Re: Pure Storage opinions

From: Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 02:11:41 -0400
Message-ID: <571B121D.5030408_at_gmail.com>

Well, this list has turned into a Sears, Roebuck & Delphix catalog. I wanted to add Commvault to the mix, for several reasons:

1. Commvault is an order of magnitude larger than Delphix, measuring both by revenue and the number of customers. We have many more customers and are much better known. Reading this list, one would be tempted to conclude exactly the opposite.
2. Commvault is an Oracle platinum partner. So is Delphix.
3. Commvault is much older company than Delphix, with the history reaching to the good, old Ma Bell and USL.
4. Delphix is not a full-fledged backup suite which you can use to archive your mailboxes in Exchange or Domino. Delphix is a database specialist. In addition to Delphix, a traditional backup suite is also needed.

So, by following this group, one could conclude that Delphix is the dominant juggernaut and Commvault a tiny upstart fighting for its place under the sun. That perception is very wrong and I did my best to rectify it. And yes, I am a Commvault employee. No big secrets there.

On 4/23/2016 12:29 AM, David Green wrote:
> I see what you did there. Tsk tak
>
> Thanks
> David
>
> On Apr 22, 2016, at 9:05 PM, Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com
> <mailto:gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> My understanding is that the original poster asked about the Pure
>> storage, not HDS, XtremIO,3Par or NetApp. Am I in the wrong mailing
>> list? This looks like the storage salespeople convention. Are there
>> any snacks and T-Shirts? Having said that, I have nothing against
>> Hitachi, Dell, HP or NetApp. As a consultant for a backup vendor, I
>> encountered all of them. While I was a DBA, I was annoying the heck
>> of storage sales people by requesting demos using the local
>> application mix and asking questions about IOPS. My guess is that
>> the original poster will have to do the same. Whatever he decides,
>> Commvault can back it up and can integrate with the storage snapshots.
>>
>>
>> On 04/21/2016 03:46 AM, Ls Cheng wrote:
>>> I have a customer who uses HDS VSP G1000, All-Flash and the latency
>>> is great, average 0.2ms for log parallel writes and 0.3ms for log
>>> file sync, 0.6ms for db sequential/scattered read. The databases is
>>> a 4 nodes RAC, 14000 IOPS where average 9000 is redo log writes.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 12:44 AM, Thump CC <thump_at_cosmiccooler.org
>>> <mailto:thump_at_cosmiccooler.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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:
>>> >
>>> > 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.
>>> >>
>>> >> Thanks,
>>> >> Jeff
>>> >
>>> > 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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