We performed a comparison between Pure Storage FlashBlade and VIOLIN QV2020 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."Access speed and power consumption are most valuable."
"Has also helped simplify storage for us. The other person we put in there, took about a week to implement. And we had both arrays set up within around four hours with a thirty minute drive time between the two locations."
"The support team is available all the time and they seem to know what they are doing."
"The scalability is good."
"The tool has reduced our power consumption."
"The performance is very good."
"I never have to worry about its performance or if it is the root cause of an issue."
"I like FlashArray's ActiveCluster as well as its snapshot and cloning capabilities."
"What I like best about Pure Storage FlashBlade is its object storage functionality, plus it has fast underlying hardware. Pure Storage FlashBlade is also very stable. I find its stability one of its valuable features."
"Speed and ease of use are the two most valuable features."
"The solution is able to handle workloads and is easy to use. It allows us to actually manage the boxes in less time."
"We can capacity plan at a greater level than we used to."
"The ease of deployment and management has helped us simplify our storage. We also do not have to worry about capacity management as much. A lot of these things are native to Pure Storage."
"The most valuable features include the ease of implementation, ease of use and the speed that you can do backup and recovery on."
"Using this solution has made our backups more reliable."
"It performs well and it is also very fast."
"It’s simple to use hardware to fix performance issues. Our issue is poor coding/queries. This greatly speeded things up. It’s too costly to track down poor programming in applications. The price of a developer’s time to scan through all the coding is high compared to buying Violin."
"VIOLIN QV2020 is the latest in terms of performance. It has high-speed data access and processing capabilities, distinguishing it as a leader in its storage solutions category."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"Beyond a certain amount of petabytes, you have to have a separate system. Basically, it's not infinitely scalable."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"Automation could be simplified."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"The feature that we're waiting on is better integration with the cell services."
"I have not seen ROI."
"Pure Storage FlashBlade should improve on more cloud integration."
"There is some room for new features related to authentication and integration with Kubernetes, and other solution using S3 Bucket."
"I would like to see better integration."
"The speed could be improved."
"I would like to see more monitoring capability included in the next release of this solution."
"I would like to see more deduplication."
"I set up Wi-Fi for storage, and since then, we haven't experienced any interruptions in service."
"VIMM replacement is poorly designed. You have to slide out an entire drawer, remove the cover and then pop out the failed VIMM. I would like to see a front replacement just like with hard disks. This leaves room for error; for example, when you slide it out from the rack, you are moving cables along the cable management arm. This leaves the possibility of accidentally unplugging a cable from the array if it is not seated properly. Also, you might pinch the cables when sliding it back into the server rack."
Pure Storage FlashBlade is ranked 16th in All-Flash Storage with 30 reviews while VIOLIN QV2020 is ranked 27th in All-Flash Storage with 2 reviews. Pure Storage FlashBlade is rated 8.8, while VIOLIN QV2020 is rated 8.0. 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 QV2020 writes "Has high-speed data access and processing capabilities, distinguishing it as a leader in its storage solutions category". Pure Storage FlashBlade is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), VAST Data, MinIO, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell ECS, whereas VIOLIN QV2020 is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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