We performed a comparison between Dell PowerMax NVMe and Tintri VMstore 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."The best feature is consistently lower latency, even when IOPS crank up to over 75K. The product maintains submillisecond response time, which is incredible."
"The most valuable feature is replication."
"We can store more for a cheaper price as opposed to paying for larger devices and larger rack spaces which get outdated sooner and which we'd have to change every two years.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."
"I never have to worry about its performance or if it is the root cause of an issue."
"It is always out of the box, and ready to use."
"This is the best all-flash storage array on the market."
"We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The most valuable features in Pure Storage FlashArray are deduplication and active cluster."
"They're basically tanks. You could take a baseball bat to the thing, and it's still going to keep running and doing what it's supposed to do. We've had a couple of part failures, and you can pretty much replace any part on that thing at any time during the day in the middle of production without worrying about anything happening."
"My storage engineers are very happy with PowerMax. They are very pleased with the performance, decreased latency, and dependability. From the team, the RESTful API makes management so much easier for them versus the command line interface."
"Dell PowerMax NVMe's tech support is good."
"The solution has good operability and easy scalability."
"For the migration process from the older VMAX arrays to PowerMax, we VMotioned everything. It was easy."
"It is easy to manage and upgrade."
"We are most interested in cloud utilization."
"The product is very fast and reliable."
"Its speed has been absolutely fantastic."
"Performance, cost, and ease of storage management."
"We have been able to scale up to ten VM storages and 500 VMs through a single pane of glass."
"We also find the detail per-vm reporting at the ability to see reports from the hypervisor straight back to the storage useful."
"The ease and use and the great performance are why we went with our 2nd Tintri VMstore."
"It is fast and reliable. There hasn’t been a single failure in three years of use."
"Fast deployment for virtual machines"
"I've worked on both EMC and NetApp SANs, and this is by far the easiest system to maintain"
"We do have an issue with the vCenter integration. Pure Storage says it has a lot of free space, but vCenter says its completely full. This is because their dedupes are saved as space, but Vcenter still detects the disk as completely full. So, we do have an issue with that."
"The price should be lower."
"The price of Pure Storage FlashArray could be better."
"The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"The connectivity needs improvement. You do not have the possibility to have a file and block connectivity at the same time on the same machine. It has limited ability to do so."
"Pure Storage support could be a little better."
"CIFS and SMB Shares cannot be mounted directly."
"We brought up this question to the implementation engineer. We were comparing use cases where a customer is using RecoverPoint, then goes to PowerMax. In our previous setup with XtremIO, we were using RecpverPoint and keeping snapshots for 30 days, every few seconds. With PowerMax, I requested this for every 15 minutes, keeping it for a week. The engineer's answer was, "There will be too many snapshots. It might slow down the system." This is specifically for the use cases where there is RecoverPoint. While PowerMax works with RecoverPoint, and you can use it, there should be some way where you can have even more snapshots and not to worry about performance and system cache."
"They should work with the storage engineers to better tweak the management tools to give them improved visibility into their data."
"Firmware updates are a bit painful because you have to involve their support, as opposed to having the ability to do it yourself."
"Dell should work on their marketing strategies to make the product more visible on the market. They should promote the product's compatibility with IBM, as not everyone knows it."
"We've had a couple of little things come up, but for the most part, they've been pretty stable."
"PowerMax Storage needs improvement in the area of monitoring tools. It should have more functions and more complicated analysis options inside the monitoring tools."
"Although they call it unified storage where you have SAN and NAS, with a NAS implementation on top of a SAN, the NAS implementation is a little complicated and clumsy. As SAN, as block storage, it is very powerful... If they could provide a very good NAS implementation, it would be better, so that customers don't have to look for other simple solutions for NAS."
"Setting up PowerMax with VMAX is always complex."
"Active/active cluster between two Tintris on Hyper-V cluster."
"It would be beneficial if Tintri could identify issues through telemetry and notify us before we need to contact them."
"The product could be improved by adding iSCSI support. We have had to rethink how we implement some of our services due to this."
"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."
"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."
"In sync and automated mirror between two Tintris is missing."
"The solution is already good but the brand name is not so popular here."
"The Tintri Analytics site is excellent for long-term trending, but more data would be great."
Dell PowerMax NVMe is ranked 8th in All-Flash Storage with 66 reviews while Tintri VMstore is ranked 15th in All-Flash Storage with 61 reviews. Dell PowerMax NVMe is rated 8.8, while Tintri VMstore is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Dell PowerMax NVMe writes "Simplified storage provisioning for us, enabling us to assign any volumes in two to three minutes". On the other hand, 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". Dell PowerMax NVMe is most compared with Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem, Dell Unity XT, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and Dell XtremIO, whereas Tintri VMstore is most compared with Dell PowerStore, HPE Nimble Storage, VMware vSAN, NetApp AFF and DDN IntelliFlash. See our Dell PowerMax NVMe vs. Tintri VMstore report.
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