In our old location, we had a data center that would have air conditioning or power issues. It just wasn't built to support our growth. If they had to do maintenance on the air conditioner, they would bring in portable air conditioning but that never kept the room cool enough while they repaired the facility. With VMstore, we were able to push a button—and it really is that simple—and flip our primary and secondary storage locations by failing over. Then we would migrate our VMs and be running out of our auxiliary data center. When the repairs were done, we'd just click another button and fail back over to spread the resources out the way we had them previously. 

When we migrated to our new facility, we had some single-mode fiber that was connecting the old facility to the new facility. We just paused our replication, then moved half of our VMware servers and half of our Tintri over to the new location and pushed a button to resync any replication that needed to occur over that two-hour period of moving devices. Then we pushed another button and we were running out of the new building. We then picked up half the resources, moved them into the new building, hit the button again and said, "Resync your replication." We never went down or lost any service. Anybody who was trying to e-file or do court work at that time was never affected by our migration. 

Our friends on the Supreme Court of Georgia do not use the same technology as we do. They had to send out letters and emails to all the clerks in the 159 counties we have in Georgia to notify lawyers and the public that they were going to be unavailable for an extended three to five-day period while they migrated their stuff over to the new building. Meanwhile, our court was getting calls from counties that send us 50 to 100 cases a week asking, "When are you guys going to be offline? And we said, "We're not going to be down or offline at all." That was a significant win for us, and it was all because of Tintri and its technology.

Another advantage is that VMstore has reduced administrative time, without question. Previously, we used a product from LeftHand Networks, which was eventually purchased by HP. We had iSCSI connectivity that came with its own set of chores. When you wanted to set up a new LUN, you had to carve it up and do some other steps. With NFS, you create your connection to your storage blob and then you carve it up by folders or however you want. It makes it incredibly easy. Provisioning storage is so simple that it takes clicks to provision it. And once you've done that, you're done. You configure your storage and you present that much storage to your VMware hosts and then decide, by folder, what you want to call it or how you want to carve it up. It becomes very easy and very easy to expand. We're also able to do a lot of thin provisioning.

Back in the day, you had to care about how many spinning disks, how many spindles, about carving out LUNs, and what the performance would be. You had to make all these decisions when you were using older types of storage arrays. All of that has been taken away. It has freed up some staff time to assume more responsibilities in the infrastructure because we're not spending our time carving up LUNS and migrating a VM from one LUN to the next because we're running out of space. It is very easy to use and you can teach somebody how to use it in an afternoon. You can be an IT generalist and understand it.

Previously, we managed individual servers as hosts with virtual machines running inside. We consolidated about seven individual hosts into one VMstore joined to a Dell blade array that we purchased at the same time. That saves a massive amount of time on ongoing maintenance management. VMstore probably reduces administration time by about 15 to 20 percent. It also saves significant power costs because we've turned off about nine servers in the last seven years. 

What formerly may have taken up a terabyte or two on a server only requires half that on the VMstore. It has increased efficiency while saving time and power costs. It's easier to use and a huge step up in reliability. Overall, it's a high-speed storage solution, which was a significant upgrade.

VMstore has made our company more profitable. We've increased our retail sales and margins while decreasing the time spent managing the solution. We sold this as a significant upgrade to a premium service when moving customers to this new array. Depending on the customer, we increased our retail charges for these services by between 10 and 15 percent. Without fail, every customer paid for it, and they were pleased with the service. 

At the time, a decade ago, storage vendors were talking about LUNs, fiber channel, worldwide names, and volumes—and all of the underlying framework of storage. Tintri was coming to the market with a different approach. They said, "You don't have to worry about any of that stuff. We're going to make it easy. If you're using VMware, we take a novel approach and present disks that you can assign to VMs, and they're managed at the VM level." At the time, that was a unique value proposition and turned out to be true. It vastly simplified operations and the associated expense of delivering storage to customers.

Some customers would use it in a primary storage capacity, running virtual machines on it. Others would use it as a replication service. If they had Tintri in their own co-lo facilities or data centers, they would use it as a replication target for block-level replication. The ability to offer hundreds of terabytes of those services and not even require one full-time storage administrator on our side to do so, was frankly a win from an operating expenses perspective, but also a really novel offering when most of the other storage out there really took a lot to manage.

The OpEx improvements are from reduced administrative time, not needing multiple storage administrators dealing with storage day in and day out—the managing of volumes and LUNs, et cetera. That one area has completely disappeared. We don't have to worry about that anymore. That allows our people to focus on more important, value-added functions. It's a bit cliche to say "set it and forget it." But if Tintri is deployed correctly, and the Tintri Global Center stack is configured to allow for machine-learning-based placement of virtual machines, it really is set it and forget it. That is something that has absolutely cut down on administrative time and allowed us to focus on customer value delivery.

