Tintri VMstore T7000 Reviews and Pricing

it_user627702

Network Engineer at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

Mar 27, 2017

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We were able to increase productivity by moving away from LUNs and simplifying management of our backend storage.

What is most valuable?

Dedupe
VAAI
The deep dive analysis of performance for each VM

How has it helped my organization?

We were able to increase productivity of our small team by moving away from LUNs and simplifying management of our backend storage.

What needs improvement?

Integration of all the interfaces:

For each Tintri
For the global centre management
Analytics

The interfaces are all great, but if all the functionality were built into one global centre, this would make the interface a single pane.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using this solution for nearly two years

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What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

There were no issues with deployment.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

There were no issues with stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Scaling requires the purchase of a new VMstore.

How are customer service and support?

Customer Service:

Customer service is excellent. Any time we needed questions answered or help, our service team was quick to respond and they were very knowledgeable.

Technical Support:

Technical support is excellent. We performed an upgrade which caused an alert to be sent to our team. By the time we finished reading the alert, someone from Tintri was already calling us to explain the issue. In this specific case, it was an erroneous alert due to filling a temp folder during the upgrade process.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We were using a hyper-converged solution that wasn't scaling with our limited budget and space.

How was the initial setup?

The setup was straightforward and quick to deploy. It took under an hour from racking to being available for use.

What about the implementation team?

We deployed the solution in-house.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Scope your needs properly and buy the right model. Leverage your pre-sales team for help.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We evaluated Nimble and Nutanix.

What other advice do I have?

Test the sales pitch
Do a PoC
Push the box to the limits of your environment and see for yourself

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

it_user629091

Network Administrator at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 23, 2017

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The web UI allows you to view performance of individual VMs, as well as performance of the overall VMstore.

What is most valuable?

Tintri has a great web UI that allows you to view performance of individual VMs, as well as performance of the overall VMstore.

Code upgrades are really simple.

How has it helped my organization?

We have seen increased performance of VMs that have been migrated to Tintri.

What needs improvement?

There are occasional bugs but Tintri has been good about fixing them quickly. The bugs are mostly cosmetic; I've never had a bug impact end users or VMs.

In regards to the bugs, we have had minor issues here and there, when accessing things in the UI. Nothing to note recently but in previous releases, we have had a lot of issues with AD integration. However, those issues have been resolved.

We have also had false-positive alerts, while upgrading the code. That only happened with one version of code, that we upgraded to but again, those have been resolved.

Tintri is always very good with resolving bugs, i.e., by frequently providing code upgrades.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have used it for 3+ years.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

We have not encountered any deployment issues.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We have not encountered any stability issues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We have not encountered any scalability issues.

How is customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

Customer service is excellent. Whenever I call, I get somebody right on the line.

Technical Support:

Technical support is excellent. The Tintri is smart enough to generate tickets on its own when there are issues and support is right there to help.

How was the initial setup?

Initial setup is very easy. The whole process from unboxing to adding to vCenter is 20-30 minutes. There are no LUNs to carve and no zoning required!

What about the implementation team?

An in-house team implemented it.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

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it_user502368

IT Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jan 25, 2017

We purchased it and currently use it for our Hyper-V environment.

Valuable Features:

The overall speed/performance of the system is critically valuable for us and the analytical data is extremely helpful for minimizing troubleshooting time for any VMs experiencing issues.

This product was purchased for our MS Hyper-V 2012 R2 environment and allowed us to build out a clustered configuration that we have never been able to have due to previously unreliable equipment. At the time we were having severe disk latency issues and realized that we needed an all Flash or Hybrid flash and SATA array. The unit we purchased is a Hybrid unit, although at first we were skeptical it would provide the same performance as an all Flash Array, yet it has far surpassed all expectations. Detailed reporting with the ability to see reports from the hypervisor are very helpful.

Improvements to My Organization:

Immediately upon installation we benefited from a 5x speed/performance increase in the overall system for all of our VMs migrated to the unit from an old unreliable Synology storage unit.

Use of Solution:

We currently continue to use our Tintri for our Hyper-V environment and will purchase another unit once we have the need for expansion.

Deployment Issues:

We had no issues with deployment as it was deployed within an hour.

Stability Issues:

The unit remains extremely stable

Scalability Issues:

We currently only have one device, but will scale when needed

Customer Service:

The customer service is excellent and second to none!

Technical Support:

Only issue experienced was due to administrative error with respect to Active Directory connectivity.

