We performed a comparison between IBM FlashSystem 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 speed is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The stability and performance are the best things about the solution."
"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 stability of Pure Storage is very very good."
"It gives us capacity planning."
"It's extremely stable and has good performance."
"The predictive performance analytics are good."
"FlashArray has many valuable features. It's very user-friendly and it has high availability, so there is comparatively less downtime. During maintenance, there is no shutdown procedure, so you can directly power off the Array and manage the shutdown process without any data loss, which is a unique feature. Managing replication and data migration is also very easy."
"The most valuable features are deduplication and compression."
"The most valuable feature in demand is virtualization and its support storage of virtualization features."
"No queuing and high ops, speed, and performance."
"Ability to manage third-party arrays and virtualise them: One screen to control multiple arrays. Simplified administration."
"This solution is convenient, user-friendly, convenient and reliable."
"User friendly management interface."
"The most crucial feature of IBM FlashSystem is compression."
"At the FlashSystem level, customers are especially fond of multi-tier and distributed rate systems, particularly the dynamic rate six arrays."
"The ease and use and the great performance are why we went with our 2nd Tintri VMstore."
"Its speed has been absolutely fantastic."
"Tintri VMstore is rock solid. We have not had a single issue with stability. It is also very low maintenance allowing us to concentrate on project work."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution was how fast it worked on behalf of VDI desktops."
"Simplicity of installation and management, high IOPS, management per VM, QoS, power and space saving."
"The ability to snap machines into VMware quickly is valuable."
"We have been able to scale up to ten VM storages and 500 VMs through a single pane of glass."
"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."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"It was not proactive communication."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve in the area of cryptographic information in the consoles. The user-friendliness could improve. The Pure Storage FlashArray team should come and log into the system with their maintenance credentials and then pull out the information as evidence of cryptography."
"I would like to see them develop the ability to integrate with more AWS services. There are increasingly more and more services coming out from AWS but there are also certain constraints where we can't move everything over to a cloud as well. We would like for things that are on-premise to be easily integrated with AWS."
"As partners, we should have the option to download the software, rather than have to go back through Pure to obtain it."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"The time-to-market could be better at times, but I think that's true for all vendors of hardware."
"Cloud file sharing is an area that needs improvement."
"The deduplication and compression ratio is not very good. It's not reaching a very high ratio."
"Product support is restricted to IBM only. It must be decentralized to IBM partners as well."
"Their technical support needs improvement in terms of reachability for the clients and response times. They should be more responsive and have more online platforms for support. They should make more technical information available online. There could be some kind of documentation community."
"Events/log analysis tools."
"This solution could be improved by offering greater amounts of storage."
"A big area for improvement is that the data reduction pool feature is not recommended for use in a production environment because it has stability and performance issues."
"Include an option to upload the support package to the IBM ECuRep when opening an IBM PMR."
"In sync and automated mirror between two Tintris is missing."
"I'm waiting to see the Kubernetes package. I know they're releasing one, but I haven't seen it yet."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It would be beneficial if Tintri could identify issues through telemetry and notify us before we need to contact them."
"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."
"Tintri need to be able to innovate faster but maintain the quality of their features."
IBM FlashSystem is ranked 6th in All-Flash Storage with 106 reviews while Tintri VMstore is ranked 15th in All-Flash Storage with 61 reviews. IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2, while Tintri VMstore is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". 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". IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas Tintri VMstore is most compared with Dell PowerStore, HPE Nimble Storage, VMware vSAN, NetApp AFF and DDN IntelliFlash. See our IBM FlashSystem vs. Tintri VMstore report.
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