We performed a comparison between Dell PowerMax NVMe and Tintri VMstore based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We like the speed. It's very low latency. In virtualization, you can mask lots of problems, and even in code you can mask lots of problems, with low latency. It's just pure speed and low latency."
"This is the best all-flash storage array on the market."
"It comes with a large number of features out-of-the-box, which makes it easy for us to see problems and manage capacity."
"The first year, we started out with one or five terabytes and it took what was 20 terabytes of storage down to less than one terabyte."
"It helps to simplify storage because it has an easy front-end to access everything."
"Has also helped simplify storage for us. The other person we put in there, took about a week to implement. And we had both arrays set up within around four hours with a thirty minute drive time between the two locations."
"The data reduction technology part of the scalability has been impressive, like its ability to host additional workloads, volumes of data, and databases."
"The initial setup was straightforward in the way that it was a database vacuum storage."
"The response time, compared to XtremIO, is far better."
"It is efficient and very simple for our administrators to use."
"The solution's snapshot capabilities and replication are very good features. Snapshots are allowing us to quickly build analytical models directly from production data. This gives us amazing insights into market trends and allows us to build more effective trading algorithms. Replication offers us unparalleled levels of resilience."
"It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerMax NVMe is its replication feature."
"The smaller footprint of the device has been really nice. We have gone from eight bays to one bay. Having one floor tile in our data center has been pretty awesome. A lot less power and HVAC cooling is being consumed."
"The stability is great. It is five nines."
"We like the compression, dedupe, and I/O on the PowerMax. They are better than on the XtremIO."
"We love the real-time replication, ease of use when connecting our servers to the storage, and the level of redundancy inside the box... 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."
"We have been able to scale up to ten VM storages and 500 VMs through a single pane of glass."
"The most valuable feature is the VM management."
"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."
"It has easy setup, easy administration, and no LUNs!"
"It’s very good at IOPS."
"Fast deployment for virtual machines"
"The data encryption feature adds a valuable security enhancement with no impact on performance."
"The internal garbage collection process has been fixed recently in some OS updates so it is more efficient but that could be just a little better."
"We did have one hiccup with the integration of vCenter. When we were installing Pure Storage, we were using vCenter 6.7, which defaults to the HTML5 Web Client. The current plugin for Pure Storage doesn't show up in that client at all. You have to go and use the legacy FlexFlash client to see the Pure Storage plugin in vCenter."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"I would like some form of QoS implemented. As a service provider, it would be beneficial to have it."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"I like what they're doing, but some of my customers complain that they do not have all the bells and whistles and knobs to fine-tune workloads that some of the competitors have. In my opinion, that's good. All customers don't have dedicated storage gurus, and they can get themselves into trouble if they fine-tune too many of those high-performance knobs, but they do get knocked down. Pure Storage takes a hit in the minds and opinions of some of the customers because they cannot customize things as much as compared to a legacy storage provider's appliance such as NetApp, Dell EMC, or even HPE. I personally think 95% of my customers are better off letting the system fine-tune itself. That was something that you needed to do 12 or 15 years ago, but now with all-flash, the technology can handle what it needs to handle. Customers just end up shooting themselves in the foot if they are tweaking too many default settings."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"We have had some trouble with the VMAX-to-PowerMax migration, but the VMAX box will be powered down after the migration. The PowerMax boxes are working fine and we don't have any issues with them."
"The GUI interface is very complicated and could be improved by streamlining the number of steps in the process."
"The solution does not use new versions of OS and patches. Its installation is also difficult. The solution is not as fast as other storage in the market."
"There are some stability issues that we just recently experienced. We hope the next release will solve these problems."
"The NVMe integration could be improved."
"I would like it to support NVMe over Fabrics, because that is the next item for consideration on the NVMe roadmap. PowerMax supports NVMe on the back-end, but when it starts supporting NVMe over Fibre Channel, suddenly various hosts can directly communicate with PowerMax, and with NVMe-oF, as well. Suddenly, Gen 6 and Gen 7 switchers will be able to help facilitate that particular communication channel."
"Dell PowerMax NVMe is costly compared to other solutions."
"They can make the GUI better, especially for the ones that come out of the box. We did encounter a bit of difficulty in setting up the storage. We had to deploy Solutions Enabler on a Linux machine to be able to fully interact with the storage. They need to upgrade the web interface for the management of the storage that comes out of the box. The management interface for NFS is also a bit old and not very intuitive."
"I would love more insight into each virtual machine statistic."
"In sync and automated mirror between two Tintris is missing."
"Detailed reporting is missing in the current version. We would like to see this feature added in a new release."
"Tintri need to be able to innovate faster but maintain the quality of their features."
"Active/active cluster between two Tintris on Hyper-V cluster."
"The product could be improved by adding iSCSI support. We have had to rethink how we implement some of our services due to this."
"I think with the world soon becoming only SSD, possibly NVMe, and 3D Xpoint. It would make sense for Tintri to drop the hybrid array down the line."
"Their current replication is really just enough to "check the box" that they do replication. We'll probably implement Actifio, Zerto or EMC RecoverPoint for VMs for more critical data replication."
Dell PowerMax NVMe is ranked 8th in All-Flash Storage with 66 reviews while Tintri VMstore is ranked 15th in All-Flash Storage with 61 reviews. Dell PowerMax NVMe is rated 8.8, while Tintri VMstore is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Dell PowerMax NVMe writes "Simplified storage provisioning for us, enabling us to assign any volumes in two to three minutes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tintri VMstore writes "We were able to push a button—it really is that simple—and flip primary and secondary storage locations". Dell PowerMax NVMe is most compared with Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem, Dell Unity XT, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and Dell XtremIO, whereas Tintri VMstore is most compared with Dell PowerStore, HPE Nimble Storage, VMware vSAN, NetApp AFF and DDN IntelliFlash. See our Dell PowerMax NVMe vs. Tintri VMstore report.
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