Tintri VMstore T7000 Reviews

The administrative interface is excellent. Being able to see exactly what is happening within our VM network takes the guess work out of troubleshooting and makes management tasks an absolute breeze.

Implementing Tintri gave an immediate speed boost to our computer systems. This was very welcome to the staff because their desktop computers responded quicker, reports ran faster, and user satisfaction hit an all time high.

This transitioned our I.T. systems from being a 'burden' to being a trusted and dependable source of information.

1.5 years

No - very fast deployment and Tintri's knowledgeable engineers helped us get our units connected and running in less than one hour.

This is a really well thought through product.

Out of the six controllers we have deployed one card failed after a week. The affected system did not degrade in performance in any way and Tintri had a replacement controller out to me for a rapid changeout. I can not speak highly enough of how well the guys tackled the situation and the whole experience had zero impact on our regular computer operations.

Tintri's own OS upgrades are also super stable and applying firmware updates is a total non-event.

In my view Tintri's customer service is excellent, I am in regular contact with various folks throughout their organisation even though we have not had one problem.

Very good. Tintri seems to attract high quality and experienced talent to their team. They are also always available whenever we reach out.

Yes, our network storage was on Netapp / IBM N series. It was a great system when we first implemented our virtualised environment back in 2007, however the performance of the system and design ethos did not suit the workload we wanted to put to it. For us, business evolved and system user demands increased. We needed to move out of the space of just having network storage and move into the space of having high performance and flexible network storage.

As I indicated earlier the initial setup was very straight forward. Tintri have a setup guide that gives admin's a planning checklist to ensure that your install works right from the get go.

In-house with support from Tintri's own systems engineers.

Yes, we ran an evaluation and virtual beauty parade of Tegile, Netapp, HP, Hitachi, Dell, EMC. Tintri was the clear winner for us.

For anyone looking at buying enterprise storage, take a good look at the market place, there are a lot of options out there. I did the same and found that Tintri was a clear leader in the space and would give me the performance and benefits I was looking for.

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.

Performance, cost, and ease of storage management.

Always could be cheaper! : )

Not yet.

Not yet.

Customer Service:

Good.

Technical Support:

Top notch. Very responsive and knowledgeable.

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.

I no longer have to think about our storage or managing it. Tintri solved all those problems for us while improving performance.

The ease and use and the great performance are why we went with our 2nd Tintri VMstore. Tintri arrays are cheaper then other vendors while still providing an excellent level of performance.

I would like to be able to add more storage capacity to our 2 units down the road with out buying an additional seprate array. I hear that their newer models may solve that issue though.

The most valuable features for us are the reliability and it's ease of use.

It's the most stable storage unit since the much more expensive HP 3PAR unit was released.

Our first unit – the T540 - was bought at the beginning of 2012.

We encountered no issues with deployment.

There were stability issues only when we exceeded the operational limitations. We found that the number of running VM’s advertised per device is not consistent with what we experience due to the workload each of our VM’s generates.

We encountered no issues with scalability.

The customer service is very good. We have active interactions with the technical support and development teams

Technical support has been excellent so far.

We switched because we encountered reliability problems. The cost of scaling out the solution to overcome these issues was excessive.

The initial setup was extremely simple.

The implementation was done in-house.

We evaluated Nutanix.

Just give it a try, even via POC, to see how much simpler it is to implement and how well it performs.

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.

• Dedupe
• VAAI
• The deep dive analysis of performance for each VM

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

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.

We have been using this solution for nearly two years

There were no issues with deployment.

There were no issues with stability.

Scaling requires the purchase of a new VMstore.

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 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.

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

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

We deployed the solution in-house.

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

We evaluated Nimble and Nutanix.

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

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.