Tintri VMstore Pricing
The price could be lower, but the pricing structure is what it is. This requires a heavy upfront investment, and you recoup it. It's just the nature of the business. I'm sure every company would like to see the price decrease, but I would like to see the additional software and ongoing support costs lowered.
There are two support variants: Gold and Platinum. I would suggest adding a third rung to that ladder with minimal support, access to software upgrades, and maybe an SLA with a 48-hour or 72-hour ticket window. Tintri would get a massive response at that support level, especially for smaller businesses like us.
At the same time, I fully understand that if you offer a lower level of support, people will opt for that instead of premium support. However, it would be nice if there were a support option with reduced service. If you're paying less, you should get less. From our point of view, the main aspects are software upgrades, patches, and security features. We want to ensure the box is healthy and access a help desk with a 72-hour SLA. Something like that would be ample for us.
We haven't found Tintri's pricing to be a barrier to entry for any of our customers. Tintri works through a number of distributors and when we've had to purchase it for our customers we have found the pricing to be competitive.
We've worked with customers that have to get a three-quote comparison. A recent example was a customer that was looking at IBM storage, Tintri, and Dell. Tintri was competitive on price-for-features, as well as licensing and the support model. We didn't have a reason to push the customer in any other direction than Tintri. We felt that the feature set, performance, pricing, and total cost of ownership, inclusive of the operating expenses and administration, made Tintri a no-brainer.
View full review »I've always gotten excellent pricing. I'm very satisfied with the pricing that I receive.
The licensing has gotten simpler. When we bought it, everything was an add-on. If you wanted real-time replication, you bought that as a feature. There were three different levels of software that you could buy, based on what you wanted it to do. Now, that is all wrapped into one SKU and it all comes with it. So it does appear like it is more expensive.
I could see that there may be an issue where some people don't need this or that and don't want to have to license it. Maybe they have licensing options that I haven't discussed with my sales team.
But flash arrays are very expensive, per terabyte. But if you're looking at the fact that they're doing deduplication and compression, and now they're doing on-disk encryption, you're getting a tremendous number of features so I think they offset each other. If you're not using one feature, you're probably going to use another.
We still buy our array from the point of view of what the real, raw storage is versus the compressed storage that they market it at. They'll say, "This is a 60-terabyte array," but you find out that it's really 36 terabytes and they're anticipating maybe a two-to-one or better compression rate. We're an appellate court and 99 percent of what we deal with are huge volumes of PDFs. Those things just don't compress.
I haven't looked at what some of the other solutions are charging these days for some of the individual software pieces, but I feel that there is a lot of value in the simplicity, ease of use, and hands-off nature of Tintri. You're getting tremendous value based on time. You're avoiding having to have another staff member, at some point, to manage your storage because it is so simply managed and takes care of itself. You can task the people you have doing that to do other things. That's what we did.
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Tintri VMstore
March 2024
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It's very competitive.
VB
reviewer2000289
Senior Engineer at Lincoln Financial Group
As it is a flash array storage, it is much more expensive than a traditional disk-based storage system.
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reviewer2159643
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
The price of Tintri VMstore is not overly high compared to similar solutions. However, as with any storage solution, functionality and hardware are constantly evolving, so pricing is always subject to change. Overall, it's a good package that is competitively priced. I believe Tintri's strategy is to target smaller companies that need a storage solution with a specific capacity and performance level, without having to break the bank. Unlike Dell and HP, which tend to offer more expensive solutions, Tintri aims to provide a more affordable option. Overall, Tintri VMstore is well-positioned in the market, especially considering the additional services it offers.
View full review »We are a smaller IT shop and even the T820 is a bit large for our needs, which means we are paying for more storage space than we need, so something a bit smaller/cheaper would be nice.
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reviewer2068803
Global Head of Network Engineering at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
What I have heard, price-wise, is that Tinti was definitely very competitive. That's one of the reasons it was chosen for us.
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Reynaldo Martinez
Windows Systems Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
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.
View full review »Tintri pricing is very competitive, but there is a definite gap in the “entry level” market (sub-$30k).
View full review »To get the best pricing, work with Tintri and a vendor and they will be able to advise best on what they can offer.
View full review »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.
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ServStorAdm8948
Server & Storage Administrator with 1,001-5,000 employees
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.
View full review »Price is reasonable considering performance and time saved in managing.
View full review »With any SAN purchase, the sizing procedure is the most important step. I'd suggest going through exactly how you will use the system with your sales engineer and get their approval in writing.
View full review »It is nice that we can add encryption later if we need it. It is so common to need encrypting disks with initial purchase to get this feature.
View full review »Prices are not cheap, but it runs...
View full review »Tintri is reasonably priced for the solution you get. Advanced features do require extra to use.
View full review »Treat this no differently than any other standard array. Decide on the functionality suite. The licensing model is relatively simple. For things like replication, however, the licensing needs to be looked at.
View full review »Ask for discounts. Ask for "Tintri Global Center" as a free licence to go along with the VM appliances.
View full review »Tintri is going to be a cheaper option that some others, but that doesn't mean you lose anything. It was built from the ground up to host VMs, and isn't an older solution retrofitted to work with VMs.
View full review »Make sure that you have all licenses in one go. Options afterwards can cost extra.
An "all-in-one" license model would be better at this price range.
View full review »You pay for what you get. You will have the performance you need and you will not be disappointed at all! About licensing, you get the essential options for the smaller price. Some killer add-ons are available, but it's all your choice.
View full review »Pricing is great, especially for what you are getting. The closest competitor I would match Tintri too as far as performance vs price is Nimble and I am glad we purchased Tintri.
View full review »Speed of our VDI machines. We have a very high log in and log out ratio and machines are being refreshed instantly so we have a constant boot storm on our storage.
View full review »Scope your needs properly and buy the right model. Leverage your pre-sales team for help.
View full review »I think for the money, Tintri is a great solution.
View full review »Only go for the Tintri Global Center if you intend to buy more than two VM stores, but other than that, it was straightforward, and even the SKUs are simple to understand.
View full review »Pricing is fair, but the licensing model is disappointing. Initially, we thought Tintri was going with a “you buy our box, you buy everything” to simplify the licensing, but they have gone down the NetApp road of licensing features. We really don’t like that. Big disappointment.
View full review »The price could be lower.
View full review »Buy what you need and not what you want.
View full review »The cost of all the SW is well spent because it makes you save on backup and DR.
View full review »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.
View full review »The cost could be the same as traditional vendors, but the product is totally superior.
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Thomas Jahja
Director at Festino Indonesia
The pricing is reasonable.
View full review »Pricing is very competitive, so you get a lot of bang for your buck. At the price point, the restriction to a specific TB size per unit can be forgiven.
The VM replicate license is not worth getting.
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Tintri VMstore
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Tintri VMstore. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
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