Centralized Upgrade Management Capability of Tintri Global Center

Tintri Inc. announced Centralized Upgrade, a management capability of the Tintri Global Center (TGC)  that enables customers to deploy centralized upgrades of multiple company’s storage systems across data centers with no disruptions.

TGC customers spend just a few minutes per day to manage thousands of VMs – that includes the ability to set policies for QoS, cloning, snapshots and replication. With Centralized Upgrade, the upgrade process is automated and requires no storage expertise. The user authorises the upgrade with a click and the firm does the rest. The software will automatically take care of errors, rollback if neded and notify end users. With the last updates, TGC now provides easy access to a dashboard, real-time metrics and the hardware page from one console.

“Upgrading Tintri was always fast and non-disruptive, but now they’ve made it even better,” said Adam Way, infrastructure analyst, Garmin UK. “With centralized upgrade, we deployed upgrades twice as fast, at a fraction of the time it would have taken us for legacy storage systems.“

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As an example of how the centralized upgrade works, a customer who wants to upgrade eight out of ten of their firm’s storage systems would simply login to TGC, select the eight systems they wish to upgrade and click a button. From there, the customer can sit back and track the upgrade status.

“For a typical four to eight storage node deployment, a centralized upgrade results in 50 to 80% time savings,” said Kieran Harty, CTO and co-founder, Tintri. “And the time savings goes beyond 80% for deployments over eight nodes when managed by Tintri Global Center. This is another example of Tintri’s commitment to eliminating low value storage tasks, so that teams are free to focus on higher impact projects.“

Centralized Upgrade is available to all company’s customers with a TGC license.