"There's lots of flexibility in how we use the resources while also maintaining a small footprint."
"We have been able to consolidate storage into Pavilion. Pavilions are our only SANs because it is a bring your own disk solution. When new drives come out, we are able to take out half of the drives in the system, put in new drives, move our VMs over to the new drives, take the other drives out, and populate those with new drives. Then, we are suddenly twice as dense as we were before. NVMe flash is only going to get denser and cheaper so we can make use of that every couple of years by just throwing newer disks into it at a fraction of the cost of a new SAN."
"The high performance is very valuable, as well as the enterprise reliability features."
"This is the best all-flash storage array on the market."
"NVMe data storage platform that's easy to set up and easy to use. It's stable, with a lower response time, and quick technical support."
"It is always out of the box, and ready to use."
"It's just very easy for general block storage."
"The most valuable feature of the Pure Storage Flash Array is the blazing fast monitoring."
"The all-flash disc is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"I like its speed. It has all the features that I need."
"The solution offers amazing performance."
"This has been one of the most reliable storage systems that I have ever used."
"I would like to see the management layer improved."
"The rail system that Pavilion uses to mount up into a standard Dell or APC cabinet extends further back than normal rails, and they cover up the zero PDU slot. So, I don't like the rail system that comes with the device. That is my biggest complaint."
"In our current configuration, we can only run the line controllers in high availability, active-standby mode, whereas we would like to see active-active implemented."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"I think replication is one area that still needs improvement. Earlier, Pure Storage FlashArray only had IP-based replication. There was no API-based replication, but they have enhanced the feature now. However, they need to work on API replication for C-type of arrays."
"The price could be better."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"Beyond a certain amount of petabytes, you have to have a separate system. Basically, it's not infinitely scalable."
"The price should be lower."
"The problem is that we can only make a few groups, around five or six groups. I like groups and we need a lot of them. We had to put all the information in only a few groups and cannot make a more detailed separation of them."
"The backend of this solution utilizes an Active/Passive architecture, rather than an Active/Active architecture, which is a disadvantage, when compared to some of its competitors. Its storage capacity should be expanded in the next release."
"The write performance could be improved because it is less than half of the read performance."
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Pure Storage FlashArray is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 38 reviews while VAST Data is ranked 29th in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 1 review. Pure Storage FlashArray is rated 9.2, while VAST Data is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashArray writes "Provides protection against ransomware threats with immutable snapshots, and it is well known for its scalability, ease of use, and non-disruptive upgrades". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VAST Data writes "Good performance, easy to integrate, and the technical support is outstanding". Pure Storage FlashArray is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS), IBM FlashSystem, HPE Nimble Storage and Pure Storage FlashBlade, whereas VAST Data is most compared with NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS), Pure Storage FlashBlade, Dell PowerStore, HPE Nimble Storage and DDN Storage Fusion Architecture NVMe.
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