Tintri VMstore T7000 Reviews

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

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.

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.

The ease of use and management capabilities are the most valuable features for us. Tintri is incredibly easy to use and manage. The performance and its secret sauce, VM understanding and management, works great.

It has provided us with agility and allowed us the ability to have granular views of storage without having to be storage experts.

I've used it for four years.

We've had no issues with deployment.

We've had no issues with stability.

We've had no issues with scalability.

In my experience, Tintri's customer service has been excellent.

In my experience, Tintri's technical support has been excellent.

The initial setup was really intuitive. It was easy to install.

We implemented it with our in-house team.

Tintri is amazingly powerful storage solutions packaged into a 4u unit. It is an extremely versatile solution with multiple uses.

It currently handles a lot of our virtualisation systems and we love the quick setup (30 minutes), intuitive admin/monitoring page and amazing support.

It is a great system.

They should keep up the great innovation and good work.

4 years

No issues with deployment.

No issues with stability.

No. We're onto our 4th unit.

10 out of 10

10 out of 10

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.

With the VM Visualization feature, it gives us extremely fast troubleshooting when we have a performance issue with any of our VMs.

The performance of the array is superb, but for us it's the time saving we get - the IT staff don't need any special SAN training to fully operate the Tintri unit, and it saves huge amounts of time when provisioning systems.

It needs a Hyper-V toolset and OpenStack Horizon support. Most of the features are in line with the competition, but they could provide automation to move VMs between hypervisors.

I've used it for 3+ years.

No, everything was extremely simple. We had the unit racked and powered on in 15 minutes, and it took only 10 minutes to set the device up.

We've had no issues with stability, even when upgrading. The VAAI plugin is a little tedious to install on the ESX hosts, but it's not needed for every function.

Scaling is very easy to do, as they effectively are standalone units. You can get a Global Center OVA which monitors and manages up to 32 devices at once. We have this in-house and use it frequently.

9/10. They have always been prompt at getting back to us, follow-up service has never been pushy by pressuring us to buy more, and we can highly recommend them.

9/10. The support site is a great resource. The techies in the UK really know their stuff, and the upgrades have always worked flawlessly (save one issue, which they released a fix for almost immediately!).

We used HDS, but its cost and technical skill level of implementation was too high for our IT staff. Also, the introduction of fiber channel meant a big change to our infrastructure. Tintri was simple, and plugged into our environment with minimal changes.

The initial setup was incredibly simple. The whole system was installed and running in less than an hour. It took longer to rack and plug the cables in than to configure the software! We have VMware mainly, and adding it was a cinch.

We implemented it with our in-house team with very little training required. As long as you know VMware, it's really easy to put in. Mounting the device as a NAS also takes a lot of the pain points away.

Our ROI is in the time saved on our troubleshooting. Also, management hours have been massively reduced as monitoring and maintaining the Tintri have almost gone down to zero!

Only go for the Tintri Global Center if you intend to buy more than two VM stores, but other than that, it was straightforward, and even the SKUs are simple to understand.

Yes, HDS, Huawei, and HP. We looked at a lot of different vendors beforehand, but Tintri just fit our needs nicely, and I cannot fault the performance.

We love our Tintri's here, so much so, we have 3! I would highly recommend them to anyone. We are mainly VMWare, but the multi hypervisor support means that it can fit almost any environment.

The most valuable features for me are the cloning and snapshot recovery functions.

Cloning new VMs using Tintri has saved me hours of waiting/work. It is the one feature that I use on a regular basis. Snapshot recovery is amazing as well. We rely on Tintri snapshots over VMware snapshots. They are so much easier to manage.

That’s tough. The thing is rock solid and easy to manage. Can’t think of anything right now, but reserve the right to revisit this.

The licensing model, however, is disappointing as each feature requires a license.

We've used it for three years.

The deployment was straightforward and easy! We had a POC and never sent the box back. We really didn’t even need an engineer, but it was nice to get the knowledge transfer of tips and tricks after setting the box up.

None so far in three years.

It scales as promised. You run out of resources, you buy another one. We have not hit the limit on any of our boxes yet.

A+ excellent! Love my Tintri guys. They understand our use case and help us find the best solution. They keep their finger on the pulse and get in touch with me when something is going on that I need to know about. Our vendor relationship is outstanding.

Maybe even better than customer service!!! I don’t want to hurt any feelings here but I probably talk to technical support a little more often than I do customer service so I am giving them A++. So far, I have always gotten a person when I called. None of that they will call me back stuff. I really appreciate that. I need to talk with someone when I call, not 4 hours from when I call.

We did – NetApp. We switched for a variety of reasons – cost, we felt like the technology was old and they were trying to retrofit to keep up with emerging technologies, we didn't like the licensing model they used (every feature seemed to require a license).

The initial setup is very straightforward.

We had a vendor team help us. Well, we lucky enough to have Trent Steele help us. That guy is just amazing.

Pricing is fair, but the licensing model is disappointing. Initially, we thought Tintri was going with a “you buy our box, you buy everything” to simplify the licensing, but they have gone down the NetApp road of licensing features. We really don’t like that. Big disappointment.

We evaluated several options, including

• Tegile
• EMC
• Nimble Storage
• Nimbus
• NetApp

Do it. If you are in the NFS virtual world, there is no better device.

Speed and availability for VMWare VMs

It is (almost) self managing and easy to use, admin overhead could be reduced.

Stretched Cluster also for older models like T540 and T650.

All of them. Tintri Snapshot, vCenter integration, powerCLI integration, the way you manage everything. Bye Bye time spent on managing storage arrays etc.

Bye bye managing storage array, to create volumes and taking care to isolate big IO consumers into the production environment. Huge improvement in creating adhoc labs, pre-prod environments and dev as well, in just few minutes, etc.

More than 3 years

Easy and fast to deploy.

No issues.

No issues.

Excellent!

Excellent!

Yes, we had to chose between Tintri and other vendor, we bought each of them and after running our tests we decided that Tintri fits best for us.

I definitely recommend Tintri as a storage array.