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Pure Storage introduces petabyte-scale flash storage for cloud IT

Pure Storage has recently introduced the availability of petabyte-scale storage for mission-critical cloud IT, anchored by the release of the next-generation of FlashArray//m the company’s flagship all-flash storage array.

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Matt Kixmoeller, Pure Storage

According to the company, the FlashArray//m now offers customers petabyte-scale capacity with a measured 99.9999 percent availability and always-on Quality of Service – virtually eliminating storage downtime and application performance risk.

With this release of the next-generation FlashArray//m, Pure Storage aims to equip customers with Smart Storage. “Storage underlies everything we do in today’s digital economy, an economy that is increasingly powered by cloud IT,” said Matt Kixmoeller, VP of Product, Pure Storage. “Pure Storage has built the smart storage platform to deliver cloud IT – whether it be public cloud, SaaS, private cloud, or a mix of all three.  Efficient all-flash storage, now at petabyte-scale, is the agile foundation of tomorrow’s clouds.”

The newly updated FlashArray//m, the fifth generation of Pure Storage’s flagship FlashArray product, now scales up to 512 terabytes of raw flash, which translates to approximately 1.5 petabytes of effective capacity – all in just 7U of rack space. This scale and density enables customers to consolidate racks of legacy disk storage down to 7U or less.

Leveraging Pure’s Evergreen architecture, the existing FlashArray customers of every generation can seamlessly upgrade to the new FlashArray//m, allowing customers to take advantage of rapid technology advances in both compute and flash. The new FlashArray//m offers four different controller options to meet a variety of performance and capacity needs:

  • //m10 (introduced earlier in 2016) – up to 25 TBs effective usable capacity (5 – 10 TBs raw storage) and up to 100,000 32K input/output operations per second (IOPS),
  • New //m20 – up to 250 TBs effective usable capacity (5 – 80 TBs raw storage) and up to 200,000 32K IOPS,
  • New //m50 – up to 500 TBs effective usable capacity (20 – 176 TBs raw storage) and up to 270,000 32K IOPS,
  • New //m70 – up to 1.5 Petabytes effective usable capacity (42 – 512 TBs raw storage) and up to 370,000 32K IOPS.

In its first year of shipment, the FlashArray//m has achieved 99.9999 percent availability across the installed base, which equates to only 31.5 seconds of downtime on average per year, demonstrating the FlashArray//m can deliver the level of resiliency needed for mission-critical enterprise applications and always-on clouds.

The FlashArray//m also has a new Always-On QoS feature requires zero configuration, so all customers can benefit without the complexity of legacy QoS implementations. Any application can burst up to the maximum utilisation of the FlashArray//m, as long as it is not impacting other applications.

Pure Storage highlighted that the Network Port ID Virtualisation (NPIV) support on the FlashArray//m makes the non-disruptive software upgrade experience even more robust and invisible to the host and server and virtualisation admin teams. With NPIV, IO intended for ports on a FlashArray//m controller that have been temporarily restarted during the software upgrade process is transparently directed to the other FlashArray//m controller, without any dependency on host multipathing software. NPIV removes the risk of downtime due to misconfigured host multipathing software – a common worry for large enterprise environments – and makes storage software upgrades transparent to server administrators by eliminating IO error alerts that would otherwise be generated at the application host layer.

 

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