DataCore SANsymphony vs Tintri VMstore T7000 comparison

The compared DataCore and Tintri solutions aren't in the same category. DataCore is ranked #2 in SS , with an average rating of 9.6, and holds a 22.9% mindshare in the category. Tintri is ranked #12 in AFS , with an average rating of 9.4, and holds a 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of DataCore users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Tintri users who would recommend it.

DataCore SANsymphony

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97% willing to recommend

Tintri VMstore T7000

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100% willing to recommend

DataCore SANsymphony

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

ROI

Sentiment score

6.5

DataCore SANsymphony offers cost-effectiveness, high availability, and long-term benefits, with reuse, stability, and security contributing to financial advantages.

Sentiment score

5.7

Tintri VMstore T7000 offers efficiency, ease of integration, and predictable costs, enhancing virtual machine management and potential cost savings.

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I accidentally had a volume or VMstore running up to 95%, but it was no issue. The performance was still top-notch despite being used over 90%.

Magnus Österlund

VMWare & Tintri Storage Solutions Evangelist at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

6.5

DataCore SANsymphony is praised for industry-leading, efficient technical support with quick responses and effective problem-solving capabilities.

Sentiment score

8.3

Tintri VMstore T7000's customer service is praised for proactive support, expertise, and excellent communication, with minor gaps in older queries.

They always help me quickly and with great knowledge, which is essential for central storage.

Thomas Grötz

System Engineer at Bechtle

I rate their technical support a 10.

Sigfrid CECILLON

Founder at EKIUM

I would rate technical support from DataCore SANsymphony a 10.

SigfridCecillon

Owner at Arsium

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Their support team provides excellent assistance and effectively addresses issues.

Magnus Österlund

VMWare & Tintri Storage Solutions Evangelist at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

The response time is very prompt.

Tanesh Kumar

Storage And Server Farm (Ucs) Administrator at Meezan Bank Limited

I would rate the support of Tintri VMstore T7000 an eight on a scale from one to ten, with ten being the highest.

reviewer2800707

Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

8.3

DataCore SANsymphony offers scalable storage expansion, accommodating diverse hardware and supporting substantial data management with high user satisfaction.

Sentiment score

7.7

Tintri VMstore T7000 efficiently adapts to growing storage needs, offering scalable solutions and seamless VMware integration for diverse business demands.

There are no limits to scalability, which is essential for central storage.

Thomas Grötz

System Engineer at Bechtle

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You do not need to purchase fully populated or maxed-out boxes on day one; instead, you can start with half-populated boxes and expand as your needs grow, adding disks as necessary.

Magnus Österlund

VMWare & Tintri Storage Solutions Evangelist at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

You just request a new unit or disks, and depending on the size of the disk inside, that is all you need to do.

reviewer2800707

Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

Tintri VMstore T7000 is scalable enough for our business.

Sven Canerén

CTO at Intraservice/City of G̦teborg

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.3

Users praise DataCore SANsymphony's stability, citing reliability and minimal downtime when properly configured, with few user error issues.

Sentiment score

7.9

The Tintri VMstore T7000 offers exceptional stability, seamless performance, and reliable features with minimal, quickly resolved issues.

The implementation process is easy for DataCore SANsymphony.

Sigfrid CECILLON

Founder at EKIUM

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There is no downtime, bugs, or glitches when working with it.

Sven Canerén

CTO at Intraservice/City of G̦teborg

A new controller was shipped and arrived the next day.

Magnus Österlund

VMWare & Tintri Storage Solutions Evangelist at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

In the last year, we have not experienced any downtime in Tintri VMstore T7000.

Tanesh Kumar

Storage And Server Farm (Ucs) Administrator at Meezan Bank Limited

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Room For Improvement

DataCore SANsymphony improves disaster recovery and availability, but needs better integration, tools, and simplified pricing for enhanced user experience.

Tintri VMstore T7000 requires better deduplication, integration, replication, simplified licensing, and improved documentation for user satisfaction and cost efficiency.

I would like to see the stabilization of the Veeam implementation in the future, and perhaps the integration or officialization of compatibility with Proxmox and XCP-ng.

