Everpure FlashArray Reviews

The best features in Pure Storage FlashArray are its simplicity; it's simple, but simplicity is key.

Speed is also a key feature. The performance is amazing, and the simpleness of management of the storage is amazing. Support is amazing, and the SEs from Pure Storage are also amazing. The contact with Pure as a partner or end customers is amazing in comparison to other storage vendors.

The solution decreases our storage footprint.

Pure Storage FlashArray has helped decrease the total cost of ownership because we know what the cost is going to be every year. We don't get any hidden fees or upgrade fees; everything is included in the price. We don't do any forklift upgrades, and when we change the storage, we manage it in a way that we replace the controllers, replace the drives, and we do that with zero downtime, without needing to forklift or migrate any data. It resides in the Pure array all the time, so in that way, we earn a lot of money or at least don't lose as much money.

In Pure Storage FlashArray, the area with room for improvement is local MFA login.

Local MFA can't be done, which is why I mention it as an area for improvement.

I have been using Pure Storage FlashArray for almost 10 years.

I would rate stability a 10; there are no downtime, bugs, or glitches.

It has helped reduce our downtime over the years, and with Pure Storage FlashArray, we have zero downtime, approximately 10% reduction.

It fits our scale because the scalability up is perfect. I wanted them to sell me a smaller Pure Storage FlashArray. I want the Pure function but smaller arrays, but I know that's not their business. I want to sell a smaller Pure Storage FlashArray to my customers.

I would rate scalability overall as a 10.

The performance is amazing, and the simpleness of management of the storage is amazing. Support is amazing, and the SEs from Pure Storage are also amazing. The contact with Pure as a partner or end customers is amazing in comparison to other storage vendors.

I would rate the technical support an 11 out of 10.

We used an HPE 3PAR before using Pure Storage FlashArray.

The deployment for Pure Storage FlashArray was very easy.

It takes hours to deploy.

Almost everything is handled by the Pure Storage support team.

It has reduced our storage usage by minimizing space in the racks and the power consumption.

There is no license fee in Pure Storage FlashArray; you pay something upfront, and you always get any new function in the new products without any hidden license fee.

Pure Storage FlashArray has helped decrease the total cost of ownership because we know what the cost is going to be every year. We don't get any hidden fees or upgrade fees; everything is included in the price.

Management and performance are 1,000% better in Pure Storage FlashArray compared to other products.

In terms of performance, cost, and power, Pure Storage FlashArray is up in the top; it's number one, and you can't compare Pure Storage FlashArray with anything else.

I would recommend Pure Storage FlashArray to other users because it's the best storage solution for the money.

I rate Pure Storage FlashArray a perfect 10 out of 10.

Everpure FlashArray supports our VMware-based virtualization infrastructure. We use Pure all-flash arrays across sites for high availability and efficiency, with the main workload involving application-hosted VMs and databases in a hospitality environment. The main use case for using these flash arrays is utilizing VMware to have a VSAN-like data store.

We have different kinds of databases such as SQL and OCI tenants. Regarding the SQL part, they have a huge amount of tables, but the specific applications are not fully documented.

The main reason we are using all these Pure arrays is for utilizing them as a VSAN in VMware. Additionally, we aim for high availability, efficiency, and consistent performance on both sides, ensuring quick failover whenever there is downtime at the primary site.

When compared to other kinds of SAN devices, we benefit from the pods, which allow us to create separate volumes for different VMware clusters. The best features we have observed are consistently low latency, high performance, simplicity in management both via UI and command prompt, increased reliability, and excellent VMware integration. With Pure plugins, we can easily integrate with VMware vSphere, take snapshots, and create data stores efficiently. Restoring from snapshots is quick and data reduction is also a significant advantage. Additionally, upgrades are non-disruptive and can be performed during production time without taking much time. The proactive support is excellent, as we receive alerts within 5 to 10 minutes, and the support team troubleshoots efficiently.

Regarding VMware integration and snapshot features, we have installed Pure plugins on the VMware vSphere end and configured VMware details on the Pure array side. This means we made a physical connection, and after installation, we saw the pods or volumes created on the Pure arrays, which act as clusters in VMware. It is easier to manage volume expansions on the Pure array end and extend the datastore on the VMware side. For snapshots, we have been taking volume snapshots on the Pure side, but we have not had to restore a snapshot yet, as everything is running fine. A stretch cluster ensures that actions on one array reflect automatically on the other, allowing the secondary array to act as primary without changes needed on our side when the primary goes down.

