Tintri® by DDN introduced the NexentaStor VSA for Tintri, the first collaboration between Nexenta® and Tintri in the DDN family of brands. This optimized virtualized storage appliance (VSA) option allows existing customers the choice of leveraging their Tintri VMstore supporting virtualization with added file services to consolidate and better manage business data. The NexentaStor VSA for Tintri allows users a different choice to expand beyond initial workloads, broadening use for home directories, user profiles and collaboration in departments. This solution improves consolidated file sharing and remote office, branch office (ROBO) data on intelligent infrastructure, taking advantage of Tintri capabilities that simplify management, resulting in time and monetary savings. The NexentaStor VSA for Tintri is optimized to leverage the data reduction efficiencies and performance optimization inherent when storing data on Tintri infrastructure. Easily deployable, the NexentaStor VSA for Tintri is built on a matured stack providing both NFS and SMB/CIFS file services for Windows and Mac clients. The VSA is managed via the Flex or HTML5 VMware vCenter plugins, and can be used with the NexentaStor High Availability plugin designed for minimal downtime and automated failover of file services in the event of a VM or node failure.