Previous Solutions:

Synology unit that was replaced did not have de-dupe or have any other feature like the Tintri does.

Initial Setup:

    Rack the unit
    Plug in power and network.
    Assign an IP via the cli.
    Login via a web interface and complete the set-up.
    Load the needed module on each hyper-visor.
    Mount the storage.

Implementation Team:

Single IT Administrator

ROI:

The ROI for us is expected to be just under 3 years

Cost and Licensing Advice:

Compared to other products in the same area, very cost effective. Licensing is not a factor as there are no additional license costs.

Other Solutions Considered:

Dell, NetApp, HP

Other Advice:

A lot of people get spooked by the word hybrid, but the performance is truly impressive and well worth considering.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

it_user326337Customer Success Manager at PeerSpot

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Sep 28, 2016

Chris and Donald, I think you may find this review on Tintri VMstore useful:

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it_user503583

System Administrator with 5,001-10,000 employees

Aug 30, 2016

The integration at the VM level provides a detailed understanding of the VMs storage relationship without having to run lots of extra tools and services.

Tintri Storage a System Built for Virtualization Administrators.

As a VM administrator and not a storage administrator the move to Tintri was a great change in storage strategy. The integration at the VM level provides a detailed understanding of the VMs storage relationship without having to run lots of extra tools and services and then having to extrapolate and correlate all the data to determine which VM is the bully and which VM is the victim.

The ability to look at the Tintri Global center for a view of multiple VM stores or individual VM stores from the web interface or even just at the VM itself from the vSphere plugin means the all the information about a VM is quickly and readily available.

The installation and setup of a new VM store was about as simple as can be just rack it, power it, IP it and use it. For a non-storage person not having to determine RAID types, RAID groups, volumes, LUNs, etc. and just use it was a great experience.

In the way of an improvement I would like to see additional vSphere features such a meta tags being made available as well as maybe snapshots of VMs at the disk level but being triggered by vSphere snapshots.

The performance has exceeded expectations as has the capacity. Everyone says wonderful things about what their storage can do but Tintri actually delivers on the promises they make.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

it_user498222

Senior Network/Systems Engineer with 51-200 employees

Aug 22, 2016

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Performance has been great with no issues seen on storage since moving from NetApp.

Pros and Cons

"Performance, cost, and ease of storage management."

Improvements to My Organization

No longer need to manage multiple LUNs and try to balance out storage allocation. Performance has been great with no issues seen on storage since moving from NetApp. We were constantly troubleshooting what was causing bottlenecks with NetApp with the VMStore they give you great insight to the network, storage, or host allowing you great insight of performance at the VM level.

Valuable Features

Performance, cost, and ease of storage management.

Room for Improvement

Always could be cheaper! : )

Stability Issues

Not yet.

Scalability Issues

Not yet.

Customer Service and Technical Support

Customer Service:

Good.

Technical Support:

Top notch. Very responsive and knowledgeable.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

it_user497469

Virtualization Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Aug 21, 2016

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Valuable features are speed and visibility in latency.

Valuable Features:

- Visibility in latency

- Speed

Improvements to My Organization:

Faster deployment and more responsive VDI environment.

What I meant is that by leveraging Tintri and their VAAI plugin we cut deployment and recompose times in Horizon View.

We have increased responsiveness because the smart caching in VMStore allows us to achieve flash like performance for the VDI environment because mostly the same data is accessed.

Room for Improvement:

Synchronous Replication

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner

Firoze Bhorat

Senior Environments Engineer - Virtualised Environments at Derivco with 501-1,000 employees

Aug 18, 2016

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The management dashboards keep improving and allow for quick and easy tracing of issues.

Pros and Cons

"The management dashboards keep improving and allow for quick and easy tracing of issues."

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

Improvements to My Organization

We can now trend the performance of similar VMs and track performance issues to a point in time and ultimately a change or update.

Valuable Features

The Analytics components (free) are amazing and allow for trending of performance and latency over the life of the product.

The management dashboards keep improving and allow for quick and easy tracing of issues.

Room for Improvement

I think that Tintri's cautious approach to introducing new features has been great however it has allowed competition to catch up to it.

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

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

it_user497901

Network Administrator at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 18, 2016

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Easy to setup and use.

Valuable Features:

Ease of setup and simplicity to use. The per VM metrics are something that isn't found anywhere else.

Room for Improvement:

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

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

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