Tintri Multi-Tenancy Storage Delivers High Performance, Management Simplicity, and Comprehensive Visibility for VDI and DR-as-a-Service Offerings

“Tintri’s approach to VM- and application-aware storage is a game changer. It’s giving me a distinct advantage over all of the other cloud providers, and there are a myriad of them out there. With Tintri, we will be one of the first service providers with the ability to do multitenancy for VDI and DR, with a virtually optimized high IOPS array.”

Key Challenges

• Experiencing inadequate performance in hosted desktop environment
• Existing storage platform was difficult to manage
• Lacked visibility into storage arrays at the VM level for troubleshooting and optimization 

Primary Use Case

• Cloud-based, hosted desktop virtualization and Disaster Recovery-as-a-service.

Virtualization environment

• VMware® vSphere™ 5. 5
• VMware Horizon 6.0
• Traditional storage: Dell EqualLogic and NetApp FAS arrays

VM profile

• SQL Server 2008
• Application Servers 2008r2
  – Veeam Backup
  – SharePoint
• Web Servers 2008r2
• Active Directory
• Virtual Desktop Server 2012 with MS Windows v8.1 Desktops (POC)

Tintri Solution

• Tintri VMstore™ T650

Business Benefits

• Obtained higher performance for VDI and DR
• Increased management simplicity and visibility
• Provided multi-tenancy, enabling PTS to offer cost-effective DR-as-a-service