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I rate Tintri VMstore nine out of 10. I never give 10s unless it's perfect. The only perfect thing in this world is Liverpool FC. If you can, get a loaned box to try it out first. If Tintri has an old box somewhere or they allow you to get your hands on a box and connect it, I would be surprised if the IT company in question doesn't say, "Okay, this is good."
You read a lot of data and statistics and can say that it can do fast storage, SSDs, VME, etc. Ultimately, you don't know anything about a product or a service until you use it. Having a loaned device and getting engineers to play around with it live is invaluable.
View full review »Tintri has gone from older models that were hybrid flash with a mix of spinning disks and SSDs through improvements to all-SSD arrays. Now there are NVMe benefits, which have lower latency and higher performance. As the product line has matured and improved and new generations of storage have come out, performance has followed suit. It's not just the hardware itself that adds performance benefits, but for organizations that have multiple arrays, Tintri Global Center allows for the intelligent positioning of virtual machines to maximize the performance. The combination of a heuristic, machine-learning-based placement model and improved hardware performance is part of the secret sauce of Tintri.
As for corporate stability, we were working with Tintri before the bankruptcy and before the DDN acquisition, and we continued to work with Tintri after those events. Stability is important, but OpEx performance and the ability to deliver are a part of the conversation. I found that Tintri was delivering innovation a decade ago when I first started evaluating them. I will admit that we did look at other vendors in the 2017-2018 time frame when Tintri was going through some of its challenges. But we are comfortable now, especially with DDN backing Tintri. There is good financial stability, good operating stability, a good roadmap into the future, and it's still a great product.
My advice is to talk to customers that are already using Tintri. Every vendor you're considering is going to tell a good vendor story, and every vendor is going put things in front of you that say why they're better than any other vendor. But talk to somebody who's actually using it and let them tell you why it was the choice that they made.
Don't be afraid to try something different, because Tintri is different in the sense that it's an NFS volume and a simple blob of storage. You have to trust that it's going to give you the performance that you need. In so many other solutions you are in control of that performance: How many spindles you assign to a database and how much of it is flash. Are you creating this LUN? Are you running it over multiple devices so that you can get the most performance out of it? What RAID level do you use? What protection level are you going to run? Is it RAID 5, RAID 10, or RAID 20? All that goes away, and when you're used to doing and thinking in those terms you'll say, "Well, how could it be this easy?" You will think, "I've been doing it this way always, how could it be so different?" But it really can be and it works very well.
Around the time we bought from Tintri, they went public, and by the time we owned it and had it in production, they imploded. We looked at the product and said, "HPE or Dell is about to buy this. They're buying everything else and this stuff is too good." We couldn't understand how Tintri could not be doing well. It was an absolute no-brainer when we bought it. When DDN bought the company, I did a little research and said, "DDN is a very solid company." It looked like they were trying to get into the small-enterprise market with their storage, versus the stuff that they were building. Having such an old, solid company purchase Tintri and put resources into it and support it, told me that they recognized how good the technology was and that it was worth having. And they've been nothing but solid ever since.
I'm a fan of Tintri. I think more about people clicking on bad emails these days than I ever do about my storage. That was not always the case. I used to always worry about things like, "Hey, that RAID 6, if there's a bad drive you have to replace it. Are two drives going to go? Do we get four-hour response? Do we have a cold spare?" I don't even think about that stuff anymore. I give Tintri a 10 out of 10.
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I would advise playing with it. Don't hesitate. Go buy it. Jump into that Tintri toolkit. There are a lot of cool features in there. Once you stop looking at storage for what storage does, you can find many other things that it does and you're like, "Wow, I didn't even know I could do that with my storage because I've been so busy focusing on these three areas. Now that I don't even think about those three areas anymore, I can use my storage for this." So, think outside the box and play with that Tintri toolkit. It's time to get on the Tintri train and stop thinking about your storage.
I would rate it a 10 out of 10.
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reviewer2159643
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
I would rate Tintri VMstore eight out of ten. We maintain a C850 server at one location and a T7040 server at another location for disaster recovery purposes. Our network supports 250 end users.
For organizations solely using VMware ESXi and seeking a unified storage solution, Tintri VMstore is a suitable choice. However, for organizations requiring advanced logging capabilities, Tintri may not be the optimal solution. Alternative solutions are available at a higher cost.
View full review »Seriously, my 20 years in storage and this is the best solution I've ever used hands down. The company is great to work with as well!
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reviewer2068803
Global Head of Network Engineering at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
For day-to-day use, VMstore has been solid VM storage for us.
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Reynaldo Martinez
Windows Systems Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
You can ask for a deployment test with Tintri. After you test it you will like it, it's deployment is really quick and simple. No other dashboard is needed because you can see the behavior of your storage and the IO performance at the VM level.
