We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore 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."Performance, dedupe, and that it works well with database workloads are its most valuable features."
"Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"I like its speed. It has all the features that I need."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are simplicity, ease of use, and dashboard management."
"As soon as we introduced our first Pure Storage FlashArray, the first benefit was at least twice the performance increase. Our production databases simply ran twice as fast with no other change."
"Pure Storage is extremely reliable — it's never failed."
"The predictive performance analytics are good."
"The predictive performance analytics is a very good feature, as our system is performing better than before."
"The supportability of SCME drives for faster data access from the PowerStore and is the most valuable feature."
"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."
"Currently, the features of replication and deduplication have been very important to us."
"There is no complicated configuration for queries and calls. You just create a model and go."
"The solution is stable."
"Migrations are very easy and fast."
"I have found the most valuable part of Dell PowerStore is the price."
"The administration tools take advantage of machine learning and make recommendations to the admins, and that makes the administration easier."
"Its VM-aware features have been excellent to use and integrate with XenServer as well."
"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."
"It’s very good at IOPS."
"The data encryption feature adds a valuable security enhancement with no impact on performance."
"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."
"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."
"The ease and use and the great performance are why we went with our 2nd Tintri VMstore."
"Web GUI for maintenance and resource monitoring purposes is easy to use."
"The initial setup of the product is complex."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"The internal garbage collection process has been fixed recently in some OS updates so it is more efficient but that could be just a little better."
"The price of the solution can improve."
"The GUI could improve, it could be more intuitive. There is hidden functionality."
"The problem is that we can only make a few groups, around five or six groups. I like groups and we need a lot of them. We had to put all the information in only a few groups and cannot make a more detailed separation of them."
"In some cases, we get into very in-depth conversations around movement of specific data and, what's more, chunk sizes. The documentation lacked any description or information on that."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"With PowerStore, we have to choose between block storage and NAS functionality."
"The price is on the higher side."
"It doesn't support SSD or Flash."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"Many customers are looking for a cyber recovery feature included in PowerStore. We would like to see this added in a future release."
"The pricing could be lower. It is very expensive."
"Could be improved by including a synchronizing feature for the file systems."
"During the installation phase, the licensing part was not straightforward. It was very difficult for the technicians, who are not trained Dell EMC technicians, to do the licensing because the information on their website is not straightforward... Eventually, I had to pass this task to our business partner and they did it for us."
"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."
"Active/active cluster between two Tintris on Hyper-V cluster."
"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."
"The Tintri Analytics site is excellent for long-term trending, but more data would be great."
"It would be beneficial if Tintri could identify issues through telemetry and notify us before we need to contact 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."
"Tintri need to be able to innovate faster but maintain the quality of their features."
"Detailed reporting is missing in the current version. We would like to see this feature added in a new release."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 46 reviews while Tintri VMstore is ranked 15th in All-Flash Storage with 61 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while Tintri VMstore 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 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, Dell PowerMax NVMe and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas Tintri VMstore is most compared with HPE Nimble Storage, VMware vSAN, NetApp AFF, DDN IntelliFlash and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our Dell PowerStore vs. Tintri VMstore report.
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