Another major benefit accrues to our customers. Customers are looking for two things: for their storage to perform without people having to say constantly, "Let me fix that," or "Let me look into that"; and for protection models that match their organizational commitments and requirements. Some of those commitments are cyber-related and some are contractual. Our customers that have Tintri on-premises want to know that their environments are protected in a fully managed way with immutable recovery and low RTO and RPO. We're able to provide that. The customers that are hybrid or using us in a fully managed service want to know the same thing, but they want to know that we have our arms around that so that they can meet the commitments they're making to their customers, insurers, and their business owners. Tintri has allowed us to do both of those things.

In terms of business impact, the performance of an array is directly tied to 

• what workloads can be delivered 
• how many can be delivered in a given storage ecosystem
• what the performance looks like to the customer. 

I'm certainly not saying Tintri is the only game in town, but when you look at the overall value proposition, from the perspective of a protection model, storage setup, operating expense, administrative overhead, ability to have deep granular visibility, and everything else, it's really hard to compare the Tintri solution unfavorably to anything else. 

Tintri has been a real differentiator for our business that allows us to deliver what we say we will. It allows us not to spend time working on all of the nuts and bolts and underlying things that a lot of other storage vendors require and allows us to focus on the business. We can deliver good business objectives at both the virtual machine and application delivery levels, although the latter is what we really care about. It's not about the virtual machine, it's about applications that are delivering in a way that performs for the business. That has never been in question with Tintri. It allows us to abstract the storage choice away from the delivery of application reliability and performance.

The solution's autonomous operations have impacted IT department productivity positively. Knowing that Tintri Global Center allows for the intelligent placement of workloads, rather than requiring us to keep our hands on the levers, has been helpful. VMware has done this with DRS. The distributed resource scheduling allows for virtual machines to be placed on hosts, based on RAM and CPU and all the other requirements that a business might have. Tintri allows for that to happen at the storage level, and it allows for business objectives to be mapped into that process. For example, we can create application groups in Tintri Global Center and specify what we care about for each group. It uses that, as well as machine learning based on previous choices that we've made, to do things autonomously without somebody having to log in once a week or once a month. It can remember the seasonality of certain workloads to make these decisions in a way that we find to be accurate for the business requirements that we put in place.

We have customers with Tintri in their offices but they don't have the budget to be able to spin up an entire second instance of their office environments in a co-lo and buy multiple storage arrays to do it. They're small to medium businesses, but they still want to be able to have access to features such as immutable backup and recovery capabilities, replicas that exist in a disparate physical location, the ability to spin up machines if there is a problem and have them online with recovery points that are sub-one-hour. Those features are somewhat unheard of in the SMB market. Yes, enterprises have had those features for a long time, and they pay for them and for the staff to manage them. But the ability to say to small and mid-size businesses that they can have all those enterprise features as a managed service is unique.

Another huge aspect is that VMstore enables replication, snapshots, and setting QoS at the virtual machine level. That's especially true when organizations are trying to decide where to invest their dollars at the same time as cybersecurity insurance and Zero Trust security issues are happening around them. The ability to help them feel that they're not choosing between security and productivity, but rather, that the two can go hand in hand on Tintri, helps a lot. Our customers want to know that they have immutable off-site recovery points without having to understand the technical requirements for doing so. We're able to help them be more secure and protected while still delivering good quality of service and delivery of their applications. We're able to add more value for our customers by answering those questions in that way.

Tintri has changed the way that you do NFS for VMs, which is a big deal. Usually, NFS for VMs is very chatty and causes you a lot of problems. Tintri rewrote the NFS for virtuality that allows each basic VM to get its own line at the checkout stand. What this does is that it gives much more response. I don't have problems with performance. I can virtualize pretty much anything without any slowdown or any issues. Plus, I'm easily able to replicate or clone hundreds of VMs up from one in an instance. With automation tied with our Ansible, Tintri is one of the most powerful tools in our toolbox.

It frees up my guys to innovate. They're not dealing with slow storage calls. They're not dealing with performance calls. Storage used to be a big issue where one person was maintaining it all the time. Not having to maintain that storage or groom or manicure that storage gives them the freedom to do other things. Tintri is like its own employee because it allows you to do other things besides storage. It has helped very much to reduce administrative time.

In terms of visibility, it gives me enough ammo so that when all the finger-pointing starts, I can always point to the network and say, "Hey, it's you."

