1. No More Data Migrations, No Planned Downtime
Pure Storage engineered FlashArray to be Evergreen™, which means that your migration to Pure will be the last one you’ll need to do. The FlashArray//X supports non-disruptive upgrades of any part of the array with no downtime or performance impact, no re-buy of capacity, and no data migrations (i.e., upgrade with data in place). Pure product upgrades do NOT require planned downtime. As a result, an increasing number of Pure customers perform regular maintenance and upgrades during production hours with confidence that there will be no negative performance impacts or risk to data availability. We all know that legacy data migrations are risky, costly and inconvenient when performed outside business hours or on weekends.
Dell EMC’s Future-Proof Loyalty program offers Never Worry Migrations for PowerMax based on SRDF/Metro.1 This adds substantial complexity to the data-migration process, and doesn’t meet Pure’s definition of “nondisruptive.” With the launch of Dell EMC PowerStore, Dell EMC is claiming2 no forklift upgrades, yet time will tell if migrating to their next generation will in fact be nondisruptive with no data migration. In contrast, you can upgrade FlashArray//X across generations with data in place at full performance. This eliminates forklift migrations, which in turn eliminates risk, cost, and complexity associated with legacy migrations. Now you can get your nights and weekends back!