Tintri Models and Licensing

TINTRI Pricing Excerpt from original article

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Tintri Models and pricing

As of this writing, the available Tintri appliances are (prices in US dollars):

Model T540 – Dual Controller: 13.5TB, $90,000 (10Gbe Copper NICs) or $95,000 (10Gbe SFP + 10Gbe Copper NICs)
T445 – Single Controller: 8.5 TB, $65,000 (10Gbe NIC or SFP available for additional cost)

Replication is a licensed software feature that comes in addition to the cost of the appliance with licensing for adapters as well:

Model T540: $16,500
Model T445: $11,700

At first glance, the pricing might seem prohibitive for some organizations. However, there are other considerations. If your organization is growing their virtualization environment and the storage it should live on, Tintri is an appliance to consider for storage, performance, and ease of management reasons. While the cost per gigabyte or terabyte might not be as small as your organization would like, the performance gains and ease of management might be factors to put Tintri back on the table.

Looking at the pricing above and seeing a bunch of big numbers in terms of overall cost can be a bit misleading, not to say that the bottom line cost isn’t something to consider, but looking at the cost per workload may be a better way. When this is taken into consideration, the cost can be very competitive with other vendors. In research for this article, I worked to determine an approximate cost per VM in my own environment – approximately 30 VMs – (which does not run on Tintri) and found it to be about 75$/VM. That is not a terribly huge cost at all. In addition, in working with Tintri to lab test this solution, they mentioned that they have a customer running 1000 VM workloads on one single Tintri device, which brings the cost per workload down significantly. Looking at other factors, like administrative costs to manage storage and virtualization environments should also be worked into the calculation of cost and cost savings. If the device takes less time and effort to manage, it might just save money in the long run.

My hope is for Tintri to release a class of appliance that is geared toward the SMB market, allowing more organizations to consider Tintri for virtualization.

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Tegile dedupe + compression = big value for the price

Tegile’s advantage is the combination of in-line de-duplication and compression leveraging super fast SSD FLASH technology and a large memory cache. Companies are seeing a typical increase in capacity of 3x to 5x using Tegile´s de-duplication and compression while getting better performance. That means the entry level storage array – the HA2100 – has 17TBs of useable storage that looks more like 50TB to 80TB of disk after de-duplication and compression and kicks out an amazing 30,000 IOPS! Some clients are seeing even better results – especially in VmwareTM and Virtual Desktop implementations.

HA2100 Deduplication & Compression (~ 30,000 IOPS)
Feature Raw Capacity (TB) Useable Capacity (TB) Compression Ratio Capacity with Compression Only (TB) Combined Dedupe & Compression Ratio Capacity with Dedupe & Compression (TB)
Compression Only 22 16.5 1.4 23.1
Compression Only 22 16.5 1.5 24.8
Compression Only 22 16.5 1.6 26.4
Compression Only 22 16.5 1.7 28.1
Compression Only 22 16.5 1.8 29.7
Compression Only 22 16.5 1.9 31.4
Compression Only 22 16.5 2 33.0
Compression & Dedupe 22 16.5 3 49.5
Compression & Dedupe 22 16.5 4 66.0
Compression & Dedupe 22 16.5 5 82.5
Compression & Dedupe 22 16.5 6 99.0
Compression & Dedupe 22 16.5 7 115.5
Compression & Dedupe 22 16.5 8 132.0
Compression & Dedupe 22 16.5 9 148.5
Compression & Dedupe 22 16.5 10 165.0

You can find Tegile Pricing, Cost and other tips and tricks.

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EMC VNX Pricing, Cost and Price List

Nothing but EMC VNX pricing on this page

 

