Tintri VMstore T7000 Reviews

There are several features we find valuable, but the most important to us are its low latency, the high performance, and the per-VM QoS.

With VMstore, we're able to perform better and have better insight into our data storage infrastructure.

It lacks deduplication, and dedupe on all data is something that would be a big improvement that we need.

We've used it for one year.

We didn't encounter any issues with deployment.

It's been very stable for us.

We've been able to scale without any problems.

10/10

10/10

We switched to VMstore get better performance, VM-aware storage, and improved QoS.

The initial setup was straightforward.

We implemented it with our in-house team.

We anticipate that our ROI will be around three years.

Before choosing Tintri, we evaluated solutions from Nimble Storage and Equalogic.

I think this is a perfect product if you need a VM-aware storage solution. As a service provider we love the possibility to look at the virtual environment from the storage perspective, to see which VMs are using IOPS/capacity and to analyze where the latency is produced (host/network/storage). With the new QOS features we can guarantee to meet customer demands and we don’t have to use different storage platforms for different performance alternatives. For example; if the customer wants spinning-SATA-RAID5 performance we can set a limit on the IOPS and if the customer wants Hybrid-SSD-spinning we can guarantee 5000 IOPS.

The most valuable features to me are the VM-specific QoS feature, the enhanced visibility, and “noisy neighbor” prevention.

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.

I would love an Active/Active set-up, if possible.

I've used it for two years.

We encountered no issues with deployment.

We had a couple of issues when updating firmware on the T540, but Tintri support was very fast to respond.

We've had no issues with scalability.

9/10. As mentioned previously, technical support was very quick to respond.

We still use EMC VNX appliances. The switch was due to performance limitations introduced by VDI and VM cloning.

The initial setup was very straightforward, especially compared with iSCSI solutions from other vendors.

We used an in-house team as the implementation was very straightforward.

It's hard to pinpoint the ROI, but the devices have been worth every penny spent.

Tintri pricing is very competitive, but there is a definite gap in the “entry level” market (sub-$30k).

We evaluated solutions from Nimble Storage and EMC.

Understand it is NFS-only and while other products may be cheaper, it is very granular.

For my role, I've found that the most valuable features are its ease and simplicity, especially with configuration. Tintri's support is also great.

Even though we brought it in less than a year ago, we've already found that it's improved the way we function by simply being easier to manage than the other products we've used as well as those we looked at.

Right now, we see that the configuration access isn't as good as it should be. An improvement in this area would be a huge help for us.

We implemented it recently, less than a year ago.

We've had no issues with deployment whatsoever.

We have yet to uncover any instability issues.

We haven't had to scale it that much yet, but we haven't had any issues.

The technical support at Tintri has been great so far.

We did not want to be locked down by a specific vendor or product, so we switched to Tintri.

The initial set up is very straightforward, almost plug-n-play.

We used a vendor team for the implementation.

As it's been under a year since we initially implemented, it's too soon to determine our ROI. But it looks good so far going forward.

Buy what you need and not what you want.

We evaluated solutions from NetApp and EMC.

There are several valuable features for us, among them are speed, savings of storage space, and the ease of setup and management.

Using VMstore, we no longer need a dedicated storage engineer, saving us costs from a human resources perspective. There's also very little setup required for new Tintri units. And once set up, management can be done by anyone.

It would be very helpful if it had scheduled time-to-full trend reporting because management always wants to know how much time is left on storage.

I've been using it for 11 months.

We've had no deployment issues at all. It's the simplest storage installation we've ever seen.

We encountered no issues with stability.

It's scalability is great. Because it’s node-based, if you need more space, you just add a node.

Customer support is excellent. They're very responsive.

Technical support is top-notch. We dealt with Steve Phillips, and he's been great.

Tintri replaced an EMC VNX 5700. Cost, performance, and ease of management were the primary reasons for the replacement.

The initial setup was very straightforward. We gave VMstore the addresses, told it where the vSphere vCenter was, and it literally did the rest. It took us about 30 minutes, including racking the unit.

Steve Phillips from Tintri came in person to show us how to set up the unit. His expertise is complete.

Pricing is much less expensive than anything of similar size/performance that we looked at (Pure, Tegile, upgraded VNX). The licensing is quite simple, especially when we made the purchase. It was all-inclusive then, and now they have more products that can be licensed.

We looked at Pure Storage and Tegile, and considered upgrading the existing VNX 5700.

Install a POC unit and put test machines on it. That is the best way to see what it can do, and it is *very easy* to install/remove.

Fig 1: Typical Monday morning in the primary datacenter on Tintri T-850. The space savings (x1.9) means that we are getting nearly twice as much value out of the Tintri than standard storage.

Fig 2: IO changes between Sunday and Monday performance not changed by the increase in IOPS:

There's virtually no management required. There's also no disc latency with each VM having its own I/O lane.

It's reduced disc latencies in our ERP system from 300-400ms to nanoseconds. It's also freed up daily management requirements for old SAN management.

Replication between two VMs needs to be improved to real-time. The solution also needs to have a better licensing model.

We've used it for one year.

We've encountered no issues with deployment.

It's been stable for us.

We've been able to scale it without issue.

The customer service is good.

The level of technical support is excellent.

