Manage VMs directly
Spend less time managing and troubleshooting VM and storage interactions.Tintri VMstore™ is VM-aware and eliminates complexity by relating the storage infrastructure directly to the VMs and business applications. There are no LUNs or volumes, tiers, RAID groups or other traditional storage objects that create complexity in a virtualized environment. Provisioning storage for VMs is simpler and faster. VMware™ administrators will feel right at home: The VM objects in VMstore are the same ones used in VMware vCenter™, and the VMs and vDisks will be familiar to VMware vSphere™ users.
Instant VM bottleneck visualization
Diagnose VM performance issues instantly. VM administrators dread troubleshooting performance bottlenecks. It is one of the most tedious VM management tasks. Triage meetings are often described as “pin the blame meetings.” Is it the host, network, storage or something else? With Tintri VMstore, administrators now have easy, instant visibility — from the guest OS layer to the storage layer. They can see per-VM or per-vDisk latency at any infrastructure layer, identify the source of performance issues, and take immediate action. VMstore also maintains historical latency data automatically, giving administrators a graphical seven-day view of performance.
Interchangeable datastores
Get the right quality of service for all your VMs. Tintri VMstore offers interchangeable storage resources — just like the CPU, memory and networking resources on your host servers. A hybrid flash/disk architecture allows VMs the right level of resources when they need it — without the complexity or cost of managing traditional shared storage. Virtualization-resistant applications can now easily be virtualized. Unlike other storage solutions with a read-only flash cache, Tintri VMstore is designed from the ground-up as an integrated flash/disk architecture that can both read and write to flash, making full use of its potential to deliver the appropriate quality of service for each VM.
Intuitive performance fuel gauge
Managing performance is as easy as managing capacity. With Tintri VMstore, eliminate worries about VM storage performance. A unique “fuel gauge” gives you immediate visibility to both the available storage capacity and performance headroom on any Tintri VMstore appliance. For the first time, this gives you predictable storage performance with a single, easy-to-use metric. Two aggregate indicators with drilldown capability let you keep tabs on your VMs.
Change dashboard
Detect problems before they begin. Tintri VMstore’s dashboard view quickly identifies VMs with the most changes in performance or capacity requirements in the past seven days. You don’t need to understand how VMs map to the storage components — all you need to know is the name of the VM — Tintri VMstore manages the details for you.
VM auto-alignment
Improve VM performance by up to 30 percent. Misaligned guest file systems and underlying storage degrades performance, amplifying IO requirements. Re-aligning them is difficult and time-consuming — and administrators rarely have the luxury to address it. For conventional storage arrays, re-alignment means manually remapping the guest file system. Fortunately, Tintri VMstore automatically aligns VMs, strengthening performance. It adapts the storage layer to the guest file system without user interaction or service impact. Learn more about how alignment affects VMs, and how Tintri VMstore helps.
VM pinning
Assure performance for specific VMs. Tintri VMstore can isolate VMs and even individual vDisks that demand guaranteed performance by pinning them to flash. This assures performance for mission-critical applications or time-sensitive workloads, such as software builds.
Scalable nodes
Scale-out storage in easy-to-add increments. Tintri VMstore integrates software and hardware capability in to a field-servicable storage appliance, built from the ground-up to run VMs. It plugs into your existing environment as an NFS appliance — each device is a single datastore with 13.5 TB of usable storage. A file system designed to take full advantage of flash, multicore CPUs and 10 GbE delivers the performance you need for your VMs.
Easy to set-up and manage
Storage that’s as simple to manage as your hypervisor servers. Tintri VMstore can be set up and configured in minutes. No complex storage configuration required. Once the appliance is powered on, it’s as simple as connecting it to your VMware vCenter Server™ and migrating VMs to the VMstore. Each node is a single datastore, making it easy to map to your VMware vSphere™ hosts. What’s more, when you add new VMs, you won’t need to worry about configuring new LUNs, volumes, RAID groups or any other complex storage objects — since there are none.
Array-side snapshots
Take snapshots of VMs, not LUNs or volumes. Tintri VMstore lets you snapshot individual VMs at the storage level without any performance impact. No need to take snapshots of entire LUNs or volumes just to capture a few VMs. Tintri VMstore also creates crash-consistent snapshots without quiescing VMs, letting you run maintenance operations without disruption.
