Tintri VMstore T7000 Reviews

Some of the most valuable features we've found are the thin provisioning, deduplication, and VMware View/VDI support.

We purchased the T540 for our VMware View/VDI deployment. When we chose Tintri, it was the only product to offload the VDI cloning to the array. This reduced the provision by 8-15 minutes depending on which system we were on. Other systems now have this same feature, but the Tintri is rock solid.

We have tested the replication piece – it actually works well, but is expensive based on our limited needs – if we were utilizing the Tintri for more of our VM workload it may be more cost effective.

I've used it for two years.

Installation was maybe an hour including racking the equipment and setup. It's one of the simplest SANs I have touched. We have been eliminating new arrays all of 2015 and still, Tintri is the easiest to configure.

We encountered no issues with stability.

We currently have about 240TB of data and add about 60TB a year. Ideally, we prefer to have a single array to manage for our primary workload. Our VDI environment is stored separately and Tintri more than fits the need of this environment.

Customer service is great to work with.

Technical support has been excellent. We did a beta test of the T850. This involved us in weekly conference calls with their engineering dept. They are extremely knowledgeable and great to work with.

We were utilizing an EMC VNX which worked well for our day to day workloads, but was not optimized for VDI. That was what lead us to the Tintri solution in 2013.

It had the simplest setup of any SAN I've worked with.

For the first T540, the Tintri engineer came up and walked us through the setup. I think this was mostly a good will gesture and to meet us in person. The second one my team did themselves. We had both communicating with the VMware environment in less than an hour.

I think for the money, Tintri is a great solution.

We looked at other solutions. When we purchased this, it was the only solution offering the features we needed.

Buy it.

We've found that its VM-related features are very valuable: integration with hypervisor managers (VMware and RHEV-M), "VM awareness" within the storage, and visibility into the behaviors of each VM container and virtual disc. It has very hands-off, detailed visibility and control mechanisms for issues or questions of VM performance.

It's also very reliable and has an overall ease-of-use.

By providing a domain-specific, virtualized, storage solution, Tintri helps me -

• Move VM storage off general-purpose arrays and re-use that resource more appropriately; and
• Free up engineering resources to do more-useful work, versus managing and analyzing VM storage.

It needs current RHEV-M support (v2.5) which is slated for 2016. It also needs dedupe on the spinning media for the hybrid array. Change the UI to use something other than Adobe Flash.

We've used it for a little over three years.

It was one of the simplest install and deploys I've been involved with.

It's got reliable hardware plus seamless HA failover.

Scaling is via a loosely-coupled "cluster" of independent VM store appliances.

Excellent; the appliance does phone-home and auto-support uploads, so Tintri support knows when there are issues. On-site support (used once in 3+ years) was efficient and professional.

Excellent; I have direct contact and touch-based communication with my SE, and timely response with support for any question or issue we've had.

We switched to save cost, improve performance, free-up existing resources for other tasks, and to gain VMware and RHEV-M support.

It's super-simple. We were already an NFS-attached VM storage shop, so I just added the Tintri appliances as a data store, then live-migrated VM images to it. From opening the box to initial testing took 30 minutes.

I purchased from a VAR, but we did the install and integration ourselves, not for any lack of expertise from the VAR, but because the product is simple to install and deploy.

ROI is hard to quantify, but we gained visibility and optimization of the VM execution environment, freed up more-valuable resources (equipment and people) and improved reliability and stability of the VM execution environments.

Ask for discounts. Ask for "Tintri Global Center" as a free licence to go along with the VM appliances.

We considered NetApp, Nutanix, and HP 3PAR.

Try it, you'll like it.

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.