Tintri Supports Hyper-V

Tintri Inc. announced support for Hyper-V will be available for all Tintri VMstore storage appliances running Tintri OS 3.1 or greater.

Tintri now supports all three major hypervisor environments: vSphere, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation and Hyper-V.

VMstore storage is designed for virtualised environments and private cloud deployments. Customers have deployed hundreds of thousands of VMs running SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint, SAP and many other business critical applications, databases and VDI environments. Many of these organisations have already incorporated multi-hypervisor usage into their environment.

Market research firm IDC’s recent survey of 202 companies worldwide with 1,000 or more employees reports that 59% of respondents were using more than one hypervisor.

VMstore systems natively support Microsoft’s Server Message Block (SMB) 3.0 protocol and integrate with Hyper-V Manager and System Center VM Manager (SCVMM).

VMstore for Hyper-V environments offers the following benefits:

• Purpose built, SMB 3.0 protocol stack to run Hyper-V workloads for compatibility with wide-ranging virtualisation and private cloud deployments.
• Native integration with Hyper-V Manager and System Center VM Manager (SCVMM) for VM-level data management operations, such as snapshots, clones and replication.
• Deploy high density Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp VDI running on Hyper-V with up to 3,500 VMs on a single VMstore T880.
• Consolidate and deploy business critical applications such as SQL Server, Exchange and SharePoint that require consistent sub-millisecond latency and cost-effective storage platforms.
  

“Organisations rely on multi-hypervisor environments to expand their virtualisation footprint and support diverse use cases,” said Ken Klein, chairman and CEO, Tintri. “Tintri simplifies storage for millions of Microsoft users. Today’s announcement of support for Hyper-V means an organisation can run hundreds of mixed workloads – server, VDI, private cloud and development and test – including business critical Microsoft applications, such as SQL Server, Exchange and SharePoint concurrently across multiple hypervisors on a single Tintri VMstore. Instead of fumbling with archaic concepts like LUNs, they can simply manage and protect individual VMs.“

“While many companies have taken advantage of the efficiency and savings that can be realised with server virtualisation technology, broad-based adoption throughout the data centre often stalls due to mismatches between traditional storage and VMs,” said Chris Van Wesep, director of server and tools marketing, Microsoft Corp. “With unique VM-level monitoring and data management capabilities, Tintri for Hyper-V simplifies storage management.“

Tintri support for Hyper-V with Windows Server 2012 R2 is available on Dec. 18, 2014 at no cost to Tintri VMstore customers with a valid support agreement.

Tintri for Microsoft Hyper-V