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 9.4, and holds a 23.9% mindshare in the category. Tintri is ranked #23 in AFS , with an average rating of 9.3, 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

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ROI

Sentiment score

6.8

DataCore SANsymphony enhances security and availability, offering high ROI through hardware reuse and cost-effective storage and uptime savings.

Sentiment score

6.3

Tintri VMstore T7000 enhances efficiency, reduces costs and TCO, improves scalability, and boosts performance, benefiting organizational operations significantly.

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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

6.4

DataCore SANsymphony's support is praised for being rapid, knowledgeable, effective, and highly rated, despite occasional inconsistencies.

Sentiment score

8.1

Tintri VMstore T7000's customer service is highly regarded for prompt, proactive support with knowledgeable, responsive technical staff.

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

Thomas Grötz

System Engineer at Bechtle

The customer support is perfect.

N Bravi

Sales Manager at MSDSYSTEMS S.R.L.

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

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

8.5

DataCore SANsymphony is praised for its scalability, hardware independence, and adaptability to both small and large environments.

Sentiment score

7.5

Tintri VMstore T7000 offers scalable, efficient node-based architecture, allowing easy expansion, despite potential costs, with seamless management.

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

Five are running in production, three are in the DR site, and one is in the bunker site.

Tanesh Kumar

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

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.3

DataCore SANsymphony is highly stable and reliable, with minimal downtime, requiring proper configuration and minimal maintenance.

Sentiment score

7.4

The Tintri VMstore T7000 is praised for stability, robust architecture, reliable support, and exceptional failover features, despite minor issues.

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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 struggles with tech support, pricing, Windows dependence, and needs better integration, interface, and enterprise features.

Tintri VMstore T7000 needs licensing improvements, better vSphere integration, and enhanced features for cloud, telemetry, and language support.

DataCore SANsymphony can be improved with high availability as it offers synchronous mirroring between physical and separate sites to ensure business continuity and disaster recovery.

N Bravi

Sales Manager at MSDSYSTEMS S.R.L.

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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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

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

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Setup Cost

DataCore SANsymphony's pricing is high, but offers favorable price-performance, with careful planning advised to optimize costs.

Tintri VMstore T7000 offers competitive pricing with good value, appealing to smaller companies despite some additional feature costs.

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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Tintri VMstore T7000 appliance itself is very expensive.

Tanesh Kumar

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

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

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Valuable Features

DataCore SANsymphony enhances storage management, performance, and reliability with high availability, flexibility, scalability, and hardware-agnostic versatility.

Tintri VMstore T7000 is praised for VM awareness, performance, cost efficiency, intuitive management, and seamless VMware integration.

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 has positively impacted our organization because it is scalable and has a fundamental concept that aggregates and pools available storage resources, hiding the complexity, which makes it very simple.

N Bravi

Sales Manager at MSDSYSTEMS S.R.L.

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

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

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

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Categories and Ranking

DataCore SANsymphony

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Storage Software (2nd), Software Defined Storage (SDS) (4th), HCI (7th), Storage Performance (3rd)

Tintri VMstore T7000

Average Rating

9.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

All-Flash Storage (23rd)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Storage Solutions solutions, they serve different purposes. DataCore SANsymphony is designed for Storage Software and holds a mindshare of 23.9%, down 30.5% 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 Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
DataCore SANsymphony	23.9%
NetApp ONTAP	27.8%
Dell PowerPath	15.4%
Other	32.89999999999999%

Storage Software

All-Flash Storage Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Tintri VMstore T7000	0.8%
Dell PowerStore	14.7%
HPE Alletra Storage	9.2%
Other	75.3%

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

14%

Computer Software Company

14%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Performing Arts

Computer Software Company

20%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	36
Midsize Enterprise	12
Large Enterprise	21

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	23
Midsize Enterprise	27
Large Enterprise	19

Questions from the Community

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

Before choosing DataCore SANsymphony, I did not evaluate other options.

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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?

DataCore SANsymphony can be improved with high availability as it offers synchronous mirroring between physical and separate sites to ensure business continuity and disaster recovery. I do not have...

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

It is cost-effective in certain aspects. However, Tintri VMstore T7000 appliance itself is very expensive. As far as the storage capacity is concerned, if we get 200 TB in physical storage in Tintr...

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What needs improvement with Tintri VMstore?

For improvement, the first thing that needs to be addressed is cost. It is very expensive as an appliance compared to other storages such as Huawei or Dell storage.

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What is your primary use case for Tintri VMstore?

We are using Tintri VMstore T7000 for our VMware infrastructure, which encompasses all virtualization infrastructure as file and file system storage. Everything is comparatively very different from...

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Compared 12% of the time

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Compared 11% of the time

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Compared 10% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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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%.

Tintri VMstore T7000 – NVMe Platform Datasheet

Tintri “Geek Out” Demo Series

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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