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Pure Storage
FlashArray//X
Accelerate mission-critical applications with powerand efficiency.
Performance• Powered for performance tierswith Pure Fusion• 250μs to 1ms latency• NVMe and NVMe-oF

Designed to be as easy to use as it is powerful, Pure Storage®
FlashArray™ provides unified block and file storage withenterprise performance, reliability, and availability to power yourcritical business services. FlashArray//X™ arrays runs everything(Fibre Channel, RoCE, TCP)

from massive databases to modern cloud-native apps, with• SMB and NFS protocol supportpurpose-built solutions that scale from large-scale enterprise

Efficientdeployments to satellite offices.

• Industry-leading 5:1 data
reduction average, 10:1 totalefficiency• Up to 3.3PB effective capacity

Highly Available• Proven 99.9999% availability• Always-on, always maintains
IOPs and bandwidth tomeet SLAs• Built-in business continuity anddisaster recovery

Simplicity• AI-driven management withPure1® and predictive support

Consolidate More Workloads on Fewer Arrays
The all-NVMe architecture used in FlashArray storage provides theperformance density that allows you to consolidate more business services—bigger databases, more applications, more users—on fewer arrays. The alwayson quality of service (QoS) in Purity prevents workloads from hogging resources
without setting artificial limits, so you’re assured full performance of all yourworkloads. Consolidating workloads not only simplifies operations anddecreases rack space requirements, but it also reduces power consumption
and cooling costs to help you meet corporate green data center standards.

Next-generation Performance at Cloud-scaleWith Pure Fusion™ and FlashArray, Pure Storage delivers a new infinite scale-• REST API for orchestrationout storage model that unifies arrays and optimizes storage pools on the fly,

• Non-disruptive upgrades andbringing the simplicity of the cloud operating model anywhere, with on-demand

capacity expansions

consumption and back-end provisioning. End users can rapidly consume

Industry Recognition

volumes, file systems, and advanced data services like replication without• A Gartner® Magic Quadrant™

waiting for back-end manual work, making hardware truly invisible.

Leader for storage ten times ina row.1• Certified Net Promoter Score in

Innovation without Delaythe top 1% of B2B companies

The pace of innovation is faster than ever, measured in weeks instead of years.

by Medallia

The unique Evergreen® storage plans from Pure Storage can keep thedecisions you make today from boxing you in as your data grows, as you roll

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out new services, and as you support more users. With Evergreen, you get immediate access to ever-improving capabilities
with a right-size guarantee when you purchase, and you can look forward to non-disruptive upgrades and capacity expansionsas your storage needs evolve.

DirectFlash: Move Beyond SSD
FlashArray//X moves beyond legacy SSD architectures that are architected to make flash pretend to be a hard disk.
DirectFlash® within Purity speaks directly to raw NAND with a super-efficient NVMe protocol and leverages NVMe-oF overFibre Channel or Ethernet for even faster network speeds between the array and application servers.
DirectFlash Module: A Pure-designed flash module that connects raw flash directly to the FlashArray storage via NVMe. Unlike
traditional SSDs that use a flash controller or flash translation layer, DirectFlash Module is primarily raw flash. This design
removes the performance roadblocks of SSDs used by many legacy storage architectures.
DirectFlash software: Manages array I/O globally for a faster, more efficient architecture. DirectFlash software provides
detailed I/O scheduling and performance management, making I/O performance deterministic and reducing average latency bydecreasing the number of slow I/O operations that often occur in SSD architectures.
DirectFlash Shelf: Lets you add additional NVMe capacity beyond the FlashArray chassis. DirectFlash Shelf connects to theFlashArray storage via NVMe-oF protocol with RDMA over converged (RoCE), leveraging 100Gb/sec Ethernet. The shelfmaintains the ability to support different sizes of DirectFlash Modules as flash density improves.
DirectFlash Fabric: DirectFlash Fabric lowers network latency dramatically and enables enterprise-class reliability and dataservices via shared storage versus DAS. NVMe-oF enables massive optimization between the storage controllers and hostover fast networking: Fibre Channel, RoCE, and TCP. DirectFlash Fabric delivers greater performance and efficiency gains,including offloading the host CPU.

