later.
Object-oriented Storage (ECS)- When we first brought it on board you had it but it needs to function in a more efficient capacity and have replication built into that also.
We would also like to see the VAAI interface to be more appealing and user-friendly. We have several operational support staff that view the GUI on a daily bases and for me to give them access via the VMware VAAI would be much easier if it were more user-friendly.
Likelihood to Recommend
The product really ROCKS. We handle all of our FTP front end traffic via the FBA and we never have any bandwidth issues. It handles very high IOPS in a short period of time. I wish we could also use it as a traditional array. As of now we are ONLY using the NFS mounts. If we could use it as a flash array also, it would improve productivity.
