Tintri VMstore T7000 Reviews

VMstore provides fast storage for virtual hosts. We deploy VMstore in various environments. Traditionally, we have primarily deployed it to on-premise servers. However, that has changed in the last two years. More companies are moving to 365, so you have more of a hybrid solution. Either works well because the box is highly adaptable. We're using a T820 currently, but we just signed an order to buy a T7000 series.

We're a telecommunications and IT company. We have a small data center in Leicester that started as a large server room with servers running services for customers who asked us to do different things. The business grew to the point where we hosted virtual machines and remote desktop services for multiple companies. We had to create a proper hosting environment, so we added the Dell Blade and Tintri array. It's housed in a single data center we own and operate.

We currently have six businesses running from that Tintri box, and the end-user accounts number about 500.

Previously, we managed individual servers as hosts with virtual machines running inside. We consolidated about seven individual hosts into one VMstore joined to a Dell blade array that we purchased at the same time. That saves a massive amount of time on ongoing maintenance management. VMstore probably reduces administration time by about 15 to 20 percent. It also saves significant power costs because we've turned off about nine servers in the last seven years. 

What formerly may have taken up a terabyte or two on a server only requires half that on the VMstore. It has increased efficiency while saving time and power costs. It's easier to use and a huge step up in reliability. Overall, it's a high-speed storage solution, which was a significant upgrade.

VMstore has made our company more profitable. We've increased our retail sales and margins while decreasing the time spent managing the solution. We sold this as a significant upgrade to a premium service when moving customers to this new array. Depending on the customer, we increased our retail charges for these services by between 10 and 15 percent. Without fail, every customer paid for it, and they were pleased with the service. 

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.

The visibility at the VM level is another feature we wanted, and it didn't disappoint. The replication, snapshots, and setting QoS are also critical features. It not only has those features but also lots of fast storage arrays that have similar features. Other fast storage arrays require some PowerShell commands and a lot of configuration to set up or enable those things. It's effortless with VMstore. You tick a couple of boxes and apply. You can send a message from the Slack bot, and I'll do it for you.

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.

While the performance and capacity monitoring GUI is excellent, I'd like to see multiple windows simultaneously. You can see various statistics, but it would be great to have that across several frames to monitor more things simultaneously. That's a minor issue. 

We've used VMstore for seven years.

VMstore is incredibly stable. It has not missed a heartbeat in seven years. The only issue we ever had was caused by a Microsoft update to Active Directory, not Tintri. 

The scalability internally through VMstore is quick and easy. Scaling up the physical boxes is also dead easy. You buy another box, plug it in, connect it, and away it goes in 30 minutes.

I rate Tintri support nine out of 10. Tintri support was excellent when we paid for it, but we stopped paying for it. Even though we stopped paying for support, an army of Tintri people, especially our account manager, helped us In our recent crisis caused by the Microsoft update, and it was hugely appreciated.

We had a Dell EqualLogic P4000 Series SAN that we no longer used for live customer data because it was so old. We used to have one Dell server per customer, which was unsustainable in terms of the time, effort, and power it takes to manage so many servers. It wasn't just a technology change—it's an entirely different way of thinking. 

This wasn't our specialty. We did it for one or two companies because they asked and developed from there. As we started providing this service to more customers, we got more sophisticated. Eventually, we reached a point where we decided to build a proper hosted server storage array.

VMstore was one of the most impressive deployments I've seen. It took 30 minutes. I remember walking away thinking, "Wow! They've just installed and delivered a SAN, connected it, and we've got a VM on it in 30 minutes. That's ridiculous."

We also did some preparation and planning before we deployed. We readied the new network where it was going to sit. The Dell blade array chassis was installed, and the blades were ready. The Tintri had arrived in a box about three days before, but we didn't touch it. 

The Tintri engineer came, and I helped him rack it. He connected it, and within 30 minutes, we created our first VM. After that, the Tintri engineer remained on site for about three or four hours, going through stuff with my remote colleague and showing him how all the different features work.

After deployment, VMstore requires some maintenance like all solutions, but it is minimal compared to the more traditional SANs and a lot less maintenance relative to managing multiple individual servers.

Server rentals for only one customer covered the entire cost of the box, so the rental income for everybody else we have hosted for the past seven years has been profit. VMstore has reduced our overall business costs in terms of time and power. VMstore is much more efficient and easy to manage, enabling us to decommission seven other individual servers, which has helped us reduce our power usage.

The price could be lower, but the pricing structure is what it is. This requires a heavy upfront investment, and you recoup it. It's just the nature of the business. I'm sure every company would like to see the price decrease, but I would like to see the additional software and ongoing support costs lowered.