Everpure FlashArray offers high performance and low latency compared to other solutions. We can deploy it without needing as much hardware as with others. For example, while we had several Dell devices for our workload, we can run everything efficiently with fewer Pure FlashArrays configured with multiple VMware while maintaining simplicity in accessing and managing the devices.

A single management pane of glass is very important in our organization because it significantly simplifies day-to-day storage operations. In our stretch cluster VMware environment, we have centralized visibility across both Pure arrays, allowing us to manage storage, monitor performance, check replication health, capacity utilization, alerts, and system health status all in one interface. This operational simplicity makes storage administration easier, especially during troubleshooting and maintenance, and improves visibility across sites and reduces administrative overhead, allowing us to focus on other operational priorities. The unified management experience offered by Pure increases ease of operation compared to many other traditional enterprise storage platforms.

I would appreciate improvements on daily health checks. Currently, I ask Pure engineers for health check commands but find myself checking manually. If I had commands to run daily and share results with clients to confirm the array's healthy state, it would enhance clarity. Apart from this, I do not see any further improvements needed.

I have been working as a storage and backup administrator for three and a half years.

Everpure FlashArray has drastically reduced our downtime. Once we replaced our previous setup, we have not experienced any failures from the arrays. We have efficient cooling and operation without issues. For maintenance, the normal downtime during a patch or OS upgrade is less than five minutes, often not even needed. We have not required downtime for troubleshooting either, except in a rare case due to a power failure.

Everpure FlashArray is stable, and even if there are issues, the engineers at Pure provide support quickly and effectively.

The scalability of Everpure FlashArray is excellent. As our VMware environment and production workloads grow, the platform scales smoothly without major operational complexities or performance bottlenecks. It allows for easy capacity expansion and performs really well, supporting our virtualization environment with non-disruptive upgrades and consistent operational simplicity.

I have occasionally worked with customer support, and they have been very good. One of their strengths is proactivity and a responsive, technically knowledgeable team compared to many traditional storage vendors. The support experience feels much more streamlined and efficient, with faster response times and effective monitoring.

We previously used Dell hardware, and after receiving a quotation from a Pure sales member, we were impressed by the cost savings and features compared to the Dell products we had, leading us to switch.

We have observed significant improvements on the storage side since we started using Everpure FlashArray. Previously with Dell products, expanding volumes or data stores was complicated, but now, we can easily expand a data store directly within the Pure array and then refresh it in VMware. This saves us time and requires minimal downtime during upgrades, as we can perform upgrades even during production. Automatic ticket creation for alerts also reduces the time to identify issues.

For expansion, with Pure arrays, I cover it in about two minutes. I extend the volume, go to the datastore side in VMware, refresh it, and that is it. As for upgrades, it may take about 5 to 10 minutes with Pure, whereas other hardware devices, such as Dell, could require two to three hours during business hours.

We have seen a positive return on investment with Everpure FlashArray. While it is difficult to quantify every benefit, we have experienced significant operational impacts. Storage management is much simpler than with traditional systems, and our team spends less time on daily maintenance, troubleshooting, and upgrades. Operational tasks such as provisioning storage and monitoring performance happen faster, and less downtime risk and hardware consolidation mean we support more workloads with fewer resources and less data center overhead. Overall, the best returns on investment have been operational simplicity, reliability, and reduced management overhead.

I have knowledge about the licensing part, which we obtained for around 10 years from the time of deployment, but I do not have information on pricing and setup costs.

Depending on storage type, I can suggest Everpure FlashArray for block or file-level needs. However, for NAS, I am not experienced with it in this context, although I know there are NAS devices in the market. For SAN or VSAN storage, I definitely recommend Pure FlashArrays for reducing human effort and cost savings with their best features.

During an ownership call regarding a quotation from Pure, we compared it with Dell hardware and noticed we could save about one-third on costs based on the quotation. However, I do not have information on the exact cost savings since I was not involved in those details.

Everpure FlashArray means less storage space and the ability to consolidate multiple hardware setups into one with huge capacity. It requires less human support and minimizes downtime during activities. It is totally scalable, demonstrates high scalability, and offers good performance, making my recommendation strong.

The arrays have been excellent in our environment. They make managing storage easier, especially with VMware, so everything is good. I would rate this product an 8 overall.

I have worked with Pure Storage for about three or four years now.