VNX51156010FN EMC VNX 5100 – Hard drive array – 3.6 TB – 15 bays ( SAS-2 ) – 6 x HD 600 GB – 8Gb Fibre Channel – Serial Attached SCSI 2 (external) – rack-mountable – 3U – field 6159.3
VNX51D153T72F EMC VNX 5100 – Hard drive array – 18 TB – 15 bays ( SAS-2 ) – 6 x HD 3 TB – 8Gb Fibre Channel – Serial Attached SCSI 2 (external) – rack-mountable – 3U – field 9045.12
VNX51256010FN EMC VNX 5100 Pricing – Hard drive array – 3.6 TB – 25 bays ( SAS-2 ) – 6 x HD 600 GB – 8Gb Fibre Channel – Serial Attached SCSI 2 (external) – rack-mountable – 3U – field 6465.93
VNX51D256010F EMC VNX 5100 – Hard drive array – 3.6 TB – 25 bays ( SAS-2 ) – 6 x HD 600 GB – 8Gb Fibre Channel – Serial Attached SCSI 2 (external) – rack-mountable – 3U – field 6465.93
VNX51D253010 EMC VNX 5100 Cost- Hard drive array – 1.8 TB – 25 bays ( SAS-2 ) – 6 x HD 300 GB – 8Gb Fibre Channel – Serial Attached SCSI 2 (external) – rack-mountable – 3U 6050.64
VNX51D256010N EMC VNX 5100 – Hard drive array – 3.6 TB – 25 bays ( SAS-2 ) – 6 x HD 600 GB – 8Gb Fibre Channel – Serial Attached SCSI 2 (external) – rack-mountable – 3U 6465.93
VNX51156015FN EMC VNX 5100 Price List – Hard drive array – 3.6 TB – 15 bays ( SAS-2 ) – 6 x HD 600 GB – 8Gb Fibre Channel – Serial Attached SCSI 2 (external) – rack-mountable – 3U – field 6973.3
EMC VNX 5300 Pricing – NAS – 4.8 TB – rack-mountable – Serial Attached SCSI 2 – HD 600 GB x 8 – RAID 0 – 1 – 3 – 5 – 6 – 10 – 8Gb Fibre Channel – iSCSI – 3U – field 19496.32
VNX53N156010 EMC VNX 5300 Cost – NAS – 4.8 TB – rack-mountable – Serial Attached SCSI 2 – HD 600 GB x 8 – RAID 0 – 1 – 3 – 5 – 6 – 10 – 8Gb Fibre Channel – iSCSI – 3U 15294.66
VNX53D156015M EMC VNX 5300 – NAS – 4.8 TB – rack-mountable – Serial Attached SCSI 2 – HD 600 GB x 8 – RAID 0 – 1 – 3 – 5 – 6 – 10 – 8Gb Fibre Channel – iSCSI – 3U 19496.32
VNX53N156015 EMC VNX 5300 Price List – NAS – 4.8 TB – rack-mountable – Serial Attached SCSI 2 – HD 600 GB x 8 – RAID 0 – 1 – 3 – 5 – 6 – 10 – 8Gb Fibre Channel – iSCSI – 3U 19496.32
VNX5500DP15F EMC VNX 5500 Pricing – NAS – 0 GB – rack-mountable – Serial Attached SCSI 2 – RAID 0 – 1 – 3 – 5 – 6 – 10 – 8Gb Fibre Channel – iSCSI – 3U – field 11576.62
VNX5500FL100 EMC VNX 5500 Cost – NAS – 3.3 TB – rack-mountable – Serial Attached SCSI 2 – HD 100 GB x 21 + 300 GB x 4 – RAID 0 – 1 – 3 – 5 – 6 – 10 – 8Gb Fibre Channel – iSCSI – 3U 118669.4
VNX5500DP15D EMC VNX 5500 Price List – NAS – 0 GB – rack-mountable – Serial Attached SCSI 2 – RAID 0 – 1 – 3 – 5 – 6 – 10 – 8Gb Fibre Channel – iSCSI – 3U 12154.83
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Low SAN Pricing sometimes confused with low SAN Cost

Confusing SAN Pricing with SAN Cost can be expensive

From a Buyer’s perspective: Price is what you initially pay for an item. Cost is what it takes to maintain the item until it reaches Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) also referred to as Life Expectancy (see UL rating to get MTBF). Example: Company A purchases a SAN system (whose Hard Drives have an MTBF rating of 3 years) for a price of $50,000.00. Company B purchases a SAN system (whose MLC NAND drives have an MTBF rating of 6 years) for a price of $80,000.00. Based on the MTBF ratings Company A will have to purchase their surveillance system twice for an actual cost of $100,000.00 over the 6 years. Then you factor the time value of money on your savings for your final evaluation on Price versus Cost. So it is important to evaluate MTBF as well as other overhead costs (increased administration, training, etc.) in order to make the most economical purchase.

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Compellent Performance Up, SAN Pricing Steady

Original article at Slashdot

Dell claims that any customers for its Compellent storage arrays will see a roughly 100 percent performance increase with the introduction of Compellent Storage Center 6.3, plus end-to-end 16-Gbit Fibre Channel technology.

