I would recommend the solution. The writable snapshots and seamless installation mean I don't need storage tasks running constantly. It manages Tintri and VMware servers effectively, learning the environment, so I don't need to tune it as with other storage like Dell. It's better in administration and sustainability. I rate it a ten out of ten.
VMWare & Tintri Storage Solutions Evangelist at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
Real User
Top 10
Nov 29, 2024
I would advise considering the product’s total cost of ownership and ease of use. If you do a PoC, you will likely love the product. Once you get the box up and running, you will see how easy it is to have it in your environment. Normally, we do not do a PoC, but our company can lend out a unit if anyone wants. Mostly, customers get the quote, see the price, and do a comparison. Once they understand the whole concept of total cost of ownership, they do place an order. If the customer is a little bit hesitant or has not run an NFS solution before, when they get the VMstore in their environment and test it out, it is almost a done deal. You can use the REST API and set up autonomous tasks. If you want to stage and test the storage environment, you can automate that very easily with the REST API. This is not something I had to do, but I know it is there. If the need arises, we can use automation. We can have different scripts and automate things quite easily. Having a good template to instantly deploy new machines has saved time, but this is not something that is Tintri-specific. It is a basic functionality in all environments. One good thing about having a good template is that every time you deploy a new virtual server, the footprint is a clone dedupe of the master image. It is a very small footprint, about a kilobyte in size, so over time, you save a lot of space by using the templates. I would rate Tintri VMstore a ten out of ten. It is a great product. It is stable, fast, and easy to use.
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Real User
Nov 28, 2023
I would rate Tintri VMstore eight out of ten. We maintain a C850 server at one location and a T7040 server at another location for disaster recovery purposes. Our network supports 250 end users. For organizations solely using VMware ESXi and seeking a unified storage solution, Tintri VMstore is a suitable choice. However, for organizations requiring advanced logging capabilities, Tintri may not be the optimal solution. Alternative solutions are available at a higher cost.
Tintri has gone from older models that were hybrid flash with a mix of spinning disks and SSDs through improvements to all-SSD arrays. Now there are NVMe benefits, which have lower latency and higher performance. As the product line has matured and improved and new generations of storage have come out, performance has followed suit. It's not just the hardware itself that adds performance benefits, but for organizations that have multiple arrays, Tintri Global Center allows for the intelligent positioning of virtual machines to maximize the performance. The combination of a heuristic, machine-learning-based placement model and improved hardware performance is part of the secret sauce of Tintri. As for corporate stability, we were working with Tintri before the bankruptcy and before the DDN acquisition, and we continued to work with Tintri after those events. Stability is important, but OpEx performance and the ability to deliver are a part of the conversation. I found that Tintri was delivering innovation a decade ago when I first started evaluating them. I will admit that we did look at other vendors in the 2017-2018 time frame when Tintri was going through some of its challenges. But we are comfortable now, especially with DDN backing Tintri. There is good financial stability, good operating stability, a good roadmap into the future, and it's still a great product. My advice is to talk to customers that are already using Tintri. Every vendor you're considering is going to tell a good vendor story, and every vendor is going put things in front of you that say why they're better than any other vendor. But talk to somebody who's actually using it and let them tell you why it was the choice that they made.
Director of Technical Services at Court of Appeals of Georgia
Real User
Dec 3, 2022
Don't be afraid to try something different, because Tintri is different in the sense that it's an NFS volume and a simple blob of storage. You have to trust that it's going to give you the performance that you need. In so many other solutions you are in control of that performance: How many spindles you assign to a database and how much of it is flash. Are you creating this LUN? Are you running it over multiple devices so that you can get the most performance out of it? What RAID level do you use? What protection level are you going to run? Is it RAID 5, RAID 10, or RAID 20? All that goes away, and when you're used to doing and thinking in those terms you'll say, "Well, how could it be this easy?" You will think, "I've been doing it this way always, how could it be so different?" But it really can be and it works very well. Around the time we bought from Tintri, they went public, and by the time we owned it and had it in production, they imploded. We looked at the product and said, "HPE or Dell is about to buy this. They're buying everything else and this stuff is too good." We couldn't understand how Tintri could not be doing well. It was an absolute no-brainer when we bought it. When DDN bought the company, I did a little research and said, "DDN is a very solid company." It looked like they were trying to get into the small-enterprise market with their storage, versus the stuff that they were building. Having such an old, solid company purchase Tintri and put resources into it and support it, told me that they recognized how good the technology was and that it was worth having. And they've been nothing but solid ever since. I'm a fan of Tintri. I think more about people clicking on bad emails these days than I ever do about my storage. That was not always the case. I used to always worry about things like, "Hey, that RAID 6, if there's a bad drive you have to replace it. Are two drives going to go? Do we get four-hour response? Do we have a cold spare?" I don't even think about that stuff anymore. I give Tintri a 10 out of 10.
Windows Systems Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Aug 16, 2017
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.
