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We performed a comparison between NetApp NVMe AFF A800 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.
To learn more, read our detailed NetApp NVMe AFF A800 vs. Tintri VMstore Report (Updated: March 2024).
769,334 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support.""The solution helps to simplify storage.""We are very happy with the data deduplication and compression ratio that we have on the platform.""Non-disruptive upgrades: You can upgrade at anytime without worry.""The management is simple in Pure Storage FlashArray.""The stability is very good. I've done destructive testing on it and never had any type of storage outages from it.""Very efficient storage""We can store more for a cheaper price as opposed to paying for larger devices and larger rack spaces which get outdated sooner and which we'd have to change every two years. It simplifies storage for us."

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"During the use cases of the solution, its reliability and suitability are the best.""The storage features are valuable.""We find the product to be very flexible.""Low latency is the most valuable feature.""The most valuable features are stability and performance.""You can easily scale up, and scale-out.""The product can be scaled vertically as well as horizontally.""The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a product that is fast and provides a fast I/O."

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"It has easy setup, easy administration, and no LUNs!""A very good support team that is available 24/7. They have real technical staff with strong knowledge.""We have been able to scale up to ten VM storages and 500 VMs through a single pane of glass.""Fast deployment for virtual machines""Web GUI for maintenance and resource monitoring purposes is easy to use.""It is great for finding problems where VMs are hogging all the performance.""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.""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."

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Cons
"On a couple of occasions, the waiting time for an upgrade has been pretty substantial.""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.""Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see.""I would like to have support available in Spanish.""Part of our company works on Dell EMC because Pure Storage did not have synchronous applications when we were purchasing our products.""In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption.""I would like to see the NAS add-on component become more fault-tolerant than just a single virtual machine running inside the array. I'm unwilling to use it for that reason.""It was a little costly. The price was ultimately higher than both of the other solutions that we evaluated. I'd say that's the only downside."

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"The initial setup is complex.""Increasing the RAM, and including physical cords would be beneficial.""Sometimes, it takes a while to get somebody competent on the other end of the line. They do have engineers in multiple time zones around the world. However, their level-one support is not always the best.""The support can take a few days to have a response. However, the response that we do receive is very informative.""The cost of the solution is quite high. It would be ideal if they could adjust it so that it's a but less.""The product's performance has some shortcomings, making it an area that could be a little better.""The product’s UI could be better.""The initial setup should be easier, and more like a plug-and-play approach."

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"The product could be improved by adding iSCSI support. We have had to rethink how we implement some of our services due to this.""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.""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.""In sync and automated mirror between two Tintris is missing.""Speed of our VDI machines. We have a very high log in and log out ratio and machines are being refreshed instantly so we have a constant boot storm on our storage.""Tintri need to be able to innovate faster but maintain the quality of their features.""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.""More cloud integration."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "We feel that the pricing is fair and the licensing process was easy for both."
  • "There is always room for negotiation."
  • "The price was slightly higher than others, but competitive, if you consider all the other features that you get from it."
  • "It is a more expensive solution, but it is worth it. You are getting what you paid for."
  • "For pricing, you have to take into account their performance on deduplication and compression in a $/GB comparison."
  • "We have seen a reduction in total cost of ownership (TCO)."
  • "It is a cheaper solution."
  • "Pure Storage is all-flash, so this sometimes tends to make it a bit more expensive in the beginning."
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  • "Considering the requirements and the situation, I don't feel that this is an expensive product."
  • "The solution is expensive."
  • "There are licenses for the use of this solution, such as commercial licenses."
  • "I rate the product’s pricing a seven out of ten."
  • "Though NetApp NVMe AFF A800 may seem like a highly-priced product, it is not extremely expensive."
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  • "With any SAN purchase, the sizing procedure is the most important step."
  • "The price is the price and is reasonable for the class of storage."
  • "Tintri arrays are cheaper then other vendors while still providing an excellent level of performance."
  • "Performance for the price is amazing."
  • "The cost of all the SW is well spent because it makes you save on backup and DR."
  • "Always could be cheaper."
  • "​I think it is a very good solution. You get a good bang for buck.​"
  • "Prices are not cheap, but it runs."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Both are great platforms, but if you are considering all flash solutions, I would recommend you to consider Pure… more »
    Top Answer:We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression.
    Top Answer:We have customers who use a three-year or five-year license. We also have customers who use Evergreen.
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a product that is fast and provides a fast I/O.
    Top Answer:Though NetApp NVMe AFF A800 may seem like a highly-priced product, it is not extremely expensive.
    Top Answer:The product's performance has some shortcomings, making it an area that could be a little better. I don't expect to see… more »
    Top Answer:The ability to snap machines into VMware quickly is valuable.
    Top Answer:The price of Tintri VMstore is not overly high compared to similar solutions. However, as with any storage solution… more »
    Top Answer:It would be beneficial if Tintri could identify issues through telemetry and notify us before we need to contact them… more »
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    Overview

    Pure Storage FlashArray is the world’s first enterprise-class storage array that runs exclusively on the nonvolatile memory express (NVMe) protocol for memory access and storage. It represents a totally state-of-the-art type of storage technology. It offers users shared accelerated storage that delivers cutting-edge features in the realms of performance, simplicity, and consolidation. Pure Storage is fresh and modern today and will be for the next decade. Without forklift upgrades or planned downtime, Pure Storage takes the work out of storage ownership and delivers unprecedented customer satisfaction.

