We performed a comparison between Dell Unity XT 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 most valuable features are the replication of data and the continuous snapshot that we can take from the disc."
"Pure Storage is extremely reliable — it's never failed."
"It worked flawlessly."
"Their REST API is wonderful, well-documented, and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of the Pure Storage Flash Array is the blazing fast monitoring."
"It's reduced our overhead management time on storage, since it is so simple to get in and just provision a volume, present it to the host, and then you are done."
"Performance, deduplication, compression, and fast response time for requests from servers and applications."
"It is an SSD array that has awesome performance, low submillisecond latency, and does what it is supposed to do. It just works, which is difficult for things to do anymore."
"The product has helpful local technical support."
"It's the simplicity part of it. It's the ease of management, it's the call home, the CloudIQ functionality. It's all built in. I think Dell EMC has put a lot of thought into it."
"Inline data reduction is pretty impressive."
"The scalability is really good now that they have the Dynamic Pools. We don't always have the money to buy complete write sets when we have to expand the storage, so now with the Dynamic Pools we can add disks on the go."
"They have a Unity REST API that I use to automate some of the storage stuff. I'm just getting started with it, but it seems pretty easy to use."
"Real Unified Storage (Block, File, VVols) in a unique 2U hardware."
"The most valuable feature of Dell Unity XT is its support of protocols for both block, and file levels. It has the features a store solution should have."
"Provides good provisioning, allowing us to save space."
"It is fast and reliable. There hasn’t been a single failure in three years of use."
"The most valuable feature is the VM management."
"The ability to snap machines into VMware quickly is valuable."
"Its speed has been absolutely fantastic."
"It has easy setup, easy administration, and no LUNs!"
"Simplicity of installation and management, high IOPS, management per VM, QoS, power and space saving."
"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."
"We also find the detail per-vm reporting at the ability to see reports from the hypervisor straight back to the storage useful."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"There are scenarios with very specific functionality around VMware integration particularly to do with the way we'd like to manage LUNs in VMware. The tools are pretty good but there's room for improvement there."
"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."
"We've had it in place for about a year and a half and have had zero complaints, other than that box-to-box replication is not encrypted."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"It is not possible to create a cluster on top of multiple arrays."
"The upgrade process needs improvement. I should be able to swap it out, with zero downtime, with another array, down the road. I don't think Dell EMC has anything in the roadmap for this product line. I just don't want to have to deal with that anymore and all of our customers are pretty much the same."
"It could go faster. Make it bigger, better, and faster at a lower price, and I am there."
"Dell EMC's competitor has a clustering technology. In the next release, it would be nice if they could build that into the product."
"The price of Dell Unity XT could improve."
"This product has some scalability issues. Before you can get support, you have to look for the service tag number on your product which could make it difficult to access support."
"We have only used this solution for less than one year so I don't have any improvements suggestions yet."
"I would like it to be a little bit easier to contact support. We can contact support, but we have to go through a phone tree. We get routed to different places. I might call support to say that I need a drive replaced and get transferred to three different groups before I get to the group I actually need."
"I'd like to see more of the NVMe back-end for the flash. And the big deal with the PowerMax is that they've used all U2 drives so that they can avoid having to take it down. I see using M.2 and modular sections as being a real nice alternative that could be implemented in Unity at a fairly low cost."
"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's Cloud Connector currently only goes to AWS and IBM Cloud, and we don't use either because we're Microsoft Silver Partners. It would be great to get the Cloud Connector feature with Azure. If it's not already on Tintri's roadmap, that's something I'd like to see."
"Active/active cluster between two Tintris on Hyper-V cluster."
"The Tintri Analytics site is excellent for long-term trending, but more data would be great."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I'm waiting to see the Kubernetes package. I know they're releasing one, but I haven't seen it yet."
Dell Unity XT is ranked 4th in All-Flash Storage with 186 reviews while Tintri VMstore is ranked 15th in All-Flash Storage with 61 reviews. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4, while Tintri VMstore is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Dell Unity XT writes "Easy to set up with good data compression technology and useful deduplication". 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 Unity XT is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and HPE 3PAR StoreServ, whereas Tintri VMstore is most compared with Dell PowerStore, HPE Nimble Storage, VMware vSAN, NetApp AFF and DDN IntelliFlash. See our Dell Unity XT vs. Tintri VMstore report.
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