We performed a comparison between Dell Unity XT 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."The stability and performance are the best things about the solution."
"The solution offers amazing performance."
"It has improved my organization because now have lower latency, we get fewer complaints from customers, and we see a constant response time."
"Most of the problems that we had in the past with the performance in IOPS have disappeared. It has been a great improvement for our customers' services."
"We also use VMware integrations developed by Pure, their plugins in our vCenter environment. They help by allowing our non-technical operations teams to deploy new data stores and resize data stores without me having to involve myself all the time to do those simple tasks."
"I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"On a scale of one to ten, where ten is the most comfortable pricing, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"It's simple, powerful, and ready to use."
"The Unity XT box is very strong. It doesn't break. The MTBF time is very large so you don't have to worry about faults or outages in your operations."
"The most valuable feature is the fast cache with functionality rewrite."
"It has a very intuitive web console that runs in HTML5 and makes navigation and administration fairly easy."
"The high availability of Dell EMC Unity XT has been the most important feature."
"It is easy to manage. Managing it, I get alerts if there are any type of issues. I had a hard drive go bad, which had never caused any issues. Dell EMC contacted me, and said, "We are a shipping a new one out." My response was, "Why?" He told me that hard drive was bad. So, I went and looked, and it was. This was almost immediate. I never even knew anything had happened."
"We like the way it integrates with our environment. These features help us use multiple soft applications. The new features of going off the grid and replicating really help us. They give us an advantage versus traditional storage resources."
"I like the easy management with the new Unisphere management and the HTML5 interface."
"The most valuable feature is the dynamic cache of this product. It is very important. We have the physical cache and we can boost this cache using disks. All the products are mainly flash now and this is one of the main characteristics which our customers like."
"Simplicity of installation and management, high IOPS, management per VM, QoS, power and space saving."
"We have been able to scale up to ten VM storages and 500 VMs through a single pane of glass."
"It’s very good at IOPS."
"Fast deployment for virtual machines"
"The management dashboards keep improving and allow for quick and easy tracing of issues."
"I've worked on both EMC and NetApp SANs, and this is by far the easiest system to maintain"
"We also find the detail per-vm reporting at the ability to see reports from the hypervisor straight back to the storage useful."
"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 was not proactive communication."
"It's not so scalable. It's got moderate scaling capabilities right now. The clustering technology needs a bit of work, they need to improve that."
"We do have an issue with the vCenter integration. Pure Storage says it has a lot of free space, but vCenter says its completely full. This is because their dedupes are saved as space, but Vcenter still detects the disk as completely full. So, we do have an issue with that."
"I recognize it's a difficult challenge, but I would like to see them make the pricing more reasonable."
"It goes at about 95 percent, so we have had some performance issues. It is hard to clear them."
"The price of the solution can improve."
"Currently, the solution fails to support file screening."
"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."
"My only complaint would be some of the CLI Help files could be a little more detailed, but that's very minor complaint. We were trying to run some commands just to see how the storage snaps were interacting with the storage array, and it was a little difficult to look up exactly what commands should be run. The Help files detailing what exactly the commands did wasn't as detailed as we would have wanted them to be."
"More integration with VMware would always be helpful, plugins that go directly into the vSphere management. A single pane of glass is always beneficial."
"It could go faster. Make it bigger, better, and faster at a lower price, and I am there."
"The user interface could be improved. The Dell Compellent user interface is fantastic, but the Unity user interface is, in comparison, pretty lousy. It's functional, and I can do what I need, but the Dell Compellent user interface is so much more intuitive and user-friendly."
"Scalability of this solution could be improved."
"Compression and block deduplication on non-all-flash solutions."
"I would like to see more integration with other products."
"I would like them to continue to build on the solution and expand on the functionality, like replication."
"The Tintri Analytics site is excellent for long-term trending, but more data would be great."
"I would love more insight into each virtual machine statistic."
"I'm waiting to see the Kubernetes package. I know they're releasing one, but I haven't seen it yet."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I would like it to have the ability to store data other than virtual machines. At the moment, you can only connect VMs to it, and that’s a bit disappointing."
"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."
Dell Unity XT is ranked 4th in All-Flash Storage with 186 reviews while Tintri VMstore is ranked 15th in All-Flash Storage with 61 reviews. Dell Unity XT is rated 8.4, while Tintri VMstore is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Dell Unity XT writes "Easy to set up with good data compression technology and useful deduplication". 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 Unity XT is most compared with Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, HPE Nimble Storage, IBM FlashSystem and HPE 3PAR StoreServ, whereas Tintri VMstore is most compared with Dell PowerStore, HPE Nimble Storage, VMware vSAN, NetApp AFF and DDN IntelliFlash. See our Dell Unity XT vs. Tintri VMstore report.
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