Sigfrid CECILLON

Founder at EKIUM

there should be improvements in how to get and filter logs

Thomas Grötz

System Engineer at Bechtle

The area of DataCore SANsymphony that has room for improvement is the support.

SigfridCecillon

Owner at Arsium

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Tintri could improve by ensuring shorter times for support and compatibility when there are new releases from partners like VMware or Microsoft.

Magnus Österlund

VMWare & Tintri Storage Solutions Evangelist at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

Maybe some sort of spreadsheet or visual tool would help. It could show the amount of data and servers we have, guide us on which particular build to choose, and estimate costs.

reviewer936846

IT Manager at a government with 10,001+ employees

It is very expensive as an appliance compared to other storages such as Huawei or Dell storage.

Tanesh Kumar

Storage And Server Farm (Ucs) Administrator at Meezan Bank Limited

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Setup Cost

DataCore SANsymphony offers a flexible, cost-effective solution, yet requires careful assessment of licensing and feature expenses for enterprises.

Tintri VMstore T7000 offers competitive pricing and value with efficient management, though licensing may be a drawback for some.

It's not that expensive, and the product is also pretty stable.

Sigfrid CECILLON

Founder at EKIUM

They have made some improvements regarding the pricing, but it's still too expensive.

SigfridCecillon

Owner at Arsium

The cost changed from a perpetual license to a subscription model.

Thomas Grötz

System Engineer at Bechtle

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It is pretty costly as all IT investments in infrastructure are, but I think it is cost-efficient because you do not have to put so many manpower hours into administration and configuration.

Sven Canerén

CTO at Intraservice/City of G̦teborg

While it might seem expensive per gigabyte initially, the practical capacity and the reduced need for additional backup and storage personnel make it fairly priced.

Magnus Österlund

VMWare & Tintri Storage Solutions Evangelist at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

Tintri VMstore T7000 appliance itself is very expensive.

Tanesh Kumar

Storage And Server Farm (Ucs) Administrator at Meezan Bank Limited

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Valuable Features

DataCore SANsymphony enhances storage management with features like rollback, scalability, synchronous mirroring, auto-tiering, and high data availability.

Tintri VMstore T7000 offers intuitive UI, seamless integration, robust storage, and efficient automation, enhancing performance, support, and user-friendliness.

Customers can extend storage with flexibility, as one is not obligated to purchase hard disks or controllers from the same storage vendor.

Thomas Grötz

System Engineer at Bechtle

DataCore SANsymphony is improving the access speed of data, the reading, and the writing significantly.

Sigfrid CECILLON

Founder at EKIUM

DataCore SANsymphony's ability to enhance storage utilization is very good because it's agnostic and it can be deployed on every environment, which is perfect for my clients.

SigfridCecillon

Owner at Arsium

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It is hands-off and runs seamlessly without needing daily management.

Magnus Österlund

VMWare & Tintri Storage Solutions Evangelist at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

I have eliminated bottlenecks with storage and have a more secure storage platform using unwritable snapshots.

reviewer936846

IT Manager at a government with 10,001+ employees

The major benefit of using Tintri VMstore T7000 is its deduplication and compression ratio, which is around 4x to 5x. No other storage is giving that much ratio.

Tanesh Kumar

Storage And Server Farm (Ucs) Administrator at Meezan Bank Limited

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Categories and Ranking

DataCore SANsymphony

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Storage Software (2nd), Software Defined Storage (SDS) (5th), HCI (8th), Storage Performance (1st)

Tintri VMstore T7000

Average Rating

9.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

All-Flash Storage (12th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Storage Solutions solutions, they serve different purposes. DataCore SANsymphony is designed for Storage Software and holds a mindshare of 22.9%, down 30.2% compared to last year.
Tintri VMstore T7000, on the other hand, focuses on All-Flash Storage, holds 0.8% mindshare, up 0.7% since last year.