I have been in two companies where we were a partner with Pure, so my point of view of working with Pure was of course to sell them, but also to help customers with management of the arrays.

The intuitive way of managing storage is what I appreciate about Pure Storage FlashArray, along with the clever use of flash modules, and absolutely the data reduction, because they are using that in a very clever way to do compression and deduplication. I think they are ahead in doing data reduction on flash modules.

I find Pure Storage FlashArray's single management pane of glass very easy to work with. I appreciate the way they have rethought storage management, and especially the Pure1 platform, which is a cloud solution for managing a fleet to gain more insights into your storage environment.

Some of the other storage vendors are also very good, but the main benefit that Pure Storage brings to the table is the easy way to do it. I also think that Evergreen really helps customers. Additionally, you can rent the array through Evergreen//One, so you pay as you grow. That is one of the things I really think benefits some customers, as they don't have to buy the entire array upfront; they can just rent it and then pay for their consumption.

Pure Storage FlashArray has helped to decrease the organization's storage footprint. Because of the technology they have with very big DirectFlash Modules, which are 150 terabytes with 300 terabytes coming next month, the environment footprints are good. Also, the rack usage doesn't take up so much space, and that is another area they excel in because of those large flash modules. There is no need to use so much power, and you don't use a lot of rack space as well.

Pure Storage FlashArray has helped my customers to decrease the total cost of ownership (TCO). The ecosystem Pure has is unique, especially the data reduction. That's where you see a very good TCO on your arrays because you don't have to buy as much capacity compared to what you had to do with other vendors.

I haven't been so lucky to experience Pure Storage Evergreen architecture for upgrades or scaling up yet.

I want to have a better S3 object storage integration into Pure Storage FlashArray. I know it's coming, but I also know that initially it will be a light version of object storage. They should work on having multisite clustering for object storage on Pure Storage FlashArray.

I don't have any other missing features that I would like to see included in the next releases of Pure. I know what's coming on some of the roadmaps, and I think the things they are coming with are pretty good. Of course, you can always have better compression, but that depends on the data.

I have never had any downtimes, crashes, or stability issues with the FlashArrays.

Pure Storage scales very well, much the same as all other vendors do. They have really good scale-up and scale-out solutions for both Pure Storage FlashArray and FlashBlade.

I have only had one support case in all the years I have worked with Pure Storage. They are very professional, and I appreciate the flat organization; when you call, you reach someone from the level three team directly, which is unique for Pure.

I would rate the technical support and the customer service of Pure Storage a 10 because I am very satisfied with the resolution and the way they work.

Positive

I have worked with other products and other storage solutions as well. I have worked extensively with IBM storage, specifically FlashSystem from IBM. Additionally, I have worked with Dell EMC products including VMAX, VNX, ECS, Unity, Clariion, and many different storage vendors including Hitachi, NetApp, and 3PAR.

I have been involved in the deployment process. I have installed Pure Storage FlashArray in my former company.

The experience with the deployment process was very easy.

I use the CLI; it's a normal way to use CLI installations for Pure Storage.

I work with Pure Storage through partners. Here in Denmark, we cannot buy directly from Pure, we buy it through partners.

I worked in Kyndryl and Plan B as Engineer in the partner team.

It depends on the model when comparing Pure Storage FlashArray to other disk and flash storage solutions in terms of performance. You cannot just say Pure is faster than others because you have to compare different things; it really depends on the model.

The main disadvantage of Pure Storage FlashArray is the price.

For a colleague considering Pure Storage but who already has a flash solution for their high-performance workloads, I would say the big models of FlashArray, the XL models, are built for high workloads. It depends on what they currently have, but Pure has some benefits. As I have mentioned several times, they are ahead in technology, both regarding flash modules and data reduction. The new R5 model has built-in front-end encryption, enabling end-to-end encryption, and that is currently unique in the market.

In terms of power consumption, they are on par with others All flash Storage arrays. Flash technology generally uses less power. I believe Pure is slightly ahead in having low power consumption due to their large drives.

The price is higher for Pure Storage, but you also get much newer technology and numerous features that other vendors currently do not offer.

The key differences in Pure Storage FlashArray compared to other vendors lie in its way of thinking about new technology. The way they use DirectFlash is really ahead, so they are ahead in technology in my opinion.

