Re: Pure Storage opinions

From: Thump CC <thump_at_cosmiccooler.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 15:44:14 -0700
Message-Id: <94BB0CF0-4285-40FC-BC25-188E76480D18_at_cosmiccooler.org>

Along with the new kid on the block(D5) it’s also worth looking at ExtremIO and 3PAR

> On Apr 20, 2016, at 3:30 PM, Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 04/20/2016 03:27 PM, Jeff Chirco wrote:

>> Anyone use or used Pure Storage for your database storage?  We currently have NetApp and it is coming on a hardware refresh so we are looking around. We've looked at the ZFS which seems really nice, a little more expensive than we though but great for Oracle database.  Now my system admins are looking at Pure Storage as a possibility as well. From what I read it seems like a all flash system and apparently hardware freshes are built into the support contract.  Let me know if you have any onions.
>> Currently we are running Oracle on Windows Server 2008r2 with 11.2.0.4 but moving all over to Oracle Linux and eventually 12c.
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>> Thanks,
>> Jeff

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> Hi Jeff!
> I don't have any onions, but I can offer some scallions. As a consultant working for a backup vendor, I have encountered Pure several times and all the customers that I know of are very happy. Pure is very fast and very reliable. Administration interface is fairly intuitive and it supports everything that other storage support.
> Regards
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