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Pure FlashBlade//EXA
High-end · all-flash · scale-out - Disaggregated pNFS (and S3) storage for very large AI and HPC clusters, pairing a FlashBlade metadata tier with commodity data nodes.
| Platform | |
|---|---|
| OEM | Pure Storage |
| Family | FlashBlade |
| Class | High-end |
| Architecture | Scale-out cluster |
| Status | Current |
| Released | 2025 |
| Operating system | Purity//FB (metadata cluster), Purity//DN (data nodes) |
| Controllers | n/a |
| Nodes | n/a |
| Cache / memory | n/a |
| Availability | n/a |
| Capacity and media | |
| Media | All-flash |
| Drive types | NVMe SSD |
| Drive note | Metadata cluster on FlashBlade DirectFlash Modules; customer-supplied data nodes with NVMe (PCIe Gen4+) SSDs of 3.8–61TB |
| Flash drive sizes | n/a |
| HDD sizes | n/a |
| Maximum drives | n/a |
| Controller enclosure | height n/a |
| Expansion | FlashBlade-based metadata cluster (one or more chassis, dual XFMs) plus customer-supplied commodity data nodes |
| Raw capacity | n/a |
| Cluster maximum | n/a |
| Effective maximum | n/a |
| Data reduction | n/a |
| Protection | n/a |
| Protection note | Data-node SSDs user-configurable for mirroring or capacity; metadata on FlashBlade. |
| Performance and connectivity | |
| Maximum IOPS | n/a |
| Maximum throughput | 10,000 GB/s |
| Latency | n/a |
| Conditions | 10+TB/s per the FlashBlade lineup on Pure's product page (footnoted). Technical brief: each data node upwards of 85GB/s read; 60 data nodes tested at over 5TB/s read, scaling linearly. Capacity depends on customer data nodes (launch blog cites 'exabytes'), so no raw figure. Data-node requirement: x86 32+ cores, 192GB DRAM, 2x 400GbE. Released 2025 (GA summer 2025 per Pure's March 2025 launch blog); S3 object support per Pure's Nov 2025 blog. Pure Storage now trades as Everpure; purestorage.com URLs redirect to everpuredata.com. |
| Protocols | NFS, S3 object |
| Fibre Channel | - |
| Ethernet | n/a |
| Host ports | n/a |
| Limits | |
| Volumes / LUNs | n/a |
| File systems | n/a |
| Snapshots | n/a |
| Management and support | |
| Management | Purity//DN tooling; metadata cluster via Purity//FB |
| Power | n/a |
| Positioned for | AI / ML, HPC |
| Warranty | n/a |
| Design terms | FlashBlade namespace · LUN · Host group · File system / object replication |
| Data services | |
? Deduplication
? Compression
? Thin provisioning
? Snapshots
? Clones
? Asynchronous replication
? Synchronous replication
? Active-active / metro
? Encryption at rest
? Immutable snapshots
? Ransomware detection
? Quality of service
? Automated tiering
? Cloud tiering
? VMware vVols
? Kubernetes CSI
✓ Native file services
✓ Native object (S3)
? Non-disruptive upgrades
✓ Scale-out
✓ stated by the OEM · ✕ not offered · ? not stated | |
| Source | |
| Product page | https://www.purestorage.com/products/unstructured-data-storage.html |
| Datasheet | https://www.purestorage.com/content/dam/pdf/en/technical-briefs/tb-flashblade-exa.pdf |