We performed a comparison between IBM FlashSystem 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 solution is easy to scale. I'm running two environments right now, so I need to scale. I'm running a part technology. I've got an A-side and a B-side."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is that maintenance is free."
"Data deduplication features make it easier to manage storage and forecast growth."
"The tool is simple and easy to use. It has neat features like protection from device removal. Moreover, you can undo the deletes. The solution is easy to work with and not as complicated as CAC"
"This is the best all-flash storage array on the market."
"Their technical support is excellent. It's the best out of any of the vendors we work with."
"Technical support has been amazing."
"The valuable features are high availability, compression, and a failover mechanism. It's a very highly available storage solution."
"The most valuable feature is reliability."
"IBM FlashSystem is flexible, quick, and has a solid design."
"The most valuable features in IBM FlashSystem are IOPS, performance, duplication, and compression."
"It's a mature product. It's like a BMW that evolves consistently."
"The most valuable features of IBM FlashSystem are performance and security."
"The speed of the unit is its best feature. It performs very well."
"Speed (IOPS/second) – It is most vital for applications that need low latency and high speed for transferring the data."
"It is fast and reliable. There hasn’t been a single failure in three years of use."
"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 like Tintri's Global Admin feature and the solution's performance. It's incredibly fast storage, which was a significant upgrade for us when we deployed it seven years ago. The Tintri snapshots are brilliant and incredibly reliable."
"It has easy setup, easy administration, and no LUNs!"
"The most valuable aspect of the solution was how fast it worked on behalf of VDI desktops."
"The Deduplication feature in VDI environments. If Tintri says we can host 3000 VMs in our storage, I know we can host 3000 VMs there. Believe the results."
"Performance, cost, and ease of storage management."
"Upgrades are super easy and can be done during business hours without interruptions in production."
"They could improve the price."
"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."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"On a couple of occasions, the waiting time for an upgrade has been pretty substantial."
"It is not possible to create a cluster on top of multiple arrays."
"I’d love to view the average, minimum and maximum performance in the reports (Analysis tab - Performance) but it is only graphics and you need to export data in CSV to find this information."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"The customer's expectations are what they get on the cloud, they're expecting even in the on-premises deployments, going forward."
"The generic functionality of IBM FlashSystem, IBM always dismisses using file share or sharing protocols inside their storage hardware, and they only focus on the block-level storage."
"The solution has a low number of NVME host attachments at 16 per IO group over the fiber channel."
"In IBM FlashSystem, data reduction is an area with shortcomings where improvements can be made in the future."
"The ease of installation should be improved. We had issues with the configuration model."
"This solution could be improved by offering greater amounts of storage."
"Our customers have raised concerns about the limitations of the FlashSystem 5200 and 7300, which only offer a 32-gigabyte connection."
"One area for improvement is in the GUI, where host clusters are not properly dealt with. With Hypervisor host clusters, all hosts must see the same volumes in the same order. Using the concept of a “host-group” has been around (even with IBM) for many years, so why not with the V7000?"
"It would be beneficial if Tintri could identify issues through telemetry and notify us before we need to contact them."
"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."
"Detailed reporting is missing in the current version. We would like to see this feature added in a new release."
"We need more options to integrate with cloud storage options other than the current AWS and IBM that it currently supports."
"The solution is already good but the brand name is not so popular here."
"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."
"Technical support is an area where we had several issues, and it was hard to get some support in a specific case we had. I'm not very satisfied with them."
"In sync and automated mirror between two Tintris is missing."
IBM FlashSystem is ranked 6th in All-Flash Storage with 106 reviews while Tintri VMstore is ranked 14th in All-Flash Storage with 61 reviews. IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2, while Tintri VMstore is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". 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". IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and Huawei OceanStor Dorado, whereas Tintri VMstore is most compared with Dell PowerStore, HPE Nimble Storage, VMware vSAN, NetApp AFF and DDN IntelliFlash. See our IBM FlashSystem vs. Tintri VMstore report.
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