Tintri OS Expanded Orchestration and Automation Capabilities

Tintri Inc. announced a release of its Tintri OS and expanded orchestration and automation capabilities.

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These products simplify deployment and management of enterprise cloud for organizations and service providers. Company’s web-services architecture offers Amazon-like agility and scale with the security and control of an enterprise cloud platform.

IT budgets continue to be redistributed from traditional IT infrastructure to the cloud. A recent IDC survey of 11,350 IT executives revealed that while three-year spend on public cloud is projected to grow 29.5%, the investment in private cloud (on-premise and hosted off-premise) will increase 51.5%. In the same timeframe, the budget for traditional IT is forecasted to fall 18.8%.

“More than one third of Tintri customers have built cloud infrastructures with Tintri. They trust Tintri to provide an agile application development environment for DevOps and/or a highly scalable and automated infrastructure for their mission critical applications,” said Ken Klein, CEO and chairman, Tintri. “That’s because only Tintri makes it possible for an organization to easily deploy and then tear down thousands of VMs in minutes, and for a cloud service provider to guarantee performance to their customers by isolating individual VMs and setting per-VM QoS.“

Architecture
The solution is architected to support the requirements of a modern data center. The important aspects design are:

• Web services framework: Offers a control plane for the orchestration of storage for VMs and other storage abstractions. Users assemble new applications by integrating firm’s web services architecture into their infrastructure, and then add functionality by leveraging company’s RESTful APIs.

• Programmability at right level: Provides real-time, actionable analytics at the right level for cloud native applications: VM, vDisk, and containers.

• Autonomous operation: Provides performance isolation at the VM level with automatic and policy-based QoS for performance tiers. The solution makes it possible for its customers to guarantee performance of applications automatically without administrative intervention.

• Scale. Scale-out architecture acts as a single, federated and loosely coupled pool of storage. Customers can grow from one 17TB VMstore up to 10PB and 160,000 VMs – without adding additional IT staff.

• Ecosystem integration: Built-in functionality and integration with VMware vCenter and Microsoft Systems Center makes it possible for visibility, management and analytics across the entire infrastructure beyond just storage. The solution also supports multiple concurrent hypervisors-spanning vSphere, Hyper-V, Xenserver, Red Hat Virtualization and various distributions of OpenStack.

Automation
The ability to automate storage tasks has long been central to company’s differentiation. The solution allows customers to manage up to 160,000 VMs from one central console, using automated policies and VM Scale-out software to substantially reduce management effort.

Today, the company is expanding its automation capabilities with the announcement of its VMware vRealize Orchestrator plug-in. It automates many storage operations, such as snapshot, clone, replicate and copy data management at the VM-level. Customers can integrate vRealize Orchestrator into VMware management and automation systems such as vRealize Automation and vCloud Director. The plug-in exposes Tintri operations to higher-level management and orchestration platforms.

“VMware vRealize Orchestrator facilitates the automation of complex IT tasks. With its vRealize Orchestrator plug-in, Tintri further extends its integration with multiple areas of the VMware portfolio,” said Rob Smoot, VP, product marketing, cloud management business unit, VMware, Inc. “Tintri continues to make it easy for our mutual customers to deploy their cloud with tight interconnects between VMware virtualization, cloud automation and Tintri VM-aware storage.“

Containers support
As part of this announcement, the company is introducing support for containers through vSphere Integrated Containers, which will be delivered as part of vSphere 6.5. vSphere Integrated Containers allow VMware customers to transform their business with containers without re-architecting their entire infrastructure, gaining the benefits of container level QoS and real-time and predictive analytics.

The firm is also announcing upcoming support for containers with Docker Volumes through a Flocker plug-in supported by ClusterHQ. Customers who run containers on bare metal will be able to store persistent Docker Volumes on Tintri. By integrating with Flocker, the solution not only provides Docker Volume persistent storage for bare metal containers, but also automatically plugs in to container orchestration platforms including Kubernetes, Apache Mesos and Docker Swarm.

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Analytics
Firm’s Analytics provides customers with cloud-based real time and predictable analytics to improve data center planning and operations. Powered by Elasticsearch, it can crunch millions of data points from 160,000 VMs over several years in less than one second. Today, Analytics can model virtualized applications’ need for storage capacity and performance; an upcoming release will extend Analytics to forecast need for compute resources in support of organic growth and simulated projects.

Public cloud integration
New integrations will extend existing on-premises company’s private cloud deployments into the public cloud. S3 Connector will natively protect snapshots to cloud object storage such as Amazon S3 and on-premises object storage such as IBM Cloud Object Storage (formerly CleverSafe). It offers secure data-at-rest and data-in-flight encryption for backup data.

“Organizations cannot get to a modern, cloud-based IT services delivery model through a traditional data center architecture,” said Ken Klein, CEO and chairman, Tintri. “Any technology designed for monolithic legacy applications is cloud-ready in name only. In contrast, Tintri operates exclusively in the currencies of the modern data center: web services run in VMs and soon containers. Today’s release of Tintri OS 4.3 and integration with VMware vRealize Orchestrator is just another step forward as we deliver on our vision and address cloud requirements for automation, analytics and public cloud integration.“

News follows other recent product releases, including deeper integration with the Microsoft virtualization ecosystem via a SCVMM plugin, ODX Support for array offloading of storage migration, and a SCOM Management Pack, and the announcement of synchronous replication.

Webcast :
Join Kieran Harty, CTO and co-founder, Tintri, for a cloud conversation with industry leader Steve Herrod hosted by Actual Tech Media on November 10, 2016.

Resources:
2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays
VM-aware storage for Dummies guide
Cloud Automation with Tintri