NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS) vs. Tintri VMstore
As of February 2019, NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS) is ranked 3rd in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 84 reviews vs Tintri VMstore which is ranked 6th in All-Flash Storage Arrays with 14 reviews. The top reviewer of NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS) writes "Supported our overall business initiatives, they've done a great job with cybersecurity ". The top reviewer of Tintri VMstore writes "The dashboard makes things so easy to understand that you have a full grasp on what your VMs are doing and where the bottlenecks are". NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS) is most compared with Dell EMC Unity, Pure Storage FlashArray and HPE 3PAR Flash Storage. Tintri VMstore is most compared with Nimble Storage, Pure Storage FlashArray and Nutanix. See our NetApp AFF (All Flash FAS) vs. Tintri VMstore report.
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Its efficiency and scalability are the most valuable features. The most valuable features for AFF are the speed, durability, back up, the time, the workloads that we are using currently are much faster than what they used to be. We're getting a lot of different things out of All Flash. The valuable features are the fabric pool. We are taking our cold data and pumping it straight into an estuary bucket. Also, efficiency. We're getting about two and a half times upwards of data efficiency through compaction, compression, deduplication, and it's size. When we refreshed from two or three racks of spinning discs down into 5U of rack space, it not only saved us a whole heap of costs in our data center environment but also it's nice to be green. The power savings alone equated to be about 50 tons of CO2 a year that we no longer emit. It's a big game changer. Previously we had migrated from Dell EMC and we had a lot of difficulties moving data around. Now, if we need to move it to any slower storage, we can move it with just a vault move within the cluster. Even moving data between clusters is extremely simple using SnapMirror. The mobility options for data in All Flash FAS have been awesome. Tech support has been absolutely amazing. I think on the technical aspects as well, my staff is able to get great support from the NetApp technical support resources that we have. What I love about NetApp is they have a health care division. At times, it's such an amazing thing because if we have a healthcare-related issue, there's no one better than having prior CIOs from health care organizations that NetApp has hired, and that are part of the health care team, to help out with any of those initiatives and support problems. Support has been absolutely phenomenal. NetApp tech support is so good. Their tech support has always been so stable and the people are so good in case of any failure or any good feature that needs to be updated or features that supposedly can help with performance to improve some performance. NetApp support is one of the best that I deal with. Scalability is excellent. If we need more space, it's a no downtime solution. It's harder to get the funding than it is to get the solution itself. This solution makes everything a lot faster. The time to move data around, boot and migrate VMs is much faster. | It’s very good at IOPS. It is fast and reliable. There hasn’t been a single failure in three years of use. 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. A very good support team that is available 24/7. They have real technical staff with strong knowledge. Web GUI for maintenance and resource monitoring purposes is easy to use. Upgrades are super easy and can be done during business hours without interruptions in production. Its speed has been absolutely fantastic. Its VM-aware features have been excellent to use and integrate with XenServer as well. |
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The scaling needs improvement. NetApp is limited for scaling options. The bad part about having scalability is the expense. It is currently extremely expensive, to be able to scale so fast on flash. I would like for them to develop the ability to detach the fabric pool. Once you've added it to an aggregate it's there for life and it would be nice to disconnect it if we ever had to. As for AFF itself, I don't have any suggestions of what I would be excited about seeing. I think that adding the support for the rest of APIs to AFF would be super handy. I think it's something that we've been waiting for for a while which would be fantastic. The total cost of ownership has increased a little. I would like to see the ability to include more applications from applications to managed storage. If we can have more applications or more interface in more applications, that would be great. I come tech support with difficulty because I installed NetApp for many years I know what to expect when I call. When I don't get their support tech that I'm expecting and I'm trying to get to the right one, it can get very frustrating for me personally, trying to all-flash push my way into the right person. NetApp has the right people, it's just a matter of getting to them. I need faster Fibre Channel over Ethernet. They top out at 10GBs today and I would like that to go to 40 or 100. | I would like it to have the ability to store data other than virtual machines. At the moment, you can only connect VMs to it, and that’s a bit disappointing. In sync and automated mirror between two Tintris is missing. I would love more insight into each virtual machine statistic. The Tintri Analytics site is excellent for long-term trending, but more data would be great. The product could be improved by adding iSCSI support. We have had to rethink how we implement some of our services due to this. 