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I would recommend the solution. The writable snapshots and seamless installation mean I don't need storage tasks running constantly. It manages Tintri and VMware servers effectively, learning the environment, so I don't need to tune it as with other storage like Dell. It's better in administration and sustainability. I rate it a ten out of ten.
I would advise considering the product’s total cost of ownership and ease of use. If you do a PoC, you will likely love the product. Once you get the box up and running, you will see how easy it is to have it in your environment. Normally, we do not do a PoC, but our company can lend out a unit if anyone wants. Mostly, customers get the quote, see the price, and do a comparison. Once they understand the whole concept of total cost of ownership, they do place an order. If the customer is a little bit hesitant or has not run an NFS solution before, when they get the VMstore in their environment and test it out, it is almost a done deal. You can use the REST API and set up autonomous tasks. If you want to stage and test the storage environment, you can automate that very easily with the REST API. This is not something I had to do, but I know it is there. If the need arises, we can use automation. We can have different scripts and automate things quite easily. Having a good template to instantly deploy new machines has saved time, but this is not something that is Tintri-specific. It is a basic functionality in all environments. One good thing about having a good template is that every time you deploy a new virtual server, the footprint is a clone dedupe of the master image. It is a very small footprint, about a kilobyte in size, so over time, you save a lot of space by using the templates. I would rate Tintri VMstore a ten out of ten. It is a great product. It is stable, fast, and easy to use.
I would rate Tintri VMstore eight out of ten. We maintain a C850 server at one location and a T7040 server at another location for disaster recovery purposes. Our network supports 250 end users. For organizations solely using VMware ESXi and seeking a unified storage solution, Tintri VMstore is a suitable choice. However, for organizations requiring advanced logging capabilities, Tintri may not be the optimal solution. Alternative solutions are available at a higher cost.
Tintri has gone from older models that were hybrid flash with a mix of spinning disks and SSDs through improvements to all-SSD arrays. Now there are NVMe benefits, which have lower latency and higher performance. As the product line has matured and improved and new generations of storage have come out, performance has followed suit. It's not just the hardware itself that adds performance benefits, but for organizations that have multiple arrays, Tintri Global Center allows for the intelligent positioning of virtual machines to maximize the performance. The combination of a heuristic, machine-learning-based placement model and improved hardware performance is part of the secret sauce of Tintri. As for corporate stability, we were working with Tintri before the bankruptcy and before the DDN acquisition, and we continued to work with Tintri after those events. Stability is important, but OpEx performance and the ability to deliver are a part of the conversation. I found that Tintri was delivering innovation a decade ago when I first started evaluating them. I will admit that we did look at other vendors in the 2017-2018 time frame when Tintri was going through some of its challenges. But we are comfortable now, especially with DDN backing Tintri. There is good financial stability, good operating stability, a good roadmap into the future, and it's still a great product. My advice is to talk to customers that are already using Tintri. Every vendor you're considering is going to tell a good vendor story, and every vendor is going put things in front of you that say why they're better than any other vendor. But talk to somebody who's actually using it and let them tell you why it was the choice that they made.
For day-to-day use, VMstore has been solid VM storage for us.
Don't be afraid to try something different, because Tintri is different in the sense that it's an NFS volume and a simple blob of storage. You have to trust that it's going to give you the performance that you need. In so many other solutions you are in control of that performance: How many spindles you assign to a database and how much of it is flash. Are you creating this LUN? Are you running it over multiple devices so that you can get the most performance out of it? What RAID level do you use? What protection level are you going to run? Is it RAID 5, RAID 10, or RAID 20? All that goes away, and when you're used to doing and thinking in those terms you'll say, "Well, how could it be this easy?" You will think, "I've been doing it this way always, how could it be so different?" But it really can be and it works very well. Around the time we bought from Tintri, they went public, and by the time we owned it and had it in production, they imploded. We looked at the product and said, "HPE or Dell is about to buy this. They're buying everything else and this stuff is too good." We couldn't understand how Tintri could not be doing well. It was an absolute no-brainer when we bought it. When DDN bought the company, I did a little research and said, "DDN is a very solid company." It looked like they were trying to get into the small-enterprise market with their storage, versus the stuff that they were building. Having such an old, solid company purchase Tintri and put resources into it and support it, told me that they recognized how good the technology was and that it was worth having. And they've been nothing but solid ever since. I'm a fan of Tintri. I think more about people clicking on bad emails these days than I ever do about my storage. That was not always the case. I used to always worry about things like, "Hey, that RAID 6, if there's a bad drive you have to replace it. Are two drives going to go? Do we get four-hour response? Do we have a cold spare?" I don't even think about that stuff anymore. I give Tintri a 10 out of 10.
We used the on-premises deployment model. Recently, we stopped using the solution. I would rate the solution seven out of ten.
Good, friendly sales, marketing, tech, and support teams, who are a pleasure to work with.
Tintri has been a breeze to deal with! We have had no issues.
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.