The core product line is the VMstore, a storage system and software designed to simplify management in data center and cloud environments.

[5] Its initial objective was solving the mismatch between conventional storage and the demands of applications in virtual machine (VM) environments, which causes complex configuration and management as well as over-provisioning.

[14] In October 2013, Ken Klein, a Tintri board member and former president of Wind River Systems, became chairman and chief executive.

[24] On June 22, 2018, after failing to find a buyer and resignation of Barton as CEO, Tintri's board of directors approved a reduction in force of approximately 200 employees.

[28] The Tintri VMstore uses VMs and virtual disks — in place of conventional storage abstractions — as core system management constructs.

Tintri's architecture allows a user to set quality of service (QoS) for individual VMs, vDisks and containers, which allocates minimum or maximum performance resources according to need.

The file system automatically monitors and controls IO to those VMs, vDisks and containers to eliminate conflict, often referred to as 'noisy neighbor syndrome'.

[30][10] Since then, the company introduced VM-granular replication in 2013,[31] support for VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols), VM-level automation and analytics, and other hypervisors such as Hyper-V in 2014.

[32] On April 9, 2015, Tintri announced software that enables administrators to set maximum and minimum input/output operations per second (IOPS) to each individual VM, with visual guidance on the values to specify.