Tintri VMstore Reviews

We use it mostly for our VM storage.

The benefit we have seen is the simplification. Using Tintri has been more of a set-and-forget-it situation where I trust that Tintri performs as expected. And it does. It definitely reduces administrative time. Once I set it up I barely had any issues with storage.

The cloning is very fast.

Also, the fact that VMstore enables you to do replications, snapshots, and setting QS at a virtual machine level is awesome because it's more of a set-and-forget-it type of situation.

Another aspect I like is that it's very simple. It's an easy GUI to use.

I have not had any major problems with it except that one of the controllers failed one time. But that didn't hinder performance because there were two of them.

A feature like replication for disaster recovery would be nice.

I have been using Tintri VMstore since 2016-2017. I used one of the earlier models with no SSDs. It was mostly physical drives.

It's very stable. I've never had any problems with Tintri. They usually are pretty good at keeping track of their equipment. Usually, because they have noticed some hard drives are going down or are bad, they have already sent us drives to replace them. Tintri is one of the appliances that I barely needed to look at and maintain.

Although now we have SSD drives, during the time that I was using it, it was mostly physical drives. 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. I know there are some limitations to things like that, but scalability, as opposed to having to buy a new appliance for higher capacity, would be good.

Their tech support is above average.

Positive

We didn't have other storage, at that time, that was VM-ready, such as Pure Storage and others. What we mostly had was some sort of NFS storage. The storage that we were using was old and not really VM-centric. When we moved to Tintri, it provided the best solution for everything. 

We switched because of performance. Isilon wasn't really meant for VM.

It took three to four hours to get VMstore rack-mounted, installed, and starting to serve the virtual machines.

In terms of maintenance, I just rely on the notifications and check on it from time to time. It has been pretty self-reliant.

What I have heard, price-wise, is that Tinti was definitely very competitive. That's one of the reasons it was chosen for us.

We did play around with a little bit of vSAN, but that was a little bit more complicated and more expensive, considering the licensing.

For day-to-day use, VMstore has been solid VM storage for us.

In our production environment, we have 10 ESX hosts with two replicated Tintri T850 SAN.

• It is fast and reliable. There hasn’t been a single failure in three years of use. 
• The VMs have worked fine, and the bandwidth to the Tintri SAN has never been an issue.

• Ease of managing and installing: It’s just to enter an IP address and you’re good to go. 
• It’s very good at IOPS. 
• The firmware upgrade is easy.

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.

Tintri has a great web UI that allows you to view performance of individual VMs, as well as performance of the overall VMstore.

Code upgrades are really simple.

We have seen increased performance of VMs that have been migrated to Tintri.

There are occasional bugs but Tintri has been good about fixing them quickly. The bugs are mostly cosmetic; I've never had a bug impact end users or VMs.

In regards to the bugs, we have had minor issues here and there, when accessing things in the UI. Nothing to note recently but in previous releases, we have had a lot of issues with AD integration. However, those issues have been resolved.

We have also had false-positive alerts, while upgrading the code. That only happened with one version of code, that we upgraded to but again, those have been resolved.

Tintri is always very good with resolving bugs, i.e., by frequently providing code upgrades.

I have used it for 3+ years.

We have not encountered any deployment issues.

We have not encountered any stability issues.

We have not encountered any scalability issues.

Customer service is excellent. Whenever I call, I get somebody right on the line.

Technical support is excellent. The Tintri is smart enough to generate tickets on its own when there are issues and support is right there to help.

Initial setup is very easy. The whole process from unboxing to adding to vCenter is 20-30 minutes. There are no LUNs to carve and no zoning required!

An in-house team implemented it.

I use Tintri box for a VDI solution, hosting at least 1800 VDI stations there, deployment really easy, really good performance. No major issues.

It speeds up deployment significantly. This is one of the greatest improvements because we are able to deploy several virtual machines in seconds. The cloning feature on the Tintri Box is really impressive.

The deduplication feature in VDI environments. If Tintri say's: "we can host 3000 VMs in our storage", I know, we can host 3000 VMs there. Believe the results.

The area it needs to improve is the pricing. It could be better. Another topic is the replication feature, In the version 4.3 the syncronous replication is not so friendly and you have to do procedures manually to come back once you recover one of your nodes. 

One to three years.

Good. We had a couple of issues from the start and they were resolved very quickly with no impact on production.

In the past, we used a typical SAN solution. We made the switch because of the simplicity of the design. We can use the same network devices that have a large number of connections, instead of SAN switches. That's one less layer. And because the deployment is really really fast.

The initial setup is straightforward, no advanced knowledge is required to do it.

Explore the Tintri Synchronous Replication feature (licensing is required). This is a good solution to protect your environment at Storage Level and your RTO will be improved by this.

Yes, XtremIO and you can ask for a deployment test with Tintri, after you test it you will like it, his deployment Is really simple and faster. No other dashboard is needed because you can see the behavior of your storage and the IO performance at VM level.

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.

The most valuable features to me are the VM-specific QoS feature, the enhanced visibility, and “noisy neighbor” prevention.

The big benefit to the organization is that we no longer have to worry about a few rogue VMs taking up performance resources on the SANs, which impacts all of our clients.

I would love an Active/Active set-up, if possible.

I've used it for two years.

We encountered no issues with deployment.

We had a couple of issues when updating firmware on the T540, but Tintri support was very fast to respond.

We've had no issues with scalability.

9/10. As mentioned previously, technical support was very quick to respond.

