We performed a comparison between Dell XtremIO 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 scalability is good."
"It is fast and reliable. It works."
"The code upgrades are very smooth."
"Technical support has been amazing."
"The stability and performance are the best things about the solution."
"The speed is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"Data deduplication features make it easier to manage storage and forecast growth."
"Most of the problems that we had in the past with the performance in IOPS have disappeared. It has been a great improvement for our customers' services."
"Performance and deduplication. This is a very robust block storage option that offers both performance and data optimization."
"We mostly use it for backup, because we cannot measure anything, and we are afraid to use it for surveillance systems. We were planning to use it for mostly for surveillance systems."
"Dell XtremIO is good for databases and huge workloads."
"The guaranteed sub-millisecond response time for a 4K block."
"The solution's most valuable features are the inline data reduction and deduplication."
"Ease of management, aside from the serious performance, is the best feature."
"The performance is good, which is important."
"The program is very stable."
"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."
"We have been able to scale up to ten VM storages and 500 VMs through a single pane of glass."
"The ease and use and the great performance are why we went with our 2nd Tintri VMstore."
"We also find the detail per-vm reporting at the ability to see reports from the hypervisor straight back to the storage useful."
"It is a set and forget environment with a very good tooling to view performance and delivers the IOPS we need for our VDI environment."
"You can control resources on a per VM basis to ensure that contention in resources does not hamper performance."
"It is great for finding problems where VMs are hogging all the performance."
"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 integration capabilities could be improved."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable."
"It is way in excess of what we need. If anything, we could see a bit more speed. I'm just comparing it with what some of my colleagues who are implementing their own systems do."
"The 3PAR SSD arrays that we have are still failing a lot so even though we're under warranty, we still have to get someone out and usually have someone troubleshoot so that usually adds onto the cost. With Pure, we've had a disc fail and we pop it out and you pop it in and it's good to go."
"Pricing could be better in comparison to other solutions."
"The way Pure Storage does the controller storage warranty or replacement has been an issue for some people who just replace the controllers every couple of years, and that's where some of the confusion with pricing and support has come in. They should be clear on the way the controller replacements happen, as it is important to know whether or not you can get a good return on them, because it can be a little confusing."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"I would like to see more scalability."
"XtremIO is coming to its end of life."
"Scalability is something that can be improved because there is an issue when it comes to mixing versions."
"I believe having more replication options comparatively to VMAX (other than RecoverPoint) would be great."
"If you are looking at flash storage solutions, XtremIO doesn't offer any unique features. Most of my customers are migrating their workload from XtremIO to other formats because of this."
"Ease of use is key in the converged and hyper-converged world that requires administrators to have both hypervisor and storage skills."
"The GUI could be modified more in terms of how the different components are linked to each other."
"They can improve the product by providing an HTML5-based interface instead of the Java GUI based application."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Speed of our VDI machines. We have a very high log in and log out ratio and machines are being refreshed instantly so we have a constant boot storm on our storage."
"The Tintri Analytics site is excellent for long-term trending, but more data would be great."
"I would like to be able to add more storage capacity to our 2 units down the road with out buying an additional seprate array."
"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."
"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."
Dell XtremIO is ranked 25th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while Tintri VMstore is ranked 15th in All-Flash Storage with 61 reviews. Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6, while Tintri VMstore is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Dell XtremIO writes "Suitable for high IOPS and helps get backup in ten 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 XtremIO is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell PowerMax NVMe, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and INFINIDAT InfiniBox, whereas Tintri VMstore is most compared with Dell PowerStore, HPE Nimble Storage, VMware vSAN, NetApp AFF and DDN IntelliFlash. See our Dell XtremIO vs. Tintri VMstore report.
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