We performed a comparison between HPE 3PAR StoreServ and Kaminario K2 [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."The tool is simple and easy to use. It has neat features like protection from device removal. Moreover, you can undo the deletes. The solution is easy to work with and not as complicated as CAC"
"The speed of the Pure FlashArray is very, very fast and nothing in the market can compare to it."
"Having an intuitive user interface to get things running is great."
"Its array houses our entire production environment."
"I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is."
"The tool has reduced our power consumption."
"It is the SAN backbone for our company."
"Their REST API is wonderful, well-documented, and easy to use."
"Very recently, we are able to do a lot of data center automation by being able to script some of the 3PAR actions for our private cloud."
"The solution has helped our organization reduce time to deployment by about 60 to 70 percent, because I am able to spin up new systems within four to six hours, where it used to take me two to three days."
"The solution has increased our performance by about 40 percent."
"We choose 3PAR for its speed. It's so fast and reliable."
"It is easy to set up, easy to use, and user-friendly. It is easier to work with HPE 3PAR than with Hitachi. Its technical support is also good."
"It is easy to add drives. When you add drives into it, it automatically recognizes them and spins them up."
"The tech support is great. If we have a problem, we literally will have boots on the ground with senior sales people, as well as the people to fix the problem, to help make sure we are taken care of."
"It's a very popular product for enterprise storage."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the always-on data deduplication."
"Data reduction and snapshot abilities: Smaller footprint in the datacenter (lower cost for power, cooling, etc.)."
"The GUI is very straightforward and easy to use."
"It provides a full feature set without separate licensing (deduplication, compression, snapshot, asynchronous replication, stable performance, etc.)."
"Latency is definitely the big key for us."
"Scale out is a differentiator for them, especially in the enterprise market. It's key for a lot of customers."
"Ease of use: My installers - my administrators over the system - they love how easy and fast it is to install and spin up a LUN and get going."
"Implementation of the solution is very simple."
"Self-backup is the only feature lacking in this solution."
"The price of Pure Storage FlashArray could be better."
"I would like to see the NAS add-on component become more fault-tolerant than just a single virtual machine running inside the array. I'm unwilling to use it for that reason."
"It is not possible to create a cluster on top of multiple arrays."
"Automation could be simplified."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see automated copy data management for SQL Server."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"I would like to see a faster Ethernet connection. Right now, it is 10G. If they could do multiple hundred gigs to speed up the transfer from the array to the servers, that would be good. We are trying to get away from Fibre Channel."
"The tool has low storage and low performance. This can be solved by adding more disco to the solution. The product’s pricing is also suited for enterprise businesses rather than smaller ones.I would like to see better performance, UI, and compatibility with other products in future releases."
"I would like to see a little better integration with OneView and provisioning ESX Hosts."
"There is a slight difference between what we expected and what was delivered."
"I'd really it to be able to interact with older 3PAR storage, and possibly even non-HPE. I would like to be able to pull stuff off of old things and bring it up to the standard that has been set, simply, quickly, and efficiently. That would be a really nice feature. Right now it is a big pain. It seems to work but we tend to get some latency behind."
"...sizing is everything. If you don't do the sizing right and you don't understand every detail of the product, how it works, you can be in a very unpleasant situation when you pay half a million dollars and you have a product that does not work as you expected."
"if it were easier for us to manage the product ourselves without having to get HPE to connect, because it sometimes it does take a bit to get the scheduling worked out with the HPE support. If it were simpler, then it might be easier for us to handle it ourselves."
"We do see room for improvement, especially in regard to expanding the defined storage areas."
"The front panel of the drive shelf doesn't always seat firmly."
"Improved scale and budget planning with flexibility of the solution for budget needs and efficiency for growth with the great optimization ratio due to the nature of our use."
"I would like to see LDAP for the management panel; I've been notified they might be currently working on it."
"I think it should have better performance with small files. With big data, its performance is top notch, but it is difficult to load small files."
"I would love to see capacity on its DRAM. I know it's not cost effective for them to do it, but I think that it could be a big differentiator and was a big differentiator from the beginning."
"I'm hoping to see Active Directory integration. Right now, you still have to use a local admin account to log in and manage everything."
"The management graphical interface needs more improvement."
"I would like them to improve the look of the product’s external casing and shelves."
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HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 9th in All-Flash Storage with 299 reviews while Kaminario K2 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in All-Flash Storage. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while Kaminario K2 [EOL] is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of HPE 3PAR StoreServ writes "The product's technical support is outstanding as I can reach someone right away". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kaminario K2 [EOL] writes "Built-in snapshot support gives us SAN-side functionality most other platforms license separately". HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and HPE StoreOnce, whereas Kaminario K2 [EOL] is most compared with .
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