Everpure FlashArray Reviews

My main use case for Everpure FlashArray is that we use it for all of our block storage, mainly LUNs for ESXi and other Linux hosts that need block storage.

Everpure FlashArray has positively impacted our organization as we have been able to shrink our rack space and the energy that we use and cooling because Pure is in a lot smaller form factor than our competitors.

Before we were using a G1500, which took three full racks; we replaced that with an XL130, and I believe that is 6U in one rack.

The solution has helped decrease our organization's storage footprint because of the dedupe and compression; I do not have exact numbers on how much it has decreased things, but I know that we use 4 petabytes of data, and it gets deduped down and we store it on 30 terabytes, so it is a lot of dedupe and compression if you have repeating workloads or a lot of snapshots or other things.

The best features Everpure FlashArray offers are the speed and dependability, which are the main features that we get from Pure; it is faster than its competition, and we do not have any documented downtime from it ever.

The speed impacts our operations as it helps us make decisions faster and allows us to use products that need that speed, while the dependability affects our team's confidence as we know that when we put it on Pure or we are having to do updates or upgrade hardware, we are not going to run into issues because the vendor has our back 100% of the time, and we have not had issues with them before.

Everpure FlashArray's single management pane of glass is important to us as it does simplify management; coming from other products where you have to swap between multiple windows, it is nice to be able to go to one and manage everything from there.

Everpure FlashArray can be improved as the pricing is expensive, but you do get what you pay for; you are paying a premium for better service, better warranties, less downtime, and other things, so I do not know that a lower price would work out because you probably would not have that high of quality for those things.

I have been using Everpure FlashArray since Pure was founded.

Everpure FlashArray is stable.

Everpure FlashArray's scalability has never had any problems with adding another one, and it does not sound like we ever will.

The customer support is better than any other competitor that I have ever used.

I would rate the customer support at 10 out of 10.

We used Hitachi previously, and we switched because of simplicity of use, ease of management, cost, speed, among many other factors.

I did not work on the pricing, setup cost, and licensing as much, but I know that their price was competitive.

We compared other options before choosing Everpure FlashArray, including Dell storage, HP, Cohesity, and NetApp.

Everpure FlashArray fits into my daily workflow because Pure is a lot easier than other products, and we have had to spend more time on management in the past, but we do not have to spend nearly that much time anymore.

For us, the solution has not helped decrease the total cost of ownership.

The solution has helped my operations reduce downtime because we do not take downtimes for hardware upgrades, and I do not know that you can measure that very well.

We do use Pure Storage's Evergreen Architecture for our upgrades or scaling up, and that is very important; I have mentioned a few times that we do not have to take downtime when there are upgrades, and that is part of that Evergreen upgrade program; it is nice that we can keep the same equipment that we have, yet we get to upgrade our controller to the newest and best one, which has kept us without having downtimes quite a few times.

We have not had to hire as many employees because the management is a lot easier.

I would advise others looking into using Everpure FlashArray to do a POC and see how easy it is for them to do things on there; I think that they will see how easy it is for management and how very little they have to interact.

I would tell a colleague from another company considering Pure Storage, but already having a flash solution for their high-performance workloads, that Pure probably does it cheaper; I have noticed that other flash solutions do have a higher premium price, and oftentimes it comes from name competitors, where I think you are paying more for the name than you are for what you get from them; Pure has been doing it for over 10 years, and they have been doing it really, really well, and that is why they are growing; these other companies have responded to what Pure is doing and mimic how Pure has done it, and now you are starting to see copycats and mimics on the market.

Everpure FlashArray is about the same performance-wise as others.

Everpure FlashArray is more power-efficient.

I would rate this review at 8 out of 10.

All use cases for Everpure FlashArray are anything that requires a SAN should use it because it is the easiest thing on the market. Whether it is the higher-end Everpure FlashArray itself or FlashBlade, they are the best storage on the market, period. Not only from a performance standpoint, but also from a maintenance and ease of use perspective, it checks all the boxes across everything.

Pure does deduplication better than anyone on the market, hands down, period, within the box from a hardware perspective. The IO and the amount of IOPS that are built into Pure compared to the other devices is superior to a point as well.

If there is one thing that I did not appreciate about Pure, it is that between the two different lines, which would be FlashBlade and Everpure FlashArray, there is no easy way to migrate LUNs as far as being able to replicate across those platforms. However, compared to the others, the others have all their own problems themselves.

Another good thing about Pure is their licensing is very straightforward, whereas other companies' licensing gets really complicated when it comes down to deduplication and replication. Sometimes these are chunked out as services, which is really annoying. Pure does not do any of that, which is fantastic.

