We performed a comparison between Dell SC Series 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 helps simplify storage. When you're running Pure all-flash, you don't have to do a lot of the old Oracle best practices. You don't have to worry about putting log files on a different disk channel than the data files, and those types of issues... That has made it vastly easier to do large volumes, rapid provisioning in databases, without taking a performance hit."
"Technical support is good."
"I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"The solution helps to simplify storage."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is that maintenance is free."
"We've had to use tech support on a number of occasions. They did everything remotely and talked us all the way through. They fixed the issue within 30 minutes. Every single time we contact them, they're perfect. I would give their technical support a ten out of ten."
"It has been one of the most stable products in our data center."
"The most valuable features are the with back-end dedupe, and the thin nodes. For a 20TB or 60TB, we're using almost a one-to-two ratio."
"It has good dedupe and compression. Also, the built-in data migration capabilities are pretty good, as is the federation. When we started migrating the workloads from different storage platforms, like NetApp and XtremeIO, it helped us in moving to that direction."
"The most valuable feature is the speed for the end-user."
"Customers are most impressed with SC's provisioning because you don't need to buy a large amount of storage upfront. It's pay-as-you-grow. It also has solid compression and duplication features."
"The performance benefits weren't surprising, we expected that. What we didn't expect were the densification benefits that we got out of going all-flash. We're able to put more applications on the arrays because of how all-flash performs. The way some of the application profiles have responded to all-flash has been really pleasing."
"We see very low latency with very high IOPS for mixed workloads."
"Connecting it up, you can run it within a few hours."
"Support from our vendor and Tintri are brilliant. They have always answered all of our questions promptly."
"The cloning is very fast... Another aspect I like is that it's very simple. It's an easy GUI to use."
"Its speed has been absolutely fantastic."
"Its VM-aware features have been excellent to use and integrate with XenServer as well."
"It is great for finding problems where VMs are hogging all the performance."
"It is fast and reliable. There hasn’t been a single failure in three years of use."
"It has easy setup, easy administration, and no LUNs!"
"Tintri VMstore is rock solid. We have not had a single issue with stability. It is also very low maintenance allowing us to concentrate on project work."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve the recent file storage capabilities because it is lacking a lot of features."
"There are a lot of things to improve."
"I would rate this solution an eight. To make it a ten it would have to be a little cheaper."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."
"I'd like to see a move towards individual VMs for what the performance of each VM is in a VD infrastructure. I can see the overall volume, but I would love to see things in a more granular level on the VM side."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"I would like to see higher compression, dedupe, faster I/O, and bigger drives."
"The SC Series doesn't support NVMe storage."
"The cost of the solution could be better."
"Overall, I'd like to see more synergy between Dell EMC's higher-tier platforms and their mid-tier platforms. What I have said, constantly, to my partners at Dell EMC is that the clear articulation of the path is really important to us. In that vein, what I'd also like to see is, with the migration strategy that's built into this product, a lot more attention paid to Dell's - in particular - legacy platforms and how we get from some of our legacy EMC platforms onto this platform with a straight-through migration and scaling strategy, not host-based migrations and not piecemeal... Dell EMC would do well to focus more on my ability to skip a generation, rather than having me take individual hops because I can't greenfield my way into a software-defined data center fast enough. This journey of multiple hops is not helpful."
"In some customer cases, customers experienced more performance or latency."
"The interface could be improved. It should have an application point of view."
"The lack of reporting would be the main issue."
"I would like to improve the processing ability."
"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."
"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."
"Tintri's Cloud Connector currently only goes to AWS and IBM Cloud, and we don't use either because we're Microsoft Silver Partners. It would be great to get the Cloud Connector feature with Azure. If it's not already on Tintri's roadmap, that's something I'd like to see."
"I would like to be able to add more storage capacity to our 2 units down the road with out buying an additional seprate array."
"We need more options to integrate with cloud storage options other than the current AWS and IBM that it currently supports."
"More cloud integration."
"It would be beneficial if Tintri could identify issues through telemetry and notify us before we need to contact them."
"I'm waiting to see the Kubernetes package. I know they're releasing one, but I haven't seen it yet."
Dell SC Series is ranked 24th in All-Flash Storage with 49 reviews while Tintri VMstore is ranked 15th in All-Flash Storage with 61 reviews. Dell SC Series is rated 8.4, while Tintri VMstore is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Dell SC Series writes "Automated architecture that proactively optimizes your database ". 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 SC Series is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, Huawei OceanStor and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas Tintri VMstore is most compared with Dell PowerStore, HPE Nimble Storage, VMware vSAN, NetApp AFF and DDN IntelliFlash. See our Dell SC Series vs. Tintri VMstore report.
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