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2K outstanding IOs? *wowza* That would sure kill spinning media (or require *a lot* of spindles)! Custom workload generator, or a known tool (e.g. IOmeter, etc.)? You don't have to say -- just being my performance-analysis-geek self. haha

Child of Wonder: That sounds fun! We'll be there, armed with choice beverages. :) lopoetve: I love it. One of my friends at Microsoft (awesome guy) has a notorious reputation for doing the same. One of his favorite "test instruments" is a screwdriver...

lopoetve, that sounds great! I'll see you there! Let me know if you want me to "rough up" an SE for you (haha). What caching? I *know* you're not grouping Tintri VMstore into the category of storage systems that use flash as a cache... Please, say it isn't so. *sniffle*

jimh425, Wow! That's awesome. I have Dell servers in my lab right now (R820's) as well, but nothing as cool as that 16-blade chassis. *Sweet!* Sooooooo glad to hear that we're delivering what you need. We all *love* to hear things like that. It validates all of the hard work and passion. We're...

Hi Child of Wonder, how are you? We've worked hard to make VMstore crazy-reliable, but I totally understand where you are coming from. Carving up meaningful "slices" in this context equates to creating multiple physical disk/raid groups where each "slice" has a separate file system. That...

Hi lopoetve, you are absolutely correct (in a given rack)! Just remember that each Tintri VMstore is fully redundant (controllers, disks, networking, power supplies, etc.). You can lose an entire controller, a bunch of disks, etc., and things keep rockin'. In fact, because we're active/standby...

Thank you! I was browsing around and checking out a lot of kewl stuff here.. *nice* $1M wow, that's a lot of $$ for some big [storage] iron. I'd love to drop that kind of coin on a bunch of electronics instrumentation and heavy fabrication/welding machinery. I'm a geek with no bounds, brother...

One other thing that made my heart jump -- we DO NOT use ZFS. When Dr. Kieran Harty (our CEO) left VMware to found Tintri, he secured the best in the business to build a file system that was built 100% from the ground up for flash (SSD) technology (not for spinning disks), and virtualization...

Hello everyone, John Phillips from Tintri here. I am not in sales, and have spent 15 of my 20 high-tech years in storage (including 12+ years at NetApp), so I'll be candid with you. :) I help drive our strategic alliances, and also have technical marketing duties, which means that I have a lab...