Ransomware knocking? Accidental deletion? Hardware glitch? VMstore has your back with single‑click recovery and locking immutable snapshots.
VMstore snapshots are untouchable, workload‑aware, pointer‑ and metadata‑based, stored in internally allocated space that applications and ransomware can’t even see. Bad actors and malware cannot encrypt or delete them.
Recover entire VMs, individual files, or SQL databases in seconds with zero performance impact, RPO as low as one minute, and RTO measured in seconds to minutes. Add automated ransomware‑detection analytics plus multi‑level protection (locking immutable snapshots, high‑frequency per‑workload policies, replication to secondary VMstore), and you get logical air‑gapped resilience without extra backup silos.
Why this matters
Single‑click recovery at the workload level: one VM, one vDisk, one database, avoids the blast radius of recovering entire LUNs/volumes just for one app. Your environment stays online while you simply roll back only what’s compromised.
Minimal RPO/RTO means fewer missed SLAs and less disruption, instead of losing a day of data, roll back to minutes ago. A new VMstore feature requires admin approval to delete snapshots, eliminating internal bad actor risk. Locking, invisible snapshots mean recovery you can actually trust.
Here’s what that looks like when the worst actually happens. When Q&D Construction was hit by ransomware and found all its data encrypted, VMstore snapshots became their first line of defense. “It literally took us less than four hours to get the company back up and running, just by restoring from temporary snapshots,” said Andy Breen, IT director. They avoided long, painful restores from offsite backups and recovered a critical 2‑TB ERP system from a snapshot in under five minutes—going from “this server just crashed” to “back to last night at midnight” in less than a minute of admin effort.
For a two‑person IT staff managing about 30 servers and roughly 40 TB of storage, that speed and simplicity was a game changer. Q&D has since expanded to three VMstore systems, all managed through Tintri Global Center, and still runs with the same lean team while enjoying fortified disaster recovery and streamlined management from a single interface.
Snapshot time travel made simple with Tintri VMstore, 1.21 gigawatts or a flux capacitor are not required.
It’s 2026, if you’re still running LUN/Volume storage, you’re risking ransomware breaches and internal threats. At Tintri, workloads live at the workload level, not outdated LUN architectures.
Part 4 features VMstore’s intelligent, flexible scaling that eliminates over-provisioning and guesswork of scaling.
