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."What I like most about this solution, is the speed, resiliency and scalability."
"We also like the compactness, the small footprint. It takes up very little space in a data center and uses little power."
"The management is simple in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"Their support system has insight into errors on our SAN fabric that we can't see. They've brought attention to and raised awareness for us about things that we couldn't see, when we were experiencing problems."
"Access speed and power consumption are most valuable."
"I use all the features of this solution and I find them to be easy to use and functional, such as the compression and capacity to expand."
"It helps simplify storage. When you're running Pure all-flash, you don't have to do a lot of the old Oracle best practices. You don't have to worry about putting log files on a different disk channel than the data files, and those types of issues... That has made it vastly easier to do large volumes, rapid provisioning in databases, without taking a performance hit."
"I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"It’s very good at IOPS."
"It is great for finding problems where VMs are hogging all the performance."
"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."
"We have been able to scale up to ten VM storages and 500 VMs through a single pane of glass."
"We love the real-time replication, ease of use when connecting our servers to the storage, and the level of redundancy inside the box... It's also simple software and integrates well with VMware so we get a lot of information about all of the VMs, how they're performing individually, and about network latency. That's very helpful when you're troubleshooting a slowdown."
"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 most valuable aspect of the solution was how fast it worked on behalf of VDI desktops."
"You can control resources on a per VM basis to ensure that contention in resources does not hamper performance."
"The most valuable features are Erasure Coding, Deduplication and Compression, and the advancement in stretching regarding replication."
"VMware has been around for a long time are are doing a decent job at catching up with the latest technologies i.e. bringing in kubernetes and containerization. Overall, this is a great tool for virtualization."
"The most important functionality is the ability to extend cluster storage and cluster computing power securely without loss of data."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"All the features are working great."
"vSAN has just one datastore. so customers do not need to think where to put their VMs, how to design the physical disk RAID, the LUN size, the LUN mapping, etc. when they use NetApp/EMC/HDS or other storage systems."
"The newer versions of this solution are much more stable and easier to manage."
"Storage policies are used to perform operations in the VMs. This feature allows you to create storage policies for VMs to get performance, high availability, I/O policies, etc."
"In the configuration, which we brought in or tested it in, it has a very limited config as far as the array goes. That said, it still did more than our anticipation."
"Having something native in the Pure Storage ecosystem would make it integrated and in one single company, and we wouldn't have to work with multiple organizations."
"There are scenarios with very specific functionality around VMware integration particularly to do with the way we'd like to manage LUNs in VMware. The tools are pretty good but there's room for improvement there."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"I want to learn more about command line usage which I have not explored much yet. However, there are many automated solutions for repetitive tasks. I would like to see additional features like performance monitoring, configuring of alerts, and the customization of alert thresholds in the next release."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"In sync and automated mirror between two Tintris is missing."
"Detailed reporting is missing in the current version. We would like to see this feature added in a new release."
"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."
"Their current replication is really just enough to "check the box" that they do replication. We'll probably implement Actifio, Zerto or EMC RecoverPoint for VMs for more critical data replication."
"Tintri's Cloud Connector currently only goes to AWS and IBM Cloud, and we don't use either because we're Microsoft Silver Partners. It would be great to get the Cloud Connector feature with Azure. If it's not already on Tintri's roadmap, that's something I'd like to see."
"Tintri need to be able to innovate faster but maintain the quality of their features."
"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."
"We need more options to integrate with cloud storage options other than the current AWS and IBM that it currently supports."
"I would rate the stability a seven out of ten."
"I would like more integration with the hardware when it comes to disc types and supporting the newer types of storage."
"As a software-based product, it requires a lot of system resources."
"There is always a challenge with their firmware."
"We plan to switch products since the hardware nowadays is a little bit outdated and we need to scale up a bit."
"The monitoring feature in VMware vSAN could be better."
"Based on my testing, I would like to expand deduplication to include hybrid deployments and not just for all-flash deployments."
"If we have some complicated issues, you have to use the command lines interface. Not everything is possible to be fixed in the GUI. This is a drawback, that some things have to be fixed via command-line interface and should be able to be done in the GUI."
Tintri VMstore is ranked 15th in All-Flash Storage with 61 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 219 reviews. Tintri VMstore is rated 9.4, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Tintri VMstore writes "Enables us to increase our retail sales and margins while decreasing the amount of time spent managing the solution". 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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