Their support is really good as well. When you call them for an issue, they are responsive and their engineers get on the call with you and are very quick to respond, compared to some of the other vendors which might take a little bit longer and not be as helpful, but Pure's support is phenomenal. Their monitoring platform is also phenomenal as well. The use of Pure1 is definitely an eye-opener besides just their regular interface, compared to other companies where some things might be hidden or you might have to do some command line work because they do not want customers getting into certain things. Their remote support is fantastic. The way they do upgrades is fantastic, where they coordinate with you instead of you having to do it yourself, but you can do it yourself if you want to. The options are always good. I really appreciate the ease of use of it. Once you set it up, you basically set it up and you forget it. You might add LUNs here or there, but that is one of the really nice things. There is no maintenance on Pure that you would really need to do yourself besides just consumption.

Immediately when we moved anything onto Everpure FlashArray, the deduplication that thing does is beyond this world. It is first in its class.

Everpure FlashArray could be cheaper. Other than that, everything that they give you from an advertising standpoint and what they do is perfect. I have told Pure in the past that I do not think that the way that they sell them is correct. I think that if anything, they should be promoting more of the return on investment where their Evergreen program, which I believe is now Everpure, should really be stated in that as long as you are paying maintenance on the device, you never have to buy another device again. The device literally pays for itself within the three-to five-year timeframe. It is expandable and you never have to replace the hardware ever again because Pure Storage will do that through their maintenance program. I think that should be something that they should be shouting from the rooftops to anyone that will listen that is using on-premise hardware.

I have been working in my current field overall for 28 years.

Their support is really good as well. When you call them for an issue, they are responsive and their engineers get on the call with you and are very quick to respond, compared to some of the other vendors which might take a little bit longer and not be as helpful, but Pure's support is phenomenal.

Their remote support is fantastic. The way they do upgrades is fantastic, where they coordinate with you instead of you having to do it yourself, but you can do it yourself if you want to. The options are always good.

I have used Hitachi, IBM, EMC, NetApp, HP 3PAR, and Tintri.

It is just as difficult as any other platform. Most of the deployment is not on their end, it is more on how your environment is configured. Whether you are using iSCSI or whether you are using NAS and Ethernet, or you are using straight Fibre Channel, every platform has their struggles with that which are not necessarily the device itself, but more of how your current infrastructure is set up to integrate with that device.

The device literally pays for itself within the three-to five-year timeframe. It is expandable and you never have to replace the hardware ever again because Pure Storage will do that through their maintenance program.

I mean, I appreciate that I can see a single pane of glass, and I think it is a great feature, but if you are asking me the importance of it, I do not care. As long as all the information was there, it does not really matter.

Everpure FlashArray is a little pricey, but again, it is not too pricey where you would not buy it. It is more that you need to have a better understanding of what you are buying and the benefits of paying more money now than later. It is comparable.

I gave this review a rating of 10.

I work for a Pure partner, so we are actually doing deployment of the arrays at the customer sites. That's one part. The second part is that we help customers to maintain the infrastructure. Not all of them, but many of them.

My favorite feature about Pure Storage FlashArray is definitely the simplicity. In one word, it's simple to install, simple to upgrade, simple to maintain, and simple to manage. All the phases of that word are covered by Pure Storage FlashArray.

The storage footprint has been decreased with Pure Storage FlashArray, and that's also another great feature. They probably have the best reduction algorithms implemented on the market. On the install base we have, we can see an average of around 3-to-1 data reduction. That's well above other vendors we work with.

I think Pure Storage FlashArray can improve the file services that are enabled from factory, as they definitely have room for improvement.

I'm missing a few functions in terms of how they can be improved, but the most important for me would be to enable file services on the stretch cluster. Having two arrays in the stretch cluster would also provide file services.

Their interface, the dashboard, or as they call it, a single management pane of glass, is very intuitive. Sometimes I could imagine there could be more choices visible to the administrator.

Scalability is usually not as scalable as other vendors because they are pretty limited, especially with the low-end models, where you usually cannot scale above the single box. That's something they can work on.

I have been using Pure Storage FlashArray for approximately the last two years in my entire career.

Fortunately, I have not seen any instability, lagging, crashing, or downtime with Pure Storage FlashArray.

Scalability is usually not as scalable as other vendors because Pure Storage FlashArray is pretty limited, especially with the low-end models, where you usually cannot scale above the single box. That's something they can work on.

I have contacted the technical support or customer support of Pure Storage FlashArray many times.

The quality of the support and the speed of the support is exceptional. They never let me down. They usually work pretty fast.

For support, I would give them something between 8 and 9 on a scale from 1 to 10. I would say nine for the support.

