We performed a comparison between StarWind HyperConverged Appliance and Tintri VMstore based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."The option to deploy a hyper-converged system without an expensive storage switch was a benefit."
"The hardware footprint is great. We've got two 2U servers which replaced four 2U servers. Granted, they were about three years old at that point, but we actually increased our processing capacity by about 50 percent while keeping our storage capacity about the same. We've actually been able to downgrade to a half rack from a full rack because we've gotten rid of some of our network equipment and some of our additional storage arrays."
"Repair efforts have been reduced to nearly nothing."
"What makes it valuable is the high-availability. In the education field, when you've got students in classrooms, any loss of service disrupts the lessons to a point that the whole lesson is affected. For part of the business which isn't business-critical, to have a little bit of a hiccup wouldn't be such a big thing, but here, it's the high availability of service that is important."
"The solution has provided our company with a fully redundant virtual environment at half the cost of a traditional SAN implementation."
"The hosts came preconfigured, and it was plug-and-play."
"Live migration between nodes was quick and simple."
"The sales process is easy."
"Fast deployment for virtual machines"
"We have been able to scale up to ten VM storages and 500 VMs through a single pane of glass."
"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."
"Its VM-aware features have been excellent to use and integrate with XenServer as well."
"The cloning is very fast... Another aspect I like is that it's very simple. It's an easy GUI to use."
"We also find the detail per-vm reporting at the ability to see reports from the hypervisor straight back to the storage useful."
"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."
"Its speed has been absolutely fantastic."
"I think some performance metrics would be nice to see, especially on the storage side."
"The only area that the product could improve would be user training."
"The only thing that can use improvement is the StarWind Management Console and Command Center."
"The truth is that the operation and support offered is good, but we consider that the product's usability could improve, as well as the data resynchronization time after an unexpected closure."
"Maybe they could have a support portal that you can have direct access to a current support representative."
"If I had to pick something to add to the product, it would be nice if you could have more than one user account on their command center VM."
"Perhaps the initial configuration and documentation could be a little clearer and simpler to follow."
"Over the past three years, there were two instances where our cluster had an issue, yet StarWind proactively notified me of those issues and effortlessly guided me through the process of correcting the issue with minimal effort on my part."
"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."
"More cloud integration."
"I would like to be able to add more storage capacity to our 2 units down the road with out buying an additional seprate array."
"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."
"We need more options to integrate with cloud storage options other than the current AWS and IBM that it currently supports."
"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."
"Technical support is an area where we had several issues, and it was hard to get some support in a specific case we had. I'm not very satisfied with them."
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StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is ranked 5th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 65 reviews while Tintri VMstore is ranked 14th in All-Flash Storage with 61 reviews. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is rated 9.6, while Tintri VMstore is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of StarWind HyperConverged Appliance writes "Straightforward to use with good remote management and a simple GUI". 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". StarWind HyperConverged Appliance is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), VMware vSAN, Dell PowerFlex, VxRail and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas Tintri VMstore is most compared with Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell PowerStore, HPE Nimble Storage, VMware vSAN and NetApp AFF.
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