"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
- Cloud-based, hosted desktop virtualization and Disaster Recovery-as-a-service.
- VMware® vSphere™ 5. 5
- VMware Horizon 6.0
- Traditional storage: Dell EqualLogic and NetApp FAS arrays
- 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 VMstore™ T650
- 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