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Purity: The Software-defined Heart of FlashArray
Purity for FlashArray delivers rich, enterprise-level data services; DirectFlash global flash management; and Evergreen
improvements with every release. Features such as ActiveCluster™ for business continuity, ActiveDR™ for disaster recovery,
ActiveWorkload for workload migration, VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols), NVMe-oF, Snap to NFS, Purity CloudSnap™, andSafeMode™ are all examples of new features provided over time with non-disruptive, no-additional-cost Purity upgrades. AllPurity storage services, APIs, and advanced data services are built-in and included with every array.
• Data reduction: Purity averages an industry-leading 5:1 data reduction with a total efficiency of 10:1 (including thinprovisioning).
• Always-on encryption: Purity’s “encrypt everything” approach provides built-in enterprise-grade data security without userintervention or key management.
• High availability: Purity protects against concurrent dual-drive failures and initiates re-builds automatically within minutes.
Purity also treats performance variability as a failure and uses parity to work around bottlenecks to deliver consistentlatency.
• Always-on ransomware remediation: Cost-efficient, portable, SafeMode snapshots prevent cyber attackers fromtampering with or maliciously destroying critical recovery data.
• Intelligent quality of service (QoS): Purity continuously tunes infrastructure using always-on QoS to prevent workloads
from hogging resources and to ensure maximum utilization of the array.
• Faster, more consistent performance: DirectFlash Fabric with support for FibreChannel, RoCE, and TCP gives you
maximum throughput with microsecond latency that’s far more predictable than with conventional SSDs.
• Unified storage with file services: If you run NAS-based apps in addition to SAN-based enterprise databases, Purity’s
consolidated SAN and NAS capabilities let you avoid the trouble and expense of running two incompatible environments.
• On-demand data portability: Quickly and easily move data where they most cost-effectively meet service levelagreements to satisfy your customers: between both physical and virtual machines, between on-premises and the cloud.

Speed Recovery Effortlessly with ActiveCluster and ActiveDR
Make slow recovery a thing of the past with Purity, ActiveCluster, and ActiveDR. ActiveCluster uses synchronous replication
and a symmetric active-active design to deliver zero RPO and zero RTO automatic failovers without user intervention. Unlike
active-passive implementations, Purity ActiveCluster simultaneously serves I/O on the same volume from both sites.
ActiveDR offers continuous data protection that seamlessly replicates application data across almost any distance, with thelowest possible RPO. ActiveDR radically simplifies remote site recovery with a single failover command, straightforward
failback (re-protect), and non-disruptive disaster recovery testing. With ActiveDR, you can respond quickly to real-world
outages and compliance testing requests with a single click or with a single API/CLI command.

Secure Data Protection with SafeMode Snapshots
Get flexible backup and recovery built for today’s ever-increasing ransomware threats. Immutable snapshots fromPure Storage provide simple, built-in, local, and cloud-native protection for FlashArray. FlashArray SafeMode ensures yoursnapshots will be available to help you recover from a cyberattack. With SafeMode enabled, your snapshots cannot beeradicated for a fixed, configurable period, even by someone with admin privileges. Together, Purity Snapshots, Snap-to-Uncomplicate Data Storage, Forever

3DATA SHEETFlashBlade, Snap-to-NFS, and CloudSnap enable free movement of space-efficient copies between FlashArray andFlashBlade® systems, to third-party NFS storage, or to the cloud, respectively.