Positive

I have used alternatives to Pure Storage FlashArray, such as solutions from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which is our second vendor we work with.

The initial deployment for Pure Storage FlashArray was super easy for me. I remember it took approximately one hour to fully deploy it.

You definitely need someone to help you with the case to get it to the rack, so that's definitely not one person's work. All the rest is very easily done by one person.

Similar solutions include those from Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

I don't think as a company we have any customer that uses Evergreen architecture and understands how important it is, so we don't use it. I will not comment on that.

I think the pricing for Pure Storage FlashArray is the major issue because all the great things come with the price, and a lot of customers simply are not willing to accept it. That's why we also have some cheaper alternatives for them.

Everything needs maintenance, so Pure Storage FlashArray is not an exception. You need to patch it, but usually, it's very straightforward and easy to do.

Pure Storage FlashArray has helped me to decrease or reduce downtime. On other platforms we work with, there's sometimes trouble with the performance management during the upgrades of the array or some failures. In the case of Pure Storage FlashArray, they stick to what they say in the marketing, that they always keep the performance of the array no matter what kind of situation you are with the array. That's a very nice thing.

I would rate this review a 9 out of 10.

Pure Storage FlashArray is used for storage purposes.

The best features of Pure Storage FlashArray are the all-flash NVMe, which is the primary one, along with the increased throughput compared to other products, and absolutely close to zero downtime. Pure Storage provides immediate support during any break fixes or outages. In the past 9-10 years, there have been only three to four incidents with serious downtime, and Pure Storage was able to get back on our feet pretty quickly with each of them.

Having a single management pane of glass view is very important for me, as I have 90 to 100 Pure Storage FlashArray arrays. The Pure1 console allows me to access, monitor, and administer all the Pure Storage FlashArray arrays, making it absolutely essential to have the single pane of view. This is a handy way to manage all arrays under one single pane, and this likely goes for other customers as well.

Regarding downtime reduction, Pure Storage FlashArray has reduced downtime by about 98%.

Despite liking Pure Storage FlashArray, there is room for improvement in automation. Pure Storage FlashArray needs to enhance this aspect compared to other products. Even though Pure Storage FlashArray has started working on automation, I believe small issues should be fixed automatically without requiring manual intervention from me.

When I say automation, I mean that Pure Storage FlashArray should be able to auto-recover from small failures, as I do not see it doing this right now. For instance, even if there is a port failure, it requires my intervention. At some point, Pure Storage FlashArray should be able to auto-repair and auto-resolve many of these things, unless it is definitely a hardware replacement, which I understand.

I work with American Express and Pure Storage FlashArray is used a lot. I have been using Pure Storage FlashArray for the past 9-10 years.

Overall, Pure Storage FlashArray has not helped decrease my storage footprint, as I have other solutions. It did not consolidate the other solutions, since we do not work with one storage vendor. We have multiple vendors and products, starting with 30 arrays and now at 90 arrays, which is a pretty big leap we have made. At the same time, it did not encourage us to decrease our footprints on the other products, as we have multiple products for multiple purposes.

For 90 arrays for Pure Storage FlashArray only, we have 20 plus engineers using the solution.

Regarding support for Pure Storage FlashArray, I rate it a nine.

Positive

We have experience with other solutions such as Dell, NetApp, and HP. We do not have IBM, but we have Isilon, which is also Dell, along with some object storage and S3 compatible storage.

In terms of deployment experience with Pure Storage FlashArray, I find it to be pretty easy.

Deploying one array takes three to four hours if the rack and cabling are in place. However, a week is a standard time because we have to do a lot of rack and cabling and physical infrastructure as well.

We handle a lot of upgrades ourselves, but if there is something critical, the vendor comes into the picture. In terms of dependability, we are at 80-20, with 80% of the work done by ourselves and 20% requiring Pure Storage FlashArray's help.

Pure Storage FlashArray has not helped decrease the total cost of ownership.

Regarding pricing, I think we are around eight on this scale. When I first started with Pure Storage FlashArray, I would say the product was very cheap compared to other storage products. Starting around 10-15 years ago, and obviously to balance in the market, Pure Storage FlashArray had to increase their cost. While I still find it very cost-effective, prices have increased a lot in the past 10 to 12 years. Along with that, there are new capabilities, so I would go with eight.

In evaluating Pure Storage FlashArray against other disk and flash storages in terms of performance and power, I think it is on par with the biggest player in the market, which is Dell EMC. There are cheaper software storage solutions available in the market. Therefore, if Pure Storage FlashArray can work on the costing, it will be good for end-users like me.

