We performed a comparison between Pure Storage FlashBlade and VAST Data 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."Redundancy and the fault tolerance of the platform are the most impressive."
"It's very fast and very easy to use. It performs well and is both flexible and compatible. We like it because it's easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"It is fast and reliable. It works."
"Access speed and power consumption are most valuable."
"It is easy to deploy and it's all-flash, so it's very fast."
"The availability and ease of use are the big features."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support."
"It has also helped to simplify storage for us in the way that it's easy to manage. Their automatic monitoring really helps when things break or are about to break. They see a problem coming and alert us even before our own system does."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its fast performance, especially in handling snapshots. It helps during power outages when we need to quickly move data between different data centers. It ensures efficient replication and helps maintain our data centers' uptime."
"The initial setup was straightforward. If you know how to plug in power and network you're pretty much qualified. They were on site to configure the network, the box to fit into our network architecture. Other than that, we self-managed from there."
"It performs well and it is also very fast."
"The snapshots, replication, and the ability to have immutable blades are the most valuable features. You're putting data snapshots out in those blades, and they cannot be touched. Its performance is great."
"We can capacity plan at a greater level than we used to."
"The onboarding and integrated monitoring tools are pretty good."
"The initial setup is pretty quick."
"The solution is useful for machine learning and scientific applications, including computer simulations."
"This has been one of the most reliable storage systems that I have ever used."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"The initial setup of the product is complex."
"I would like to see the NAS add-on component become more fault-tolerant than just a single virtual machine running inside the array. I'm unwilling to use it for that reason."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"The GUI could improve, it could be more intuitive. There is hidden functionality."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve in the area of cryptographic information in the consoles. The user-friendliness could improve. The Pure Storage FlashArray team should come and log into the system with their maintenance credentials and then pull out the information as evidence of cryptography."
"There are scenarios with very specific functionality around VMware integration particularly to do with the way we'd like to manage LUNs in VMware. The tools are pretty good but there's room for improvement there."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"On our dedupe during our initial buy, we were expecting a number a little higher like 4x. However, we are getting about 3.6. While it is close enough, it doesn't quite hit the numbers. So, this has been a challenge."
"File storage needs a lot of improvement. Mainframe connectivity also needs improvement because it requires additional components to be integrated with Pure Storage FlashBlade. If you want to keep your backup data, then this becomes an even more expensive solution because Pure Storage FlashBlade will not be able to meet your backup needs."
"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 feature that we're waiting on is better integration with the cell services."
"I would like to have Snapshots and Snapmail in the next release. People who came from a NetApp background, especially expect these features."
"I would like to see the licensing fees improved as well as the price per terabytes."
"I would also like to see better support for CIFS workloads."
"I would like to see more monitoring capability included in the next release of this solution."
"The write performance could be improved because it is less than half of the read performance."
"The read/write ratio is an area in the solution with some flaws and needs improvement."
Pure Storage FlashBlade is ranked 16th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews while VAST Data is ranked 18th in All-Flash Storage with 2 reviews. Pure Storage FlashBlade is rated 8.8, while VAST Data is rated 10.0. 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 VAST Data writes "Stability-wise, a device that has been up and running for years". Pure Storage FlashBlade is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), MinIO, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Dell ECS and NetApp AFF, whereas VAST Data is most compared with NetApp AFF, Qumulo, Dell PowerScale (Isilon), DDN SFA7990X and DDN Storage Fusion Architecture NVMe.
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