In addition to Storage Center 6.3, the company has released new PowerVault MD3 array software with enhanced data protection, capacity utilization, and virtualization improvements. And on top of that, it issued new PowerVault appliances that integrate with AppAssure, NetVault and CommVault Simpana data protection software.

Bob Fine, a director and product director of Dell’s Compellent business, said that the company has previously taken incremental approaches to the platform’s code base, adding 64-bit OS support in January and transitioning off of EMC hardware and onto Dell’s own hardware in June. “In both of these cases, the primary aspect of these releases was stability,” he said.

With the new release of Storage Center, Dell has also moved to 16-gigabit Fibre Channel from end-to-end, from server to switch to storage, doubling the available bandwidth in addition to the performance improvements. Specifically, Fine said the Compellent architecture had undergone incremental improvements, in particular to the I/O stack and how Dell virtualized the storage.

“Here’s a very easy way to do twice as much,” Fine said. “You don’t have to have an outage, or replace an existing platform; from a cost standpoint this software is a no-charge firmware upgrade as long as you have a support contract in place. And that’s a pretty rare statement to make these days, to get customers that much more in terms of their productivity at this price point.”

Dell Compellent Storage Center 6.3 will enter beta in early 2013 and move to general availability in the second quarter, Dell said.

The new MD3 software release, available now, brings a virtualization layer and chunking architecture to the MD3 line, providing improved data protection and increased efficiency. This release also adds dynamic disk pooling—a self-healing, rebalancing technology for when a drive fails—plus iSCSI asynchronous replication, a first-ever feature within the MD3 line. The new software also doubles the snapshots from 256 to 512.

Additional enterprise enhancements to the MD3 software include Windows Server 2012 support, Active Directory, and LDAP support for automating and integrating Compellent storage with a corporate directory, and synchronous replication enhancements. New thin provisioning and VMware VAAI support are standard along with the arrays, a Dell spokesman said.

Dell also announced the Dell PowerVault DL4000, the first backup appliance based on Dell AppAssure software, which contains 5.5 TB of storage; its scheduled availability is the first quarter of 2013; Quest NetVault Backup 9.0, which combines Quest data protection with NetVault Extended Architecture and will ship in December; and Dell’s Dell PowerVault DL2300, which includes CommVault Simpana 9 for data backup, recovery, replication, archiving and de-duplication. The DL2300 is available now. The new DR4000 is a virtual tape (VTL) cost effective unit.

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EMC Acquires XtremIO

EMC (NYSE:EMC) on Thursday announced the acquisition of XtremIO, an Israeli developer of all-Flash storage arrays, making it the first of the top-branded storage vendors to dive head-first into a storage technology that could potentially have a negative impact on traditional storage array sales.

The move confirms reports from last month that EMC was in talks to acquire XtremIO, which was founded in 2009 as a developer of storage arrays based on Flash memory technology in which no hard drives were installed.

The acquisition puts EMC squarely in a market that until now has been dominated by such startups as Texas Memory Systems, Violin Memory and Nimbus Data Systems.

Unlike many of the Flash-based storage technologies introduced recently to the market, the XtremIO products are not centered on caching data to improve performance but are instead focused on acting as primary storage for applications requiring high performance, including database, ERP or highly-virtualized environments.

The XtremIO acquisition was a great move for EMC, said Jamie Shepard, executive vice president of technology solutions at ICI, a Marlborough, Mass.-based solution provider and EMC partner.

Shepard, whose company was planning to demonstrate its own converged infrastructure solution in combination with an all-Flash array from XtremIO at the EMC World conference later this month, told CRN he was very impressed with the XtremIO technology and was looking forward to selling it even before EMC said it would acquire the company.

“It is a much better strategy for EMC to acquire a company like XtremIO instead of building Flash array technology from scratch,” he said. “The XtremIO array has built-in, in-line dedupe and will come to market soon with replication. This puts EMC a step ahead of the competition.”

XtremIO had yet to discuss pricing for its all-Flash arrays, but Shepard said that because those arrays were based on low-cost MLC Flash technology, pricing could be somewhere in the range of EMC’s VNX midrange disk array with a limited amount of Flash storage for high-performance applications.

When asked by CRN why customers would buy disk arrays when Flash array pricing was equivalently priced, he replied, “They won’t. ICI has seen the future. We’ve seen it with Flash arrays running high I/O application, everyday applications, and VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure). So there’s no reason for disk. The XtremIO array means no need to carve out LUNs, fast I/Os, and a much better GUI (graphical user interface) than if it were designed by EMC.”

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