Kaminario K2 [EOL] vs Tintri VMstore T7000 comparison

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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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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The stability of Pure Storage is very very good."

"It does efficient work of storing data while still delivering the performance that you would normally expect from a higher priced solution."

"The reliability is very good."

"We've been using FlashArray's snapshot for backups. Their replication across sites and response time are also excellent."

"Running on Pure has given us the ability to scale out our SQL environments."

"The most important feature of any storage array is its reliability, measured by its uptime."

"The predictive performance analytics is a very good feature, as our system is performing better than before."

"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."

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"Implementation of the solution is very simple."

"The ratio between the physical storage and the storage we use is very high."

"Technical support is absolutely great."

"The increased performance is many times above our previous array performance in all metrics. Integration with vSphere features is also a definite plus."

"I think this product hits all the big features of all the SANs that are out there, all the storage vendors that are out there and more."

"From my perspective, it is a huge success fulfilling everything we needed and more!"

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

"Kaminario allowed us a solid state solution with marginal incremental cost."

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"The best feature that Tintri VMstore T7000 offers, in my opinion, is disaster recovery, because having one unit at the production site and one at the DR site, along with the migration of snapshots to the DR site, makes things significantly better and alleviates so much time for me as an admin so I can focus on other things, knowing I can trust Tintri VMstore T7000 to take the snapshot, move it over to DR, and be assured that if I need it, it will work."

"Just give it a try, even via POC, to see how much simpler it is to implement and how well it performs."

"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."

"Simplicity of installation and management, high IOPS, management per VM, QoS, power and space saving."

"The ease and use and the great performance are why we went with our 2nd Tintri VMstore."

"Stop using LUNs and start working with Tintri."

"I no longer have to think about our storage or managing it; Tintri solved all those problems for us while improving performance."

"Among the most valuable features are its granular replication, the ability to define asynchronous or synchronous replication, which gives us very definable RTOs and RPOs around that type of service, and granular quality-of-service configuration, which allows for cases where you've got multiple customers on a single Tintri, but you want to be able to offer strong quality-of-service metrics and KPIs."

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Cons

"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."

"Pure Storage FlashArray has not helped decrease the total cost of ownership."

"Pure Storage's logs could provide more visibility to the end-user. The logging algorithms are different from those of other vendors. For example, Cisco's logs provide extensive troubleshooting data, whereas Pure Storage logs offer limited information. We have to contact support to get more information."

"We had one instance with an eight-hour outage in our primary data center because the upgrade to the controller failed, and the controller redundancy didn't work."

"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve some aspects. There are certain features that are good and there are some features that I see some issues with at the technical level. Those issues are related to replication. They need to resolve those issues, which I have already highlighted to the Pure team. Additionally, there are some issues in the active cluster that could improve."

"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."

"The initial setup was a little complex. We had some initial issues with the design and had to help correct some of the white papers for it, but it wasn't your standard use case."

"The one major gripe I have is that there is no snapshotting enabled by default on the SAN."

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"The front panel of the drive shelf doesn't always seat firmly."

"Replication and de-duplication could be better."

"I would love to see capacity on its DRAM. I know it's not cost effective for them to do it, but I think that it could be a big differentiator and was a big differentiator from the beginning."

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

"I would like to see them work with Cisco, so it comes off the FIs, instead of having to go through my 10-gig network."

"I would like to see LDAP for the management panel; I've been notified they might be currently working on it."

"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."

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"Backup integration with Veeam. I would really like to see a way to leverage storage side snapshots for this."

"Good documentation is an improvement point."

"VMstore as a product is an appliance. It is normal hardware. When there are new releases of, for instance, VMware vSphere, it can sometimes take time on the Tintri side to support that. It can take longer than expected. Tintri could improve by ensuring shorter times for support and compatibility when there are new releases from partners like VMware or Microsoft."

"The product could be improved by adding iSCSI support, as others have mentioned."

"Stretched Cluster also for older models like T540 and T650."

"I would love an Active/Active set-up, if possible."

"Active/active cluster between two Tintris on Hyper-V cluster. Dedup should be better."

"There were stability issues only when we exceeded the operational limitations."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is too high."

"In comparison to the competitors, Pure is very price-competitive for the future functionality that it provides."

"Price per terabyte is substantially higher than their competition. We would like to see it drop."

"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."

"You can pay extra for Evergreen support, which gives you free upgrades when new features are introduced."

"Our Evergreen Storage subscription is supposed to be good when we go to upgrade."

"I would rate the pricing of Pure Storage FlashArray a five out of ten. It is expensive but not too much."

"We do not incur additional costs beyond the licensing fee."

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"The licensing is all-inclusive."

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

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

"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."

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

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

"Make sure that you have all licenses in one go. Options afterwards can cost extra."

"Prices are not cheap, but it runs."

"Tintri arrays are cheaper then other vendors while still providing an excellent level of performance."

"Performance for the price is amazing."

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

"The licensing model is relatively simple. For things like replication, however, the licensing needs to be looked at."

"The cost of all the SW is well spent because it makes you save on backup and DR."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Comms Service Provider

Construction Company

Outsourcing Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

17%

Construction Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

Outsourcing Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

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Midsize Enterprise

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	22

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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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