We love the

• real-time replication
• ease of use when connecting our servers to the storage
• level of redundancy inside the box.

In terms of the redundancy, with our previous SANs, anytime we wanted to do upgrades or firmware updates, we would have to set aside a maintenance window. But because Tintri has two controllers and everything is redundant, we can do one of them during the day. That means my team will upgrade and fail over from one control to the next, and none of our applications will go down, and our databases don't lose transactions. It's a very steady platform.

It's also simple software and integrates well with VMware so we get a lot of information about all of the VMs, how they're performing individually, and about network latency. That's very helpful when you're troubleshooting a slowdown.

Prior to using this solution, it was hard to get that kind of information. That was before virtual volumes came out in VMware, which was supposed to be designed to give you more individual information. But Tintri is designed like that out-of-the-box. A user will say, "Hey, this transaction was slow," or "This application seems slow today." A lot of times in the past, when we had an iSCSI or fiber connection, it was hard to know which link in the chain was the problem, or whether it was just the user's perception or the application was busy because it was swallowing a high load at that particular time. Now, we're able to go in and look at what the flash use is by the application and whether there are any network latencies. It becomes helpful because we can eliminate many of those issues and conclude that it was an application-level problem, or the service was busy at that particular moment in time with transactions. We can tell that it's not an underlying hardware or infrastructure issue.

I also absolutely love that VMstore enables replication, snapshots, and setting the QoS at the virtual machine level. For QoS, we let the algorithm within the machine itself handle that because our current device is a hybrid T850. It has a set of spinning disks and about five terabytes of flash. You can look at the management console and see how much your applications or VMs are hitting the flash and how many hits are going to disk. The software determines when there are some volumes in your VMs that aren't currently accessed very often and it will put them on the spinning disk. If an indexing program runs and touches those files, or somebody wants to go back and touch files that haven't been touched in a long time, it will read them from disk, which can be slightly slower. But when we will look at the Tintri control panel, our rate of flash hits is almost 99 percent, meaning all of our most important data, the things that people use every day and rely on, are sitting at that flash level and they get the highest level of performance.

And we're leveraging more and more of the snapshotting capabilities for disaster and ransomware recovery. It's becoming one of the tiers that we have. We use Zerto for replication backup and to our offsites, and we're now using the snapshots as another tier of backup and restores. But more importantly, we have two separate Tintri units that we use for real-time replication of "protection groups," things that are our most critical systems. They're replicating between the two.

The graphical user interface for monitoring performance is sufficient and colorful. You can mouse over the items that you want to see and it will break them out. I don't think you could present that data any better. We've recently upgraded the software and there are some additional improvements, but it has been very user-friendly and very easy to read.

I like Tintri's Global Admin feature and the solution's performance. It's incredibly fast storage, which was a significant upgrade for us when we deployed it seven years ago. The Tintri snapshots are brilliant and incredibly reliable.

The visibility at the VM level is another feature we wanted, and it didn't disappoint. The replication, snapshots, and setting QoS are also critical features. It not only has those features but also lots of fast storage arrays that have similar features. Other fast storage arrays require some PowerShell commands and a lot of configuration to set up or enable those things. It's effortless with VMstore. You tick a couple of boxes and apply. You can send a message from the Slack bot, and I'll do it for you.

Among the most valuable features are its

• granular replication
• ability to define asynchronous or synchronous replication, which gives us very definable RTOs and RPOs around that type of service
• granular quality-of-service configuration, which allows for cases where you've got multiple customers on a single Tintri, but you want to be able to offer strong quality-of-service metrics and KPIs.

Those are really useful features.

Obviously, having reliable, performant, highly available storage are the table stakes, but they are important as well.

We've also always liked the visibility that VMstore gives you at a virtual machine level. That's been a Tintri feature for a decade. It helps us help our customers understand workloads. One of our customers was on our managed platform that was built on Tintri and VMware for five years. Over those five years, they would run high-end analytical workloads and large ETL projects with multi-billion-record datasets. We were able to tailor the storage to their workload requirements. It also enabled us to answer questions about why something might perform in a certain way, or how they could improve on their side from an application delivery perspective, with actual data at the application and virtual machine and storage levels. That is unique, especially since these customers aren't $10 billion enterprise accounts; they are small and mid-market customers. They need those answers in real time to run their businesses better without paying a fortune to do so. That visibility is something we've really benefited from.

Also, you can launch the interface to look at either application groups, virtual machines groups, or at the individual level. The interface is really nice. Tintri Global Center, running in a virtual machine in a customer's or a managed environment, does the same thing with even more granularity. It has the ability to do predictive workload moves based on those parameters and characteristics that are being reported on.