We are actually using the self-service portal for upgrades. We started doing this for the past one year and are yet to make a transition to Evergreen. It is in the roadmap to use Evergreen because Pure Storage FlashArray has not actually given us the complete view for Evergreen, since a lot of our products are being onboarded on Pure Storage FlashArray. As of now, we are doing the self-service upgrade and it is in the roadmap to have Evergreen onboarded.

Regarding how Pure Storage FlashArray has helped with decreasing downtime, in terms of how it has decreased my storage footprint, I am unsure if I am referring to storage footprints on other products or not.

Pure Storage FlashArray does not require maintenance such as updates, upkeeping, or patching. It was a partner purchase, and I was not actually involved in the purchasing process, as we have a dedicated team. We have a long-standing relationship with Pure Storage FlashArray, so I think it always goes pretty smoothly. As we talk, we are still in the process of buying multiple Pure Storage FlashArray products, so the process has been absolutely smooth and the experience has been good.

I would recommend Pure Storage FlashArray to other users because, first, the speed that I get with Pure Storage FlashArray is not remotely possible with any other product at this price range, and second, the support is absolutely fantastic. For P1 scenarios, we get on a call with an engineer, and the engineers are mostly available throughout the day, whether it is a weekday or a weekend. When we need someone to join the webex, Pure Storage FlashArray joins in very quickly, which is not possible with the other products. We prefer Pure Storage FlashArray, which is why we have a lot of them. Pure Storage FlashArray is the primary solution at the moment for SAN and block storage. I would rate this review a 9.

I am from Europe and work with European standards and European colleagues from Everpure FlashArray. We use Everpure FlashArray as Storage as a Service, and this is our main vendor for storage.

I would say it is very important because it is the only storage we have, except for object storage. For flash storage, this is the only solution we have and it works very well.

The best features are the performance, for sure, and it is very easy to manage.

We have never had any performance issue with Everpure FlashArray, while we had some performance issues with other vendors.

Everpure FlashArray has very good performance and we have not seen any problems so far with the storage. Another thing is that Everpure FlashArray has great support. For example, we had a problem with the backup integration with Everpure FlashArray and the problem was on the backup side. Everpure FlashArray support was able to solve it even though it was not a problem on Everpure FlashArray itself.

Evergreen support works well. Everything is solved in a timely manner. We use Everpure FlashArray as Storage as a Service and that works well. There is no downtime.

The most important thing is how easy it is to manage because Dell VMAX was quite hard to manage. There may have been financial reasons as well, but I do not see into the financial aspects.

With Everpure FlashArray, everything you need to do is accomplished in five clicks. With VMAX, you need to have a lot of knowledge. If you are doing something wrong, you could do terrible things to your environment with wrong clicking and wrong actions. Sometimes we got an error and we have not even been able to find it in documentation.

We have been using it for about six years.

I would not say there are stability issues. Both are enterprise storage systems, so they are both stable.

We do not grow that much, but in case growing is needed, then it is absolutely easy.

With Everpure FlashArray, everything you need to do is accomplished in five clicks. With VMAX, you need to have a lot of knowledge. If you are doing something wrong, you could do terrible things to your environment with wrong clicking and wrong actions. Sometimes we got an error and we have not even been able to find it in documentation.

Everpure FlashArray is probably not cheap storage, but it provides great performance, scalability, and everything a customer needs. It also provides great support.

Both storage boxes are working fine. However, Dell support is not that good, but Everpure FlashArray is one level upper. For our use case, Dell was fine enough. The pain was just maintaining and doing things on it.

The performance was good on Dell as well. That was fine, but Everpure FlashArray still has better performance. We can see it on the graphs, but we have customers that do not need that much performance from Everpure FlashArray.

We use Storage as a Service, so we deployed it with Everpure FlashArray support.

We use Storage as a Service, so we deployed it with Everpure FlashArray support.

I would not say anything because we still do not use Everpure FlashArray fully. There are many options we are not using, so we are still trying to implement everything they are able to do.

With Everpure FlashArray, everything you need to do is accomplished in five clicks. With VMAX, you need to have a lot of knowledge. If you are doing something wrong, you could do terrible things to your environment with wrong clicking and wrong actions. Sometimes we got an error and we have not even been able to find it in documentation. I would rate this review a 10.

I think plenty of our customers find Everpure FlashArray's single management pane of glass important because they are telling us that they are using the management once a month or something like that. It's simple and not demanding on either the training or the maintenance. It's easy to find the assets even if you are not entering many times, and it's easy to perform changes. Now it's becoming even much easier because if you are working with seven or ten arrays in your environment, with Fusion, you can manage all of them with just one. Having access to one of those arrays, you can be performing operations as a whole with the rest. The latest upgrades and software functionalities they are developing make this even easier. You can even perform operations with Copilot, which is integrated. It's becoming easier and easier compared to other solutions. I know about Data on Tap, for example, or some other solutions of the other manufacturers. Compared to those, this is something that the customers are telling us. When they are buying Pure, they are finding that it's much easier and more robust.