We still use EMC VNX appliances. The switch was due to performance limitations introduced by VDI and VM cloning.

The initial setup was very straightforward, especially compared with iSCSI solutions from other vendors.

We used an in-house team as the implementation was very straightforward.

It's hard to pinpoint the ROI, but the devices have been worth every penny spent.

Tintri pricing is very competitive, but there is a definite gap in the “entry level” market (sub-$30k).

We evaluated solutions from Nimble Storage and EMC.

Understand it is NFS-only and while other products may be cheaper, it is very granular.

We've been using Tintri for around six months now and we love the per-VM level statistics. It's also very easy to setup and to live with.

By using the Tintri management interface, we can now get VM-level statistics from both of our hypervisors. This allows us to quickly diagnose latency issues and find solutions for them before they become bigger problems.

Tintri hardware is perfectly sized for the medium-to-large office. Their interface and methodology is great, but it's a shame there is nothing for a robo office with 10-20 machines.

We've used it for six months.

We've had no issues with deploying Tintri. From start to finish it was less than 45 minutes with most of the time taken to get it into the rack.

We have performed failover testing before going live and experienced no issues.

We have also performed updates to Tintri during the day with no problems.

When Tintri gets to either the maximum performance reserves or available disk space, the only upgrade path is to purchase a new unit.

Customer service from Tintri is excellent. Our account manager is always available to talk to us and we have access to him and his expertise.

The technical support has been very helpful, even proactively replacing a piece of hardware with a known fault.

When we had to look at support renewal costs for our existing hardware vendor, they were very high which the prompted us to look into different hardware vendors.

The initial setup was very simple and it took 45 minutes to get fully up and running. Unboxing and racking took the longest.

We used in-house skills to get this working as it really doesn't require any expert knowledge compared to other storage vendors.

We plan to be using the Tintri system over 5 years, but we expect our ROI within 1-2 years based on lower admin overheads and quicker troubleshooting of issues.

To get the best pricing, work with Tintri and a vendor and they will be able to advise best on what they can offer.

Before we chose the Tintri storage system, we looked at a number of different companies, but many were removed from our selection process because of no NFS support which was our main focus.

Stop using LUNs and start working with Tintri. The simplicity will amaze you and takes the stress out of storage.

Tintri T5060 SSD array used for high performance requirements of Windows 10 VDI environment using Citrix XenDesktop.

KPI: Performance must be equal to or better than a local user environment.

The Tintri VMstore was faster than most local user laptops and desktops available at the time. Most users were on spinning disk or hybrid storage. 

In the VDI environment, the "VM-aware" T5060, along with its extremely fast speeds, has removed storage as your typical bottleneck.

• Its VM-aware features have been excellent to use and integrate with XenServer as well. 
• Its speed has been absolutely fantastic. 
• Upgrades are super easy and can be done during business hours without interruptions in production.

• 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.

No issues.

No issues.

Technical support has been excellent, Their engineers are excellent and easy to access.

No previous solution was used.

Initial setup was very straightforward.

Implementation was done in-house.

ROI is excellent, but have no specific data.

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.

We evaluated Pure Storage SSD arrays.

Tintri has been a breeze to deal with!  We have had no issues.

The SAN was purchased for our VDI environment. As soon as we put it in place, we noticed a threefold speed increase in the overall system.

It has greatly improved the performance of our VDI environment to start. Since the initial deployment we also attached it to our "Server VM" vsphere and even placed some of our virtual server workloads on it and it has handled that load very well.

The overall speed of the system is the main feature that is valuable for us. The metrics and analytics it provided is great also.

This product was purchased for our VMware View VDI environment . At the time we were having disk latency issues and were looking for an all Flash array. This is a Hybrid unit. At first we were skeptical it could provide the same performance as an all Flash Array, but when we tested it against one it did. So speed was our primary feature we were looking for and we certainly got. We also find the detail per-vm reporting at the ability to see reports from the hypervisor straight back to the storage useful. Another other nice feature is the vmware aware granular abilities to provide QOS to each VM.

On the physical side, I would suggest adding a light to each of the controllers that would indicate which is the active and with is the passive.

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. We are considering buying another to host more of our virtual server workload.

The unit has been very stable since it came on-line.

We currently only have one device, so have not scaled it.

Customer Service:

The customer service is excellent.

Technical Support:

The only time we ever had an issue was when we were converting our storage infrastructure from 10GB Base-T to 10GB fibre. We inserted the wrong style Gbic into t he unit and a port would not come up. Support called us before we even thought to call them.

We have an all Flash Equallogic unit and the Tintri is much faster. The Equallogic also does not de-dupe the data or have any other feature like the Tintri does.

The initial setup was very easy.

1. Rack the unit
2. Plug in power and network.
3. Assign an IP via the cli.
4. Login via a web interface and complete the set-up.
5. Load the needed module on each hyper-visor.
6. Mount the storage.

We implemented it ourselves.

The ROI is very good and will continue to grow as we scale our vdi

Compared to other products in the same area, it's cost effective. The price is the price and is reasonable for the class of storage. Licensing is not a factor as there are no additional license costs.

In addition to Tintri we also did a proof of concept on Pure Storage. While the Pure Storage was slightly faster it was 40% more expensive and provided 70% less useable storage.

We also met with SolidFire, NetApp, Dell, and HP.

A lot of people get spooked by the word hybrid. Don't be. This thing is a hybrid but has all-flash speed.