We performed a comparison between Tintri VMstore and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."The most valuable feature is that maintenance is free."
"The amount of throughput that we're getting is really nice."
"The availability and ease of use are the big features."
"We can store more for a cheaper price as opposed to paying for larger devices and larger rack spaces which get outdated sooner and which we'd have to change every two years.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."
"Very stable; no worries about how much it can handle."
"Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"They are quite responsive and our local team was pretty good."
"It reduces space and the polar consumption. It also accelerates the application."
"We also find the detail per-vm reporting at the ability to see reports from the hypervisor straight back to the storage useful."
"I like Tintri's Global Admin feature and the solution's performance. It's incredibly fast storage, which was a significant upgrade for us when we deployed it seven years ago. The Tintri snapshots are brilliant and incredibly reliable."
"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."
"Its VM-aware features have been excellent to use and integrate with XenServer as well."
"Its performance is amazing. Since I have put Tintri in, I haven't had a complaint from anybody about slowness. On top of that, there is block-level cloning and the ability to spin up VMs."
"Simplicity of installation and management, high IOPS, management per VM, QoS, power and space saving."
"I've worked on both EMC and NetApp SANs, and this is by far the easiest system to maintain"
"The most valuable aspect of the solution was how fast it worked on behalf of VDI desktops."
"It scales well. We have plenty of room to grow."
"Storage virtualization software with a good storage management feature. It's a scalable and stable software."
"Allows us to implement more quickly, and to ease the maintenance."
"vSAN Health is a feature designed to monitor the health and performance of the vSAN environment. It's crucial for us and our customers to frequently check on this to ensure everything is operating smoothly."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It is user-friendly, and its performance is good."
"To me, VMware is a leader of the visualizations. I think everyone just follow VMware."
"The high availability is very good."
"We've had it in place for about a year and a half and have had zero complaints, other than that box-to-box replication is not encrypted."
"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 support for NFS protocols right out-of-the-box need improvement. I'm used to other storage vendors who have NFS support right out-of-the-box, and Pure Storage doesn't seem to have anything."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"The initial setup of the product is complex."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"I think with the world soon becoming only SSD, possibly NVMe, and 3D Xpoint. It would make sense for Tintri to drop the hybrid array down the line."
"In sync and automated mirror between two Tintris is missing."
"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."
"On the software side, I suggest adding integration with backups software like CommVault Simpana or Veeam where these products can integrate with the array and trigger things like snapshots for backup, etc."
"Technical support is an area where we had several issues, and it was hard to get some support in a specific case we had. I'm not very satisfied with them."
"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."
"I would love more insight into each virtual machine statistic."
"The product could be improved by adding iSCSI support. We have had to rethink how we implement some of our services due to this."
"This is quite an expensive solution."
"The platform's cost affects the business. This particular area needs improvement."
"The ability to access SAN environments with fiber channels (or even NVMe) would be a good addition."
"External storage would be a good thing to have in the next release, something other than iSCZI, something a little more, not HA, a little more production-oriented, than iSCZI."
"The updating process could be easier."
"vSAN does not have online dedup. When opening the inline dedupe, the performance will be lower than off inline."
"The only thing I can think of at this time is to improve the performance monitoring and performance visibility within the GUI."
"The price can be reduced. Small businesses cannot afford this solution."
Tintri VMstore is ranked 15th in All-Flash Storage with 61 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 226 reviews. Tintri VMstore is rated 9.4, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Tintri VMstore is most compared with Dell PowerStore, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF, DDN IntelliFlash and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and NetApp AFF.
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