I see room for improvement because the only moment you don't have room for improvement is when either you are dead or you are obsolete. There's room for improvement because the market is going to demand more and more automation, which Pure has a very clear roadmap about. The situation about pricing is uncertain, and nobody can tell if it's going to change and revert to a prior state. The difference in pricing could become a problem for Pure because the commoditization of the solutions could lead to a different price being a problem. Even though there are differences, you have to keep working to ensure those differences are related to the pricing and make sense. The gap and balance between pricing and features is important, and Pure should keep trying to be similar in prices, at least not just in the total cost of ownership for six years, but at the starting point. More room for improvements exists in general when you are in the market. Pricing and being different and making things easier for the customer is going to keep you in the market for a long term. Probably there are more things that could be improved, but overall, those two things are what I think they have to keep an eye on.

I rate the technical support of Everpure FlashArray really, really good. This is what the customers are telling us that they are most happy with. The technical support is what is convincing them the most that this is the best solution. It's very good compared to other support options.

I would rate their support as nine point five out of ten. The company is growing and it's difficult to keep the excellence and the level of quality that they maintain. The quality in this case is excellent. For a long time, the solution was ten out of ten. Now it's nine point five out of ten because we are so used to having responses in fifteen minutes and having so much excellent service that when it's just superb, it can sometimes leave the impression that they scaled to a huge size and it's quite similar to what it was.

My experience with the deployment of Everpure FlashArray is that it is easy to deploy. This was the main first reason I came to start working with Pure. I was used to deployments that could last for weeks, but the deployment of Everpure FlashArray takes forty-five minutes at maximum. When you have training and are trained, if this is not the very first time you are doing it by yourself, it could take a little more, but one hour at the most. This has been my experience for all the time we are working with Pure. It's not that there are more features today, but the complexity of installation has remained the same.

Overall, I am sure that Everpure FlashArray is the best option on the market. I have been competing with many other solutions, and the fact is that when I'm selling to any customer that is buying this solution for a long-term project, we are usually offering the Forever option for the maintenance. The Evergreen Forever program is valuable. A couple of our customers have had their SSD modules changed at no cost to NVMe modules with much higher capacities and much higher performance without any cost. They are keeping the promises they made ten years ago. This is quite important because most of our customers bought this solution three years ago or six years ago, and they expect the same in the next years. This is of utmost importance. The promises they were making at the beginning, they are keeping them. The pricing of the maintenance is so important. We are keeping the same cost to the customer for maintenance that we started seven years ago. This is really important when you want to keep a healthy infrastructure.

Nowadays, I find the pricing of Everpure FlashArray reasonable as the difference between Pure and other solutions is almost not much of a difference. Pure is going to have the prices raised as the rest of the manufacturers because this is an environment that is the same for everyone almost. It used to be a difference, a premium of nearly thirty to fifty percent higher in the case of Pure Everpure when it wasn't called Everpure a couple of years ago. You had to speak to the customer and sell them the difference between the solutions because talking capacity to capacity, terabyte per terabyte, euro per euro and IOPS per IOPS, you have to make the customer see the differences, and the pricing was much higher compared. Nowadays, there's not much of a difference because the hardware cost has reached a point that is quite balanced with other solutions. Overall, if you are comparing some other solutions, they don't have a program like the Evergreen program. In the end, in a six-year term, all the other solutions are becoming more expensive than Pure. I would rate this review as nine point five out of ten.

Our customers also appreciate Everpure FlashArray. As I remember from my memory, our customers did not complain about Everpure FlashArray. The function is good, but the pricing and some of our customers prefer to upgrade the firmware or software by themselves. With Everpure FlashArray, you have to use an authorized engineer. I think this is a common concern from our customers, as they might prefer to do it by themselves.

Everpure FlashArray has helped decrease my customer's storage footprint. Our customers always use Everpure FlashArray as a performance or hot data storage solution. The compression ratio is very good, and the throughput is excellent.

I have used Everpure FlashArray's Evergreen architecture for my upgrades and scaling up.

Everpure FlashArray's continuous uptime capability is a really important function for my customer's ability to maintain operations.

Everpure FlashArray has helped to decrease my customer's storage footprint.

Everpure FlashArray has also helped to reduce downtime. The distribution and selling channel in Taiwan is not as strong compared to other countries, which is a consideration for our customers.

Our customers using Dell storage also use competing solutions. Our customers who have Everpure FlashArray may also have the NetApp AFF series or Dell Isilon.

