We performed a comparison between NetApp AFF and Tintri VMstore based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can store more for a cheaper price as opposed to paying for larger devices and larger rack spaces which get outdated sooner and which we'd have to change every two years. It simplifies storage for us."
"The most valuable features are extremely low latency, high IOPS with VMware, inline deduplication and compression."
"The best feature is consistently lower latency, even when IOPS crank up to over 75K. The product maintains submillisecond response time, which is incredible."
"It helps to simplify storage because it has an easy front-end to access everything."
"The deduplication and compression meet all of our system requirements."
"Technical support has been amazing."
"We also like the compactness, the small footprint. It takes up very little space in a data center and uses little power."
"Technical support is good."
"I think that the DR applications are the most valuable, including Snapshots and SnapMirror."
"We do a lot of financial modeling. We have a large compute cluster that generates a lot of files. It is important for us to get a quick response back for any type of multimillion file accesses across the cluster at one time. So, it's a lot quicker to do that. We found that solid-state performs so much better than than spinning drives, even over multiple clusters."
"The benefits of being on AFF are the phenomenal speed at which we're able to ingest data and index it, and the IOPS."
"I'm from Germany, so we have lots of metro clusters. The ability to have two sides that are redundant across hundreds or thousands of kilometers is critical for our customers. We have several hundred customers with metro cluster systems, so that is one of the best features."
"Regarding features, SnapMirror is one we depend on right now. It helps us provide snapshots to the customers on request. There are many scenarios in which we might take snapshots in various daily use cases. We trigger the snapshots, which gives us a sense of security because we know we have this technology in place if something happens."
"Its top-tier performance ranks as the most valuable aspect."
"The most valuable features for AFF are the speed, durability, back up, the time, the workloads that we are using currently are much faster than what they used to be. We're getting a lot of different things out of All Flash."
"NetApp AFF handles tier-one workloads, including home drives, departmental shares, group shares, and application shares."
"The data encryption feature adds a valuable security enhancement with no impact on performance."
"I've worked on both EMC and NetApp SANs, and this is by far the easiest system to maintain"
"The Deduplication feature in VDI environments. If Tintri says we can host 3000 VMs in our storage, I know we can host 3000 VMs there. Believe the results."
"We also find the detail per-vm reporting at the ability to see reports from the hypervisor straight back to the storage useful."
"Simplicity of installation and management, high IOPS, management per VM, QoS, power and space saving."
"Tintri VMstore is rock solid. We have not had a single issue with stability. It is also very low maintenance allowing us to concentrate on project work."
"It is fast and reliable. There hasn’t been a single failure in three years of use."
"Upgrades are super easy and can be done during business hours without interruptions in production."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve in the area of cryptographic information in the consoles. The user-friendliness could improve. The Pure Storage FlashArray team should come and log into the system with their maintenance credentials and then pull out the information as evidence of cryptography."
"In terms of the future, I have been excited by some of the copy data management stuff that they're talking about building into the environment. There are feature sets where I've done a lot of automation work. So, I am always looking forward to extensions of their API. They're also talking about a phone home centralized analytics database being used as a centralized management console with a list of new cloud features, but this doesn't seem finalized."
"It's not so scalable. It's got moderate scaling capabilities right now. The clustering technology needs a bit of work, they need to improve that."
"I would rate this solution an eight because we have had outages. The commit times went very high in the database. The whole array went down so our customers were down for around eight hours. This was a very big outage which could have been our fault because we didn't do the upgrade in time."
"The price could be better."
"I would like to see active replication. I know that it's available now but I haven't tried it yet. I hope that it works."
"Pricing could be better in comparison to other solutions."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"As for AFF itself, I don't have any suggestions of what I would be excited about seeing. I think that adding the support for the rest of APIs to AFF would be super handy. I think it's something that we've been waiting for for a while which would be fantastic."
"There are no RDMA capabilities in CIFS (SMB) and NFS protocols."
"I don't like the newest GUI. It needs more options. Some features have been removed. Oversight is not as good in the new GUI compared to the previous version. Though, it might be something that we just need to get used to."
"It would be helpful if the compatibility matrix was a bit better."
"It would be much better if you had it more like the way they do Metro Clusters, where they have a switch, and the storage is all attached to a switch."
"Going forward, I would like more performance analytics on it, on the area itself, instead of using some other tool."
"One minor improvement could be making scale-up solutions with AFF more cost-effective compared to scale-out options."
"The total cost of ownership has increased a little."
"Active/active cluster between two Tintris on Hyper-V cluster."
"What I feel would be nice, in terms of a wishlist, is scalability. Rather than replacing the whole appliance, I would like to be able to just add another unit and scale it like that."
"It would be beneficial if Tintri could identify issues through telemetry and notify us before we need to contact them."
"The Tintri OS and GlobalCenter software do a great job of showing you troubled VMs, however it still could be a bit more helpful in diagnosing the issues."
"Speed of our VDI machines. We have a very high log in and log out ratio and machines are being refreshed instantly so we have a constant boot storm on our storage."
"I would love more insight into each virtual machine statistic."
"I would like it to have the ability to store data other than virtual machines. At the moment, you can only connect VMs to it, and that’s a bit disappointing."
"The product could be improved by adding iSCSI support. We have had to rethink how we implement some of our services due to this."
NetApp AFF is ranked 2nd in All-Flash Storage with 280 reviews while Tintri VMstore is ranked 15th in All-Flash Storage with 61 reviews. NetApp AFF is rated 9.0, while Tintri VMstore is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of NetApp AFF writes "Since switching, our clients have reported improved performance and reduced latency". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tintri VMstore writes "We were able to push a button—it really is that simple—and flip primary and secondary storage locations". NetApp AFF is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, VMware vSAN and NetApp FAS Series, whereas Tintri VMstore is most compared with Dell PowerStore, HPE Nimble Storage, VMware vSAN, DDN IntelliFlash and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our NetApp AFF vs. Tintri VMstore report.
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