We performed a comparison between Dell SC Series 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."We also use VMware integrations developed by Pure, their plugins in our vCenter environment. They help by allowing our non-technical operations teams to deploy new data stores and resize data stores without me having to involve myself all the time to do those simple tasks."
"The console is simple to use. It has good performance. It is easy to install, understand, and manage, with a good ratio of deduplication and compression. It is doing its job."
"The solution offers amazing performance."
"Non-disruptive upgrades: You can upgrade at anytime without worry."
"The management features are well organized and they have a very good dashboard."
"The mobile app is very helpful."
"Pure Storage is extremely reliable — it's never failed."
"The tool has reduced our power consumption."
"I think that Dell EMC is one of the best technical support services in Ukraine."
"Performance-wise it's high speed. It's also more stable and scalable."
"Customers are most impressed with SC's provisioning because you don't need to buy a large amount of storage upfront. It's pay-as-you-grow. It also has solid compression and duplication features."
"One time, we had a drive fail and we were notified before we even saw it on the device."
"It is just as stable as any other high-end solution."
"What is most valuable about the Dell EMC SC Series system was its reliability."
"It is fast and performs well."
"The flexibility of this solution has been valuable for our business."
"It is fast and reliable. There hasn’t been a single failure in three years of use."
"It is great for finding problems where VMs are hogging all the performance."
"I've worked on both EMC and NetApp SANs, and this is by far the easiest system to maintain"
"We have been able to scale up to ten VM storages and 500 VMs through a single pane of glass."
"Its performance is amazing. Since I have put Tintri in, I haven't had a complaint from anybody about slowness. On top of that, there is block-level cloning and the ability to spin up VMs."
"Upgrades are super easy and can be done during business hours without interruptions in production."
"It has easy setup, easy administration, and no LUNs!"
"The data encryption feature adds a valuable security enhancement with no impact on performance."
"I would like to see data tiering to AWS."
"I would like to get a weekly report of how our storage has been used, and if there is any storage sitting there not being used."
"As partners, we should have the option to download the software, rather than have to go back through Pure to obtain it."
"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."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"The credentials on the iSCSI interface are only available to type in with the Chrome browser, and not with the Firefox browser."
"The GUI could improve, it could be more intuitive. There is hidden functionality."
"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."
"I would like to have 100% functionality through the web app."
"We can definitely see a need for it being a multi-controller system for customers who want to scale beyond the current capability. That's always a downside. A lot of the new systems are scaling vertically, they scale out, and the Compellent, of course, is controllers with shelves under it, so you don't scale out with it, unless you add another one. But if you do, they don't talk to each other, like some of the other solutions that we sell."
"Overall, I'd like to see more synergy between Dell EMC's higher-tier platforms and their mid-tier platforms. What I have said, constantly, to my partners at Dell EMC is that the clear articulation of the path is really important to us. In that vein, what I'd also like to see is, with the migration strategy that's built into this product, a lot more attention paid to Dell's - in particular - legacy platforms and how we get from some of our legacy EMC platforms onto this platform with a straight-through migration and scaling strategy, not host-based migrations and not piecemeal... Dell EMC would do well to focus more on my ability to skip a generation, rather than having me take individual hops because I can't greenfield my way into a software-defined data center fast enough. This journey of multiple hops is not helpful."
"While the scalability is good, there are certain limitations."
"The lack of reporting would be the main issue."
"The lower model, the 3000, should have duplication. It doesn't right now. It's only from 5000 that this is offered, but it depends on the performance. It could be they don't offer it on lower models because the duplication is too much of a burden to the performance."
"I don't think the solution is very scalable."
"Snapshots in VMware. You can’t do snapshots since the storage itself does that. Therefore, some apps (Veeam, for example) don’t work well with this kind of tiering storage."
"I'm waiting to see the Kubernetes package. I know they're releasing one, but I haven't seen it yet."
"Active/active cluster between two Tintris on Hyper-V cluster."
"I would love more insight into each virtual machine statistic."
"The Tintri OS and GlobalCenter software do a great job of showing you troubled VMs, however it still could be a bit more helpful in diagnosing the issues."
"The Tintri Analytics site is excellent for long-term trending, but more data would be great."
"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."
"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."
"It would be beneficial if Tintri could identify issues through telemetry and notify us before we need to contact them."
Dell SC Series is ranked 24th in All-Flash Storage with 49 reviews while Tintri VMstore is ranked 15th in All-Flash Storage with 61 reviews. Dell SC Series is rated 8.4, while Tintri VMstore is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Dell SC Series writes "Automated architecture that proactively optimizes your database ". On the other hand, 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". Dell SC Series is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, Huawei OceanStor and IBM System Storage DS8000 Series, whereas Tintri VMstore is most compared with Dell PowerStore, HPE Nimble Storage, VMware vSAN, NetApp AFF and DDN IntelliFlash. See our Dell SC Series vs. Tintri VMstore report.
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