Tintri VMstore Other Solutions Considered

Jonathan Neale - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Manager at Sempervox

We had quotes from Dell, HP, Pure Storage, and NetApp. All the servers we use are Dell, so there was a significant comfort factor, but it ultimately came down to a decision between Dell SAN and Tintri SAN. On the one hand, it made sense to go with a Dell SAN because we already had a Dell blade array. However, at that stage, Dell was still building their SANs on a more traditional footing, where configuration and management were quite intensive. 

The Tintri box was faster than the Dell, and it was much easier to build a VM. It was like night and day. You could send a message from the Slack bot, spin up two VMs, and the VMs were created seconds later. On the Dell SAN, it might take 15 to 20 minutes to do the same thing manually. We recognized Tintri as a leading-edge technology changing how it was done. We appreciated how the box operated, and it did disappoint.

About two years after we got our box, we were told that Tintri was in financial trouble, but we didn't panic because we knew how this technology market worked. We knew one of the bigger fish would swallow it up, and along came DDN. While it wasn't necessarily a factor, you want to ensure ongoing support and that the company will be around a year after you buy it. 

When we purchased VMstore, it was a stable business, and there were no indications that it was in danger. When Tintri did become in trouble, we knew the product was good, and we knew how the storage market worked, so we were confident somebody would purchase it. When DDN did, we knew we were okay.

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John Ruggeri - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Technical Services at Court of Appeals of Georgia

We looked at Fujitsu and Nimble, which was purchased by HPE. We were looking for real-time replication. Fujitsu had an option for doing real-time replication but it didn't fully support vVols yet. But that's where you were going to get that additional detail, by having it defined as a virtual volume. There were APIs that would allow you to see more individual information about each VMware guest server that you're running. 

That was a key difference. Once we dug into it, it was a no-brainer. With Tintri, you don't have to define anything or go through all these extra steps of configuration. It was actually something we were apprehensive about because it seemed too good to be true, that it was going to be that easy and would work that well. I've been doing this for about over 26 years and I've spent a lot of time in rooms listening to sales engineers and marketing people tell us how things are going to work and how easy they are. But when you actually get them into your data center and try to do those things, it turns out there are 15 other things you have to do or it doesn't work quite that way. Marketing and engineering don't always meet.

We were very pleasantly surprised that that was not the case here. We were actually kind of shocked. 

The situation with Nimble was that they were working on synchronous replication and that was something we really wanted. With our LeftHand network solution, we were able to do a stretch cluster because it was a network RAID. We had so many nodes running in one data center and so many nodes running in the other. If we had to turn them off, or they went out in one of them, the storage would stay up, but we would be running in a degraded, slower manner. We wanted to keep it up in the event of having to fail.

With Nimble, we thought synchronous replication was in alpha or beta, but when we sat down to get the demo and started asking the guy questions, he was showing us an animation. It wasn't real servers doing real devices. It was just a very fancy simulation of how it was supposed to work and there really wasn't a product yet.

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VB
Senior Engineer at Lincoln Financial Group

We did evaluate the following options before finally settling on Tintri VMstore:

1. PureStorage

2. Dell PowerStore

3. Dell Unity

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GL
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Upon evaluating Tintri, we discovered HP had a similar solution, but it didn't quite meet our requirements. Essentially, they informed us that a complete re-engineering of the entire cloning process would be necessary to achieve our desired outcome. This led us to primarily utilize ASX components with Tintri.

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it_user401511 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Data Centers at a university with 501-1,000 employees

We looked at NetApp, Tegile and Nimble.

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VD
Global Head of Network Engineering at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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

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RM
Windows Systems Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

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.

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it_user371409 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Operations at STM IT Solutions

We evaluated solutions from Nimble Storage and EMC.

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it_user402774 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Analyst at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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reviewer872538 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Analyst

We evaluated Pure Storage SSD arrays.

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RC
Server & Storage Administrator with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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it_user276579 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Systems Manager with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Nimble
  • Pure Storage
  • Storage Craft
  • DataCore
  • EMC
  • SCALE
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it_user371439 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Services Manager at a legal firm with 201-500 employees

We evaluated EMC, NetApp, Nimble Storage, and Pure Storage. At the time the "all-flash" options were still very expensive and we hoped that a hybrid approach would be sufficient for our performance needs. We're very happy with the decision.

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it_user276579 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Systems Manager with 1,001-5,000 employees

We looked at Nimble, Scale, EMC, Nutanix, Equalogic. Software solutions: Infinio, DataCore, Conducive

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it_user583974 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a marketing services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Before choosing, we also evaluated a NetApp all-flash system but Tintri does it better, the PoC was faster; better management.

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it_user871908 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Engineer at Residential Management Group Limited

We did not evaluate other options.

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it_user694668 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
it_user371418 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technologist with 1,001-5,000 employees

We considered NetApp, Nutanix, and HP 3PAR.

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it_user243507 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager with 51-200 employees

We were considering options from NetApp, Dell, HP, and Nutanix.

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it_user404517 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a agriculture with 501-1,000 employees

We looked at upgrades to our Netapp, or going with an HP or EMC SAN. Neither was able to deliver what we got from Tintri.

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it_user497649 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer Client & Server at Swisslos Interkantonale Landeslotterie

Not applicable.

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it_user118299 - PeerSpot reviewer
Unix System Administrator at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

We looked at Tegile because they offer multiple protocols (iSCSI, NFS, SMB, etc.), but their replication process is very disappointing. Tintri is the best for a VMWare solution and its simplicity is a must!

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it_user250251 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer with 51-200 employees

Primarily looked at Nimble, but also considered SolidFire and Tegile.

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it_user244041 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of I.T. with 51-200 employees

Yes, we ran an evaluation and virtual beauty parade of Tegile, Netapp, HP, Hitachi, Dell, EMC. Tintri was the clear winner for us.

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it_user412617 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer Werkplekken at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

Yes, we tried multiple storage vendors but at that time Tintri was our best option for what we needed to achieve. They also provided us with a demo model.

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it_user627702 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

We evaluated Nimble and Nutanix.

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it_user371436 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Systems Manager at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

We looked at other solutions. When we purchased this, it was the only solution offering the features we needed.

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it_user371412 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Before choosing Tintri, we evaluated solutions from Nimble Storage and Equalogic.

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it_user359496 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Team Lead - Environments Team with 501-1,000 employees

We evaluated Nutanix.

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it_user400461 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Yes, HDS, Huawei, and HP. We looked at a lot of different vendors beforehand, but Tintri just fit our needs nicely, and I cannot fault the performance.

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it_user371448 - PeerSpot reviewer
LAN Administrator at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

We evaluated several options, including

  • Tegile
  • EMC
  • Nimble Storage
  • Nimbus
  • NetApp
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it_user246960 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Infrastructure Analyst at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Yes, we had to chose between Tintri and other vendor, we bought each of them and after running our tests we decided that Tintri fits best for us.

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it_user371406 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

We evaluated solutions from NetApp and EMC.

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it_user371403 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Infrastructure Architect at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

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

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it_user265812 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Solutions Architect at Clouditalia Telecomunicazioni

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

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it_user378327 - PeerSpot reviewer
jonfwilliams@outlook.com at a tech company with 51-200 employees

We compared it to Atlantis ILIO, which we were currently running.

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it_user262920 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systemkonsult

We compared the Tintri solution with a newer NetApp investment with flash pool.

We found that we could upgrade primary storage in both our datacenters to the price of one NetApp installation.

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