Storage Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
DataCore SANsymphony	22.9%
NetApp ONTAP	24.2%
Dell PowerPath	16.7%
Other	36.2%

Storage Software

All-Flash Storage Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Tintri VMstore T7000	0.8%
Dell PowerStore	13.8%
NetApp AFF	8.7%
Other	76.7%

All-Flash Storage

Q&A Highlights

it_user78465

CEO at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees

May 07, 2014

DataCore vs. Nexenta vs. Tintri - which should we choose for our exclusively Citrix shop?

It Depends, tell us more info on your needs, requirements, why you are looking at just those three which represent three different approaches, or, did you look at three (or more) different approaches and these are the winners of those categories? How many virtual desktops will you be support, what is their workload/applications profiles and related info? If you are looking for turnkey converged with server, storage, basic connectivity, hardware and software all in one solution then of the three that would be Tintri. However if that is the route you are going, then what about Nutanix, Simplivity etc... Otoh if you are just looking for ZFS based software solution for san/nas etc to be deployed on different hardware, there is Nexenta as well as CloudByte, SoftNAS not to mention other variations including from those such as StarWind, OpenE etc... If you are looking for storage virtualization, there is Datacore which has been around for awhile, however there are others including the ZFS bases, StarWind, OpenE, EMC ViPR and many others... So knowing what the problem is that needs to be solved will yield the answer of what is applicable or best for that given scenario.

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SigfridCecillon

Owner at Arsium

High availability and user-friendliness enhance infrastructure health and redundancy

I would rate technical support from DataCore SANsymphony a 10. Each time I contact the technical support, it's when I don't have a choice because it's very difficult for me on site, and each time, I have good people online who are able to help me solve the problem. Usually, the problems are not very technically difficult, but sometimes they are, and the support team is still there to help us resolve them. The majority of the problems are linked to licensing, so when the license has expired or the number is not correct, they are proactive and change things live, which is very good.

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Tanesh Kumar

Storage And Server Farm (Ucs) Administrator at Meezan Bank Limited

Vm-aware storage has simplified vmware management and delivers strong deduplication and savings

There are many good features for Tintri VMstore T7000, especially its nature of understanding VMware. It is VM-aware storage, which is a very good characteristic. When any VM is moved from one host to another host, there is no way to see where it is running. It is very smooth in action. Trintri VMstore T7000 is totally autonomous. We have integrated it with our virtualization environment, so all the VMs and machines running in our environment move between one Tintri VMstore T7000 and another without requiring any manual intervention. The system can schedule resources from its own capabilities. If one Tintri VMstore T7000 becomes full, the machine will be moved to another automatically. This autonomous system is very beneficial. Nowadays, all storage comes with NVMe flash and all storage is coming with flash storages as well. Tintri VMstore T7000 is much easier to handle. We just need to integrate the whole Tintri VMstore T7000 with vCenter and all the work will be done by vCenter. If we want to check what the deduplication will be, there is a really good feature of Tintri VMstore T7000 called TGC. We can integrate all Tintri VMstore T7000 systems from one end and manage all of them from a single endpoint. The major benefit of using Tintri VMstore T7000 is its deduplication and compression ratio, which is around 4x to 5x. No other storage is giving that much ratio. This is really good and much cost-saving for the company. Administrative cost is reduced because Tintri VMstore T7000 gives us a single point where we can manage it. This is both time-saving and cost-saving.

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Answers from the Community

it_user78465

CEO at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees

May 7, 2014

DataCore vs. Nexenta vs. Tintri - which should we choose for our exclusively Citrix shop?

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it_user107157

Alliances Manager at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

May 7, 2014

There is no straight answer on this topic. Each storage architecture is different. Since the whole premise of SDS is to abstract the storage management form the hardware, Does the vendors software provide management for all your storage hardware brands and also all types of storage you use? Does it meet the end users needs and IT's? Assuming that you have a list of got to haves and nice to haves, all you can do is compare them. If Datacore meets your needs and you and IT have done your due diligence then go with that. There is always going to be someone with something "better".

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it_user6186

Independent Analyst and Advisory Consultant at Server StorageIO - www.storageio.com

May 7, 2014

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

12%

Comms Service Provider

12%

Government

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	36
Midsize Enterprise	12
Large Enterprise	22

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	23
Midsize Enterprise	27
Large Enterprise	21

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for DataCore SANsymphony SDS?

