Tintri’s VMstore T440 - Hundreds of VMs in 4U

This evening I had a cool GoToMeeting with Tintri’s David Friedlander and VP of Engineering Pratik Wadher. They showed me their new Tintri VMstore, it’s the first VM aware storage system. The VMstore T440 is an 8.5 TB hardware appliance that is designed from the ground up for hosting virtual machines through 10 GigE NFS.

Tintri uses virtual machine abstractions. VMs and virtual disks in place of conventional abstractions such as volumes, LUNs or files. This allows the VMstore to measure and control I/O performance individually for each virtual disk in the system. In effect, the only layer of abstraction in a Tintri device is the virtual disk itself. Other solutions rely on storage abstractions that create a fundamental mismatch between the storage and VM layers.

I’m very impressed by their appliance, hundreds of VMs in 4U - An intelligent hybrid flash and disk architecture provides enterprise flash performance at disk prices.

http://www.tintri.com/