We performed a comparison between Pure Storage FlashBlade 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."At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"The most valuable feature is its upgradeability."
"The best feature is consistently lower latency, even when IOPS crank up to over 75K. The product maintains submillisecond response time, which is incredible."
"We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"It is always out of the box, and ready to use."
"We've had to use tech support on a number of occasions. They did everything remotely and talked us all the way through. They fixed the issue within 30 minutes. Every single time we contact them, they're perfect. I would give their technical support a ten out of ten."
"Pure Storage is extremely reliable — it's never failed."
"Has also helped simplify storage for us. The other person we put in there, took about a week to implement. And we had both arrays set up within around four hours with a thirty minute drive time between the two locations."
"We have integrated it with VMware. The integration process is pretty good. Especially with VMware, it helps with the capacity of it."
"It performs well and it is also very fast."
"Speed and ease of use are the two most valuable features."
"It is very easy to use, and it is very fast."
"The snapshots, replication, and the ability to have immutable blades are the most valuable features. You're putting data snapshots out in those blades, and they cannot be touched. Its performance is great."
"The solution provides many controllers."
"It's very easy-to-use."
"It uses the same platform for connectivity so integration is seamless."
"Fast deployment for virtual machines"
"It is great for finding problems where VMs are hogging all the performance."
"It’s very good at IOPS."
"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."
"The ability to snap machines into VMware quickly is valuable."
"Support from our vendor and Tintri are brilliant. They have always answered all of our questions promptly."
"We have been able to scale up to ten VM storages and 500 VMs through a single pane of glass."
"It's not so scalable. It's got moderate scaling capabilities right now. The clustering technology needs a bit of work, they need to improve that."
"The number of Filesystems is limited, which it is not on the EMC VNX."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"I'd like to see a move towards individual VMs for what the performance of each VM is in a VD infrastructure. I can see the overall volume, but I would love to see things in a more granular level on the VM side."
"We would like to see better troubleshooting aspects. It helps us if we can find out where the problem is. Right now, it's difficult. Sometimes it's difficult to pinpoint the issue. If they had more visibility and more troubleshooting feature built into the tool that would really help."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"I recognize it's a difficult challenge, but I would like to see them make the pricing more reasonable."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"I would like to see more monitoring capability included in the next release of this solution."
"I would like to have Snapshots and Snapmail in the next release. People who came from a NetApp background, especially expect these features."
"I would like to see more deduplication."
"It's on the expensive side, as expected for a niche product."
"The Pure Storage Orchestrator is our biggest pain point at the moment. If we can have more say in future developments of feature sets that we will need to support for our use case, that would be pretty beneficial to us."
"An area for improvement in Pure Storage FlashBlade is its price. It could be reduced. The technical support for Pure Storage FlashBlade also needs improvement. It used to be good, with more experienced engineers. Nowadays, it isn't, and it takes longer for support to solve problems."
"I have not seen ROI."
"I want efficiency. FlashBlade doesn't have efficiency now."
"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."
"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."
"In sync and automated mirror between two Tintris is missing."
"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."
"The solution is already good but the brand name is not so popular here."
"I'm waiting to see the Kubernetes package. I know they're releasing one, but I haven't seen it yet."
"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."
"The product could be improved by adding iSCSI support. We have had to rethink how we implement some of our services due to this."
Pure Storage FlashBlade is ranked 16th in All-Flash Storage with 30 reviews while Tintri VMstore is ranked 15th in All-Flash Storage with 61 reviews. Pure Storage FlashBlade is rated 8.8, while Tintri VMstore is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashBlade writes "A high-performing and scalable solution that improves data performance for S3 workloads". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tintri VMstore writes "Enables us to increase our retail sales and margins while decreasing the amount of time spent managing the solution". Pure Storage FlashBlade is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), VAST Data, MinIO, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell ECS, whereas Tintri VMstore is most compared with Dell PowerStore, HPE Nimble Storage, VMware vSAN and NetApp AFF. See our Pure Storage FlashBlade vs. Tintri VMstore report.
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