Tintri, a maker of storage solutions specifically designed for virtualized environments, announced the new Tintri VMstore T540 VM-aware storage appliance at the VMware Europe conference, held this week in Copenhagen. The T540 features several enhancements, mainly increased capacity and a couple of what the company called industry-first capabilities in an emailed press release.

The new offering is a dual-controller storage system meant to support high-availability configurations, and doesn’t require a reboot for Tintri OS updates. It also addresses bottlenecks, one of the biggest issues in virtualized environments, by visualizing system performance down to the storage layer. This makes it easier for admins to identify and quickly address hiccups in large deployments.

Another thing that Tintri added to the mix is automation, in the form of VM auto-alignment:

Degraded performance due to misalignment between the guest file system and underlying storage is commonplace. With all conventional storage arrays, re-alignment requires manual, disruptive re-mapping of the guest file system. Tintri VMstore now automatically adapts the storage layer to the guest file system without any user interaction or service impact.

Lastly, the final feature of the T540 is more capacity. It ships with a 13.5TB database.  Tintri’s inline dedupe and compression, along with 2.4TB of flash, help reduce VM latency.

“Tintri has emerged as the most innovative virtual machine storage solution on the market today—and in a remarkably short time period,” said David Floyer, CTO of Wikibon. “The company offers a leading example of a flash enhanced product that allows organizations to overcome storage bottlenecks common to virtualization projects. This latest extends the ability to directly manage just VMs and their virtual disks, eliminating decades of storage complexity.”

Earlier this month Tintri released an infographic about the state of storage in virtualized deployments. The company rounded-up some statistics about the outlook of the market in 2012, as well as what storage capabilities admits want. Among the respondents45 percent said they want more visibility while 52 percent pointed at performance isolation for VM, which Tintri addressed with its latest launch.

Before that, chief executive Kieran Harty stopped by theCube and explained what his relatively new company is all about in the virtualized IT world.