We're constantly developing, iterating, and doing new VMs. So, the ability to move fast and the ability to have high-speed storage is valuable. In the case of something like Atlassian where you work with Jira and you're rolling out your own updates or something like that, you might need to iterate a 500-gig server six times to find all the issues. Even Atlassian will tell you that the first time you upgrade their stuff, it doesn't usually work, so get ready to try it again in your lab. When you are working in a lab environment or need to do things like that, the abilities that the backend of Tintri has are just amazing. They allow you to utilize and take advantage of that. I can spin up five 500-gig VMs without taking a hit to my data store, my performance, or my total overall storage. That's because of the way Tintri does the dedup and the blocks. It has already got all these blocks until the delta gets changed. Even though you've got five 500-gig VMs, which should be 2,500 gigs or 2.5 terabytes, it's not seeing it as that because it has got to compact it and basically zip, but they're all running until the delta gets far enough apart. That allows me to do things I wasn't able to do on my NetApp. It was like you can only have one other copy, and that's it because it's going to be a one-to-one clone. 

It enables replication, snapshots, and setting QoS at the virtual machine level, which is super important. We don't use quality of service because the service is so good. Once in seven years, I might have used that. It's already running and performing. So, the QoS runs on its own. It's great.

Tintri VMstore has superior performance. It provides us with up to 30% faster performance than our old storage solutions. 

The T7000 series of VMstore has the capability to forecast resource requirements and capacity. Tintri VMStore has a unique filesystem that can manage performance and help us to oversee workloads. 

We have been able to scale up to ten VM storages and 500 VMs through a single pane of glass. That is a big plus for using the Tintri solution. Tintri is easy to automate using Powershell and Rest API.

The visibility Tintri VMstore provides at the VM level is good. This gives us IOPS per VM. The replication and snapshots that Tintri VMstore enables at the VM level are extremely important for our organization.

While monitoring performance and capacity on a per-VM basis through the GUI is beneficial, it's crucial to focus on the overall storage space that we can readily access and utilize. From that perspective, the GUI's ability to provide this information is highly valuable.

We have been using the T7040 NVMe storage system, and its performance for demanding workloads has been excellent. We upgraded from a T850 to a T7040, and there has been a noticeable increase in speed. The IOPS are significantly faster as a result of the switch from a hybrid flash and disk configuration to a full NVMe flash configuration. The overall performance is very impressive.

The T7040 NVMe storage system has allowed us to do more compared to the previous generation of storage systems. Tintri VMstore has effectively eliminated storage performance issues for our VMware virtual desktop environment. With the enhanced performance and increased I/O throughput provided by Tintri VMstore, end users are experiencing significantly fewer performance-related problems. When Tintri VMstore was first introduced, it was initially purchased for the VDI environment, but its capabilities were soon recognized, leading to its adoption across the entire organization. It has proven to be a valuable asset, meeting all our requirements and exceeding expectations. We evaluated various alternatives before settling on Tintri due to its comprehensive functionality.

Tintri VMstore has streamlined our administrative tasks. We view VMware storage as a unified data repository, so from an administrative standpoint, we connect it to VMware, and it seamlessly provides storage capabilities.

Our VMstore solution has significantly enhanced our disk speeds, particularly for SQL backups. The backup process is now noticeably faster.

We are generally experiencing much improved IOPS for both read and write operations, thanks to our adoption of NVMe throughout our environment.

Implementing autonomous operations has eliminated the need to handle end-user issues, freeing up our time to focus on other priorities.

Additionally, we have successfully migrated specific tasks to Tintri, which was previously not feasible.

Tintri VMstore solution brought a very positive change and impact on our day-to-day operations, and we have encountered little to no hiccups until now. 

As explained earlier, with all our physical and virtual infrastructure, the Tintri VMstore solution has been very helpful in managing our needs and provides easy integrations and extra layers of security. 

Overall, using Tintri VMstore solution, compared to the previously used alternatives, has given us far better output and services, and support over the period of its use.

We are a small shop, not having to manage LUNs, disk type and disk tiers has allowed us to focus more on overall health of our virtual environment and not the day-to-day challenges of traditional LUN-based SANs.

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.

• 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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

It's reduced disc latencies in our ERP system from 300-400ms to nanoseconds. It's also freed up daily management requirements for old SAN management.

We have 300 virtual desktops running on VMware Horizon. While many VDI deployments (like call centers) are able to take advantage of non-persistent desktops, licensing and other application issues forced us to use more IO-intensive persistent desktops. The T650 allowed us to cost-efficiently provide very high performing desktops by optimizing the use of Flash. We're currently using 19 TB of storage space for the desktops, but their optimization has consistently given us a 100% flash-hit ratio.