I am saying that the pricing is reasonable. It's not that expensive, and the product is also pretty stable. It's a good solution and the price is okay regarding the other products.

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What do you like most about DataCore SANsymphony?

The dashboard is very intuitive, and there are a lot of counters to diagnose what happens during a short period (like when a backup is in progress).

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What needs improvement with DataCore SANsymphony?

It's difficult to know how DataCore SANsymphony can be improved. I think DataCore SANsymphony could be deployed on Linux environments, which could be a great thing for clients. I would like to see ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Tintri VMstore?

The pricing of Tintri VMstore T7000 is cost-efficient. It is pretty costly as all IT investments in infrastructure are, but I think it is cost-efficient because you do not have to put so many manpo...

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What needs improvement with Tintri VMstore?

Good documentation is an improvement point. One concern I have with Tintri VMstore T7000, and in general, people are complaining that you can use it only for virtual environments. There is no bare ...

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What is your primary use case for Tintri VMstore?

My use cases for Tintri VMstore T7000 involve virtualization and everything automation. It is a good fit because you can do a lot of scripting and integration with mostly VMware. I was using it pri...

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Overview

Experience peace of mind with DataCore SANsymphony, the ultimate software-defined storage solution alleviating storage management challenges. Say goodbye to the complexities of managing different storage tiers and disruptions with SANsymphony's block-level storage virtualization technology, empowering you to automate capacity provisioning and data placement across diverse storage environments including SAN, DAS, HCI, and JBOD. Break down silos, control data placement, meet business continuity objectives, boost performance, and seamlessly expand or refresh hardware with SANsymphony. Benefit from features like asynchronous replication for disaster recovery, minimizing data loss, accelerating application responsiveness, and integrating new technology non-disruptively. Trusted by industry leaders like NASA, Thorntons, Inc., and TUI Cruises, DataCore SANsymphony guarantees unparalleled flexibility, scalability, and reliability, ensuring uninterrupted data access and application availability while reducing storage costs and inefficiencies.

DataCore

For over 10 years, Tintri has been unburdening IT teams of tedious, manual data management with the most advanced, AI-enabled solution on the market. With a commitment to ongoing R&D, Tintri delivers an infrastructure solution built for today’s future-ready, integrated operations from the ground up. We are redefining what data management and analytics look like for today’s dynamic workloads.

Tintri VMstore Adds Feature That No Other Platform Offers

Workload Intelligence Drives Tintri’s Most Powerful and Flexible Auto Adaptive Platform

The Tintri VMstore T7000 Series is the latest addition to the storage industry’s only true Intelligent Infrastructure portfolio. The T7000 delivers NVMe driven performance and efficiencies, supporting up to 7,500 virtualized applications in just two rack units. It offers the kind of scalability, availability and security that you’d expect from an enterprise-grade system that powers numerous Fortune 100 firms. Our customers love the outstanding AI-driven efficiency and optimizations that set VMstore apart from traditional approaches. VMstore systems deploy in minutes, self-optimize and dynamically adapt to accommodate the most demanding workloads in the data center maintaining quality of service (Auto-QoS) for each Virtual Machine (VM). Autonomous operations and advanced real-time and predictive analytics consistently drive down storage management activities and costs – by as much as 95%.

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Tintri VMstore simplifies and automates storage management, delivering real-time analytics, and maximizing performance so you can refocus your efforts on high-impact projects and business innovation.

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Sample Customers

Volkswagen , Maimonides Medical Center, NASA, Thorntons, Inc., TUI, ISCO Industries, Pee Dee Electric Cooperative, United Financial Credit Union, Derby Supply Chain Solutions, Mission Community Hospital, Bellarmine College Preparatory, Colby-Sawyer College, Mount Sinai Health System, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Quorn Foods, Bitburger, University of Birmingham, Stadtverwaltung Heidelberg, NetEnt to name a few.

That’s why leading enterprises including Comcast, Chevron, NASA, Toyota, United Healthcare and 20% of the Fortune 100, trust Tintri with storage needs.

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