Tintri Expands Integration With Hyper-V and Certifications for Microsoft Applications

Tintri Inc. announced a series of offerings that simplify storage live migration of VMs and management of Hyper-V environments.

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Through tighter integration, organisations can more readily deploy and manage Microsoft applications on VM-aware storage.

The company has expanded its Microsoft Corp.‘s relationship in the last year.The company recently achieved certification in the Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track programme and joined the Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance, reinforcing its commitment to deliver VAS solutions integrated with Microsoft products for cloud-based environments. Tintri also earned the Microsoft Gold-level data centre competency among next generation storage companies, recognising its capability within the Microsoft Partner Network.

“Tintri is the best storage for organisations using Hyper-V-including VMs running Windows and Microsoft applications like SQL Server and Exchange,” said Kieran Harty, CTO and co-founder, Tintri. “Organisations that use Hyper-V-even concurrently with other hypervisors-turn to Tintri when they want more performance and less management burden for their virtualised workloads. They build private clouds on their choice(s) of hypervisor for their applications, without the limitations of traditional storage.“

The company will exhibit at the Microsoft Ignite 2016 Conference, Sept. 26-30 in Atlanta, GA. The firm will demo its all-flash and hybrid-flash VM-aware storage arrays supporting Windows VMs and virtualised Microsoft applications including Exchange, SharePoint and SQL Server on vSphere and Hyper-V platforms.

Support for virtualised Windows and Microsoft applications
The firm is certified for the Windows 2012 R2 environments and for Microsoft applications. The company will also support Windows 2016 when it is released later this year as an OS for VMs and for Hyper-V 2016. Firm’s support for virtualised Microsoft applications includes Always On Availability Groups (AAG) with SQL Server 2012 and higher.

Features simplify migration to and management of Hyper-V environments
The company continues to expand its Hyper-V storage capabilities and virtualisation integration to ensure joint customers can automate management and easily scale to keep up with business and data growth. At the Ignite event, the company will preview a VMware to Hyper-V conversion toolkit to make the migration process seamless for customers and their data.

Additional firm’s demos will showcase the ease of management of Hyper-V environments and Microsoft applications:

• Hyper-V ODX support – The firm is adding offloaded data transfer (ODX) capabilities to its Hyper-V feature set to allow Hyper-V storage live migrations to be offloaded from the VM host to Tintri storage devices, improving performance and efficiency. ODX support will also complement VM Scale-out technology, which optimises VM resources across pools of multiple VMstore storage arrays.

• SCVMM add-in – This integration enables cloud administrators who are building an on-premise Microsoft cloud to manage their Tintri storage as part of a unified infrastructure directly from the System Center VM Manager (SCVMM) console. Customers can view company’s predictive analytics to optimise capacity and performance and perform Tintri storage specific actions from within SCVMM.

• SCOM management pack – This capability makes it easier for administrators to access firm’s metrics and alerts as a part of infrastructure monitoring through the Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) platform. Customers use SCOM for operations in Hyper-V environments and can collect metrics and alerts from the company, create filters for the data and trigger custom actions.

Joint customer success
The number of Hyper-V VMs stored on firm’s VMstores globally continues to expand, with customers that span financial services, technology, healthcare, manufacturing, government and more. Joint customers include consulting and capital funding provider Life-Sciences Innovation, which recently migrated to Hyper-V utilising Tintri for its storage needs.

“The ability to easily and quickly move Vms around in an environment where everything is very fluid is a great benefit. Before we knew it, we had moved our entire workload and all of our virtual servers onto Tintri with Hyper-V. Since then, the two technologies have worked together seamlessly to save us money and greatly improve our IT efficiency,” said Tim Starkenburg, systems administrator, Life-Sciences Innovation.

Other joint customers such as MetaBank, MVision Private EquityAdvisers Ltd, and Orlando Health are running Hyper-V on company’s solutions to manage 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.

“SQL queries that used to take six hours now take four minutes-this has greatly improved customer satisfaction,” according to Glen Kendell, president, hosting and operations, Concourse Hosting LLC.

Resources:
VM-aware storage for Dummies guide
Tintri for Hyper-V Datasheet
Tintri’s Microsoft Hyper-V Best Practice Guide