We performed a comparison between Pure Storage FlashBlade and Violin System 7000 Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."It's extremely stable and has good performance."
"Performance is the most valuable feature."
"Most of the problems that we had in the past with the performance in IOPS have disappeared. It has been a great improvement for our customers' services."
"The GUI is very easy to use and intuitive."
"Cost, racial per terabyte, and speed is why we chose PureStorage. It was no brainer."
"It is easy to deploy and it's all-flash, so it's very fast."
"We like the speed. It's very low latency. In virtualization, you can mask lots of problems, and even in code you can mask lots of problems, with low latency. It's just pure speed and low latency."
"It's easy to use, and the maintenance upgrades to get free controllers work really well."
"The main feature I have found to be product replication."
"We have integrated it with VMware. The integration process is pretty good. Especially with VMware, it helps with the capacity of it."
"Speed and ease of use are the two most valuable features."
"It uses the same platform for connectivity so integration is seamless."
"The product is scalable and easy to expand."
"It helps simplify our storage, because the user interface is very simple and the installation is easy."
"Using this solution has made our backups more reliable."
"The initial setup is pretty quick."
"This is an all-flash storage array. It is the best solution for large batch processing. There are some customer databases that have tens of millions of records in one large database. That's where VIOLIN performs the best. VIOLIN stands out for million of IOPS with ultra-low latency. VIOLIN can provide about two million IOPS in a 3U unit. We have a latency of less than one millisecond."
"It is way in excess of what we need. If anything, we could see a bit more speed. I'm just comparing it with what some of my colleagues who are implementing their own systems do."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"The primary drawback is the cost, which can be prohibitive for small configurations."
"I would like to see a Nagios monitoring plugin which watches the health and performance of the system. The only one available just checks volume capacity."
"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 GUI could improve, it could be more intuitive. There is hidden functionality."
"I would like the ability to swap out the network adapters into it. So, without taking out the whole controller, I would like to be able to swap adapters. This would make things easier."
"I would like some form of QoS implemented. As a service provider, it would be beneficial to have it."
"It's on the expensive side, as expected for a niche product."
"The speed could be improved."
"We haven't been able to use much of the cloud area of Pure Storage. We have a storage server and it would be better if it could integrate with other cloud features of this solution."
"The features provided for SMB customers are limited."
"I would like to see the licensing fees improved as well as the price per terabytes."
"I would like to see more deduplication."
"In terms of scalability, it doesn't expand out quite as robustly as some of the others, but it covers 90% of the market in what it does."
"Pure Storage FlashBlade should improve on more cloud integration."
"Its overall usability can be improved. It takes some time to know small things here and there to make sure it is working properly."
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Pure Storage FlashBlade is ranked 16th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews while Violin System 7000 Series is ranked 38th in All-Flash Storage. Pure Storage FlashBlade is rated 8.8, while Violin System 7000 Series is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashBlade writes "A high-performing and scalable solution that improves data performance for S3 workloads". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Violin System 7000 Series writes "Best for large batch processing and stands out for million of IOPS and ultra-low latency". Pure Storage FlashBlade is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), VAST Data, MinIO, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell ECS, whereas Violin System 7000 Series is most compared with .
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