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Hitachi Universal Storage VM [EOL] vs Tintri VMstore T7000 comparison

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Everpure FlashArray
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Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
232
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Hitachi Universal Storage V...
Average Rating
10.0
Number of Reviews
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Tintri VMstore T7000
Average Rating
9.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
67
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All-Flash Storage (8th)
 

Featured Reviews

Sowjanya MV - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at Wipro Limited
Has improved performance for mission-critical workloads and enabled seamless non-disruptive upgrades
The availability is 99.99%, which is the main factor any customer would need because their data should be available whenever they want to access it. This is one main critical thing. It is very easy to upgrade since Pure Storage FlashArray handles it well. Everything is non-disruptive now; previously, there were forklift shifts, but now that is not the case. Pure Storage FlashArray says no to forklift upgrades. Usually hardware requires downtime, but Pure Storage FlashArray has improved their footprint so that they are not asking for downtime; everything is just a non-disruptive activity, which is why customers are more inclined towards Pure Storage FlashArray. Customers want more of the models in their environment due to the performance they are giving, and everything is in one Pure1 Array console where we can view all the models on one page or just an orchestration tool. You don't miss anything; you have replication, notifications about replication, and details about which host groups replication is happening in and if that replication is successful or failed. On a daily basis, our purpose is to create volumes for infrastructure; our daily activities include creating volumes and mapping them to the host, doing any migrations from a VM, clearing the data stores, and carving the volumes to those VMs. One key factor is the data compression with a ratio of 5:1, focusing on space efficiency, inline deduplication, and the compression Pure Storage FlashArray works on; that is a major factor we can suggest to any customer. Analytical capabilities are crucial. Daily, we check the throughput and consumption, and Pure Storage FlashArray provides predictions for one year regarding usage. This prediction helps plan updates well ahead. For support, we just raise a case, and they follow up and get it done. There is also AI readiness, but with the model R2, we don't have much of that AI readiness. For others, we do have AI readiness that predicts capacity based on daily or monthly trends, enabling us to analyze how much space we need or if we need to expand the disk shelf. From an operational point of view, a good feature is that if you accidentally delete a volume, it will be retained in the destroyed state for the next twenty-four hours, which is not the same with any other vendor. I have worked in this storage domain for the past fifteen years, and this option is remarkable, benefiting any L1 or L2 engineer. Additionally, from a compliance perspective, Pure Storage FlashArray has REST APIs enabled. I have not explored automation much, but from a security standpoint, it is strong with encryption data. If you want to automate, you can easily integrate with all clouds and explore Pure Cloud for scheduling workloads, including volume creation. Customers find benefit in Pure Storage FlashArray's single management pane of glass due to the dual controller and active-active setup. If one of the controllers goes down, all workloads automatically shift to the other controller, ensuring their data is safe and accessible at all times. This is a highlighted feature that any customer desires because their data should always be accessible. For SAN workloads, we use Pure Storage FlashArray because for SAN FC fiber channel, we don't use it; we use NetApp for NAS activities. We have clearly split this, so SAN is for mission-critical applications, while network-attached storage handles file systems. This architecture helps us maximize the benefit from Pure Storage FlashArray due to the significant workloads from this giant retail client. From a footprint and energy consumption perspective, you can see energy consumption from the Pure1 storage portal on a daily basis, and it is very compact. The three models we use consume only three units, which is quite low. From a footprint and data center perspective, it doesn't occupy much space. As everything moves to cloud, there are requirements to avoid excess spending on data centers, and Pure Storage FlashArray is efficient in energy consumption and is environmentally friendly.
it_user1205586 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Solutions Architect at Science Applications International Corporation
Good price-performance ratio, provides simplified provisioning and management
We use this solution for provisioning and management The most valuable features are simplified provisioning and management, de-duplication, and built-in encryption. The exterior display needs to be improved. Sorry, I like the blue lights the competition has, but maybe we can see green led lights…
Tanesh Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at SiliconSt.
Vm-aware storage has simplified vmware management and delivers strong deduplication and savings
There are many good features for Tintri VMstore T7000, especially its nature of understanding VMware. It is VM-aware storage, which is a very good characteristic. When any VM is moved from one host to another host, there is no way to see where it is running. It is very smooth in action. Trintri VMstore T7000 is totally autonomous. We have integrated it with our virtualization environment, so all the VMs and machines running in our environment move between one Tintri VMstore T7000 and another without requiring any manual intervention. The system can schedule resources from its own capabilities. If one Tintri VMstore T7000 becomes full, the machine will be moved to another automatically. This autonomous system is very beneficial. Nowadays, all storage comes with NVMe flash and all storage is coming with flash storages as well. Tintri VMstore T7000 is much easier to handle. We just need to integrate the whole Tintri VMstore T7000 with vCenter and all the work will be done by vCenter. If we want to check what the deduplication will be, there is a really good feature of Tintri VMstore T7000 called TGC. We can integrate all Tintri VMstore T7000 systems from one end and manage all of them from a single endpoint. The major benefit of using Tintri VMstore T7000 is its deduplication and compression ratio, which is around 4x to 5x. No other storage is giving that much ratio. This is really good and much cost-saving for the company. Administrative cost is reduced because Tintri VMstore T7000 gives us a single point where we can manage it. This is both time-saving and cost-saving.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The back-end data reporting for Pure Storage is phenomenal. The data that you can see on the performance of your customers' array, so you can be proactive about upgrades or enhancements, and is a phenomenal tool to have access to as a partner. I haven't seen this type of stuff out of anything of the other storage systems."
"I am satisfied with this solution, and we plan to keep using this solution."
"It comes with a large number of features out-of-the-box, which makes it easy for us to see problems and manage capacity."
"Even if it costs a little bit more, you do get more for what you pay."
"We saw a vast improvement when we switched over to using the Pure Storage model over the XtremIO."
"It has simplified our storage."
"It is easy to deploy and it's all-flash, so it's very fast."
"The deduplication and compression meet all of our system requirements."
"The most valuable features are simplified provisioning and management, de-duplication, and built-in encryption."
"This solution had the best cost and it was easy to work with the Vendor."
"We have increased responsiveness because the smart caching in VMStore allows us to achieve flash like performance for the VDI environment because mostly the same data is accessed."
"The big benefit to the organization is that we no longer have to worry about a few rogue VMs taking up performance resources on the SANs, which impacts all of our clients."
"It is a set and forget environment with a very good tooling to view performance and delivers the IOPS we need for our VDI environment."
"The ability to snap machines into VMware quickly is valuable."
"The cloning is very fast... Another aspect I like is that it's very simple. It's an easy GUI to use."
"Customer Service: Great. More than great. Reactive, no, proactive, via autosupport."
"It’s very good at IOPS."
"It is great for finding problems where VMs are hogging all the performance."
 

