Tintri VMstore T7000 Reviews

The ease of use is the most valuable feature. You just set up the VMstore in 15 minutes or less by connecting the network, giving a name and IP, and then adding DNS entries and permissions and you are off an running.

The storage is VMware, so it knows how to optimize performance for VMs, which is what we use exclusively in our modern data center. We never hit drive performance problems. Our headaches are gone after the switch!

Of course price can always be lower. Still working with support to enable more options for backup at this time, but we asked for features and they expect to deliver in the next month or two...nice to have a company that listens.

We've had no issues with deployment.

We haven't had any issues with stability.

We haven't had scalability issues.

They've listened to us when we requested more options for backup.

The price could be lower.

I no longer have to think about our storage or managing it. Tintri solved all those problems for us while improving performance.

The ease and use and the great performance are why we went with our 2nd Tintri VMstore. Tintri arrays are cheaper then other vendors while still providing an excellent level of performance.

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. I hear that their newer models may solve that issue though.

For my role, I've found that the most valuable features are its ease and simplicity, especially with configuration. Tintri's support is also great.

Even though we brought it in less than a year ago, we've already found that it's improved the way we function by simply being easier to manage than the other products we've used as well as those we looked at.

Right now, we see that the configuration access isn't as good as it should be. An improvement in this area would be a huge help for us.

We implemented it recently, less than a year ago.

We've had no issues with deployment whatsoever.

We have yet to uncover any instability issues.

We haven't had to scale it that much yet, but we haven't had any issues.

The technical support at Tintri has been great so far.

We did not want to be locked down by a specific vendor or product, so we switched to Tintri.

The initial set up is very straightforward, almost plug-n-play.

We used a vendor team for the implementation.

As it's been under a year since we initially implemented, it's too soon to determine our ROI. But it looks good so far going forward.

Buy what you need and not what you want.

We evaluated solutions from NetApp and EMC.

Our customer don't call anymore for slowness on their VM's disks. Our engineers have much more time for more valuable things instead of storage management. Time to market enviable. Support hyper-reactive.

Simplicity of installation and management, high IOPS, management per VM, QoS, power and space saving.

More cloud integration.

Customer Service:

It's far above average.

Technical Support:

We always spoke with a senior engineer.

We switched for low IOPS and cost of management.

Directly from Tintri, very high professional level.

The cost of all the SW is well spent because it makes you save on backup and DR.

There are several valuable features for us, among them are speed, savings of storage space, and the ease of setup and management.

Using VMstore, we no longer need a dedicated storage engineer, saving us costs from a human resources perspective. There's also very little setup required for new Tintri units. And once set up, management can be done by anyone.

It would be very helpful if it had scheduled time-to-full trend reporting because management always wants to know how much time is left on storage.

I've been using it for 11 months.

We've had no deployment issues at all. It's the simplest storage installation we've ever seen.

We encountered no issues with stability.

It's scalability is great. Because it’s node-based, if you need more space, you just add a node.

Customer support is excellent. They're very responsive.

Technical support is top-notch. We dealt with Steve Phillips, and he's been great.

Tintri replaced an EMC VNX 5700. Cost, performance, and ease of management were the primary reasons for the replacement.

The initial setup was very straightforward. We gave VMstore the addresses, told it where the vSphere vCenter was, and it literally did the rest. It took us about 30 minutes, including racking the unit.

Steve Phillips from Tintri came in person to show us how to set up the unit. His expertise is complete.

Pricing is much less expensive than anything of similar size/performance that we looked at (Pure, Tegile, upgraded VNX). The licensing is quite simple, especially when we made the purchase. It was all-inclusive then, and now they have more products that can be licensed.

We looked at Pure Storage and Tegile, and considered upgrading the existing VNX 5700.

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:

Rack space, compression, ease of use, IOPS and latency performances, vSphere integration, centralized control

Much more time available for other project, new items to put into our catalogue to offer our customers

Integration with Commvault for native storage snapshots

1 month

Not at all, we had their technicians more than once at our sites, to explain and to install the boxes, at no extra cost.

Not yet, and I don't expect.

Well, this is one of the most important points: 1 rack for almost 1 PB!

Great. More than great. Reactive, no, proactive, via autosupport.

As explained above: wonderful.

Yes, we had NetApp FAS: switched because of performance but, worst at all, support cost after the first 3 years. Unsusteinable and with no justification

It's been smooth, asked for a couple of ports from our network guys, installed the needed SFP-- et voilà.

It was directly contacted Tintri Europe, and we were assisted by Zycko Italia. Nice support

Not my field

The cost could be the same as traditional vendors, but the product is totally superior.

Yes, all traditional ones from NetApp, to EMC, to HP and Huawei.

Compression and the Tintri UI in general. Very easy to see what VMs are consuming the most amount of resources and where the latency is (host, network, storage).

Much less storage management than both of out other SANs. Traditionally it's very hard to troubleshoot perceived storage performance issues of a single VM when it's on a shared LUN with other VMs; with Tintri it's a snap.

Not a fan of SyncVM being an addition license. Dedupe is only at the clone level; no overall dedupe process. 

6 Months

None. This storage appliance is a breeze to install and configure.

None. This is a rock solid device. We have run high workload one the device while applying OS update on it with no issue.

Great customer service; if there is an issue they often know before I do and have a ticket already in progress.