4U Tintri VMstore T600 Supports 2,000 VMs

Tintri, Inc. announced the next generation VMstore T600 series, supporting twice the number of VMs per system compared to previous generations.

In addition, Tintri announced Global Center, a control platform that enables a new architecture for global scaling, where multiple Tintri VMstore systems seamlessly function as one.

Together, these offerings enable IT to break free from the complexity and cost of using traditional storage to support growing virtualized environments.

The two new models in the VMstore T600 series, T650 and T620, provide mid-sized and large enterprises with the Zero Management Storage solution for virtualization and cloud. Based on the patented Tintri FlashFirst design, the T600 series requires no ongoing administration to deliver storage performance for as many as 2,000 VMs per system with sub-millisecond I/O latencies. With leading VM density, the systems further reduce the time administrators spend deploying, configuring and administering storage.

As virtualization environments grow, scaling storage with Tintri is as simple as adding additional VMstore systems and leveraging Global Center for centralized administration, control and reporting for up to 32 VMstore systems and their resident VMs. Built on an architectural foundation capable of supporting a million VMs, the platform allows IT to scale their storage for virtualization. Global Center will enable third-parties to build out an ecosystem over time extending the functionality of Zero Management Storage using REST APIs for automation.

“Tintri’s modular approach to scaling storage for virtualization using VMstore and Tintri Global Center is similar how IT scales compute using VMware vCenter. This should simplify how IT scales their virtual environments,” said Terri McClure, analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “We believe the company’s new VMstore T600 Series and Tintri Global Center should enable users to experience an increase in efficiency for their virtualization-aligned storage by simplifying management and increasing VM storage density.”

“For all of its tangible server side benefits, virtualization has also introduced additional costs and complexity to the storage side of the equation,” said Kieran Harty, Tintri CEO. “From day one, our value proposition has been to eliminate those hurdles so that enterprises can scale their virtualization projects quickly and efficiently, just as they have with scaling compute. This approach has fueled our considerable growth in a relatively short time, and we see these new VMstore systems and the Tintri Global Center platform as a major milestone in bringing our zero management approach to an even broader market of mid-sized and large enterprise users and make global scaling of storage for virtualization a reality.”

“As the largest independent hosting provider specializing in Blackbaud software, our rapid growth regularly puts our infrastructure to the test. This is why we deploy Tintri in our environment,” said Glen Kendell, president of hosting and operations, Beyond Nines, a Tintri customer. “Reports that used to take six hours to run with our previous storage take four minutes with Tintri – this has greatly improved customer satisfaction. And their building block approach with VMstore and Tintri Global Center will allow us to easily scale without the fuss of traditional storage.”

“During our initial VDI deployment, we quickly discovered that storage was our biggest bottleneck. After extensive testing we decided on Tintri to consolidate our VM infrastructure because it was able to successfully tackle our VDI deployment’s performance and management needs,” said John Yates, IT manager, College of Engineering and Architecture at Washington State University. “We continue to be impressed with the new Tintri VMstore T600 Series. Based on our testing, it delivers one of the best price per user for VDI – while meeting the needs of demanding users from our engineering and architecture departments.”

The VMstore T600 Series are orderable through Tintri and its network of value-added authorized resellers, distributors and system integrations. Both models will start shipping in Q4, 2013.

VMstore T600 Series helps IT
unleash true value of virtualization.

• It supports 2,000 VMs in 4U of space – for large scale virtualization deployments including virtualized Tier 1 apps, VDI and server consolidation.
• It supports up to 500 VMs – for midsized deployments including Microsoft applications, server consolidation and desktop virtualization.

Global Center is a centralized control platform
that enables multiple geographically distributed
VMstore systems to seamlessly function as one

• Centralized administration, control and reporting for as many as 32 VMstore systems.

Tintri will host a webinar with McClure on October 22nd. The webinar will discuss strategies to overcome the challenges of scaling storage for large virtualized environments.

The company will be exhibiting at VMworld 2013 in Barcelona from October 15-17.