Flash presents a storage platform that provides a quantum improvement on the value storage has on an organization’s agility. Originally limited to accelerating HDD enterprise arrays, improvements in its cost and performance have transformed the storage industry and led to the development of economically viable all-flash arrays (AFA). This paper will investigate five critical considerations in choosing an AFA and how VM-aware flash from Tintri changes the game in one big use case: optimizing your virtualization platform.