Kaminario K2 [EOL] vs Tintri VMstore T7000 comparison

Silk and Tintri are both solutions in the All-Flash Storage category. Additionally, 94% of Silk users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Tintri users who would recommend it.

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Everpure FlashArray

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Sowjanya MV

Technical Lead at Wipro Limited

Has improved performance for mission-critical workloads and enabled seamless non-disruptive upgrades

The availability is 99.99%, which is the main factor any customer would need because their data should be available whenever they want to access it. This is one main critical thing. It is very easy to upgrade since Pure Storage FlashArray handles it well. Everything is non-disruptive now; previously, there were forklift shifts, but now that is not the case. Pure Storage FlashArray says no to forklift upgrades. Usually hardware requires downtime, but Pure Storage FlashArray has improved their footprint so that they are not asking for downtime; everything is just a non-disruptive activity, which is why customers are more inclined towards Pure Storage FlashArray. Customers want more of the models in their environment due to the performance they are giving, and everything is in one Pure1 Array console where we can view all the models on one page or just an orchestration tool. You don't miss anything; you have replication, notifications about replication, and details about which host groups replication is happening in and if that replication is successful or failed. On a daily basis, our purpose is to create volumes for infrastructure; our daily activities include creating volumes and mapping them to the host, doing any migrations from a VM, clearing the data stores, and carving the volumes to those VMs. One key factor is the data compression with a ratio of 5:1, focusing on space efficiency, inline deduplication, and the compression Pure Storage FlashArray works on; that is a major factor we can suggest to any customer. Analytical capabilities are crucial. Daily, we check the throughput and consumption, and Pure Storage FlashArray provides predictions for one year regarding usage. This prediction helps plan updates well ahead. For support, we just raise a case, and they follow up and get it done. There is also AI readiness, but with the model R2, we don't have much of that AI readiness. For others, we do have AI readiness that predicts capacity based on daily or monthly trends, enabling us to analyze how much space we need or if we need to expand the disk shelf. From an operational point of view, a good feature is that if you accidentally delete a volume, it will be retained in the destroyed state for the next twenty-four hours, which is not the same with any other vendor. I have worked in this storage domain for the past fifteen years, and this option is remarkable, benefiting any L1 or L2 engineer. Additionally, from a compliance perspective, Pure Storage FlashArray has REST APIs enabled. I have not explored automation much, but from a security standpoint, it is strong with encryption data. If you want to automate, you can easily integrate with all clouds and explore Pure Cloud for scheduling workloads, including volume creation. Customers find benefit in Pure Storage FlashArray's single management pane of glass due to the dual controller and active-active setup. If one of the controllers goes down, all workloads automatically shift to the other controller, ensuring their data is safe and accessible at all times. This is a highlighted feature that any customer desires because their data should always be accessible. For SAN workloads, we use Pure Storage FlashArray because for SAN FC fiber channel, we don't use it; we use NetApp for NAS activities. We have clearly split this, so SAN is for mission-critical applications, while network-attached storage handles file systems. This architecture helps us maximize the benefit from Pure Storage FlashArray due to the significant workloads from this giant retail client. From a footprint and energy consumption perspective, you can see energy consumption from the Pure1 storage portal on a daily basis, and it is very compact. The three models we use consume only three units, which is quite low. From a footprint and data center perspective, it doesn't occupy much space. As everything moves to cloud, there are requirements to avoid excess spending on data centers, and Pure Storage FlashArray is efficient in energy consumption and is environmentally friendly.

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Engineerdb78

Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

A solution with a simple configuration and good stability but it's quite expensive

Access to technical support should be improved for our region. Technical support is good, but they're very hard to access. When we have a problem with this storage, it's usually related to a very bad configuration. All-Flash Storage is very, very expensive. They are important solutions so I don't really have any ideas about how to rectify this. The device could use better monitoring tools.

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Tanesh Kumar

Storage And Server Farm (Ucs) Administrator at Meezan Bank Limited

Vm-aware storage has simplified vmware management and delivers strong deduplication and savings

There are many good features for Tintri VMstore T7000, especially its nature of understanding VMware. It is VM-aware storage, which is a very good characteristic. When any VM is moved from one host to another host, there is no way to see where it is running. It is very smooth in action. Trintri VMstore T7000 is totally autonomous. We have integrated it with our virtualization environment, so all the VMs and machines running in our environment move between one Tintri VMstore T7000 and another without requiring any manual intervention. The system can schedule resources from its own capabilities. If one Tintri VMstore T7000 becomes full, the machine will be moved to another automatically. This autonomous system is very beneficial. Nowadays, all storage comes with NVMe flash and all storage is coming with flash storages as well. Tintri VMstore T7000 is much easier to handle. We just need to integrate the whole Tintri VMstore T7000 with vCenter and all the work will be done by vCenter. If we want to check what the deduplication will be, there is a really good feature of Tintri VMstore T7000 called TGC. We can integrate all Tintri VMstore T7000 systems from one end and manage all of them from a single endpoint. The major benefit of using Tintri VMstore T7000 is its deduplication and compression ratio, which is around 4x to 5x. No other storage is giving that much ratio. This is really good and much cost-saving for the company. Administrative cost is reduced because Tintri VMstore T7000 gives us a single point where we can manage it. This is both time-saving and cost-saving.