There are two support variants: Gold and Platinum. I would suggest adding a third rung to that ladder with minimal support, access to software upgrades, and maybe an SLA with a 48-hour or 72-hour ticket window. Tintri would get a massive response at that support level, especially for smaller businesses like us.

At the same time, I fully understand that if you offer a lower level of support, people will opt for that instead of premium support. However, it would be nice if there were a support option with reduced service. If you're paying less, you should get less. From our point of view, the main aspects are software upgrades, patches, and security features. We want to ensure the box is healthy and access a help desk with a 72-hour SLA. Something like that would be ample for us.

We had quotes from Dell, HP, Pure Storage, and NetApp. All the servers we use are Dell, so there was a significant comfort factor, but it ultimately came down to a decision between Dell SAN and Tintri SAN. On the one hand, it made sense to go with a Dell SAN because we already had a Dell blade array. However, at that stage, Dell was still building their SANs on a more traditional footing, where configuration and management were quite intensive. 

The Tintri box was faster than the Dell, and it was much easier to build a VM. It was like night and day. You could send a message from the Slack bot, spin up two VMs, and the VMs were created seconds later. On the Dell SAN, it might take 15 to 20 minutes to do the same thing manually. We recognized Tintri as a leading-edge technology changing how it was done. We appreciated how the box operated, and it did disappoint.

About two years after we got our box, we were told that Tintri was in financial trouble, but we didn't panic because we knew how this technology market worked. We knew one of the bigger fish would swallow it up, and along came DDN. While it wasn't necessarily a factor, you want to ensure ongoing support and that the company will be around a year after you buy it. 

When we purchased VMstore, it was a stable business, and there were no indications that it was in danger. When Tintri did become in trouble, we knew the product was good, and we knew how the storage market worked, so we were confident somebody would purchase it. When DDN did, we knew we were okay.

I rate Tintri VMstore nine out of 10. I never give 10s unless it's perfect. The only perfect thing in this world is Liverpool FC. If you can, get a loaned box to try it out first. If Tintri has an old box somewhere or they allow you to get your hands on a box and connect it, I would be surprised if the IT company in question doesn't say, "Okay, this is good." 

You read a lot of data and statistics and can say that it can do fast storage, SSDs, VME, etc. Ultimately, you don't know anything about a product or a service until you use it. Having a loaned device and getting engineers to play around with it live is invaluable.

We implemented Tintri VMstore on our environment for storage management, and we deployed all our VMs on Tintri. 

We were looking for a solution that was easy to manage and easy to implement. 

In the past, we faced a performance bottleneck with our storage, and we have had instances when NFS mount points got disconnected by themselves. 

Tintri has provided us with stability and faster speed. We were also looking for a solution that is compatible with our existing Hypervisor environment, and Tintri has fulfilled that requirement.

Tintri VMstore has superior performance. It provides us with up to 30% faster performance than our old storage solutions. 

The T7000 series of VMstore has the capability to forecast resource requirements and capacity. Tintri VMStore has a unique filesystem that can manage performance and help us to oversee workloads. 

We have been able to scale up to ten VM storages and 500 VMs through a single pane of glass. That is a big plus for using the Tintri solution. Tintri is easy to automate using Powershell and Rest API.

We have found better performance, predictive analysis, and ease of use, and it supports site-to-site replication. 

Tintri VMstore provides a single pane of glass to manage all your VMs and hypervisors; it is very easy to scale. 

Automation comes naturally in Tintri using simple PowerShell and REST API. 

The faster performance of Tintri has reduced latency across our network, storage, and VMs. We now have more visibility across our VMs which has enhanced our user experience and helped accelerate deployments.

Tintri has a feature called Tintri Global Center, which helps to monitor and control our infrastructure with a single click. This works fine if you want to look at existing data, however, if you want to monitor dynamically with a granularity of seconds that it requires a connection back to Tintri central, which is an extra step and not so convenient to use. Also, we have noticed that while Tintri has improved our infrastructure performance by 30%, the performance drops significantly if we exceed SSD capacity.

Following additional features, we would like to see in the new release:

1. The fixing of the performance issue when we exceed SSD capacity.

2. Documentation support in major languages besides English (as we have teams spread out across multiple countries).

3. Having a one-click GUI to create snapshots of the storage.

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

We have been using Tintri VMstore for more than one year.

Tintri VMstore provided us up to 99.99% scalability.

