EMC XtremIO Flash Storage (discontinued) vs. Tintri VMstore

XtremIO would be useful for any production storage environment, or even any staging or development environment where performance mattered. It would not be ideal to use for backup storage.

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When you need a simple storage platform that is built from the ground up for performance. If IOPS is important to you, this is a great product for you.

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• The deduplication and compression is very good. This especially helps for VDI applications.
• It is easy to setup and map hosts to volumes.
• The new HTML5 console is much better than the older Java.

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• Thin provisioned drives for SQL and Oracle databases allow maximizing virtual environment storage
• Excellent performance in the virtual environment
• Works well with System Center Virtual Machine Manager and Hyper-V

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• Its expensive but worth it

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• None missing. Helps in data protection.
• Troubleshooting workload balancing.
• Eliminates manual processes during deployment.

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This was one area of real disappointment. EMC support was very slow to schedule work like installations and upgrades. Break/fix support was fairly standard. After the Dell merger, things have started improving but there is a lot left to be desired here.

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I/O delievered by XtremIO can't be compared with any other flash storage. Existing relationship with vendor and pressure to improve I/O bottleneck was the key objective

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We chose Tintri because it allowed us to no longer have to carefully manage our storage platform. We pretty much set it and forget it. Also, management of Tintri does not require a storage expert. This is no longer a full time job to manage.

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• Using XtremIO has made our VDI much more palatable for users.

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• Drastically decrease virtual server install time
• Allowing thin provision drives without performance issues

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