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Pros

"It has made working with storage as easy and simple as it should be."

"The white glove customer service that I get is their greatest value."

"I am satisfied with this solution, and we plan to keep using this solution."

"Do it. I have zero reservations about recommending Pure to anyone who is looking for some really good all-flash."

"The features that are there now are really what we need."

"The most valuable feature is how it simplifies the management of the SAN."

"Pure support is very proactive, they monitor our infrastructure in real-time, so they respond before we even open a ticket."

"It’s easy to set up and support is excellent."

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"Rocketing IOPS results in performance we don't have to fixate on, so we can instead focus efforts on other layers in the stack, knowing that our SAN layer is lightning fast, with capacity to spare."

"So coupled with the simplicity, performance, and just absolute ease of use of the management of it, I don't know why anyone wouldn't buy it."

"Go with it. I tell people all the time they need to take a serious look at it."

"The stability of the solution is very good."

"It is consistently stable; haven't had a single issue with it."

"Image backups of our production servers that used to take hours now take minutes."

"Looking at what changed at Kaminario the last couple of months (and the last couple of years, for that matter) I’m certain we’ll see a lot of great innovation from Kaminario in their upcoming releases."

"Logic/software management"

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"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."

"We love our Tintri's here, so much so, we have 3!"

"I couldn't be happier with the decision we made to invest in Tintri and our customers are much happier too."

"The big benefit to the organization is that we no longer have to worry about a few rogue VMs taking up performance resources on the SANs, which impacts all of our clients."

"Stop using LUNs and start working with Tintri."

"Everyone says wonderful things about what their storage can do but Tintri actually delivers on the promises they make."

"It's easy to use and runs itself."

"Support from our vendor and Tintri are brilliant. They have always answered all of our questions promptly."

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Cons

"The 3PAR SSD arrays that we have are still failing a lot so even though we're under warranty, we still have to get someone out and usually have someone troubleshoot so that usually adds onto the cost. With Pure, we've had a disc fail and we pop it out and you pop it in and it's good to go."

"More cloud connectivity would enhance the solution."

"The solution is expensive."

"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."

"The way Pure Storage does the controller storage warranty or replacement has been an issue for some people who just replace the controllers every couple of years, and that's where some of the confusion with pricing and support has come in. They should be clear on the way the controller replacements happen, as it is important to know whether or not you can get a good return on them, because it can be a little confusing."

"A noticeable area for improvement is the support for object storage. The FlashArray does not natively support object storage like S3 or Swift, which pushes customers needing these features towards the more expensive FlashBlade."

"On the technical side, the way that the array performs cleanup and garbage collection sometimes pushes it close to 100 percent utilization, causing some stress."

"I would rate this solution an eight because we have had outages. The commit times went very high in the database. The whole array went down so our customers were down for around eight hours. This was a very big outage which could have been our fault because we didn't do the upgrade in time."

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"I'd give it a perfect rating if I could push it to 300,000 IOPS like they promote; we just haven't been able to push that many IOPS out of our system."

"Replication and de-duplication could be better."

"What I think would be a great idea for Kaminario is more visibility outside the US, when my customers start talking about AFA I notice they almost never talk about Kaminario, mainly because they just don’t know about them, and there are no local sales team to tell them about the Kaminario offering."

"A single pane of glass to monitor/manage multiple arrays would be helpful."

"I would like them to come down in price."

"I think it should have better performance with small files. With big data, its performance is top notch, but it is difficult to load small files."

"The management graphical interface needs more improvement."

"Some of the nice to haves for us, in terms of today, would be VVols but again, it’s not a critical feature."

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"We have tested the replication piece – it actually works well, but is expensive based on our limited needs – if we were utilizing the Tintri for more of our VM workload it may be more cost effective."

"Of course price can always be lower."

"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."

"Tintri need to be able to innovate faster but maintain the quality of their features."

"Detailed reporting is missing in the current version. We would like to see this feature added in a new release."

"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."

"Moving on to a synched and automated mirror between two data centers was not possible. We have been hearing for a month that this feature will become available."

"A solution for SMB traffic for file sharing would have been nice to have."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost has room for improvement."

"We have an Evergreen Storage subscription, which I think is a great feature."

"There is an annual or perpetual license required for this solution."

"Pure Storage is all-flash, so this sometimes tends to make it a bit more expensive in the beginning."

"FlashArray is expensive, but the quality justifies the price."

"Pure is not a cheap product. It is not something that is inexpensive. But, the total cost of ownership tends to be lower than with other solutions, because you don't need a lot of expertise, you don't need a lot of training or very expensive engineers or very expensive consultants."

"My organization has a yearly license, but I believe that Pure Storage FlashArray has capacity-based licenses as well. I'm definitely happy with the pricing."

"The price of the solution is not expensive."

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"The "extra" costs associated with features and options that are available off the shelf with Kaminario, make their value proposition extremely competitive."

"Kaminario is very competitive on price. They also have a pay per TB model."