I would absolutely recommend focusing on data reduction when considering Pure Storage FlashArray. They are at the forefront of technology in data reduction, as well as dense technology because of their larger DirectFlash modules. Dense technology and data reduction would be the two main points I would highlight.

Pure Storage has a higher base price than other storage vendors, but they also have some features that you have to pay for. In my opinion, you get what you pay for, but it is higher, and it's very hard to compete in the market compared to other vendors. However, if you understand the benefits of Pure, then it's a no-brainer in my opinion.

I rate this review a 9 overall.

My usual use cases for Everpure FlashArray involve being on the vendor side, where we sell the product to customers, but we also have managed services with various customers. It ranges from installing and performing code upgrades, so firmware upgrades for the boxes, doing hardware upgrades for the boxes, and performing your normal break-fix, replacing drives, controllers, power supplies, and those types of things.

Additionally, we perform baseline troubleshooting, level one and level two troubleshooting, as we are an ASP partner. If we cannot resolve it with level one and level two, we then contact Everpure and they get their level three, level four engineers on the line to assist with getting whatever the problems might be resolved.

What I appreciate most about Everpure FlashArray is its simplicity; it has a very simple design and is very user-friendly. If you want to use some of the more in-depth features, it takes a bit more understanding, but for the normal business person, if you install it, it is up and running within a couple of minutes. From the moment we get to site, we can get that machine up and running within half an hour to an hour, and then the user can start using it. It is very quick and easy and simplistic to use.

I think the Evergreen architecture for upgrades or scaling up is a very good feature; we sell it to most of our customers. They either use Evergreen or they do the Flex upgrade. With Evergreen, you are on gold maintenance for three years, and after three years, you get new hardware. Evergreen provides gold maintenance for three years, and then by the time you need to renew it, you get free hardware upgrades. You get the latest generation that is available, and we have had some customers that have been on Evergreen for twelve years now. In those twelve years, they have never had unscheduled downtime. They have had scheduled downtime if anything happened, but that system has always stayed online. This is a very nice architecture design, which is a good thing that draws a lot of customers into using this product.

I find Everpure FlashArray's single management pane of glass very important; it is very simple and very important to make it user-friendly. From a user point of view, they do not have to try and understand where everything sits. It is very simply explained, and it is easy to use. Everpure FlashArray has indeed helped decrease my customers' storage footprint. Pure Storage uses deduplication data, which dedupes the data and allows the customer to use more out of the capacity that is technically there.

I do not have any recommendations on how Everpure FlashArray can be improved; at the moment, Pure has excellent hardware, and it is a very good software company with the in-house code they create. I really do not have any recommendation; I love the product. They are very quick with bug fixes and code fixes and are very responsive to providing the next steps on how to do things better.

The only thing I might consider minor or unimportant in the grand scale of things is that, as one of, I think, two ASPs in South Africa, we do level one and level two support. A lot of times when we log cases, we get a level one engineer trying to assist us, and they go through the information we have already gone through. While this sometimes hinders the process, we have a fast way of going past that. This is not a major issue, but it would be helpful if they checked our status and assigned someone appropriately rather than just assigning anyone to the case.

I have used Everpure FlashArray for four and a half years, and Everpure FlashArray is our main product.

Regarding the stability and reliability level of Everpure FlashArray, I have never experienced an issue before. In my four and a half years of experience, the stability is perfect at one hundred percent. I have never seen the array give problems. If an array is not performing at the expected performance level, Pure South Africa will jump in immediately. I have seen two or three customer arrays being upgraded free of charge because the array did not meet the expectation of the customer when they bought it. Pure's way to handle things is very good.

Regarding the scalability of this solution, I think it is good; it scales very well. It is a very simple solution, so it has the array, and if you need more, you can attach shelves to it. With the new feature they have brought out, which is Fleet, it does really well in spreading your workload across multiple arrays while making it easy to provision or decommission items when using Fleet.

I rate the technical support for Everpure FlashArray a solid nine.

To a colleague from another company considering Pure Storage, I would say if you have already got something in your environment and it is working, there is no need to change it. However, if Pure Storage has a feature that you want that your current one cannot do, then I recommend them to change it, especially considering how their asynchronous and synchronous replication works and how their failovers operate, all of which are very good. I cannot speak about other storage arrays' quality, as I have not worked that much with them to have an educated opinion; I have only gone by what the papers say.

