Solutions for Development and Test
Accelerate build and test processes by 30% or more with VM-aware storage for less than half the cost of a traditional SAN.
Tintri VMstore meets the storage demands of the most rigorous development environments, improving development and test productivity by eliminating storage complexity and bottlenecks.
Virtualization provides tremendous advantages. Software teams can self-provision resources on the fly and run build-and-test workloads efficiently by pooling infrastructure. However, virtualization can only truly have an impact if the underlying infrastructure meets the environment’s demands.
There are typically two storage infrastructure options:
- Direct-attached storage: Appropriate for small organizations with a handful of developers, this provides reasonable performance, but can become unreliable and complex as it scales. It also severely limits the benefits of virtualization.
- Traditional shared storage: This improves flexibility and reliability, but requires specialized expertise and is cost-prohibitive. Set-up and configuration requires extensive work between the software, virtualization and storage teams.
Neither option suits highly dynamic enterprise and test environments. Intensive build cycles demand flexibility and performance. The ideal development and test infrastructure should:
- Enable self-provisioning without intervention: Reconfiguring or reprovisioning servers, storage or networks slows software development. Tintri’s simple approach lets users easily self-provision new workloads — users don’t need to worry about storage placement or configuration.
- Leverage redundancy to increase efficiency: Development and test environments often maintain many copies of similar files or machines. Tintri VMstore delivers dramatic efficiency gains with inline de-duplication, compression, and fast copy at the storage layer.
- Be responsive to development and test needs: I/O-intensive development workloads need real-world performance. Tintri automatically gives performance to VMs when they need it, supporting hundreds of active VMs on a single node.