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."It allows engineers to focus on other things rather than doing the more manual tasks. It automates tasks, so the ease of use is extreme. It simplifies the storage."
"It is all-flash. This makes it a lot faster than the rest of what we have, as it is able to drive high I/O loads, which is big for us."
"The initial setup was really straight forward."
"I like FlashArray's ActiveCluster as well as its snapshot and cloning capabilities."
"This solution has helped my organization by cutting down on provisioning time. I used to have to provision a VM and it would take ten minutes. Now, it takes thirty seconds."
"The speed is one of the most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"It has good stability for our company."
"The most valuable feature is that maintenance is free."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its high performance."
"Thin storage allocation"
"Deduplication and cloning capability"
"The most valuable feature of Dell EMC XtremIO is the data protection (DP) group, it is one of the most advanced features in these types of arrays. The dedupe and compression that this array provides both do a superb job."
"Dell XtremIO is good for databases and huge workloads."
"The feature I like most about Dell Xtremio is its hardware quality compared to other vendors. It's clear they're continuously improving their research and development."
"The guaranteed sub-millisecond response time for a 4K block."
"A valuable feature of XtremIO is that, in terms of administration, it's simple and manageable."
"Its speed has been absolutely fantastic."
"I've worked on both EMC and NetApp SANs, and this is by far the easiest system to maintain"
"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."
"You can control resources on a per VM basis to ensure that contention in resources does not hamper performance."
"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."
"We also find the detail per-vm reporting at the ability to see reports from the hypervisor straight back to the storage useful."
"Among the most valuable features are its granular replication, the ability to define asynchronous or synchronous replication, which gives us very definable RTOs and RPOs around that type of service, and granular quality-of-service configuration, which allows for cases where you've got multiple customers on a single Tintri, but you want to be able to offer strong quality-of-service metrics and KPIs."
"On a couple of occasions, the waiting time for an upgrade has been pretty substantial."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"We understand that they're thinking about it, but one of the things that would be nice is if they added some basic file-level capabilities to the platform. The idea is that they would run a basic NFS or CIF share from the controllers. FlashBlade is the powerhouse for File and Object storage, but if you don't need all that power, a lightweight file function would make FlashArrays more versatile."
"The data reduction that we had initially anticipated when we bought Pure and we move over, is way lower than the expected reduction. It depends on the workloads, of course. But that has been a challenge at times."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"The price of this solution could be improved."
"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."
"XtremIO needs to be lower priced. It also needs better endpoints and scalability."
"Native data replication: To replicate data between XtremIO devices, you need to use EMC’s RecoverPoint appliances to move the data."
"One thing that should be improved is the reporting and monitoring tools. It should use real time monitoring for storage, IOPS, latency, etc."
"The solution needs to be simplified. When you integrate your storage with other systems, could use a little bit of automation."
"Ease of use is key in the converged and hyper-converged world that requires administrators to have both hypervisor and storage skills."
"In some cases where we don’t need the flexibility of the virtualization layer, we could free up resources on the VPLEX by using the storage replication."
"Get rid of the Java aspect of the GUI console."
"I would like to see the ease of deployment and built-in Metro clustering."
"More cloud integration."
"Detailed reporting is missing in the current version. We would like to see this feature added in a new release."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"We need more options to integrate with cloud storage options other than the current AWS and IBM that it currently supports."
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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