View full review »Understand it is NFS-only and while other products may be cheaper, it is very granular.
View full review »Stop using LUNs and start working with Tintri. The simplicity will amaze you and takes the stress out of storage.
View full review »Tintri has been a breeze to deal with! We have had no issues.
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ServStorAdm8948
Server & Storage Administrator with 1,001-5,000 employees
A lot of people get spooked by the word hybrid. Don't be. This thing is a hybrid but has all-flash speed.
View full review »Get it. You won’t be disappointed.
View full review »With the drop in flash prices, there are a lot more options on the market than when we first started our research for this project. In particular, I'm currently very interested in hyper-converged solutions. However, if are looking for an easy, but high performing storage platform for VMware, then you can't go wrong with Tintri.
View full review »Tintri has been an excellent choice for us and the performance has gone way beyond our expectations. We are very pleased with Tintri and highly recommend it.
View full review »Get a POC. The time it takes to setup and test is so minimal.
View full review »Try it, love it. :)
View full review »Tintri is the best solution that I have used. The performance is second to none!
View full review »Understand your workloads and their demands well. This means you need VM performance metrics for at least three to six months, ideally, from vRealize Operations. Setting up policies is crucial as it has direct implications.
View full review »Try it, you'll like it.
View full review »The compression / deduplication numbers they advertise are probably accurate for a pure-VDI environment. In a mixed-workload environment, you numbers will definitely vary.
View full review »Hands down one of the best investments that we have ever done. We loved it so much we bought a second one for another site a couple of months later, and now we are buying a third.
View full review »Good, friendly sales, marketing, tech, and support teams, who are a pleasure to work with.
View full review »Tintri has the best solution in the storage world. Virtualization and storage is a good match and they are always adding new stuff with each new firmware release. I don't hesitate to recommend Tintri to my friends!
View full review »Look at where datacenters and virtualization are going. Many people consider "Software Defined" as simply a buzzword, but the truth is software is driving the datacenter. With Tintri you can save on compute resources by taking advantage of their VM-aware Storage. I honestly stumbled upon Tintri when I was looking into VVOLs with vSphere 6.0 and our NetApp. After lots of research it was apparent that VVOLs is not ready for prime-time and Tintri does A LOT more than what VVOLs can accomplish. Plus it was clear that VMware was simply taking the direction that Tintri already had a solution to. I couldn't be happier with the decision we made to invest in Tintri and our customers are much happier too.
View full review »For anyone looking at buying enterprise storage, take a good look at the market place, there are a lot of options out there. I did the same and found that Tintri was a clear leader in the space and would give me the performance and benefits I was looking for.
View full review »I'd say if you are going for VDI environments or need to provide high end VMWare solutions make sure to try Tintri. If you tried it and used it you wont go back to anything else.
View full review »- Test the sales pitch
- Do a PoC
- Push the box to the limits of your environment and see for yourself
Buy it.
View full review »I think this is a perfect product if you need a VM-aware storage solution. As a service provider we love the possibility to look at the virtual environment from the storage perspective, to see which VMs are using IOPS/capacity and to analyze where the latency is produced (host/network/storage). With the new QOS features we can guarantee to meet customer demands and we don’t have to use different storage platforms for different performance alternatives. For example; if the customer wants spinning-SATA-RAID5 performance we can set a limit on the IOPS and if the customer wants Hybrid-SSD-spinning we can guarantee 5000 IOPS.
View full review »Just give it a try, even via POC, to see how much simpler it is to implement and how well it performs.
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Claudio Gallo
System Engineer at Swisslos Interkantonale Landeslotterie
We used the on-premises deployment model. Recently, we stopped using the solution.
I would rate the solution seven out of ten.
View full review »We love our Tintri's here, so much so, we have 3! I would highly recommend them to anyone. We are mainly VMWare, but the multi hypervisor support means that it can fit almost any environment.
View full review »Do it. If you are in the NFS virtual world, there is no better device.
View full review »I definitely recommend Tintri as a storage array.
View full review »Install a POC unit and put test machines on it. That is the best way to see what it can do, and it is *very easy* to install/remove.
Fig 1: Typical Monday morning in the primary datacenter on Tintri T-850. The space savings (x1.9) means that we are getting nearly twice as much value out of the Tintri than standard storage.
Fig 2: IO changes between Sunday and Monday performance not changed by the increase in IOPS:
View full review »Make sure you have four 10GB ports available, as each controller has two ports. If they are both filled, it will flash the error LED on the front of the unit.
View full review »The performance is great and management really easy. Don´t stare blindly on dedup number. You get the largest dedup effect in test/dev or VDI Environments, in regular server environments that effect will be rather small, BUT you always get a great compression ratio.
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