My usual initial setup process for Everpure FlashArray involves receiving the box from the vendor, from Pure itself, unpacking it, putting all the drives in, starting the system up, installing Purity on the system, and then doing a health check on the system. Once that is done, we shut it down, take it to the customer site, reconfigure it with the customer details, and then rack and stack and install it for the customer. It is very straightforward.

I usually participate in the initial setup of Everpure FlashArray.

Everpure FlashArray has helped my customers reduce downtime; I cannot tell you how much downtime, but definitely one hundred percent. Every single time when we do a hardware upgrade, we never have to schedule downtime. We have never had an outage in my four and a half years, but in our company's ten or eleven years, there has never been any planned upgrades that required downtime. I have never had a customer need to switch off or move their systems to their DR array. I have never had a customer needing to switch from production to DR so that we could work on the production array. Some customers prefer doing it because that is the model that they follow, but it has never been a requirement from Pure's side that we need to do it to work on the machine.

Unfortunately, I am not part of the sales team, so I do not know the prices well. From what I hear, the pricing of Everpure FlashArray is quite decent compared to other storage appliances in the market. I think it is very market-related and not exceptionally expensive compared to others. If I compare that to, for example, a NetApp or Huawei storage, I prefer Pure Storage because of their support, which goes above and beyond for me.

In comparing Everpure FlashArray versus other disk and flash storage solutions, I would say Pure is number one in terms of performance, power, cost, and sustainability. The most I work with is Pure Storage and Huawei at the moment, and across every single parameter—cost, support, sustainability—Pure is miles better than Huawei, Fujitsu, or Lenovo. It is not even close.

I rate Everpure FlashArray overall a nine because there is always room for some form of improvement, but it is one of the best products and companies I have ever worked with.

Pure Storage FlashArray is used specifically for all types of storage, which is used for the active-active sites. It is used for backup and block storage. We manage this in Azure as block storage, and in AWS, it is similar to S3 storage. The solution is used for products, non-production, and backup, making it versatile.

I am working with Pure Storage FlashArray product. I am working with four different versions, specifically X70, XL170, C60, and C90.

The best features of Pure Storage FlashArray are its ease of use and user-friendly interface. There is not a complex configuration required. It is easy to configure and provision. The performance allows all types of services to be visualized from a single point of interface. Unlike other vendors, where multiple services are required on multiple appliances, this makes it more robust and user-friendly.

Having this single management pane is beneficial because I don't require managing multiple appliances to manage one type of storage or multiple types of storage. Within one place, I can consolidate all the boxes and can get all types of reports, including capacity, LCM, and vulnerabilities.

I use Pure Storage's Evergreen architecture for their upgrades, and it is a subscription-based model where the vendor guarantees to provide the LCM from time to time, with hardware or software. If the controller is getting expired, they will replace it. If there's a code that is getting expired, they will update the code. It is completely capable of LCM upgrades from time to time.

The main benefits I have seen from using Pure Storage FlashArray are that capacity is a key point. In a small disk, we have large capacity with high performance. We have a 49 terabyte disk, which is also an all-flash disk, and it can accommodate petabytes in one small array. Additionally, the power consumption is very good in this product, which reduces the overall cost in terms of capacity requirement.

Pure Storage FlashArray has helped to decrease the total cost of ownership because we pay based on utilization, not on the total capacity we procured. If we have the targeted capacity of 100 terabytes, it will be provided, but we only pay for the used amount. This pay-per-use feature is very good, but other vendors are not providing it. Even when they provide it, they keep the blocking or minimum binding time, which is not the case with Pure Storage FlashArray.

Within the same type of storage, if multiple protocols can be handled, I shouldn't be required to buy a new array for object storage. It should be unified in the same box. A discussion is ongoing, and they are going to launch some code for this type of feature.

In terms of the utilization capacity for the actual server side and the storage side, both are not fully utilized. Only the storage side used capacity is visible. From the graphical user interface, we cannot extract the report from the server perspective usage, but from the CLI, we can extract it for server utilization. This feature should be included in the graphical user interface.

During heavy load situations with 100K IOPS on one specific port, it requires more granularity level for distribution. This occurs during salary time or high transaction periods, where more IOPS should be available on one port or two ports, otherwise it can become a blocking point.

I have been working with it for the last 10 to 15 years.

It has maintained operations without reducing downtime. Each component is redundant. Everything is done so that even if I have to replace a controller, it is replaced without downtime. If a disk fails, or multiple disks fail, they are replaced without any downtime. Maintenance is very easy to do.

