Tintri Unveils Scale-out Storage Platform to Enable Enterprises and CSPs to Build Their Own Amazon-like Cloud Infrastructure

Today’s announcement includes nine new Tintri VMstore T5000 all flash models with capacity expansion capabilities, VM Scale-out software, Tintri Analytics for predictive capacity and performance planning, and two new Tintri Cloud offerings. The simplicity of VAS enables organisations to scale from 17TB to 10PB with a common platform and less than one full time employee dedicated to storage management. 

"Scale is a defining characteristic of cloud. While many companies aspire to build cloud-scale infrastructures with agility and automation for diverse virtualised workloads, they are held back by conventional storage architecture that’s simply not designed to support those requirements," said Ken Klein, Tintri Chairman and CEO. "Customers have been forced to choose between limited scale-out that requires a large number of disks or expensive and inefficient scale-out, without the benefits of VM-level visibility, QoS and automation. With today’s announcement, enterprises and CSPs can scale far more effectively-building their own Amazon-like cloud infrastructure-with a VAS platform that allows for control, security, cost efficiency and simplicity." 

Scale-out Storage Platform: Built on a VAS foundation for modern storage scale-out with the following characteristics:

• Federated pool of storage. The federated node design treats multiple Tintri VMstores-both all-flash and hybrid-flash nodes-as a pool of storage, greatly simplifying management, planning and resource allocation.
• Scalability and performance. The storage platform is designed to scale to more than one million VMs. Separation of control flow from data flow ensures low latency and scalability to a very large number of storage nodes.

• Scale from small to very large with new and existing, all flash and hybrid, partially or fully populated systems.
• VM and Software based. Based on software intelligence that delivers consistent performance for virtualised and cloud applications. It works across any standard high performance Ethernet network, eliminating the need for proprietary interconnects. The VM Scale-out software automatically provides best placement recommendation for VMs.  
• Scale compute and storage independently. Loose coupling of storage and compute provides customers with maximum flexibility to scale these elements independently. 

Tintri VMstore T5000 All-Flash With Expansion Capabilities: New configuration options for customers:

Tintri first introduced the Tintri VMstore T5000 all-flash series in August 2015. Today, all three models, the T5040, T5060 and T5080, are updated with new capacity options ranging from 17 TB to 308 TB. These systems leverage the latest in 3D NAND technology and high density drives to offer organisations both higher capacity and lower $/GB. In the future, Tintri will also enable capacity upgrades with some of these models to allow customers to scale up their individual VMstores. Combined with VAS VM-level capabilities and VM Scale-out software, customers can scale with complete flexibility, growing from one Tintri T5040 all flash system to 32 fully populated T5080s. 

VM Scale-out Software: New VM Scale-out software provides the following capabilities:

• Predictive analytics derived from one million statistics collected every 10 minutes from 30 days of history, accounting for peak loads instead of average loads, for the most accurate predictions. Deep workload analysis identifies VMs that are growing rapidly and applies sophisticated algorithms to model the growth ahead and avoid resource constraints.

• Least-cost optimisation based on multi-dimensional modeling. Control algorithm constantly optimises across the thousands of VMs in each pool of VMstores, taking into account space savings, resources required by each VM, and the cost in time and data to move VMs, and makes the least-cost recommendation for VM migration that optimises the pool.
• Retain VM policy settings and stats. When a VM is moved, not only are the snapshots moved with the VM, the statistics,  protection and QoS policies migrate as well using efficient compressed and deduplicated replication protocol.
• Support for all major hypervisors  

"With hundreds of terabytes of data across thousands of VMs, our business runs on scale. Conventional scale-out promises scale but struggles beyond hundreds of VMs – it doesn’t give us flexibility in how and what to scale, nor the intelligence to predict workload demands," said Jeff Wilhelm, CTO, Envision Technology Advisors. "Tintri’s Scale-out architecture and VM Scale-out technology will do for storage what VMware’s vSphere and DRS did for compute. The notion of tripling and quadrupling our virtualised infrastructure without adding the corresponding number of dedicated storage personnel has tremendous appeal to us. Combined with advanced analytics, QoS, automation, and policy-based VM management, this gives us a powerful platform to build a very agile virtualised infrastructure."