We performed a comparison between NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays 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."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."
"The speed is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"It reduces space and the polar consumption. It also accelerates the application."
"It is pretty much just plug and play. There is not that much to do with it. It is very easy to use."
"Lone segmentation is simpler and more agile. It's improved the velocity in overall provisioning from project to operation."
"The stability is perfect. The reliability is 100% and the latency is always lower than 1 millisecond."
"Their support system has insight into errors on our SAN fabric that we can't see. They've brought attention to and raised awareness for us about things that we couldn't see, when we were experiencing problems."
"The console is simple to use. It has good performance. It is easy to install, understand, and manage, with a good ratio of deduplication and compression. It is doing its job."
"The hardware and software of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays are easy for us to use."
"It provides multi-protocol, which is what gives the edge when it comes to big lineage PC workloads."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"Considering the cost, I find NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays to be the best storage available in the market."
"We do a lot of in-house, application-dependent type things, where we find the different niches to the different things. Certain things they do better. We've found that it actually does very well on some of our higher-end applications."
"One of the most valuable features is the overall performance it provides. You're able to throw a pile of IOPS at it and it will handle that without much issue."
"Compared to Dell Unity XT, what I see as an advantage in NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is the fact that it is more scalable...The performance of the product is good."
"I would have to say performance at this point, because the application it is based on is so diverse."
"The ease and use and the great performance are why we went with our 2nd Tintri VMstore."
"You can control resources on a per VM basis to ensure that contention in resources does not hamper performance."
"Performance, cost, and ease of storage management."
"A very good support team that is available 24/7. They have real technical staff with strong knowledge."
"The data encryption feature adds a valuable security enhancement with no impact on performance."
"Fast deployment for virtual machines"
"We also find the detail per-vm reporting at the ability to see reports from the hypervisor straight back to the storage useful."
"Its performance is amazing. Since I have put Tintri in, I haven't had a complaint from anybody about slowness. On top of that, there is block-level cloning and the ability to spin up VMs."
"Having something native in the Pure Storage ecosystem would make it integrated and in one single company, and we wouldn't have to work with multiple organizations."
"They should work on their upgrades, they're not smooth."
"The problem is that we can only make a few groups, around five or six groups. I like groups and we need a lot of them. We had to put all the information in only a few groups and cannot make a more detailed separation of them."
"Beyond a certain amount of petabytes, you have to have a separate system. Basically, it's not infinitely scalable."
"I would rate this solution an eight. There's always room for improvement, nobody is perfect to get a ten out of ten. They do what they do well. It's not cheap but we it's for uses that we needed."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"The solution is not cheap."
"The dashboard could be simplified."
"The initial setup phase of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is not straightforward and needs improvement."
"It needs a better management tool."
"Its pricing should be better. Its price is competitive, but they need to improve the pricing. They have different licensing models, which they need to improve. My expectation was cloud integration, which they have, but it is a different license. Therefore, people cannot enjoy it. If I want to use it, I need to pay extra. There is a cost involved for everything, but it should reach everyone. It is similar to having a Rolls-Royce, but you need to pay extra for the key. If you want the key, you need to pay."
"Better integration with other brands is important so we would like to see it easier to integrate."
"Things like the FlexClones, SnapVault, SnapMirror, all of that. Some of it's available on the EF series, but we like what we have in the FAS system."
"This solution does not have any compression or deduplication."
"I've observed an issue when creating a new storage solution with NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays."
"Active/active cluster between two Tintris on Hyper-V cluster."
"The product could be improved by adding iSCSI support. We have had to rethink how we implement some of our services due to this."
"Detailed reporting is missing in the current version. We would like to see this feature added in a new release."
"More cloud integration."
"Tintri need to be able to innovate faster but maintain the quality of their features."
"What I feel would be nice, in terms of a wishlist, is scalability. Rather than replacing the whole appliance, I would like to be able to just add another unit and scale it like that."
"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."
"We need more options to integrate with cloud storage options other than the current AWS and IBM that it currently supports."
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NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is ranked 23rd in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews while Tintri VMstore is ranked 15th in All-Flash Storage with 61 reviews. NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is rated 8.6, while Tintri VMstore is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays writes "A storage solution that offers great stability, resilience, and support". 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". NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and HPE Primera, whereas Tintri VMstore is most compared with Dell PowerStore, HPE Nimble Storage, VMware vSAN, NetApp AFF and DDN IntelliFlash. See our NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays vs. Tintri VMstore report.
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