We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore and Tintri VMstore T7000 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."It is very easy to install and configure. It has got excellent diagnostics. If you really need to see how the box is performing, the console gives you a lot of information. You can set thresholds as well as alerts based on the thresholds, which is a very powerful functionality. They are very proactive. They know how to monitor and manage the systems. They see a problem, and they are all over it before us. They see the problem before we see it, which is very good."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe helps to improve our processing speed. It is user-friendly and easy to use."
"The duplication algorithm allows us to get a lot more use out of less storage. We're running a five terabyte array right now and we're running probably about 30 terabytes on it. So the duplication rate is pretty phenomenal, without a cost to performance. It still runs pretty smoothly."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its ease of use."
"Pure FlashArray X NVMe will quickly overcome all the hurdles you face, including network and latency issues."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its ease of use and performance."
"FlashArray has some fresh efficiency features. I've never seen a storage solution with a compression rating this high before. It's at least 4-to-1 on Oracle databases. It's the best flash storage for Oracle."
"The solution is very straightforward to set up."
"We used Cloud IQ. The central management and outside support functionality were great since we had systems all over the world."
"For access from virtual machines, iSCSI, and NFS, it is very good. It helps increase performance."
"Pricing is very good. It's very competitive against those of all the others that I looked at in the marketplace, such as Hitachi, IBM, HP, and Pure. Dell is right there in the mix as far as providing the best price point as well as meeting the performance requirements that we have."
"The solution's most valuable features are its form factor and switching to NVMe."
"The main feature of Dell PowerStore is its support for NVMe as well as hybrid solutions."
"Reliable, with comprehensive features and a well-established support base."
"I find all of the Dell PowerStore features to be valuable."
"The most valuable aspects of Dell PowerStore are the promising roadmap, and the interesting features to come."
"The management dashboards keep improving and allow for quick and easy tracing of issues."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution was how fast it worked on behalf of VDI desktops."
"Upgrades are super easy and can be done during business hours without interruptions in production."
"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."
"We have been able to scale up to ten VM storages and 500 VMs through a single pane of glass."
"Fast deployment for virtual machines"
"Web GUI for maintenance and resource monitoring purposes is easy to use."
"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."
"Efficiency improvements would always be welcome, but I'm not sure if they could get more efficient."
"You cannot tag a LUN with a description, and that should be improved. What I like on the Unity side is that when I expand LUNs or do things, there is an information field on the LUN. This is the Information field that you can tag on your LUNs to let yourself know, "Hey, I've added this much space on this date". Pure lacks that ability. So, you don't have a mechanism that's friendly for tracking your data expansions on the LUN and for adding any additional information. That's a downside for me."
"It is on the expensive side."
"I want to see Pure Storage not only be for fast storage, but I want to see it be for the entire data center."
"The software layer has to improve."
"We need better data deduplication."
"In the next release, I would like to see real-time analytics for further insight into consumption models."
"The UI for this solution needs to be improved."
"While using Dell PowerStore's interface in our organization, we sometimes miss out on some information."
"We are happy with the service in general. The only thing would be the price of the platform."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"Monitoring is an area of concern in the product where improvements are required."
"It's also only supported with a limited amount of switches."
"The only thing is that with PowerStore, we don't have a solution for the file object."
"With PowerStore, we have to choose between block storage and NAS functionality."
"The UI should be a little more user-friendly to manage."
"The Tintri Analytics site is excellent for long-term trending, but more data would be great."
"Detailed reporting is missing in the current version. We would like to see this feature added in a new release."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"We need more options to integrate with cloud storage options other than the current AWS and IBM that it currently supports."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 71 reviews while Tintri VMstore T7000 is ranked 15th in All-Flash Storage with 61 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while Tintri VMstore T7000 is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "It has a very strong NAS that can support a lot of big, heavy environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tintri VMstore T7000 writes "We were able to push a button—it really is that simple—and flip primary and secondary storage locations". Dell PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArray and Dell PowerMax NVMe, whereas Tintri VMstore T7000 is most compared with Pure Storage FlashArray, HPE Nimble Storage, VMware vSAN, NetApp AFF and DDN IntelliFlash. See our Dell PowerStore vs. Tintri VMstore T7000 report.
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