We performed a comparison between NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays 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."I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"It is an easy to use product for all of my team members."
"As soon as we introduced our first Pure Storage FlashArray, the first benefit was at least twice the performance increase. Our production databases simply ran twice as fast with no other change."
"The tool is simple and easy to use. It has neat features like protection from device removal. Moreover, you can undo the deletes. The solution is easy to work with and not as complicated as CAC"
"The compression and deduplication features help to make the best use of the capacity."
"It has been very stable. I have not seen or heard of downtime storage issues after moving over to it."
"Their technical support is excellent. It's the best out of any of the vendors we work with."
"The speed is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"Compared to Dell Unity XT, what I see as an advantage in NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is the fact that it is more scalable...The performance of the product is good."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to set a specific margin of performance to a specific workload."
"The management of it is very simple. that is the most valuable feature."
"The NetApp EF-Series gave our organization easy access to our data bases."
"Its performance is most valuable. This solution is much faster than other as well as older storage solutions. The performance of the system is very good. We are getting 50 times better experience than the older storages. We are using AFF 300. It also has native cloud integration and most of the features."
"The management software is very good."
"The solution allows us to segregate one storage unit from another."
"It is a very stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"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."
"It has easy setup, easy administration, and no LUNs!"
"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."
"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."
"Its VM-aware features have been excellent to use and integrate with XenServer as well."
"Performance, cost, and ease of storage management."
"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."
"A very good support team that is available 24/7. They have real technical staff with strong knowledge."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"The credentials on the iSCSI interface are only available to type in with the Chrome browser, and not with the Firefox browser."
"From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable."
"In the next version of this program, I would like to see increased security, higher encryption, and faster throughput."
"What it needs to do is work a little closer with solutions, like VMware, so it understands the particular workloads that are on it. Today, it does not understand the applications which are running against it."
"They could improve the price."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"A little more manageability, a simpler management interface. It's not necessarily that it's way overly complex. It's just that it's not as easy as the FAS series."
"This solution has limited storage."
"Its pricing should be better. Its price is competitive, but they need to improve the pricing. They have different licensing models, which they need to improve. My expectation was cloud integration, which they have, but it is a different license. Therefore, people cannot enjoy it. If I want to use it, I need to pay extra. There is a cost involved for everything, but it should reach everyone. It is similar to having a Rolls-Royce, but you need to pay extra for the key. If you want the key, you need to pay."
"It was difficult to implement and lacks some additional features that would be useful, but as a solution fits a particular need for our organization."
"The price of the All Flash solution is very high."
"As far as the manageability, being able to port between the two and have to do less training in-house from a customer point of view, that would be the part to improve."
"The only major drawback is the replication between EF-Series units."
"There could be better integration with some of our Cisco products."
"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."
"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 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."
"The Tintri Analytics site is excellent for long-term trending, but more data would be great."
"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."
"Detailed reporting is missing in the current version. We would like to see this feature added in a new release."
"More cloud integration."
"I'm waiting to see the Kubernetes package. I know they're releasing one, but I haven't seen it yet."
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NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is ranked 23rd in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews while Tintri VMstore is ranked 15th in All-Flash Storage with 61 reviews. NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is rated 8.6, while Tintri VMstore is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays writes "A storage solution that offers great stability, resilience, and support". 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". NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and HPE Primera, whereas Tintri VMstore is most compared with Dell PowerStore, HPE Nimble Storage, VMware vSAN, NetApp AFF and DDN IntelliFlash. See our NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays vs. Tintri VMstore report.
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