    Pure Storage FlashArray is built with simplicity and reliability in mind. The solution can be implemented and optimized in hours, as opposed to other similar solutions that can take days. It has no moving parts, which removes areas where it could potentially be vulnerable to suffering errors. It is highly stable and gives users the ability to manage system shutdowns in a way that  prevents data loss.

    Benefits of Pure Storage FlashArray

    Some of the benefits of using Pure Storage FlashArray include:

    • A much higher level of speed than similar pieces of technology. Pure Storage FlashArray maximizes the speed at which data can be transferred while at the same time minimizing system latencies that might slow the transfer down. Additionally, it offers users quick memory read and data access speeds.

    • A higher bang for your buck in terms of the storage capabilities you get for the money you pay. They are smaller in size than more standard storage technologies, but they offer flash memory, which enables users to store larger amounts of data than the current standard.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Pure Storage FlashArray is a highly effective piece of storage technology which stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its overall robustness and the value that it offers by way of its reliability and ease of use. It provides users with many valuable features that allow them to maximize what they can do with this solution. Pure Storage FlashArray’s reliability and ease of use make it a highly valuable solution. 

    PeerSpot user Prabakaran K., a technical consultant at Injazat Data Systems, notes the robustness of this solution when he writes, "FlashArray has many valuable features. It's very user-friendly and it has high availability, so there is comparatively less downtime. During maintenance, there is no shutdown procedure, so you can directly power off the Array and manage the shutdown process without any data loss, which is a unique feature. Managing replication and data migration is also very easy."

    PeerSpot user Jason D., a cloud solutions architect at a tech services company, notes three features that make this solution valuable when he writes, "We've had different types of storage, and three things of this solution are valuable. The first one is its outstanding performance. The second one is its stability. In the about three years that we've had it, we've had component failures, but we never had a service interruption or any data loss. The third one, which is really critical, is that it is super easy to use in terms of provisioning, storage, and managing the arrays. I'm able to maintain a multi-site environment with a couple of dozen arrays with a single mid-level storage admin."

    Your data is a gold mine. Get the most out of it - faster - with AFF A800. Designed for NVMe media, further accelerated with NVMe/FC connectivity to the host, AFF A800 all-flash systems deliver an incredible sub-200 microsecond latency. Providing more than 11.4M IOPS and 300GB/s throughput in a single cluster, AFF A800 redefines the limit of what’s possible with artificial intelligence and deep learning.

    For over 10 years, Tintri has been unburdening IT teams of tedious, manual data management with the most advanced, AI-enabled solution on the market. With a commitment to ongoing R&D, Tintri delivers an infrastructure solution built for today’s future-ready, integrated operations from the ground up. We are redefining what data management and analytics look like for today’s dynamic workloads.

    Tintri VMstore Adds Feature That No Other Platform Offers

    Workload Intelligence Drives Tintri’s Most Powerful and Flexible Auto Adaptive Platform

    The Tintri VMstore T7000 Series is the latest addition to the storage industry’s only true Intelligent Infrastructure portfolio. The T7000 delivers NVMe driven performance and efficiencies, supporting up to 7,500 virtualized applications in just two rack units. It offers the kind of scalability, availability and security that you’d expect from an enterprise-grade system that powers numerous Fortune 100 firms. Our customers love the outstanding AI-driven efficiency and optimizations that set VMstore apart from traditional approaches. VMstore systems deploy in minutes, self-optimize and dynamically adapt to accommodate the most demanding workloads in the data center maintaining quality of service (Auto-QoS) for each Virtual Machine (VM). Autonomous operations and advanced real-time and predictive analytics consistently drive down storage management activities and costs – by as much as 95%.

    Tintri VMstore T7000 – NVMe Platform Datasheet

    Tintri “Geek Out” Demo Series

    Tintri VMstore simplifies and automates storage management, delivering real-time analytics, and maximizing performance so you can refocus your efforts on high-impact projects and business innovation.

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    Buyer's Guide
    NetApp NVMe AFF A800 vs. Tintri VMstore
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp NVMe AFF A800 vs. Tintri VMstore and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is ranked 17th in All-Flash Storage with 10 reviews while Tintri VMstore is ranked 14th in All-Flash Storage with 61 reviews. NetApp NVMe AFF A800 is rated 8.8, while Tintri VMstore is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of NetApp NVMe AFF A800 writes "Very easy to manage, highly stable and offers robustness of the CLI, API, and GUI ". 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 NVMe AFF A800 is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado, NetApp ASA and NetApp AFF, whereas Tintri VMstore is most compared with Dell PowerStore, HPE Nimble Storage, VMware vSAN, NetApp AFF and DDN IntelliFlash. See our NetApp NVMe AFF A800 vs. Tintri VMstore report.

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