Pure Storage FlashBlade Initial Setup
The initial deployment was straightforward.
View full review »The initial setup is a little bit complicated. Once it is done, it is easy to handle. I rate the ease of setup a seven out of ten. The deployment takes 45 minutes. The users might take three days to start using the solution.
View full review »The initial setup is very easy, and I would give it a rating of ten out of ten. The deployment can take two to three hours if the data center is ready and power is available.
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Pure Storage FlashBlade
March 2024
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Jason Devine
Cloud Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup is pretty straightforward. It's simple to configure and maintain. A company shouldn't have any issues with it in general.
We also have FlashArray and we have specialists that support each. The look and feel between the two platforms are similar. You can bounce between them fairly readily. I have the same administrator supporting the FlashBlades as I have to support the FlashArrays.
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Patrick Mcgrory
Chief Executive Officer / CTO at IT VIP, LLC
I wasn't involved in the initial setups, but I have been involved in some reviews of that. It is very straightforward and simple. I was a storage admin for years with EMC, Hitachi, HP, and Sun. Things have evolved so much that it's simple. It's really good.
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reviewer1430535
Architecte technique at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
I would describe the process as pretty straightforward. It's not too complex.
It only takes a day to set everything up and deploy it.
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LuisRibeiro
Fresh Operations Manager at Jerónimo Martins
The initial setup is straightforward.
It took approximately 20 minutes to deploy.
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MOHAMAD KAWTHARANY
Technical Operations Manager at Mideast Data Systems
The deployment of Pure Storage FlashBlade took less than one day.
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Rob Aerts
Program Manager at Máxima Medisch Centrum
The initial setup is very easy.
We require a team of two to maintain the solution.
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Solution3f8e
Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup is very straightforward. It's pretty simple.
There's a limited number of commands and ease of plugging it in. There's not a whole lot of configuration to set up inside of the solution. If you do want to set something like Active Cluster, it's a few clicks and some simple steps. It's not very complex at all.
For deployment, mainly, they'll come in initially as a test. Then it moves into production quickly. From there they'll start deploying it into HA. They'll have two separate items running an Active Cluster at this point. There's a lot of consolidation that goes onto it. They'll start pulling systems off of other things onto the solution.
The initial deployment takes a day or two tops depending on how much you're going to teach the customer.
View full review »I rate the tool's deployment an eight out of ten. It takes one hour to complete.
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reviewer1359597
Platform Technologies Lead Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have limited deployment of Flashblade.
I was not present for the installation, but I believe that it is simple. I don't think that it is complex.
One person is needed to deploy and maintain this solution.
View full review »The initial setup is straightforward. It is very easy to set up.
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reviewer1360377
Business Development Manager of Storage Systems at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The installation process is very simple and straightforward. It's not difficult or complex.
The implementation itself only took one to two days or so.
The maintenance process isn't hard at all. It's very easy.
You only need one engineer to handle deployment and maintenance.
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Principa7fd7
Principal System Analyst at a university with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup of this solution was straightforward. We didn't run into any major issues.
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Mudasser Zaheer
Senior Global Manager at DXC Technology
The initial setup is straightforward. Implementing Pure Storage end-to-end from procurement all the way through deployment, we have no issues.
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Gustavo Lima
COO at Santa Lucia
The initial setup was straightforward.
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Otto Warlich
Technical Consultant Storage at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
For me, the initial setup is very straightforward. If there is something you have to change in the beginning, then you can just directly call support; however, as a partner, it's sometimes a little difficult to do. If we're doing some active cluster setups, then we always have to call support to integrate the active cluster — to enable the active cluster. That's something I think we could do by ourselves — that's something that could be changed.
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VpOfEngic9de
VP of Engineering at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees
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.
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SeniorTe500e
Senior technical architect at a marketing services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
The initial setup was easy. It was done in ten minutes.
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Practiced5ea
Practice Manager for Infrastructure at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The initial setup was straightforward. It was very easy to set the IP addresses up and the rest of the initial parameters up, then go.
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National4173
National Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
The initial setup was as easy as it can get.
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ITNetwor7697
IT Network Specialist at a university with 501-1,000 employees
The initial setup was straightforward.
We will be upgrading our controllers soon.
View full review »The installation was extremely easy.
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Miroslav Ivanov
IT Business Consultant, Presales Specialist and Solution Designer at Veracomp EOOD
The initial setup is quite straightforward. It's takes about half an hour to deploy. Everything is usually web based and very thoroughly described. The company I currently work for is a reseller and system integrator so we usually do the integration. If the customer would like to do it, they can do it themselves. They're usually quite surprised at how easy it is to deploy.
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Manager340157
Infrastructure Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup was straightforward because Pure Storage set it up for us.
We have undergone an upgrade of our controllers, and the process was okay.
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StaffSys92a1
Staff System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup was straightforward.
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Mo Seay
IT Systems Admin at Greer CPW
The initial setup is pretty easy and simple.
We have done upgrades of our physical controllers.
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Technicad7c9
Technical Director at Envestnet Yodlee
The initial setup was straightforward.
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Pure Storage FlashBlade
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Pure Storage FlashBlade. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.