IT Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Real User
Top 20
2023-11-28T17:08:00Z
Nov 28, 2023
It would be beneficial if Tintri could identify issues through telemetry and notify us before we need to contact them. The service that Tintri provided based on the telemetry data was quite useful. However, the only time maintenance would occur was when we had to manually investigate the issue, whether it was related to replication, controller failure, or failover. This is the one area where I believe there could be improvement.
The biggest area for improvement, and there has been some roadmap work in this area already, is cloud integration. It would be hard to find an organization that isn't actively embracing the cloud, at least in a hybrid way. Some workloads are very well suited for public compute on Azure, AWS, GCP, et cetera. That's important for us and for our customers, but it's also important from an OpEx perspective. Tintri has been investing in this area and I'm sure will continue to, but cloud integration has been the biggest area that we've been crossing our fingers and hoping for quick development around. We're a Microsoft Gold partner and a lot of our customers have heavily embraced the Microsoft ecosystem. To do modern work securely, public compute and productivity on the Microsoft Office 365 stack, Exchange Online, SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, et cetera, are important for mid-market and smaller organizations. There has to be a deep integration point between the on-premises solution, a hybrid cloud solution, and a public cloud consumption model. That is becoming an increasingly important decision point in all of our vendor-alignment discussions, Tintri included.
Global Head of Network Engineering at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Top 20
2023-01-09T22:59:00Z
Jan 9, 2023
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.
Director of Technical Services at Court of Appeals of Georgia
Real User
2022-12-03T07:29:00Z
Dec 3, 2022
Our biggest bump was going from the 4x software to 5x software and getting them to understand the nuances of how we did real-time replication. They have an automated failover that requires a third-party server to be a watchman over the storage cluster, which is very common. When we were doing that upgrade, it turns out we didn't need that. We were doing manual failovers but we still installed that watchman because we thought we needed it to do our upgrade from 4x to 5x. But once we got it up to 5x, we never had to tell our existing replication settings to use the watching node and to do automated failover. It took multiple phone calls and conversations until we finally got to our local sales engineer who has known the product for a longer period of time than some of the support people we were dealing with to clear up that inconsistency.
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.
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.
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.
System Engineer at Swisslos Interkantonale Landeslotterie
Real User
2019-09-19T08:39:00Z
Sep 19, 2019
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.
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 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.
Windows Systems Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2017-08-16T06:50:00Z
Aug 16, 2017
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.
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It would be beneficial if Tintri could identify issues through telemetry and notify us before we need to contact them. The service that Tintri provided based on the telemetry data was quite useful. However, the only time maintenance would occur was when we had to manually investigate the issue, whether it was related to replication, controller failure, or failover. This is the one area where I believe there could be improvement.
The biggest area for improvement, and there has been some roadmap work in this area already, is cloud integration. It would be hard to find an organization that isn't actively embracing the cloud, at least in a hybrid way. Some workloads are very well suited for public compute on Azure, AWS, GCP, et cetera. That's important for us and for our customers, but it's also important from an OpEx perspective. Tintri has been investing in this area and I'm sure will continue to, but cloud integration has been the biggest area that we've been crossing our fingers and hoping for quick development around. We're a Microsoft Gold partner and a lot of our customers have heavily embraced the Microsoft ecosystem. To do modern work securely, public compute and productivity on the Microsoft Office 365 stack, Exchange Online, SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, et cetera, are important for mid-market and smaller organizations. There has to be a deep integration point between the on-premises solution, a hybrid cloud solution, and a public cloud consumption model. That is becoming an increasingly important decision point in all of our vendor-alignment discussions, Tintri included.
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.
Our biggest bump was going from the 4x software to 5x software and getting them to understand the nuances of how we did real-time replication. They have an automated failover that requires a third-party server to be a watchman over the storage cluster, which is very common. When we were doing that upgrade, it turns out we didn't need that. We were doing manual failovers but we still installed that watchman because we thought we needed it to do our upgrade from 4x to 5x. But once we got it up to 5x, we never had to tell our existing replication settings to use the watching node and to do automated failover. It took multiple phone calls and conversations until we finally got to our local sales engineer who has known the product for a longer period of time than some of the support people we were dealing with to clear up that inconsistency.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In sync and automated mirror between two Tintris is missing. However, as far as I know, it is on their roadmap.
* 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.
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.