I have been dealing with Everpure FlashArray for four years.

Everpure FlashArray is very good with AI development. I would say Everpure FlashArray is very suitable for low downtime and critical mission storage. Customers who need critical mission storage and those chasing performance should consider this solution. Our customers have to realize that if they want to iterate fast in AI development, they need to invest in Everpure FlashArray.

In the long term, I would recommend Everpure FlashArray. With the Evergreen program, you will always keep the hardware fresh, which is very beneficial. Our customers who may have an old NetApp with storage that is end of service or end of lifetime but is still being used for six or eight years in Taiwan are experiencing issues with old, unsecure machines that have no maintenance. I do not see this as very good because the machine just survives, but the productivity is very low. Everpure FlashArray always keeps the hardware fresh. Our customers can scale up or scale out, raise the performance, and expand the storage spaces by investing every year. From a sustainability perspective, I would say Everpure FlashArray is a better choice.

I would rate Everpure FlashArray's technical support as nine out of ten. It is excellent.

For now, our customers do not have the Evergreen program because of the price. Evergreen is an excellent product, but the total cost of ownership is too high. Our customers say that if they had Evergreen, they would upgrade their storage maybe every four years and could save on maintenance fees.

The initial deployment is very smooth. We always just connect to the network and proceed. It is a very good experience to deploy Everpure FlashArray.

Everpure FlashArray is more suitable with the NVIDIA DGX series because most computer science applications cannot build that much throughput to storage. If you are using the NVIDIA HGX, especially the NVIDIA DGX series, they can produce that much throughput and will stretch the performance. I would say Everpure FlashArray is more suitable for customers with performance requirements.

In the long term, I would recommend Everpure FlashArray. With the Evergreen program, you will always keep the hardware fresh.

The only issue is the pricing. Because we have competition, our customers always take another brand and say they can save their investment. We always lose because of the pricing issue.

Our customers who have Everpure FlashArray may also have the NetApp AFF series or Dell Isilon.

I cannot think of any negative feedback because I always prefer Everpure FlashArray. I would rate this review a nine out of ten.

The usual use cases for Everpure FlashArray that I worked with involve the initial setup that I completed along with the configuration of mounting and the configuration of CIFS and NFS for all the projects.

I followed the instructions received from the customer, prepared the scope of work, and completed those projects. After completion, I provided the project plan and prepared the SSD documents for the customer as well.

The most valuable and useful features of Everpure FlashArray include the all-flash NVMe architecture, which provides end-to-end NVMe support, ultra-low latency, inline deduplication, inline compression, and thin provisioning.

These characteristics are beneficial because there is no need for spare disks to be configured in Everpure FlashArray, which is a major feature for us.

Other important capabilities include the Purity operating environment, which offers a simple management interface, REST API support, cluster management, CLI management, and features that make it automation-friendly. Security features are present as well, such as data encryption, secure multi-tenancy, and role-based access control.

Furthermore, multiple protocols are supported, including Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NVMe, as well as SMB and NFS support.

The single management pane of glass for Everpure FlashArray is important to me because it allows for effective storage management without the need for spare disks. We utilize old disks in the storage for metro clustering and active clustering, ensuring fast disaster recovery capabilities.

Everpure FlashArray could be improved or enhanced because it is an evergreen storage solution, permitting non-destructive controller upgrades without full data migration replacement.

I have been using Everpure FlashArray for almost two years.

I evaluate Everpure FlashArray's solution stability as quite high since most organizations are trusting in it and finding it credible.

The zero latency and high IOPS utilization we observe with it are significantly better than other storage solutions.

Features such as replication and metro clusters are available in the storage, and the all-flash NVMe disks provide excellent speed, along with an easy-to-use management dashboard.

The scalability of Everpure FlashArray is good due to its low latency and overall optimization.

The related hardware support for infrastructure is also reliable.

I would rate the scalability at seven out of ten.

I have not communicated with Everpure FlashArray's technical support.

We primarily use commands such as pure list, pure evolve wall list, and pure host list during monitoring, along with pure alert list, pure area monitor, and pure wall monitor for our operational needs.

Before Everpure FlashArray, I used a different technical solution which was NetApp.

The setup process for Everpure FlashArray requires verifying the compatibility of Everpure FlashArray with any incoming infrastructure-related teams.

This includes checking network latency, communication between sites, and verifying FC and IP connectivity.

We also ensure the Purity OS versions are supported, confirming host configurations, and checking active cluster configuration steps.

Connectivity must be verified for communication between both ends, and we create and verify a pod, which is a controller holding volume in an active cluster.

Finally, after completing these tasks, we verify and create volumes to ports while ensuring synchronization.

