We performed a comparison between Lenovo ThinkSystem DE 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."The amount of data that I have moved to it from legacy storage has enabled us to retire units that are three or four times the physical size."
"One of the features that my customers are really interested in is immutable snapshots. There are immutable snapshots to which your applications can be reverted back if you are hit by some kind of ransomware threat or malicious attack. That's kind of a key deal, and it is one of the selling points I use to point out to my customers the value and the features that Pure Storage brings to the table."
"It gives us capacity planning."
"What I like most about this solution, is the speed, resiliency and scalability."
"I like FlashArray's ActiveCluster as well as its snapshot and cloning capabilities."
"This solution has improved our organization. In the past, we had reports that were taking up to two hours and after switching to SSD storage the overall processing power dropped to half an hour. The end users saw an immediate performance gain."
"The most valuable feature is its data reduction."
"The mobile app is very helpful."
"Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series is quite an elementary box, no frills. It does not have all the functionality of the DM but it is acceptable, it does its task. It integrates pretty well."
"The solution is very easy to troubleshoot. It's one of the most valuable features. It also doesn't take long to deploy and normally it comes with a three-year warranty."
"ThinkSystem's storage performs well, and the price per gigabyte is good, especially on SSD solutions. It's also easy to use."
"Fewer features is not necessarily a negative as it leads to simpler operation and lower price."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"The most valuable features of the Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series are the dual controllers, available installation documentation, and the option of multiple host bus adapter interfaces."
"Its initial setup process is easy."
"Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series is simple to use"
"We have been able to scale up to ten VM storages and 500 VMs through a single pane of glass."
"The management dashboards keep improving and allow for quick and easy tracing of issues."
"Web GUI for maintenance and resource monitoring purposes is easy to use."
"The cloning is very fast... Another aspect I like is that it's very simple. It's an easy GUI to use."
"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."
"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."
"Fast deployment for virtual machines"
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"The price of Pure Storage FlashArray could be better."
"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."
"I would like to see active replication. I know that it's available now but I haven't tried it yet. I hope that it works."
"There's always an opportunity for new feature functionality."
"Pure Storage support could be a little better."
"Part of our company works on Dell EMC because Pure Storage did not have synchronous applications when we were purchasing our products."
"ThinkSystem could be better integrated with backup software like Commvault, Veritas, or Symantec."
"The difficult part comes when dealing with the host. You have to enable multi-pathing and other aspects that are needed for proper configuration. I don't know if there is room for a more hyper-conversion structure to work with, but this would be easier."
"Improvements can be made to the product's performance."
"In the next release, I would like to see support for Hyper-converged infrastructure."
"Its performance could be faster."
"There could be a snapshot feature in the solution."
"The features are limited."
"In the next release, I would like to see more functionality. But, again, it is an entry-level product."
"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."
"I would love more insight into each virtual machine statistic."
"Active/active cluster between two Tintris on Hyper-V cluster."
"Detailed reporting is missing in the current version. We would like to see this feature added in a new release."
"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."
"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."
"More cloud integration."
"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."
Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series is ranked 20th in All-Flash Storage with 11 reviews while Tintri VMstore is ranked 15th in All-Flash Storage with 61 reviews. Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series is rated 8.6, while Tintri VMstore is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series writes "Provides good stability and is reliable in terms of performance". 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". Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, NetApp AFF, IBM FlashSystem and Dell Unity XT, whereas Tintri VMstore is most compared with Dell PowerStore, HPE Nimble Storage, VMware vSAN, NetApp AFF and DDN IntelliFlash. See our Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series vs. Tintri VMstore report.
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