We performed a comparison between Dell PowerStore 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.
"It is easy to manage. You don't have to have the same people who used to manage the Dell EMC arrays because the solution is more intuitive."
"I have seen a huge increase in speed and performance on our databases."
"Because we were able to afford to go all flash, we don't manage the tiers, we're not moving data up, and we're not waiting for overnight cycles."
"We also like the compactness, the small footprint. It takes up very little space in a data center and uses little power."
"NVMe data storage platform that's easy to set up and easy to use. It's stable, with a lower response time, and quick technical support."
"The speed is one of the most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"Technical support is excellent. I've had very good responses from technical support. We had a couple of cases where we needed support. Some of the communications were purely over email and some has been an actual call to the service desk."
"All our junior partners can administer the storage arrays. It is simple and easy to use. We don't have to dedicate a whole team of full time people to work on it."
"Gives us flexibility, performance, and ease of use. It also has some very good compression capabilities. We were looking for a solution that was easy to install in our VMware environment, that was flexible. PowerStore X is a type of a VMware cluster that you install inside your environment. If you have a VMware environment, like we have in production, it's easy to install and use."
"PowerStore is easy to use. All the drives use soft encryption. To upgrade it, you download the app, and it runs by itself. It's very easy to deploy, share, and create volumes."
"The PowerStore's compression ratio is even higher than the Unity system."
"A particularly valuable feature is its simplicity."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerStore is the all-NVMe flash storage. This is the most powerful feature of this series. It supports compression and duplication leads."
"Overall, we're quite happy with the product because we can move the data that is stored on more than 10 of our current storage devices to a single PowerStore."
"Dell EMC PowerStore is scalable."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature is the VM management."
"It is great for finding problems where VMs are hogging all the performance."
"Its VM-aware features have been excellent to use and integrate with XenServer as well."
"A very good support team that is available 24/7. They have real technical staff with strong knowledge."
"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."
"Its speed has been absolutely fantastic."
"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."
"I've worked on both EMC and NetApp SANs, and this is by far the easiest system to maintain"
"Pure Storage will have issues with positioning in the near future since its a relatively new company. For now, customers need a PoC to trust using the solution, as it can't stand on its brand name alone. They need to improve Pure Storage's marketing."
"In the next version of this program, I would like to see increased security, higher encryption, and faster throughput."
"As partners, we should have the option to download the software, rather than have to go back through Pure to obtain it."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"Pricing could be better in comparison to other solutions."
"It goes at about 95 percent, so we have had some performance issues. It is hard to clear them."
"The credentials on the iSCSI interface are only available to type in with the Chrome browser, and not with the Firefox browser."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"The cost of technical support is high."
"You cannot delegate permissions."
"Where the system needs to improve is by adding more enterprise features like replication on other sites. We would also like it to be much more aligned with the VMware version. For example, today we have two different versions of VMware ESXi running to keep the PowerStore online. It would be better if the software cycling was faster."
"The solution only does thin provisioning."
"Dell PowerStore is a good solution overall, but some models could support hypervisors better by allowing for more customization and flexibility for customer needs."
"Data reduction needs improvement."
"I have not seen anything specific. The only thing I can think of that needs improvement is the price."
"The upgrades themselves are running fine, but after the upgrade is when we have a problem. With the update to 1.4, we had a head crash. They told us, 'This is a known issue. Please upgrade to 2.' We upgraded to 2 and, one week later they told us, 'Yeah, there are some issues in 2.0.0. You can lose data. Please upgrade to 2.0.1.' Overall, they need to make the system stable."
"Active/active cluster between two Tintris on Hyper-V cluster."
"Tintri need to be able to innovate faster but maintain the quality of their features."
"The product could be improved by adding iSCSI support. We have had to rethink how we implement some of our services due to this."
"What I feel would be nice, in terms of a wishlist, is scalability. Rather than replacing the whole appliance, I would like to be able to just add another unit and scale it like that."
"Their support staff just doesn't have the experience with all of the products that we're running. They don't know the 850 series like we do because it's five years old. There is a little bit of a gap, and that may just be because we're an old customer running on platforms that their staff hasn't seen. I would like to see an improvement in their in-depth knowledge of their older products."
"The Tintri OS and GlobalCenter software do a great job of showing you troubled VMs, however it still could be a bit more helpful in diagnosing the issues."
"On the software side, I suggest adding integration with backups software like CommVault Simpana or Veeam where these products can integrate with the array and trigger things like snapshots for backup, etc."
"We need more options to integrate with cloud storage options other than the current AWS and IBM that it currently supports."
Dell PowerStore is ranked 1st in All-Flash Storage with 46 reviews while Tintri VMstore is ranked 15th in All-Flash Storage with 61 reviews. Dell PowerStore is rated 8.6, while Tintri VMstore is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Dell PowerStore writes "It has a very strong NAS that can support a lot of big, heavy environments". 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 PowerStore is most compared with Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Dell PowerMax NVMe and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas Tintri VMstore is most compared with HPE Nimble Storage, VMware vSAN, NetApp AFF, DDN IntelliFlash and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our Dell PowerStore vs. Tintri VMstore report.
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