"The Kaminario setup is simple and there are no hidden licensing fees so this area is a relief."

"All features are provided in the licensing. The cost of Kaminario was less than the cost of a hybrid array."

"Licensing is very straightforward. The cost was considerably lower than other products we looked at."

"The licensing is all-inclusive."

"I would like them to come down in price. It is as expensive as EMC, Hitachi, and other major vendors."

"I've always gotten excellent pricing. I'm very satisfied with the pricing that I receive."

"The area it needs to improve is the pricing. It could be better."

"The price of Tintri VMstore is not overly high compared to similar solutions."

"We haven't found Tintri's pricing to be a barrier to entry for any of our customers. Tintri works through a number of distributors and when we've had to purchase it for our customers we have found the pricing to be competitive."

"I think it is a very good solution. You get a good bang for buck."

"What I have heard, price-wise, is that Tinti was definitely very competitive. That's one of the reasons it was chosen for us."

"Tintri is reasonably priced for the solution you get. Advanced features do require extra to use."

"It's very competitive."

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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Construction Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

19%

Construction Company

15%

Outsourcing Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

10%

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Small Business

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Small Business	71
Midsize Enterprise	38
Large Enterprise	159

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Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	9

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Small Business	23
Midsize Enterprise	27
Large Enterprise	21

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Also Known As

Pure Storage FlashArray

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Overview

The FlashArray family delivers consistent, high-performance data services across block, file, and object workloads. As part of the Everpure Platform, it provides the foundation for a unified data plane, enabling applications to reliably access, protect, and manage data across environments with simplicity and predictability. With built-in capabilities such as inline data reduction, snapshots, replication, and ransomware resilience, FlashArray ensures efficient operations, protected data, and consistent application uptime.

As the foundation of the (unified) data plane, FlashArray enables policy-driven automation, monitoring, and centralized management while integrating across cloud and on-premises environments. Built on an Evergreen architecture, it supports non-disruptive upgrades and continuous performance improvements over time while simplifying operations at scale.

What Key Features Does FlashArray Offer?

Simplicity and Speed: Easy management and rapid performance enhancements.
Data Reduction: Effective deduplication and compression.
Flash Architecture: Seamless upgrades and outstanding resilience.
VMware Integration: Excellent compatibility with virtualization platforms.
Predictive Analytics: Strong insights for proactive management.

What Benefits Should Users Consider?

Reliability: Proactive support with minimal downtime.
Efficiency: Reduced storage footprint and enhanced data management.
Performance: Faster processing speeds and low latency.
User Experience: Simplified management with Evergreen model.

In industries like finance, banking, and healthcare, FlashArray supports high-performance storage needs focusing on virtualization and database environments. Employed for VMware workloads, disaster recovery, and storage provisioning, it ensures application performance in private or hybrid cloud setups while enhancing management of virtualized environments.

Everpure (formerly Pure Storage)

Kaminario K2 is the world’s only storage solution that delivers the predictability needed to handle the highly unpredictable world of modern businesses. This highly flexible all flash storage platform allows customers to cost-effectively scale capacity and performance to support their ever-changing business –seamlessly, on-demand and with no disruptions.

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Silk

Tintri VMstore T7000 offers powerful virtual machine storage with features like VM awareness, quality of service policies, and seamless management. Designed for environments needing speed, low latency, and simplicity, it stands out with automation, hypervisor integration, and responsive support.

Tintri VMstore T7000 is tailored for VMware virtualization, powering VMs in industries such as healthcare, enterprise, and telecommunications. Users benefit from its all-flash performance, detailed VM activity visibility, quick setup, and low latency. Automated management and hypervisor integration provide granular insights, while replication options, and efficient deduplication enhance operations in complex virtual settings. Areas for improvement include cloud integration, cost efficiency, non-Flash UI, and real-time replication. Users seek better documentation, licensing models, backup solutions integration, data deduplication across more platforms, NVMe support, and improved troubleshooting. Compatibility with Hyper-V and larger ecosystems like Azure also presents challenges. Pricing and customer support continue to be areas users find require enhancements.

What are the standout features of Tintri VMstore T7000?

VM Awareness: Provides detailed visibility into VM activities.
QoS Policies: Ensures optimal resource allocation.
Ease of Management: Simplifies operations with intuitive controls.
Speed: Delivers low-latency performance.
Integration with Hypervisors: Enhances cohesiveness with existing virtual environments.

What benefits or ROI should be considered when evaluating Tintri VMstore T7000?

Performance: All-flash system boosts infrastructure efficiency.
Stability: Supports complex, virtualized environments robustly.
Automation: Simplifies workload management and enhances productivity.
Scalability: Efficient handling of data demands with room for growth.

In health, enterprise, and telecom sectors, Tintri VMstore T7000 is deployed for VMware virtualization, serving as primary storage for virtual machines. Its all-flash performance and VDI support improve infrastructure performance and data management capabilities. Integration with VMware and automation further streamline operations, aiding in handling sensitive data and complex infrastructures effectively.

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That’s why leading enterprises including Comcast, Chevron, NASA, Toyota, United Healthcare and 20% of the Fortune 100, trust Tintri with storage needs.

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