We performed a comparison between DDN IntelliFlash and Tintri VMstore based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Tintri VMstore came out ahead of DDN IntelliFlash, as our reviewers found DDN IntelliFlash more difficult to deploy, more expensive, and requiring improvement in its support.
"We've been using FlashArray's snapshot for backups. Their replication across sites and response time are also excellent."
"There was a dramatic improvement in operating costs just as a result of the environmentals and space, let alone the cost of the unit itself."
"Data deduplication is one feature I found to be the most valuable in the tool...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"They have really good baked in analytics to show you trends for growth history, so it does help with future planning for data growth."
"The most valuable feature is that maintenance is free."
"The initial setup was very straightforward and very quick. It was up and running in our data center within 24 hours of receiving it."
"The speed is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The deduplication and compression rates are beyond impressive."
"It has reduced our electricity usage by reducing the amount of disks needed for the virtual environment."
"It provides a combination of all the protocols that you need, without losing deduplication and compression."
"EasyTier/hotcaching: Valuable because it allows greater performance than standard SAS disks"
"High performance and ease-of-management are the most valuable features."
"Data Compression: Up to 80% space reduction in the database"
"It's very fast. We were seeing read latencies of less than one millisecond. It is robust."
"It performed great originally, and when it performed great, it was awesome."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Its speed has been absolutely fantastic."
"Its VM-aware features have been excellent to use and integrate with XenServer as well."
"The management dashboards keep improving and allow for quick and easy tracing of issues."
"Upgrades are super easy and can be done during business hours without interruptions in production."
"The ability to snap machines into VMware quickly is valuable."
"Fast deployment for virtual machines"
"You can control resources on a per VM basis to ensure that contention in resources does not hamper performance."
"The cloning is very fast... Another aspect I like is that it's very simple. It's an easy GUI to use."
"Storage. There could be better storage."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"The system has dual controllers but does not have a high level of resiliency built-in."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"They are doing some stuff with containers and an object search. These could be improved, because containers is one of the main topics that we are talking with our customers about."
"Pricing could be better in comparison to other solutions."
"It is a bit expensive."
"In the proxy section you can’t choose a user account and password, so it is not allowed at the moment to go out, if customer has such constellation."
"They need to offer better integration for a virtual platform to enable you to create hyper-converged solution."
"Snapshots are not as easy to access as on a NetApp device."
"Performance is horrible now. Our original intent was to buy new storage in about two years. But since it became a critical urgency for us, we decided to purchase a new one in two or three months."
"It only keeps one hour of real-time data without the ability to do deep analysis of each element."
"We had just one small stability problem with power flapping and it did not start up again automatically. We had to access service ports and manually restart the storage processors."
"Technical support is bad. It'd grade them at 30% or 40%. The response time is terrible."
"It's somewhat scalable, but maybe not so much as some of the competition."
"Active/active cluster between two Tintris on Hyper-V cluster."
"Detailed reporting is missing in the current version. We would like to see this feature added in a new release."
"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."
"The Tintri Analytics site is excellent for long-term trending, but more data would be great."
"More cloud integration."
"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."
"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 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."
Earn 20 points
DDN IntelliFlash is ranked 28th in All-Flash Storage with 11 reviews while Tintri VMstore is ranked 15th in All-Flash Storage with 61 reviews. DDN IntelliFlash is rated 7.4, while Tintri VMstore is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of DDN IntelliFlash writes "Good features with an easy initial setup but technical support is slow ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tintri VMstore writes "Enables us to increase our retail sales and margins while decreasing the amount of time spent managing the solution". DDN IntelliFlash is most compared with VAST Data, NetApp AFF, Dell Unity XT and DDN SFA7990X, whereas Tintri VMstore is most compared with Dell PowerStore, HPE Nimble Storage, VMware vSAN, NetApp AFF and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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