We previously used Dell Equilogic. It was a continuous management headache with very high latency. Tintri is much easier to manage -- there's virtually none -- and the latency is only in the nanoseconds.

The initial setup was easy. This tool took longer to mount in-rack than to have it ready to start moving VMs to it. It was a very easy configuration.

The implementation was done in-house.

Price is reasonable considering performance and time saved in managing.

• Nimble
• Pure Storage
• Storage Craft
• DataCore
• EMC
• SCALE

Get it. You won’t be disappointed.

Rack space, compression, ease of use, IOPS and latency performances, vSphere integration, centralized control

Much more time available for other project, new items to put into our catalogue to offer our customers

Integration with Commvault for native storage snapshots

1 month

Not at all, we had their technicians more than once at our sites, to explain and to install the boxes, at no extra cost.

Not yet, and I don't expect.

Well, this is one of the most important points: 1 rack for almost 1 PB!

Great. More than great. Reactive, no, proactive, via autosupport.

As explained above: wonderful.

Yes, we had NetApp FAS: switched because of performance but, worst at all, support cost after the first 3 years. Unsusteinable and with no justification

It's been smooth, asked for a couple of ports from our network guys, installed the needed SFP-- et voilà.

It was directly contacted Tintri Europe, and we were assisted by Zycko Italia. Nice support

Not my field

The cost could be the same as traditional vendors, but the product is totally superior.

Yes, all traditional ones from NetApp, to EMC, to HP and Huawei.

Speed - the hybrid flash has low latency even at high bandwidth.

Performance Metrics - the ability to see which VM is having issues in now only 3 clicks away.

Since our purchase Tintri has added QoS. While that works great the vmstores are so good at eliminating noisy neighbor issues we have not had to use it.

I would like to see better integration of the Tintri features directly into vSphere. Some of this is an extensibility issue in vSphere. They need to keep improving single pane of glass management across many Tintri units and not just monitoring of all units. They are making progress on both of these issues.

9 months

We do not get the expected data compression ratios. This has been true for all data-dupe/compression technologies.

No. I can perform OS upgrades during the day. The active-passive architecture switches so fast the upgrade causes no issues.

Scalability is just an add-more proposition. It is easy and the units come essentially in small, medium, and large.

They have been very responsive to all questions and tickets.

They have been responsive and helpful.

We were using NetApp FAS3240. They are older models and too slow. Their OnCommand Balance product never lived up to expected monitoring.

Setup is easy. The storage is only for virtualization so it is ready to go. Add some basic configuration information, add the datastore, move VMs. No knobs to turn to tune it in.

We implemented this in house. One shouldn't need a team to setup a Tintri.

How do you value a trouble free solution that works and provides metrics you cannot get anywhere else?

It is nice that we can add encryption later if we need it. It is so common to need encrypting disks with initial purchase to get this feature.

Get a POC. The time it takes to setup and test is so minimal.

Flash utilization - disk latencies are dropped from 15 - 400ms for our ERP software to 1ns!

Management interface - gives visualization into each VM, making it very easy to pinpoint a problem in the environment.

Automated support - we had a power supply fail and it automatically opened a support ticket, a new power supply arrived the next morning, and, upon replacing the power supply, the ticket automatically closed.

The end users have noticed a vast improvement in performance with our ERP solution. VDI performance is excellent too, helping us in getting the users to adopt VDI.

For IT - we no longer have to worry about carving LUNs and hunting down latencies. We don't have to worry about storage any more and have time to focus on other initiatives.

Reduce the weight of the box so it's not such a bear to install in the rack. (More of a joke because I can't think of any improvements that can be made for performance and to the management interface.)

8 months

It took us longer to mount the T620 in the rack than it did to setup and deploy.

None

None

Excellent

Excellent

Dell Equalogic, EMC

EMC was at end of life and support costs were going through the roof. Equalogic performance was failing to meet our needs.

Very easy. It took longer to mount it in the rack than it took to setup.

In-house

We looked at Nimble, Scale, EMC, Nutanix, Equalogic. Software solutions: Infinio, DataCore, Conducive

Tintri has been an excellent choice for us and the performance has gone way beyond our expectations. We are very pleased with Tintri and highly recommend it.

Excellent performance

Easy installation

Simple/almost no administration

Total Control over latency from hypervisor to storage

We´re saving a lot of time and Money due to the lack of complexity.

Instead of focusing on separate parts of the infrastructure like storage, we can focus on the VMs and the applications running in them.

3 months

Tintri has excellent and devoted support personnel. 10/10

Earlier we used NetApp, but spent a lot of time managing volumes and tuning the system. We also got complaints mainly from clients running SQL Server that response times were very slow. Those issues were really difficult to troubleshoot. Not anymore!

Really simple. Just rack the box and insert network cables, assign ip-adresses, mount the one single datastore on your vmware hosts and GO!

We compared the Tintri solution with a newer NetApp investment with flash pool.

We found that we could upgrade primary storage in both our datacenters to the price of one NetApp installation.

The performance is great and management really easy. Don´t stare blindly on dedup number. You get the largest dedup effect in test/dev or VDI Environments, in regular server environments that effect will be rather small, BUT you always get a great compression ratio.