"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."
"There's lots of flexibility in how we use the resources while also maintaining a small footprint."
"The high performance is very valuable, as well as the enterprise reliability features."
"The management is simple in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The availability and ease of use are the big features."
"The mobile app is very helpful."
"The most valuable features in Pure Storage FlashArray are deduplication and active cluster."
"The all-flash disc is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"I like FlashArray's ActiveCluster as well as its snapshot and cloning capabilities."
"One of the features that my customers are really interested in is immutable snapshots. There are immutable snapshots to which your applications can be reverted back if you are hit by some kind of ransomware threat or malicious attack. That's kind of a key deal, and it is one of the selling points I use to point out to my customers the value and the features that Pure Storage brings to the table."
"The code upgrades are very smooth."
"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."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"It would be nice to have a better view of the allocated capacity on their Platform as a Service solution because we have to do some manual calculations to understand how much we are going to pay every month to use the storage that is allocated."
"CIFS and SMB Shares cannot be mounted directly."
"On a couple of occasions, the waiting time for an upgrade has been pretty substantial."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"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."
"Pure Storage support could be a little better."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"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 33 reviews while VAST Data is ranked 30th 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 NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS), Dell EMC PowerStore, Dell EMC Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage and Nutanix Acropolis AOS, whereas VAST Data is most compared with NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS), Pure Storage FlashBlade, DDN Storage Fusion Architecture NVMe, Dell EMC PowerStore and HPE Nimble Storage.
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