DataCore SANsymphony vs Tintri VMstore T7000 comparison

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The compared DataCore and Tintri solutions aren't in the same category. DataCore is ranked #2 in SS , with an average rating of 10.0, and holds a 21.4% mindshare in the category. Tintri is ranked #9 in AFS , with an average rating of 9.4, and holds a 2.0% 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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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

5.0

Tintri VMstore T7000 enhances visibility, saves costs, improves performance, and delivers strong ROI with easy management and reduced downtime.

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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

7.6

Tintri VMstore T7000 provides exceptional customer service with prompt, knowledgeable support, proactive solutions, and effective communication, despite minor gaps.

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

CEO 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

Senior System Engineer at SiliconSt.

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

7.0

Tintri VMstore T7000 offers scalable node-based expansion, integrating well with VMware, though cost concerns exist when scaling.

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

8.0

Tintri VMstore T7000 offers reliable, consistent performance, minimal downtime, and efficient configurability with responsive support for various use cases.

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

My experience with the overall stability and performance scalability of Tintri VMstore T7000 as our workloads grew has been very stable.

Zahied S

Network Administrator at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

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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.

The Tintri VMstore T7000 needs better cloud integration, cost-effectiveness, UI, and compatibility with Hyper-V and major backup solutions.

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

CEO 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

Senior System Engineer at SiliconSt.

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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 with efficient management and advanced features that offset long-term costs.

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

CEO 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

Senior System Engineer at SiliconSt.

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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 excels in VM awareness, integration, speed, and autonomous operation, enhancing management, performance, and cost efficiency.

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

CEO 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

Senior System Engineer at SiliconSt.

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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 (11th), Storage Performance (1st)

Tintri VMstore T7000

Average Rating

9.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

All-Flash Storage (9th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Storage Solutions solutions, they serve different purposes. DataCore SANsymphony is designed for Storage Software and holds a mindshare of 21.4%, down 24.8% compared to last year.
Tintri VMstore T7000, on the other hand, focuses on All-Flash Storage, holds 2.0% mindshare, up 0.7% since last year.

Storage Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
DataCore SANsymphony	21.4%
NetApp ONTAP	20.1%
Dell PowerPath	15.5%
Other	43.0%

Storage Software

All-Flash Storage Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Tintri VMstore T7000	2.0%
Dell PowerStore	8.5%
NetApp AFF	7.0%
Other	82.5%

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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Sigfrid CECILLON

Founder at EKIUM

Storage platform has improved data performance and has provided reliable support for my clients

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 the stabilization of the Veeam implementation in the future, and perhaps the integration or officialization of compatibility with Proxmox and XCP-ng. With Proxmox, it wasn't easy while integrating it with third-party solutions. It's working, but it was a bit difficult to deploy.

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Tanesh Kumar

Senior System Engineer at SiliconSt.

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

Outsourcing Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Comms Service Provider

13%

Construction Company

Outsourcing Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	37
Midsize Enterprise	12
Large Enterprise	22

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

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 needs improvement with DataCore SANsymphony?

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What is your primary use case for DataCore SANsymphony?

I usually recommend DataCore SANsymphony for companies in the domain of research, energy, governmental, and education.

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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

DataCore SANsymphony enhances storage environments with features like synchronous mirroring, scalability, and flexibility. It optimizes performance through parallel I/O, ensuring high availability, efficiency, and protection against data loss with hardware independence and user-friendly management.

DataCore SANsymphony offers a robust platform for managing storage in VMware environments and beyond, enabling high-performance storage with disaster recovery features and synchronous mirroring. With hardware independence and real-time data replication, SANsymphony supports virtualization and data protection across distributed data centers, ensuring seamless data access. Users benefit from its ease of use, storage pooling, and auto-tiering, managing different storage speeds efficiently and maximizing uptime. DataCore's hardware-independent active-active setup and management tools add value, though improvements in container support, web capabilities, API robustness, and Linux support are needed. Pricing, licensing, tech support, backup integration with Veeam, iSCSI connectivity, and performance reporting are areas for enhancement.

What are the key features of DataCore SANsymphony?

Synchronous Mirroring: Ensures data protection with high-availability mirroring.
Scalability and Flexibility: Adapts to changing storage needs efficiently.
Parallel I/O: Boosts speed significantly through enhanced performance.
Storage Pooling: Simplifies management across different storage resources.
Auto-Tiering: Manages storage speeds efficiently for optimized performance.

What benefits should users consider in DataCore SANsymphony?

High Availability: Ensures continuous data access with synchronous mirroring.
Disaster Recovery: Provides robust data protection strategies.
Performance Optimization: Parallel I/O boosts overall system speed.
Ease of Use: User-friendly features enhance management and operational efficiency.
Hardware Independence: Offers flexibility in choosing storage hardware.

DataCore SANsymphony finds application in industries focusing on high-performance storage requirements, particularly those in VMware environments. Utilized for managing storage across virtual machines and applications, it supports seamless data access within distributed data centers. The platform's real-time data replication, synchronous and asynchronous mirroring, and auto-tiering contribute significantly to optimizing performance and maintaining business continuity.

DataCore

Tintri VMstore T7000 offers powerful virtual machine storage with features like VM awareness, quality of service policies, and seamless management. Designed for environments needing speed, low latency, and simplicity, it stands out with automation, hypervisor integration, and responsive support.

Tintri VMstore T7000 is tailored for VMware virtualization, powering VMs in industries such as healthcare, enterprise, and telecommunications. Users benefit from its all-flash performance, detailed VM activity visibility, quick setup, and low latency. Automated management and hypervisor integration provide granular insights, while replication options, and efficient deduplication enhance operations in complex virtual settings. Areas for improvement include cloud integration, cost efficiency, non-Flash UI, and real-time replication. Users seek better documentation, licensing models, backup solutions integration, data deduplication across more platforms, NVMe support, and improved troubleshooting. Compatibility with Hyper-V and larger ecosystems like Azure also presents challenges. Pricing and customer support continue to be areas users find require enhancements.

What are the standout features of Tintri VMstore T7000?

VM Awareness: Provides detailed visibility into VM activities.
QoS Policies: Ensures optimal resource allocation.
Ease of Management: Simplifies operations with intuitive controls.
Speed: Delivers low-latency performance.
Integration with Hypervisors: Enhances cohesiveness with existing virtual environments.

What benefits or ROI should be considered when evaluating Tintri VMstore T7000?

Performance: All-flash system boosts infrastructure efficiency.
Stability: Supports complex, virtualized environments robustly.
Automation: Simplifies workload management and enhances productivity.
Scalability: Efficient handling of data demands with room for growth.

In health, enterprise, and telecom sectors, Tintri VMstore T7000 is deployed for VMware virtualization, serving as primary storage for virtual machines. Its all-flash performance and VDI support improve infrastructure performance and data management capabilities. Integration with VMware and automation further streamline operations, aiding in handling sensitive data and complex infrastructures effectively.

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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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