I was not a customer of Pure Storage but rather an integrator.

I was an integrator for one of the clients which we deployed.

I confirm that I was an integrator.

I find the pricing of Everpure FlashArray to be quite high compared to other storage solutions; however, the reliability and features are commendable.

Most organizations are currently seeking this kind of storage.

I decided to stop using NetApp and switch to Everpure FlashArray because storage prices had recently increased, while Pure Storage's all-flash solution provided better multiple IO at a more competitive price.

Pure Storage has not increased their prices, and it has gained a reputation as a very trustworthy product in the market, which is why many organizations are choosing to adopt this kind of solution.

The last time that I worked with Pure Storage was six months ago.

I have not found any challenges with the initial setup for Everpure FlashArray because all initial setups and verifications from storage went smoothly, and I had an account in the storage system.

I updated everything based on standard practices during the process, so it was straightforward from my end.

I have deployed Everpure FlashArray both on cloud and on premises.

We utilize cloud-based monitoring systems, predictive analysis, and AI-driven performance recommendations along with features for capacity forecasting and health monitoring in Pure One storage cloud management.

If upgrade activities are necessary for Everpure FlashArray, I need to inform the entire team responsible for accessing this kind of storage and ensure we download the related version.

The evergreen storage capability of Everpure FlashArray allows for non-destructive controller upgrades without requiring full replacement of data migration. Everpure FlashArray is directly managed by Pure Identity instead of SSD controllers.

I did not provide an overall review rating for this product.

My main use case for Everpure FlashArray is that we were using Pure Storage to be the underlying storage for our vSphere environment, basically to store our virtual machines and backups.

A quick specific example of how I use it in my daily workflow is that we use it as an underlying storage for our vSphere infrastructure where we have some mission-critical virtual machines running using VMware vSphere environment, and all those VMs are currently stored on Everpure FlashArray because of their high speed and throughput and high IOps. We decided to use flash storage because Pure is a market leader at the moment in that technology, which is why we decided to use it.

Their support from Pure Storage is really good. Whenever I needed something, I reached out to them, and they were always available to help us. This is one of the most important reasons we decided to go with them because their support was really good, although it was very expensive as well, since they have different tiers of support available, and the tier we selected was expensive. We decided to go with that because the support was really good and because of the nature of our environment.

The best features Everpure FlashArray offers include flash storage because of its high speed and also the redundancy. We really love that redundancy, which is not only at the storage level but at the array level and at the power level and network level. Everything is redundant, making Pure Storage stand out compared to other tools and technologies provided by different vendors.

These features have benefited my organization in terms of performance and reliability because the redundant array means not only is the storage level such as the disks redundant, but the network cards and power are also redundant. That's why we decided to use that, as our virtual machines run some really critical applications. We needed that redundancy available to us all the time, and in case something goes wrong on one side of the storage, we know that the other side will always be available to help. The redundancy from Pure Storage is really efficient.

One unique feature that stood out to me is that their GUI portal is really helpful to check the status of Everpure FlashArray, all the networks, and all the components. You can actually go and see and view the status so you can proactively monitor them and also ingest the monitoring with different monitoring tools. That's a really good feature of Pure Storage.

Everpure FlashArray has positively impacted my organization by improving uptime and making our job easier, but it obviously comes with a high cost because Pure Storage is an expensive product.

I have noticed specific outcomes related to improved uptime and making my job easier, including a limited number of outages and faster recovery times, as we never had any outage in terms of Pure Storage, so it was always up and available for us.

Everpure FlashArray can be improved by possibly enhancing the user experience by providing users with more access so they can tweak the settings by themselves, which could be suited to their own environment. Currently, Pure does not provide that, so you have to actually lean on Pure support to make changes to the configuration.

I have been using Everpure FlashArray for three years.

Everpure FlashArray is stable.

In terms of scalability, it can be tricky because if you're going to scale your storage, sometimes you have to go for another array or maybe you need to change the chassis. Scalability is not an easy option for Pure Storage, so you have to be very careful when you are getting that product for you.

Customer support for Everpure FlashArray is amazing, as they're always available and they are all around the globe, so whenever you need them, they are always able to help you.

I did not previously use a different solution, as we started with Pure Storage.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was good, as the account manager was closely in touch with us to decide and design the pricing module for us.

I have seen a return on investment, particularly in that we needed fewer employees.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was good, as the account manager was closely in touch with us to decide and design the pricing module for us.

Before choosing Everpure FlashArray, I evaluated other options, including IBM and Dell.

My advice to others looking into using Everpure FlashArray is that it's a really good product, especially if your main purpose is to get high speed with more redundancy and reliability; then go for it. However, it comes with a cost, as it's not cheap.

