1. Tintri Smart Storage for Virtualisation & Private Cloud
Peter Smith
Systems Engineer

2. Tintri Smart Storage

3. Purpose built hardware storage appliance
Tintri Smart Storage
Purpose built hardware storage appliance
Smart Storage
No Tuning Required
All About the VM’s

4. Tintri Smart Storage VMstore™ Architecture 4 VMstore Tintri OS
Tintri Global
Center/vSphere
Tintri OS
Tintri File System
Flash First Architecture
QoS Lanes
Performance Isolation
Working Set Analyser
End to End Monitoring
VM Replication
VM Snapshots
VM Clones
VAAI / VCAI
RAID
NIC
NIC
Hypervisor Aware Protocol
Manager (VMs & vDisks)
VMReplicate
NIC
Inline Deduplication
& Compression
Hypervisor
O/S
App1
App2
Flash
CPU
NVRAM
DRAM
HDD
HDD
VDI
VDI
100% write IO is serviced from Flash
Typically 97%-100% reads serviced from Flash 4

5. Tintri Smart Storage Sees Learns Adapts1 2 3
Sees
Learns
Adapts
VM-level visibility for insight and control
Quick performance troubleshooting and trend analysis
Eliminates storage overprovisioning
Automatically takes care of complex and mundane tasks
Manages and protects VMs with a few mouse clicks
Seamlessly supports multiple hypervisors
Adapts to the needs of applications without human intervention
Guaranteed I/O “lane” for each individual application
Scales to thousands of VMs easily

6.  Tintri Smart Storage ✔
SAN & NAS storage arrays use FIFO = I/O Traffic Jam
SMART Storage has per-VM and per-vDisk Queuing
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7. Tintri Smart Storage

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Snapshots at a virtual machine level
Up to 128 snapshots per virtual machine
Ability to replicate snapshots for disaster recovery
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Cloning at a virtual machine level
VAAI and VCAI Support
Zero Capacity cloning
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10. Tintri Smart Storage Many to One & Bi-Directional replication support
LAN/WAN
Local VMs
Many to One & Bi-Directional replication support
Chargeable module, requires a license for both source and target boxes

11. Tintri Smart Storage Source Destination 1: Send block fingerprints
2: Receive missing fingerprints
4: Write to SSD
3: Send missing
data compressed
5: Rinse & Repeat
6: Snapshot shows
up on destination
Source
Destination

12. Tintri Smart Storage Scale by adding additional appliances
Centralised management for up to 32 VMStore devices
Mix and match models (small, medium or large)
Ensure predictable performance

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Tintri Smart Storage
Flash first architecture
Virtual machine level Snapshot
Virtual machine level replication
Space efficient cloning
Centralised management for up to 32 devices
vCentre Web Plug-In
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September 19, 2018

14. Tintri Smart Storage T880 T850 T820 One Node = One Datastore
Dual Controller (Active/Standby) 4U appliance
10.5TB, 30.5TB or 45TB usable datastore (SSD + HDD)
23TB, 66TB or 100TB effective capacities (SSD + HDD)
,500 x Server VM’s or 3,500 VDI VM’s
Performance
15,000 to 110, ms latency
~99% of I/O from flash
Smart Application-Aware Storage
Quality of Service per VM (QoS)
Instant bottleneck visualization
VM auto-alignment
Zero Management Simplicity
Truly Plug’N’Play
No complex configuration of LUNs, volumes, tiers, RAID groups or fine tune…
T880
3,500 VM / VDI
45TB Useable
100TB Effective
70K-110K IOPS
T850
2,000 VM / VDI
30.5TB Useable
66TB Effective
50K-75K IOPS
T820
750 VM / VDI
10.5TB Useable
23TB Effective
15K – 30K IOPS

15. About Tintri Tintri Smart Storage
Smart Application-Aware Storage That Sees, Learns and Adapts
Company background
HQ in Mountain View, California, USA
Shipping product for 3 years
Global deployments & teams in US, EMEA, APAC and Japan
Virtualization and storage DNA
Kieran Harty – Founder & CTO (former EVP of Eng. at VMware for 7 years from )
Mark Gritter – Founder (former staff Engineering at Sun Microsystems)
Pratik Wadher – VP Eng. (former VP Eng. Data Domain)
Ed Lee – Eng. lead (Co-Inventor of RAID at Berkley, Data Domain)
Support
World class global support organization; Telephone 24x7x365; H/W Break-fix Platinum 4hr or Gold NBD
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16. Thank you