The end users have noticed a vast improvement in performance with our ERP solution. VDI performance is excellent too, helping us in getting the users to adopt VDI.

For IT - we no longer have to worry about carving LUNs and hunting down latencies. We don't have to worry about storage any more and have time to focus on other initiatives.

Since our purchase Tintri has added QoS. While that works great the vmstores are so good at eliminating noisy neighbor issues we have not had to use it.

Deployment of new servers is now very fast; just clone master images to deploy a new server in seconds. It will be automatically mapped into Hyper-V. Just start, and it's... done.

Tintri VMstore has improved my organization by providing a huge performance increase, mostly to our Citrix XenApp environment. Our users have not complained about slow downs while using or opening apps since we got VMstore.

From a PoC standpoint, both the hybrid and all-flash boxes delivered a performance boost up to twice the performance in comparison with what was there in production: First Generation VNX, NetApp FAS 6000.

By providing a domain-specific, virtualized, storage solution, Tintri helps me -

• Move VM storage off general-purpose arrays and re-use that resource more appropriately; and
• Free up engineering resources to do more-useful work, versus managing and analyzing VM storage.

Almost no time is spent on maintaining storage. Since LUNs are no longer part of the storage infrastructure, there is no need to worry about performance, LUNs filling up, or optimizing snapshots.

We are able to perform maintenance on all our VMs at the same time, backup multiple VMs at the same time, etc. without causing lag to our users.

• Easy installation, stable, and reliable operating with an almost zero-touch approach. 
• Allows for more time to worry about real problems.

VMStore does the job very well. I was a bit curious about how this box could perform like the big names, but after the POC, I was very impressed! It has simplicity, performance, and the best support team.

V.M...A.W.A.R.E. This is the new aspect we didn't have before. We have a lot of internal monitoring component to maintain good performances. With Tintri, the device does it by itself.

No longer need to manage LUNs and reclaim space. No need to worry about performance degrading when capacity exceeds 80%. Space savings is great.

Implementing Tintri gave an immediate speed boost to our computer systems. This was very welcome to the staff because their desktop computers responded quicker, reports ran faster, and user satisfaction hit an all time high.

This transitioned our I.T. systems from being a 'burden' to being a trusted and dependable source of information.

When implementing our VDI environment we noticed that we were unable to push out the IOPS for the VDI's to achieve the performance we wanted to. With Tintri we are able to deliver good performing VDI desktops.

We were able to increase productivity of our small team by moving away from LUNs and simplifying management of our backend storage.

We purchased the T540 for our VMware View/VDI deployment. When we chose Tintri, it was the only product to offload the VDI cloning to the array. This reduced the provision by 8-15 minutes depending on which system we were on. Other systems now have this same feature, but the Tintri is rock solid.

With VMstore, we're able to perform better and have better insight into our data storage infrastructure.

It's the most stable storage unit since the much more expensive HP 3PAR unit was released.

No longer need to manage multiple LUNs and try to balance out storage allocation. Performance has been great with no issues seen on storage since moving from NetApp. We were constantly troubleshooting what was causing bottlenecks with NetApp with the VMStore they give you great insight to the network, storage, or host allowing you great insight of performance at the VM level.

We can now trend the performance of similar VMs and track performance issues to a point in time and ultimately a change or update.

It has provided us with agility and allowed us the ability to have granular views of storage without having to be storage experts.

The performance of the array is superb, but for us it's the time saving we get - the IT staff don't need any special SAN training to fully operate the Tintri unit, and it saves huge amounts of time when provisioning systems.

Cloning new VMs using Tintri has saved me hours of waiting/work. It is the one feature that I use on a regular basis. Snapshot recovery is amazing as well. We rely on Tintri snapshots over VMware snapshots. They are so much easier to manage.

It is (almost) self managing and easy to use, admin overhead could be reduced.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

We can now identify VMs which require a lot of disk performance from a single console. It has also allowed us to give our developers access to disk IOPS that were not previously possible, reducing both migration times and job run times.

Faster deployment and more responsive VDI environment.

What I meant is that by leveraging Tintri and their VAAI plugin we cut deployment and recompose times in Horizon View.

We have increased responsiveness because the smart caching in VMStore allows us to achieve flash like performance for the VDI environment because mostly the same data is accessed.

We´re saving a lot of time and Money due to the lack of complexity.

Instead of focusing on separate parts of the infrastructure like storage, we can focus on the VMs and the applications running in them.