Cons

"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve the recent file storage capabilities because it is lacking a lot of features."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"One improvement area is the eradication time delay."
"We would always like to see higher performance, and lower pricing is always better."
"CIFS and SMB Shares cannot be mounted directly."
"The initial setup of the product is complex."
"Price per terabyte is substantially higher than their competition. We would like to see it drop."
"It would be beneficial to have a health check command that can be run from the CLI to ensure that all hardware components are functioning properly rather than having to enable remote access and connect to support for a health check."
"The exterior display needs to be improved."
"The product could be improved by adding iSCSI support, as others have mentioned."
"It needs current RHEV-M support (v2.5) which is slated for 2016."
"The Tintri Analytics site is excellent for long-term trending, but more data would be great."
"Active/active cluster between two Tintris on Hyper-V cluster. Dedup should be better."
"I would love more insight into each virtual machine statistic."
"Tintri need to be able to innovate faster but maintain the quality of their features."
"We need more options to integrate with cloud storage options other than the current AWS and IBM that it currently supports."
"Not a fan of SyncVM being an addition license."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pure came in at a better price point than EMC and performed better than Compellent."
"The pricing is an issue. However, being all-flash, it will always be sort of expensive."
"Pure has been flexible with us on the pricing models."
"Our licensing is on a yearly basis. So, every year, we renew. We could do a three-year contract, but right now, we only do a one-year."
"We implemented Pure Storage FlashArray nine years ago when it was new to the market and obtained it at a preferential price."
"The price was more favorable than Dell EMC."
"I would rate it a seven out of ten for pricing. It could be improved."
"For pricing, you have to take into account their performance on deduplication and compression in a $/GB comparison."
"This solution has a good price-performance ratio."
"Prices are not cheap, but it runs."
"An "all-in-one" license model would be better at this price range."
"The area it needs to improve is the pricing. It could be better."
"The cost of all the SW is well spent because it makes you save on backup and DR."
"With any SAN purchase, the sizing procedure is the most important step."
"The price is the price and is reasonable for the class of storage."
"Tintri arrays are cheaper then other vendors while still providing an excellent level of performance."
"We haven't found Tintri's pricing to be a barrier to entry for any of our customers. Tintri works through a number of distributors and when we've had to purchase it for our customers we have found the pricing to be competitive."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Outsourcing Company
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Outsourcing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Small Business73
Midsize Enterprise38
Large Enterprise161
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Small Business23
Midsize Enterprise27
Large Enterprise24
 

Questions from the Community

Which should I choose: HPE 3PAR StoreServ or Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series?
Both are great platforms, but if you are considering all flash solutions, I would recommend you to consider Pure Stor...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pure Storage FlashArray?
When comparing cost, I find that the cost is either the same or slightly higher, but that is returned by the ease of ...
What needs improvement with Pure Storage FlashArray?
The only thing I think could be improved is price. The price is the main concern for our customers.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Tintri VMstore?
The pricing of Tintri VMstore T7000 is cost-efficient. It is pretty costly as all IT investments in infrastructure ar...
What needs improvement with Tintri VMstore?
One way Tintri VMstore T7000 can be improved is by showing past snapshots that were deleted, providing a history of s...
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Our main use case for Tintri VMstore T7000 is hosting a large number of virtual machines, with the capacity to store ...
 

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