I rate the customer support a nine on a scale of one to ten.

I rate Everpure FlashArray a ten on a scale of one to ten for being the best.

I chose ten for my rating because of the speed, redundancy, and support—all these three things.

We use Everpure FlashArray to allocate space and create disaster recovery setups within our applications. The main goal is to provide storage to our clients, which is the primary purpose for using Pure Storage.

We recently had a request from clients who wanted to migrate their data from one of their storage arrays to Everpure FlashArray. I took up that project and created the zoning between their servers and Pure Storage. After that, I allocated the space to their servers to migrate their data from their ESXi hosts. This was a big challenge because the data is very important for them. We needed to complete the zoning part on time and allocate the space accordingly, and I kept everything in place on time. After that, they migrated their data, and currently, they are using Pure Storage.

As a storage array, Everpure FlashArray is mainly used to allocate storage. Beyond that, I perform upgrades on this Pure array with the help of the vendor. We can also do self-upgrades.

I am not entirely sure about all the features offered by Everpure FlashArray because that is fully taken care of by my management. As an engineering and operations team, we maintain these arrays and perform daily health checks on the array. In case of any issues, we collaborate with the vendor and fix those issues. Additionally, whenever any server cannot access Everpure FlashArray, we fix that issue accordingly. This is our day-to-day work. The best feature is the Evergreen feature, which automatically raises a case and fixes any issue without reaching out to us.

Compared to other vendors, this feature is really helpful. We just receive the alerts without prior knowledge. When we go to Everpure FlashArray and see the alerts, we can see two alerts: one is that the alert is opened and after some time, we can see the same alert is closed, which means the issue got fixed. They automatically fix that issue without our knowledge. This really helps our team maintain high availability at all times and saves our team time.

Cost-wise, compared to other vendors, it is very budget-friendly. Everpure FlashArray is a high-availability storage technology that we are currently using. Whoever is using Pure Storage is happy with it, including the latency and everything. We have not received any complaints related to Pure Storage. Since I have worked here for four years, throughout this entire period I have not received any complaints on Pure Storage, which is really great.

When it comes to Everpure FlashArray ports shown in the GUI, it would be better if, when one of the Pure array ports went down, there was a possibility to highlight that particular port which has gone down. Some kind of features in the GUI related to hardware would be helpful. If it is showing visibly on the ports end, it would really help us to identify the particular port without logging into the Brocade switches or somewhere else. From the GUI itself, we could see that a particular port is down right now, so we need to fix that.

I have been using Everpure FlashArray for over four years.

Right now, I have not seen any issues with Pure because, as I mentioned, we have the Evergreen feature on Pure, and they automatically raise a case. When it comes to upgrades, they do not take much time and we do not need any downtime to upgrade our Purity version. That is really good. Compared to other vendors, I would prefer Everpure FlashArray to anyone.

Whenever we need more storage, we have the feature of scalability. Whenever we need more, it happens automatically.

It is very easy for us to reach customer support. Whenever we raise any case, I believe within the next ten to fifteen minutes, we are receiving the response from the vendor. That is really great. They are acknowledging that whenever we need the support, they support us on time and they try to fix the issue within the given time. That is really great from Pure.

We have other vendors as well. I do not want to reveal the names. However, we preferred Pure because, as I mentioned earlier, the cost, the time-wise, and the latency are all better. We compared everything and after that, we switched to Everpure FlashArray. We referred and offered Everpure FlashArray to the application teams where they are satisfied with the Pure setup. After that, we allocated storage from this Pure array for a few clients.

We have another vendor as well with us, for example, NetApp. We compared the costs and everything, so the budget and the setup-wise, everything. When it comes to NetApp, for development and everything, we just need to do the basic health checks on their storage devices. Apart from that, they take care of the entire part, but the budget is very high. When it comes to Pure, we need to maintain the upgrades and all other activities. Compared to the budget, it is very low. The useful thing is when you are taking care of your storage part, meaning Pure, the maintenance and everything is really useful for you because you will learn what is happening on that storage. Every time you have a chance to look into those particular operations. That is why we preferred Pure recently for the clients. Based on this comparison, we offered them to use Everpure FlashArray.

I would advise companies or other clients to use Everpure FlashArray. Cost-wise, performance-wise, and scalability-wise, compared to all perspectives, Pure is going to become number one across all the FlashArrays. I would ask them to use Pure Storage and give it a try. Once they choose Pure, they will never go back to any other vendor. Regarding AI capability, I do not think that applies to our situation because our data is very secure. In some use cases we can use AI, but not in all cases. I would rate this product overall as a ten out of ten.