The scalability aspect is very easy and very fast.

The customer service and technical support of Pure are very good in terms of reachability and response frequency, which is very good in comparison to others. I rate the tech support as eight out of ten.

Positive

I worked on IBM, HP, NetApp, EMC and Dell. Performance-wise, capacity-wise, and cost-wise, Pure Storage FlashArray is number one among all the products.

The deployment of Pure Storage FlashArray is handled by the Pure vendor, and it takes hardly one or two hours to deploy. With their expertise, it can be installed in the small space in the rack with good capacity. Two U controllers or four U controllers can be done quickly within the available space in the rack.

We have a direct liaison with Pure, and as an enterprise company, we procured directly through our partnership.

I am from a technical background, and ROI is calculated by our financial team, which promotes it very frequently, so I assume it's very good.

The pricing is very reasonable for Pure Storage FlashArray.

All other organizations are also good in terms of robustness and reliability, but those are very costly in comparison to Pure Storage FlashArray.

They have some high-performance required solutions, but I suggest that during requirement gathering, it should be capable by the same array instead of buying a specific array for getting performance. The CLI must be more user-friendly as currently, it is not. I rate Pure Storage FlashArray a nine out of ten.

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.

My use case involves transitioning from a different company and different storage. When I came to this company, we have some SAN storage, and comparing with the other storage, Everpure FlashArray only has a higher count, and it is very easy to learn as well. The storage is very user-friendly.

The best features include its user-friendliness and the eradication period functionality. Before I worked on NetApp storage, I did not hear about those features. When I used Everpure FlashArray, this is the best option to restore our data to the maximum within the day or at maximum the eradication period, which I can see in the Pure One portal showing eight days. If I delete data today, within the next eight days, I can restore the data if I want. Otherwise, I can delete it immediately. The enabling option for security is very good, and the authentication as well. If I want to do any modification, I need to check with Pure support, and then only they will enable the remote assist and those features. Overall, it is very useful for us in Everpure FlashArray, comparing with the other storage.

The areas that have room for improvement include the scheduling process for upgrades. Whenever we plan the upgrade, we reach out to support to schedule at the mentioned date and time. Sometimes they mention they do not have any availability on that date and time. They could improve this by arranging for some engineer at that time, which would be very beneficial for us.

I have been using Everpure FlashArray for around two years.

The reduction in downtime depends upon the issue. A couple of months ago, we had a different version, and during that time, we planned to upgrade and found out the version is no longer used. During that time, we faced some controller issues, and within the day, they replaced the controller, and we performed the upgrade as well. The downtime reduction depends upon the issue only. Otherwise, it is very good storage.

It is on-premises storage only that we are using.

My thoughts on the single pane of glass view for visibility are that it provides very good visibility. Whenever I reach out for any Pure support, we have some KB articles that make it easy to identify the issue and fix those issues within a time or when any major issues happen. The support is very good with Pure support. I would rate the technical support a nine out of ten.

Comparing Everpure FlashArray with other solutions like Dell, NetApp, or IBM, it is very user-friendly and easy to learn, as I mentioned initially. Here, we can directly create the host and host group features, which makes it very easy. Comparing with the other storage, I am not sure about that. I have experience for only two years, but when I came to this environment, it was easy to adapt and learn because when checking the internet through Google or YouTube, there are more videos available, and the learning process is very easy.

It is very easy to deploy because even people who do not have any knowledge about storage can easily learn Everpure FlashArray. It is very user-friendly because the GUI and the CLI are very easy to learn and adapt to.

Comparing this product with other products for flash storage, we are regularly purchasing only Everpure FlashArray because of the support and the user-friendly features.

Regarding Everpure FlashArray's Evergreen Architecture, the upgrade process is very easy. We have two options: we can upgrade manually ourselves in Pure support, or if we do not enable the PS1, we need to reach out to Pure support, and they help us enable the upgrade as well. Currently, we are using version N minus one 6.9.3, which is not the latest version.

In my team, we have five to six people, but in the environment, we have a total of eight Everpure FlashArray systems. Each data center has four storage systems, and around lakhs of people use this SAN storage, the FlashBlade, and Everpure FlashArray.

I would recommend this product to other users because Everpure FlashArray is very easy to maintain compared to other SAN storage and easy to handle as well. I can identify the issue very clearly on the GUI side, and the performance and latency aspects are easy to identify. Furthermore, the replication features are very easy to handle as well.

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.