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."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 initial setup was really straight forward."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are the management view of the solutions, ease of provision, and deprovision, it is fantastic."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is its high stability level."
"The deduplication and compression meet all of our system requirements."
"I never have to worry about its performance or if it is the root cause of an issue."
"What I like most about this solution, is the speed, resiliency and scalability."
"The most valuable features in Pure Storage FlashArray are deduplication and active cluster."
"I am impressed with the tool's reliability since we see a few hardware failures with it. Also, the solution's replication configuration is good."
"We like the compression, dedupe, and I/O on the PowerMax. They are better than on the XtremIO."
"It is easy to manage and upgrade."
"Uptime by far is the most important thing, and also the replication ability (SRDF). Most of the customers who need this type of availability also want the protection of multiple data centers, and it is able to easily switchover workloads to their other data centers."
"We use ESRS for our call-home, and a lot of times, Dell EMC will respond to the issue before we even know it."
"We are happy with the monitoring that Dell EMC is doing for us. They have helped us to identify many issues during the routine checks, issues which we were not aware of."
"We find the service level option to provision storage very valuable. The ability to define different service levels for storage groups helps us in prioritizing our workload at the infrastructure level."
"The PowerMax software and CloudIQ let us get an inside view of our compression and compaction, as well as our usage of the storage."
"It’s very good at IOPS."
"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."
"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."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution was how fast it worked on behalf of VDI desktops."
"The management dashboards keep improving and allow for quick and easy tracing of issues."
"The cloning is very fast... Another aspect I like is that it's very simple. It's an easy GUI to use."
"We also find the detail per-vm reporting at the ability to see reports from the hypervisor straight back to the storage useful."
"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."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"Pricing could be better in comparison to other solutions."
"The data reduction that we had initially anticipated when we bought Pure and we move over, is way lower than the expected reduction. It depends on the workloads, of course. But that has been a challenge at times."
"We would like to see more development on their Copy Automation Tool (CAT) for Oracle, as well as better integration for our customers running Oracle VM."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve in the area of cryptographic information in the consoles. The user-friendliness could improve. The Pure Storage FlashArray team should come and log into the system with their maintenance credentials and then pull out the information as evidence of cryptography."
"I would like the ability to swap out the network adapters into it. So, without taking out the whole controller, I would like to be able to swap adapters. This would make things easier."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"I'd like to see the dedup and compression improve. Two to one is not very good. We should be getting something like three, four, or five to one."
"I would like to see continued visibility and analytics in the platform."
"The tool needs to improve its performance. Today's applications are demanding a response rate of one millisecond or below. The product should also look into AI integration."
"Dell PowerMax NVMe needs to increase storage and improve scalability."
"I would like to see more development in the cloud environment. It would be good if it comes in the cloud kind of setup."
"Since the merging of EMC and Dell into Dell Technologies, there has been a hurdle that they've had to overcome, and they're not over it yet. It takes two to three times longer for things to get fixed than it did when they were separate companies. That is something that has to be fixed."
"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."
"They should work with the storage engineers to better tweak the management tools to give them improved visibility into their data."
"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."
"In sync and automated mirror between two Tintris is missing."
"The Tintri Analytics site is excellent for long-term trending, but more data would be great."
"It would be beneficial if Tintri could identify issues through telemetry and notify us before we need to contact them."
"The biggest area for improvement, and there has been some roadmap work in this area already, is cloud integration... Tintri has been investing in this area and I'm sure will continue to, but cloud integration has been the biggest area that we've been crossing our fingers and hoping for quick development around."
"More cloud integration."
"The product could be improved by adding iSCSI support. We have had to rethink how we implement some of our services due to this."
"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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