Pure Storage Flashblade
Pure Storage Flashblade
Modern workloads, like deep learning and AI, are massively parallel – and designed to run on parallel computers with parallel storage for the highest performance. FlashBlade is architected from the ground-up for modern data analytics – delivering powerful cloud-era flash that’s fast, big, and simple.
The Elements of Flashblade
Blade
Modern workloads, like deep learning and AI, are massively parallel – and designed to run on parallel computers with parallel storage for the highest performance.
Purity
The heart of FlashBlade, implementing its scale-out storage capabilities, services and management.
Fabric
Includes a built in 40Gb Ethernet fabric providing a total network bandwidth of 320Gb/s for the chassis.
Unprecedented Storage
Elastic Scale-Out
Scale-out everything online and instantly by simply adding blades. Each blade adds capacity, performance, metadata scale, NV-RAM, and client connections.
Easy to Manage
FlashBlade includes a built-in GUI and CLI, as well as our Pure1 cloud-based management and support platform. A single administrator can manage a FlashBlade deployment of any size.
Consistent All-Flash Latency
DirectFlash ensures that no operation is ever waiting for access. FlashBlade accelerates large-block and small-block IO, and makes both user IO and metadata operations flash-fast.
Resiliency you can Trust
Blades are deployed in N+2 redundant fashion to protect against flash or full Blade loss. When Blades fail, the system automatically heals-around them, returning FlashBlade to full resiliency.
320Gb/s Ethernet Throughput
High performance fabric with object messaging and distributed transaction protocol to ensure fast and reliable communication between Purity instances running on each blade.
Metadata Performance
75% of NFS operations are metadata-only operations, like GetAttrs. FlashBlade implements a massively distributed metatdata database, used by all layers of the system, which is independently queryable for powerful analytics.
Specifications
| 8TB Blade | 17TB Blade | 52TB Blade | |
|---|---|---|---|
7 BLADES  |
98 TBs Usable | 190 TBs Usable | 591 TBs Usable |
15 BLADES  |
267 TBs Usable | 525 TBs Usable | 1607 TBs Usable |
Performance: 17 GB/s bandwidth with 15 Blades - Up to 1M IOPS | Performance: 8x 40Gb/s or 32x 10Gb/s Ethernet ports / chassis | Physical: 4U - 1,800 Watts (nominal at full configuration)