Simplicity By Design, from Day One
FlashArray has the power to simplify everything in your storage environment. The hardware, software, and cloud management
experience are co-designed to make everything just work. Get started quickly with everything you need in one box; no manualis required for a typical 30-minute installation (professional installation is also available). All array software is included, with no
performance tuning required.
Cloud-based management with Pure1®: The Pure1 data management platform provides a single view to monitor, analyze, andoptimize your storage from anywhere in the world, and it delivers alerts directly to your phone. The Pure1 platform's artificial
intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) and full-stack monitoring help prevent, identify, and resolve high-severity outages andother critical issues. Its Workload Planner can predict array capacity and performance as well as model existing and newworkloads, while Pure1 makes it simple to purchase new or additional services directly from its user interface.
Pure Cloud Block Store™: Deliver consistent data services, resiliency, and APIs with Pure Cloud Block Store for AWS and Azure,with FlashArray, so you can run applications, enable disaster recovery, or perform test and development seamlessly acrossyour on-premises and cloud environments. Make cloud storage better by leveraging Pure’s leading data efficient, instantspace-saving snapshots, and always-on encryption, in the cloud. Pure Cloud Block Store provides greater agility, TCO, andenterprise reliability with its dual-controller architecture and high availability across availability zones and public clouds formission-critical applications running in the cloud.
Evergreen Storage: With Evergreen Storage, your FlashArray operates like SaaS and the cloud. Deploy it once, and then enjoy
a subscription to continuous innovation as you expand and improve performance, capacity, density, and/or features for 10years or more—all without downtime, performance impact, or data migrations. Pure Storage has engineered compatibility for
future technologies directly into the product via the modular, stateless architecture of FlashArray. The Pure Storage Right Size
Guarantee™ ensures that you start off knowing that you’ll have the effective capacity you need. With the Capacity
Consolidation program, your storage stays modern and dense as you expand, without having to re-buy terabytes you alreadyown. Pure uniquely offers all our core solutions either as products (CAPEX) or as services (OPEX2) via the Evergreen portfolio.

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DATA SHEETTechnical Specifications
Capacity//X90

PhysicalUp to 3.3PB / 2.9PiB effective capacity

3-6U; 1191–1530 watts (nominal–peak)

Up to 915TB / 832.1TiB raw capacity200-240 volts (input voltage range)
97lbs. (44kg) fully loaded; 5.12” x 18.94” x 29.72”//X70

Up to 2.4PB / 2.2PiB effective capacity

3U; 1068–1424 watts (nominal–peak)

Up to 658TB / 599.2TiB raw capacity200-240 volts (input voltage range)
97lbs. (44.0kg) fully loaded; 5.12” x 18.94” x 29.72”//X50

Up to 663TB / 602.9TiB effective
capacity
Up to 185TB / 171TiB raw capacity//X20

Up to 314TB / 285.4TiB effective
capacity
Up to 94TB / 88TiB raw capacity

Direct Flash Shelf

3U; 1016–1276 watts (nominal–peak)
200-240 volts (input voltage range)
95lbs. (43.1kg) fully loaded; 5.12” x 18.94” x 29.72”
3U; 945–1196 watts (nominal–peak)
200-240 volts (input voltage range)
95lbs. (43.1kg) fully loaded; 5.12” x 18.94” x 29.72”

Up to 1.9PB effective capacity

3U; 460–500 watts (nominal–peak)

Up to 512TB / 448.2TiB raw capacity200-240 volts (input voltage range)
87.7lbs (39.8kg) fully loaded; 5.12” x 18.94” x 29.72”//X Connectivity
Onboard Ports (per controller)•

Host I/O Cards (3 slots/controller)

2 x 1/10/25Gb
Ethernet/Replication•

2 x 1Gb Management Ports•

2 x 100GbE Direct Flash Shelf•

2-port 10GBase-T Ethernet•

2-port 10/25Gb Ethernet,
NVMe/Roce, NVMe/TCP•

2-port 100Gb Ethernet,
NVMe/Roce, NVMe/TCP•

4-Port 10/25G Ethernet,NVMe/TCP, NVMe/RoCE•

2-port 40/100Gb NVMe/RoCE, NVMe/TCP•

2-port 32Gb FCP, 64G capable, NVMe/FC(X20, X70, and X90 Models)•

4-port 32Gb FCP,64G capable, NVMe/FC(X50, X70, and X90 Models)* Effective capacity assumes HA, RAID, and metadata overhead, GB-to-GiB conversion, and includes the benefit of data reduction with always-on inline deduplication, compression, and pattern removal. Average datareduction is calculated at 5-to-1 and does not include thin provisioning.
** Calculated using raw label capacity.
*** Some maximum capacity configurations may use Pure Storage DirectFlash Shelf or Pure Expansion Shelf.

Additional Resources• Read more about Pure Fusion.
• Learn more about Purity.
• Explore how your organization can benefit from Pure1.

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Pure Storage has been named A Leader again in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Primary Storage. This marks the fourth consecutive year being positioned highest for Ability to Executeand furthest for Completeness of Vision in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ and the 10th year in a row as A Leader. Pure Storage was a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays for theprevious five years. Gartner has retired this latter report and is provided here for historical purposes only.
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