Posts by @storarch

Re: Direct quetion :

Satinder Sharma from Tintri here -

Just want to add to Trevor's comment here that deep integration with KVM depends upon the flavour. Tintri has the same integration as VMware in terms of analytics, QoS and other functionality with the Redhat version of KVM. Apart from that the VMstore also supports Hyper-V and Openstack in the same fashion.

@storarch

Re: The shady truth of the storage industry

Hi Nick,

Satinder Sharma here from Tintri.

As a company, we are always willing to let the customer as well as any reviewers test the VMstore with any type of workload that they want. I am not sure what you are referring to there. We do try to educate customers on benchmarks that just send zeroes to the storage (that get eliminated by zero detection techniques as well as get 99% compressed). We love those but we always educate customers to run real workloads Vs running any benchmark based synthetic workloads.

I agree with your point on storage vendor using these type of tests during PoCs but that doesn't exclude Nimble and some of its SEs. I can't even remember how many times I have seen Nimble SEs go in and run SQLIO and IOmeter tests full of zeroes and even promote SQLIO as something that generates load similar to a real SQL workload.

We are all in for independent tests done anytime.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2880094/data-center/tintri-vmstore-review-fast-as-flash-cheap-as-disk.html

http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/tintri-storage-review,2-731.html

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/data-center/review-tintri-datastore-in-a-box/

http://www.datacenterzombie.com/tintri-vmstore-storage-review/

In fact Trevor Pott (who is quite active in his commentary here) can validate that as well.

Cheers..

@storarch

Re: NFS...

Tintri Employee here -

Well, if it was so easy to do it on NFS then why are the other vendors that are into General purpose storage still waiting for VMware to bring out VVols? How about other hypervisors? Functionality is just one small part of the VM aware storage for which VVol will act as an enabler and won't just change the underlying storage architecture. There are a lot of other aspects of a VM aware storage. Traditional NFS implementations consider everything as files. There is no VM awareness there. Everyone still wants to do general purpose storage (fileshares, homedirectories, physical workloads, content), so there is no way they would optimize their storage for VMs. Even if they do and let go their traditional customers, it'll need a complete rewrite (bringing SMB to the storage is much easier than that). And we all know what it takes to rewrite a traditional storage system. If you want to get some more ideas on why VVol is just an enabler read the blog post here http://virtualdatablocks.com/2014/03/24/is-vvol-the-solution-to-vm-awareness/