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."It is an easy to use product for all of my team members."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. You simply plug it in and turn it on."
"The code upgrades are very smooth."
"FlashArray has many valuable features. It's very user-friendly and it has high availability, so there is comparatively less downtime. During maintenance, there is no shutdown procedure, so you can directly power off the Array and manage the shutdown process without any data loss, which is a unique feature. Managing replication and data migration is also very easy."
"I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is."
"The most valuable feature is its speed."
"The solution helps to simplify storage."
"It does efficient work of storing data while still delivering the performance that you would normally expect from a higher priced solution."
"You can control resources on a per VM basis to ensure that contention in resources does not hamper performance."
"I've worked on both EMC and NetApp SANs, and this is by far the easiest system to maintain"
"It has easy setup, easy administration, and no LUNs!"
"The most valuable feature is the VM management."
"It’s very good at IOPS."
"Upgrades are super easy and can be done during business hours without interruptions in production."
"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."
"Its speed has been absolutely fantastic."
"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."
"Provides good performance as well as integration with deployment tools."
"The most valuable features are the encryption, deduplication, compression, and the ability to manage all of your storage within your server rack."
"VMware comes with different stacks like VMware Cloud Foundation, which is integrated with different VMware modules. There's interoperability between VMware products."
"The ability to have an HA cluster in the absence of a shared storage device or SAN."
"One of the valuable features for us is the ability to restrict the performance capacity per client. Other solutions don't have this feature."
"Overall the solution is very good."
"You get the benefit of local storage, but you have the protection of shared storage."
"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."
"The time-to-market could be better at times, but I think that's true for all vendors of hardware."
"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."
"The price of the solution can improve."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"The GUI could improve, it could be more intuitive. There is hidden functionality."
"They could improve the price."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"The product could be improved by adding iSCSI support. We have had to rethink how we implement some of our services due to this."
"Tintri need to be able to innovate faster but maintain the quality of their features."
"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."
"Detailed reporting is missing in the current version. We would like to see this feature added in a new release."
"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 biggest area for improvement, and there has been some roadmap work in this area already, is cloud integration... Tintri has been investing in this area and I'm sure will continue to, but cloud integration has been the biggest area that we've been crossing our fingers and hoping for quick development around."
"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."
"More cloud integration."
"They can package it in a way that is specific to the hardware infrastructure and the hardware platform. It should stay fairly up to date with the drivers and the manufacturer issues. The problem with uncoupling the proprietary technology and component capabilities is that by uncoupling them, you run into some concerns or challenges over the poor performance model. These concerns really come when you start talking about high performance, high bandwidth, and high availability types of environments. While vSAN is a leader, in a critical view, it is not about being cost-effective. It is more about the immediate impact of money loss to the business in critical applications where we want to maintain a continuous operational 59 model. It is, however, good for QA/QC tasks. I don't necessarily know how it works in regards to VDI or virtual desktop infrastructure."
"Improvements can be made with respect to scalability."
"They should make the software updates easier. We should be able to upgrade it more easily."
"The architecture of vSAN is not good. vSAN works with objects, such as disks, and it causes problems with availability."
"The usability is pretty good but it could use a little tweaking on the UI, with a clearer definition of exactly what some of the things do."
"This solution could be improved by having more than one controller for the environment. VMware depends on one controller for the whole environment, whereas Nutanix has one controller for each node. Because there is only one controller with VMware, if there was any drop, then the whole environment would stop working. In Nutanix, I have five nodes—there is one controller for each node and it depends on a virtual controller—so if the controller of any node is down, the whole environment will still work."
"Integration could be better."
"They can improve the manageability of the solution to make it more simple. It is not that complicated, but it will be good if they can make it more simple."
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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