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. Active/active cluster between two Tintris on Hyper-V cluster. 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. |
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With other options, you need to buy a couple of different products to achieve the same outcome. Our TCO has increased by 15 to 18 percent. Using NetApp, our total cost of ownership decreased by 17%. Our TCO decreased significantly because we were paying maintenance on nine different arrays throughout the country. We've condensed those down to three arrays, and our maintenance fees from the IBM product dropped by over a half million dollars a year, saving us $500,000 USD. The total cost, the pricing of it, has gone up quite a bit. Disk level encryption is already in the solution, but it is very costly. Its pricing should come down. From an application standpoint, we have seen a lot of return investment on the speeds and responsiveness of the actual storage. Our total cost of ownership (TCO) has decreased by 40 percent. | The area it needs to improve is the pricing. It could be better. Make sure that you have all licenses in one go. Options afterwards can cost extra. An "all-in-one" license model would be better at this price range. Ensure the storage system "natively" supports the protocols that you wish to use (i.e., CIFS) without the need for the overhead of internal "conversion VMs" that run the protocols. Tintri is reasonably priced for the solution you get. Advanced features do require extra to use. The licensing model is relatively simple. For things like replication, however, the licensing needs to be looked at. Prices are not cheap, but it runs. I think it is a very good solution. You get a good bang for buck. |
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| NetApp All Flash FAS, NetApp AFF, NetApp Flash FAS | |
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NetApp AFF8000 All Flash FAS systems combine all-flash performance with unified data management from flash to disk to cloud. Leverage the Data Fabric to move data securely across your choice of clouds—enabled by Cloud ONTAP™ and NetApp Private Storage for Cloud. Plus, you get the industry’s most efficient and comprehensive integrated data protection suite, on premises or in the cloud. |
All-Flash ArraysThe Tintri All-Flash Array controls each application automatically, so you don’t have to. Tintri guarantees performance, crunches real-time analytics, and predicts future needs—all at the application level. And with the T1000 Array, remote offices and individual departments can experience Tintri too. Now you can rest easy. Tintri EC6000 All-flash Array Series Data Sheet Hybrid-Flash ArraysConventional storage doesn’t play nice with your applications. The Tintri Hybrid-Flash Array does. Tintri controls each of your applications automatically, so you can spend your time and money on the strategic projects that matter. And when 99% of IO is delivered from flash, you get all-flash performance at a not-so-flashy price point. Tintri VMstore T800 Hybrid-Flash Series Data Sheet Tintri maximizes performance for your applications and the people who manage them. With all-flash storage and software for virtualized workloads, Tintri automatically manages each application, so you don’t have to. That means you’re free from decades-old storage constraints so you can spend your time on high-impact projects. |
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Sample Customers | |
| Acibadem Healthcare Group, AmTrust Financial Services, Citrix Systems, DWD, Mantra Group | That’s why leading enterprises including Comcast, Chevron, NASA, Toyota, United Healthcare and 20% of the Fortune 100, trust Tintri with storage needs. |
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Healthcare Company16% Financial Services Firm12% Retailer9% Energy/Utilities Company8% Financial Services Firm21% Healthcare Company15% Manufacturing Company9% Government7% | University29% Healthcare Company19% Insurance Company14% Government5% Healthcare Company20% Financial Services Firm17% Marketing Services Firm11% Pharma/Biotech Company9% |
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Small Business11% Midsize Enterprise12% Large Enterprise76% Small Business24% Midsize Enterprise14% Large Enterprise62% | Small Business21% Midsize Enterprise45% Large Enterprise33% Small Business15% Midsize Enterprise33% Large Enterprise52% |
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