We have been easily able to scale from 100 to 500+ VMs using Tintri VMstore; we have had no challenges scaling up while using Tintri VMspot

We were using HPE Nimble Storage earlier, and we were looking for a better-performing solution with a faster processing speed and a single pane of glass management.

As it is a flash array storage, it is much more expensive than a traditional disk-based storage system.

We did evaluate the following options before finally settling on Tintri VMstore:

1. PureStorage

2. Dell PowerStore

3. Dell Unity

We use it mostly for our VM storage.

The benefit we have seen is the simplification. Using Tintri has been more of a set-and-forget-it situation where I trust that Tintri performs as expected. And it does. It definitely reduces administrative time. Once I set it up I barely had any issues with storage.

The cloning is very fast.

Also, the fact that VMstore enables you to do replications, snapshots, and setting QS at a virtual machine level is awesome because it's more of a set-and-forget-it type of situation.

Another aspect I like is that it's very simple. It's an easy GUI to use.

I have not had any major problems with it except that one of the controllers failed one time. But that didn't hinder performance because there were two of them.

A feature like replication for disaster recovery would be nice.

I have been using Tintri VMstore since 2016-2017. I used one of the earlier models with no SSDs. It was mostly physical drives.

It's very stable. I've never had any problems with Tintri. They usually are pretty good at keeping track of their equipment. Usually, because they have noticed some hard drives are going down or are bad, they have already sent us drives to replace them. Tintri is one of the appliances that I barely needed to look at and maintain.

Although now we have SSD drives, during the time that I was using it, it was mostly physical drives. 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. I know there are some limitations to things like that, but scalability, as opposed to having to buy a new appliance for higher capacity, would be good.

Their tech support is above average.

Positive

We didn't have other storage, at that time, that was VM-ready, such as Pure Storage and others. What we mostly had was some sort of NFS storage. The storage that we were using was old and not really VM-centric. When we moved to Tintri, it provided the best solution for everything. 

We switched because of performance. Isilon wasn't really meant for VM.

It took three to four hours to get VMstore rack-mounted, installed, and starting to serve the virtual machines.

In terms of maintenance, I just rely on the notifications and check on it from time to time. It has been pretty self-reliant.

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

We did play around with a little bit of vSAN, but that was a little bit more complicated and more expensive, considering the licensing.

For day-to-day use, VMstore has been solid VM storage for us.

We primarily use Tintri VMstore solution for our VM database storage needs. Previously we used IBM flash storage services. However, it had significant drawbacks. So, we switched to Tintri VMstore solution, and it met all our storage needs and more. 

The extra layer of security it provides is also very valuable for our organization. We use 24 VMs in our environment currently, and our customer database contains sensitive information. With the help of Tintri VMstore solution, we are also on the right path for future expansions.

Tintri VMstore solution brought a very positive change and impact on our day-to-day operations, and we have encountered little to no hiccups until now. 

As explained earlier, with all our physical and virtual infrastructure, the Tintri VMstore solution has been very helpful in managing our needs and provides easy integrations and extra layers of security. 

Overall, using Tintri VMstore solution, compared to the previously used alternatives, has given us far better output and services, and support over the period of its use.

The data encryption feature adds a valuable security enhancement with no impact on performance. The SecureVM feature of Tintri VMstore encrypts all data going through it with zero impact on performance or output and can be managed using the VMStore dashboard. 

This adds an additional layer of security to the organization's infrastructure and is a valuable additional feature. 

Since all the data we are processing is sensitive and a compromise cannot be afforded, using Tintri VMstore has benefited the organization thus far.

We need more options to integrate with cloud storage options other than the current AWS and IBM that it currently supports. We also use Microsoft Azure services for a portion of our database and would like to see the seamless integration of that platform with Tintri VMstore as well. 

Additionally, support ticket times could be reduced, and the method could be made a little more robust to save time and effort. 

The addition and improvement of these features can make Tintri VMstore stand out as the leading solution for VM storage and Database management.

I've used the solution for two years.

We use it for a hospital. 

The most valuable feature is the VM management. It has good technology. 

Make sure to do a POC. Then after that, put into production. You'll see that the technology is good. 

I would rate it an eight out of ten. 

The features are good but the brand name is not so popular here.

We have been using Tintri VMstore for two years. 

It is stable. 

We are a medium-sized enterprise. We have around 200 users. 

The initial setup is straightforward. It didn't take that long to deploy. 

The pricing is reasonable. 

We primarily used the solution for the server and for our VDI.

The most valuable aspect of the solution was how fast it worked on behalf of VDI desktops.

The dashboard and the integration capabilities were okay.