The interface gives you the ability to look at IOPs: how much is hitting flash versus spinning disk, if it's a hybrid array; or if it's an all-flash array, what the characteristics of the workload look like. You can also look at it from an application perspective and see that SQL is reporting this while the VM is reporting that.

Those are really important features. In the past, we've deployed arrays across the Tegile family before it was bought by DDN, which owns Tintri, as well as Dell, HPE, and ZioTech, going way back. We're very familiar with what existed in the space. While the ability to offer granular information at the virtual machine level is becoming more commonplace now, Tintri does a really good job of doing it in a way that doesn't require you to pull the data out and manipulate it in a reporting package, and it's very visually robust.

And the T7000 Series that we're using has 40-gig network interfaces on them uplinked to 40-gig interfaces on our core. For our VMware environment, which is delivered on a Dell chassis, it is very performant. Some of our customer workloads are extremely demanding, running multi-billion-record merge-purge, ETL, and index search applications, and there have been no performance issues. In fact, when customers moved from a Dell array to the Tintri T7000s, we saw nearly a doubling of performance in some of their most demanding workloads, which was something the customers were very happy with as well.

Its performance is amazing. Since I have put Tintri in, I haven't had a complaint from anybody about slowness. On top of that, there is block-level cloning and the ability to spin up VMs. We use that in our architecture. We don't deploy in a traditional manner anymore by using a kickstart server, ISO, or anything. We keep VM templates, not even VMware templates. We utilize Tintri with Ansible to provision our environments, and it's pretty awesome. It's instantaneous and very cool.

Its GUI is very good now. For a long time, it had been Flash. When Flash got deprecated, they were able to roll out everything to HTML5. The new HTML5 is in Tintri Global Center as well as on the individual VM stores, which is great. In the NetApp days, NetApps were dinosaurs. It took one person to manage the storage, carve out LUNS, carve out aggregates, etc. One person would spend all his time on storage, whereas Tintri is like a 30-minute challenge where you can order a Domino's pizza and get it. You plug it in, and it just runs. It is that intuitive and that simple. The GUI is very straightforward. It shows you a nice mapping of the hardware and everything else and how it's working. It's a true example of plug-and-play. For something which is as important as your storage, I can't emphasize how much and how important that is. It is literally one of the single most important pieces of hardware I have in my data centers.

I have a T880, T800, and T1000. The problem Tintri has is that they make their products so good that you don't ever need to replace them. You just need to buy more. They have kind of shot themselves in the foot with that. I update my software, and I've never reached the end where I couldn't update the software. I'm still running a couple of six-year-old Tintri that are killing what people bought yesterday. They had some initial issues with their first offering and their old management before they were bought by DDN, but the hardware and the platform have always been solid and spectacular. When they had all that issues, I stuck tight and held them. I was like, "No, this hardware is too good." I believed in it, and then DDN came and picked it up. They saw what I saw. Anybody who uses it will have the same opinion.

We have found better performance, predictive analysis, and ease of use, and it supports site-to-site replication. 

Tintri VMstore provides a single pane of glass to manage all your VMs and hypervisors; it is very easy to scale. 

Automation comes naturally in Tintri using simple PowerShell and REST API. 

The faster performance of Tintri has reduced latency across our network, storage, and VMs. We now have more visibility across our VMs which has enhanced our user experience and helped accelerate deployments.

The ability to snap machines into VMware quickly is valuable.

Tintri VMstore's speed optimization is valuable because it automatically scales resources to meet the individual needs of each virtual machine. It analyzes each VM's resource requirements, allocates the necessary resources, and dynamically adjusts them as needed.

The data encryption feature adds a valuable security enhancement with no impact on performance. The SecureVM feature of Tintri VMstore encrypts all data going through it with zero impact on performance or output and can be managed using the VMStore dashboard. 

This adds an additional layer of security to the organization's infrastructure and is a valuable additional feature. 

Since all the data we are processing is sensitive and a compromise cannot be afforded, using Tintri VMstore has benefited the organization thus far.

It has easy setup, easy administration, and no LUNs! Performance for the price is amazing. It has QoS per VM and great overall performance tracking.

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.

• 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.

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.

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

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.

• 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.

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.

There's virtually no management required. There's also no disc latency with each VM having its own I/O lane.

For my company, Tintri's most valuable feature is it's TCO. This system is easy to install, requires no training, and is easy to upgrade. I've worked on both EMC and NetApp SANs, and this is by far the easiest system to maintain. As a SysAdmin, I really appreciate the built-in monitoring capabilities as well as the PowerShell and REST API toolkits.

Flash utilization - disk latencies are dropped from 15 - 400ms for our ERP software to 1ns!

Management interface - gives visualization into each VM, making it very easy to pinpoint a problem in the environment.

Automated support - we had a power supply fail and it automatically opened a support ticket, a new power supply arrived the next morning, and, upon replacing the power supply, the ticket automatically closed.

