Enterprise All Flash Arrays

[mark19632]

Hi all,

I'm currently looking at getting an All Flash Array for a solution and I wondered if anyone has deployed one and if so A) which ones and B) how is it terms of performance and management.

It's a hard subject to find any one talking about from a non-vendor or reviewer point of view.

Thanks,

Mark

[Moby-Dick]

I've come across quite a few of them at customers. ( disclosure: I work for a vendor , but not a storage one ) The happiest guys seemed to be the ones running Pure. Other than having some very shiny kit, what are you looking to run on it ?

[mark19632]

It'll be for our Data Warehouse mainly, big DB lots of IO wait and reports taking along time to run.

I'm looking at IBM, Pure and Violin at the moment.

[abaxas]

It'll be for our Data Warehouse mainly, big DB lots of IO wait and reports taking along time to run.

I'm looking at IBM, Pure and Violin at the moment.

Have the DBAs got nothing to say on this? No point using polyfiller on the cracks when the problem is elsewhere.

[mark19632]

Yes, the DB's says it's the DW team who need to re-write the queries, but the DW team don't have time. Typical story of not enough resources to fix the issues the right way!

[abaxas]

Maybe you could price up the 'upgrade' to make sure management kick their arses?

[Moby-Dick]

for DW work , I dont know if Pure would be the ideal one - they lean quite heavily on dedupe. Violin does have some good raw performance - thankfully it no longer looks like it was built out of a maplin project box

[mark19632]

I've poked around the Violin, seems solid enough. Pure looks like SSD's in an array so not as high performance, but I'd expect a lower cost. I think in the end it'll come down to how much they cost.

Still, what ever we end up with it'll be faster than spinning disks!

[Moby-Dick]

it certainly will

[DanceswithUnix]

Have you asked the provider of your current storage if they can tune what you have?