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."Has also helped simplify storage for us. The other person we put in there, took about a week to implement. And we had both arrays set up within around four hours with a thirty minute drive time between the two locations."
"The stability and performance are the best things about the solution."
"It simplifies storage."
"Performance is the most valuable feature."
"Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"It simplifies building out the storage."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the all-flash storage performance, low latency, and efficiency of their de-duplication technology. Additionally, the ease of use is good compared to other storage systems. The features in data protection, snapshotting, and replication between data centers and sites are superior to other solutions."
"The performance is very good."
"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."
"A very good support team that is available 24/7. They have real technical staff with strong knowledge."
"Web GUI for maintenance and resource monitoring purposes is easy to use."
"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."
"The data encryption feature adds a valuable security enhancement with no impact on performance."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution was how fast it worked on behalf of VDI desktops."
"Among the most valuable features are its granular replication, the ability to define asynchronous or synchronous replication, which gives us very definable RTOs and RPOs around that type of service, and granular quality-of-service configuration, which allows for cases where you've got multiple customers on a single Tintri, but you want to be able to offer strong quality-of-service metrics and KPIs."
"Performance, cost, and ease of storage management."
"The flexibility is most valuable. Being able to manage things quickly if something goes wrong is also valuable. Very recently, we had one node that went down due to a power problem, but there was really no major impact on the systems running on top of it."
"The most important functionality is the ability to extend cluster storage and cluster computing power securely without loss of data."
"The scalability is very good and the solution is stable and reliable."
"The lower skill cost of maintaining it meant that we could do more with the people that we had."
"vSAN is scalable for us. If any additional capacity needs to be included, we just add to the host and configure the vSAN cluster."
"Very good VCG notification feature."
"We didn't only choose vSAN; we chose VMware because of SR-IOV, which is more on the hypervisor level and not on the vSAN storage. It's part of the whole system."
"The product's initial setup phase is simple."
"I would like some performance analytics which go deeper than today. It should be specific to some hosts and applications. This would be good."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"I would like to see more detailed reporting on the data. However, it would be nice to know what are the exact VMs usage after deduplication and/or what that VMs actual latency and bandwidth is, outside of VMware."
"They have a product, FlashBlade, which is their object storage integration, and that's something that we haven't integrated with yet. This might be an area for additional focus as it would play into scalability, because the very nature of object storage is that it's infinitely scalable."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"As long as they always improve on IOPS speed, that's all we're really looking for. The faster the storage can be the more we can do speed of application and speed of use."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"Detailed reporting is missing in the current version. We would like to see this feature added in a new release."
"Active/active cluster between two Tintris on Hyper-V cluster."
"I would like to be able to add more storage capacity to our 2 units down the road with out buying an additional seprate array."
"The product could be improved by adding iSCSI support. We have had to rethink how we implement some of our services due to this."
"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."
"I'm waiting to see the Kubernetes package. I know they're releasing one, but I haven't seen it yet."
"Their support staff just doesn't have the experience with all of the products that we're running. They don't know the 850 series like we do because it's five years old. There is a little bit of a gap, and that may just be because we're an old customer running on platforms that their staff hasn't seen. I would like to see an improvement in their in-depth knowledge of their older products."
"It would be beneficial if Tintri could identify issues through telemetry and notify us before we need to contact them."
"We often run out of space but we have enough capacity for memory and CPU. It's difficult to find the balance between storage and memory CPU."
"I would love for this product to be cheaper and easier to configure."
"This solution is not great for large file shares/object/rich media repository."
"The server files are larger than before."
"The interface is a little complicated, it could be simplified with more graphical gadgets. We have many servers, and the built-in functions, such as rate configuration, are a bit complex."
"As no product is 100% perfect, the price for VMware vSAN could still be improved, though it is good when compared to some of its competitors."
"It doesn't seem like it gives the performance that an actual SAN would give for heavy IOPS, read/writes."
"A vSAN cluster must have compression and deduplication to be an all-flash array, but it's not supported with a hybrid array. Deduplication and compression work better with an all-flash array, so I think that VMware should give customers the option to activate and support this feature for hybrid arrays. Other products like Nutanix support this."
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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