Speed - the hybrid flash has low latency even at high bandwidth.

Performance Metrics - the ability to see which VM is having issues in now only 3 clicks away.

• VM-aware processing
• Speed
• Easy management
• Fast deployment for virtual machines

The feature that I find most valuable is the VM level awareness that the VMstore gives you. This is great for finding problems where VMs are hogging all the performance. 

The VMstore is also very stable. I have not had a single issue since the purchase my company made.

The most valuable features are VM awareness and QoS policies. While VAAI and VASA set the stage for arrays to be intelligent from a virtualization perspective, Tintri has taken it a step beyond.

You can control resources on a per VM basis to ensure that contention in resources does not hamper performance.

On a related note, the advent of VVol (which Tintri supports) will be interesting to watch. While VVol is gaining acceptance and can be seen adding similar capabilities to legacy arrays, Tintri does integrate and leverages VASA/VVol.

The product offers a number of features apart from the standard set found on most arrays (snapshots, replication, etc.). This includes inline deduplication and compression, which are now almost standard.

The single discerning feature in which the vendor has been an absolute pioneer is VM awareness and the ability to set QoS on a per-VM basis. While this is available in other products such as SolidFire, EMC SPBM (storage policy based management), Tintri is the pioneer.

Ease of setup and simplicity to use. The per VM metrics are something that isn't found anywhere else.

We've found that its VM-related features are very valuable: integration with hypervisor managers (VMware and RHEV-M), "VM awareness" within the storage, and visibility into the behaviors of each VM container and virtual disc. It has very hands-off, detailed visibility and control mechanisms for issues or questions of VM performance.

It's also very reliable and has an overall ease-of-use.

The insight into details such as latency at the VM level (disk, host, and network) is unmatched. At a quick glance you can significantly cut down troubleshooting time and quickly identify bottlenecks.

The ease of administration is crazy good. The dashboard makes things so easy to understand that you have a full grasp on what your VMs are doing and where the bottlenecks are. The speed that you are able to achieve from this storage is better than what we have seen from any other vendor.

• The web GUI for maintenance and resource monitoring purposes is easy to use.
• If you have to reconfigure or check something, you will not be lost with too many unnecessary options.
• Excellent 24/7 support with good reaction times. A lot of first time contacts were to a technical person, not log and route.

The feature I like the most is SyncVM. With a few clicks, you can restore a VM from an existing snapshot, and if you have Tintri OS 4, you can attach the snapshot as a attached disk to an existing VM!

The must have features are: Per VM QOS et Replication.
The new Scale Out option since TintriOS 4.2 is another feature and really useful when you have two VMStores and more. You don't have to manually balance VMs between VMstore, this feature do it for you!

Performance of flash at a much lower cost.

The administrative interface is excellent. Being able to see exactly what is happening within our VM network takes the guess work out of troubleshooting and makes management tasks an absolute breeze.

The fact that it is very easy to set up and delivers. It is a set and forget environment with a very good tooling to view performance and delivers the IOPS we need for our VDI environment.

• Dedupe
• VAAI
• The deep dive analysis of performance for each VM

Some of the most valuable features we've found are the thin provisioning, deduplication, and VMware View/VDI support.

There are several features we find valuable, but the most important to us are its low latency, the high performance, and the per-VM QoS.

The most valuable features for us are the reliability and it's ease of use.

Performance, cost, and ease of storage management.

The Analytics components (free) are amazing and allow for trending of performance and latency over the life of the product.

The management dashboards keep improving and allow for quick and easy tracing of issues.

The ease of use and management capabilities are the most valuable features for us. Tintri is incredibly easy to use and manage. The performance and its secret sauce, VM understanding and management, works great.

Tintri is amazingly powerful storage solutions packaged into a 4u unit. It is an extremely versatile solution with multiple uses.

It currently handles a lot of our virtualisation systems and we love the quick setup (30 minutes), intuitive admin/monitoring page and amazing support.

It is a great system.

The most valuable aspect of the solution was how fast it worked on behalf of VDI desktops.

The dashboard and the integration capabilities were okay.

With the VM Visualization feature, it gives us extremely fast troubleshooting when we have a performance issue with any of our VMs.

The most valuable features for me are the cloning and snapshot recovery functions.

Speed and availability for VMWare VMs

All of them. Tintri Snapshot, vCenter integration, powerCLI integration, the way you manage everything. Bye Bye time spent on managing storage arrays etc.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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).

The most valuable feature is the VM management. It has good technology. 

• The performance graphs, which allow us to see real-time IOPs.
• Latency at the virtual machine (VM) level.

- Visibility in latency

- Speed

Excellent performance

Easy installation

Simple/almost no administration

Total Control over latency from hypervisor to storage