In the end, we decided the price wasn't going to work for us, along with the fact there was fussiness around the storage. 

Technical support needs improvement as well.  

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.

The initial setup was straightforward.

We used the on-premises deployment model. Recently, we stopped using the solution.

I would rate the solution seven out of ten.

In our production environment, we have 10 ESX hosts with two replicated Tintri T850 SAN.

• It is fast and reliable. There hasn’t been a single failure in three years of use. 
• The VMs have worked fine, and the bandwidth to the Tintri SAN has never been an issue.

• Ease of managing and installing: It’s just to enter an IP address and you’re good to go. 
• It’s very good at IOPS. 
• The firmware upgrade is easy.

I would like it to have the ability to store data other than virtual machines. At the moment, you can only connect VMs to it, and that’s a bit disappointing.

I use Tintri box for a VDI solution, hosting at least 1800 VDI stations there, deployment really easy, really good performance. No major issues.

It speeds up deployment significantly. This is one of the greatest improvements because we are able to deploy several virtual machines in seconds. The cloning feature on the Tintri Box is really impressive.

The deduplication feature in VDI environments. If Tintri say's: "we can host 3000 VMs in our storage", I know, we can host 3000 VMs there. Believe the results.

The area it needs to improve is the pricing. It could be better. Another topic is the replication feature, In the version 4.3 the syncronous replication is not so friendly and you have to do procedures manually to come back once you recover one of your nodes. 

One to three years.

Good. We had a couple of issues from the start and they were resolved very quickly with no impact on production.

In the past, we used a typical SAN solution. We made the switch because of the simplicity of the design. We can use the same network devices that have a large number of connections, instead of SAN switches. That's one less layer. And because the deployment is really really fast.

The initial setup is straightforward, no advanced knowledge is required to do it.

Explore the Tintri Synchronous Replication feature (licensing is required). This is a good solution to protect your environment at Storage Level and your RTO will be improved by this.

Yes, XtremIO and you can ask for a deployment test with Tintri, after you test it you will like it, his deployment Is really simple and faster. No other dashboard is needed because you can see the behavior of your storage and the IO performance at VM level.

You can ask for a deployment test with Tintri. After you test it you will like it, it's deployment is really quick and simple. No other dashboard is needed because you can see the behavior of your storage and the IO performance at the VM level.

VMware virtualisation for Client with VMware VDI & vCenter for server synchronised over two data centers.

• Easy installation, stable, and reliable operating with an almost zero-touch approach. 
• Allows for more time to worry about real problems.

• The web GUI for maintenance and resource monitoring purposes is easy to use.
• If you have to reconfigure or check something, you will not be lost with too many unnecessary options.
• Excellent 24/7 support with good reaction times. A lot of first time contacts were to a technical person, not log and route.

In sync and automated mirror between two Tintris is missing. However, as far as I know, it is on their roadmap.

Not a lot to do more on a Tintri. It is always monitored by the vendor, if you like, and their reaction time and quality are awesome.

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. However, in the end, it was too late for us.

A very good support team that is available 24/7. They have real technical staff with strong knowledge.

HP EVA, which is not admin friendly.

Five to 10 min to production.

The vendor team's level of expertise is very good.

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

An "all-in-one" license model would be better at this price range.

Not applicable.

Good, friendly sales, marketing, tech, and support teams, who are a pleasure to work with.

Tintri T5060 SSD array used for high performance requirements of Windows 10 VDI environment using Citrix XenDesktop.

KPI: Performance must be equal to or better than a local user environment.

The Tintri VMstore was faster than most local user laptops and desktops available at the time. Most users were on spinning disk or hybrid storage. 

In the VDI environment, the "VM-aware" T5060, along with its extremely fast speeds, has removed storage as your typical bottleneck.

• Its VM-aware features have been excellent to use and integrate with XenServer as well. 
• Its speed has been absolutely fantastic. 
• Upgrades are super easy and can be done during business hours without interruptions in production.

• I would love more insight into each virtual machine statistic. 
• The Tintri Analytics site is excellent for long-term trending, but more data would be great.

No issues.

No issues.

Technical support has been excellent, Their engineers are excellent and easy to access.

No previous solution was used.

Initial setup was very straightforward.

Implementation was done in-house.

ROI is excellent, but have no specific data.

Ensure the storage system "natively" supports the protocols that you wish to use (i.e., CIFS) without the need for the overhead of internal "conversion VMs" that run the protocols.

We evaluated Pure Storage SSD arrays.

Tintri has been a breeze to deal with!  We have had no issues.