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 most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"The predictive performance analytics is a very good feature, as our system is performing better than before."
"I like its speed. It has all the features that I need."
"This is the best all-flash storage array on the market."
"It is the SAN backbone for our company."
"Technical support is excellent. I've had very good responses from technical support. We had a couple of cases where we needed support. Some of the communications were purely over email and some has been an actual call to the service desk."
"The most valuable feature is that maintenance is free."
"This solution has helped my organization by cutting down on provisioning time. I used to have to provision a VM and it would take ten minutes. Now, it takes thirty seconds."
"It is a stable solution."
"Previously, we were using EVA from HPE. When we moved to 3PAR, we noticed a reduction in footprint, reduced by more than 30%. We use the Adaptive Optimization, giving us a reduction in cost and with better performance."
"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."
"We have had it for about two years and had zero problems with it."
"All-flash has been the most innovative way of using storage based on the 3PAR platform."
"We use a virtual domain in 3PAR and we can create individual pools where clients are able to manage their own resources, instead of we, as storage admin, getting involved in that."
"It runs. I don't have a problem with it. If it needs an update, I can do it in the middle of the day with nobody being the wiser. It is phenomenal in that respect. As a hospital, I get two hours every quarter to reboot things, so it is imperative that nothing goes down."
"If you design it right and implement it right, it's headache free. Just keep it there and it does what it's suppose to do."
"Scale out is a differentiator for them, especially in the enterprise market. It's key for a lot of customers."
"The GUI is very straightforward and easy to use."
"The increased performance is many times above our previous array performance in all metrics. Integration with vSphere features is also a definite plus."
"Data reduction and snapshot abilities: Smaller footprint in the datacenter (lower cost for power, cooling, etc.)."
"Built-in snapshot support gives us SAN-side functionality most other platforms would have had us license separately."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the always-on data deduplication."
"Logic/software management"
"Implementation of the solution is very simple."
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"Its price could be cheaper. It is not the cheapest one out there, but I'm not directly involved in the figures and negotiations."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"I would like to get a weekly report of how our storage has been used, and if there is any storage sitting there not being used."
"Data reduction is an area that needs improvement. There is a garbage collection service that runs but during that time, system utilization increases."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"There's always an opportunity for new feature functionality."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"We are waiting for compression."
"Upgrades could be improved. We would like to see more upgrades."
"The speed of the hard disk could be better. The performance is the main issue for us. The performance of the VMs is not comparable to desktop machines, for instance, and we might need another solution to improve the performance. Other than that, we don't have any issues. We already have a great part of storage with SSDs, and the performance is not as good as I expected."
"We have had some challenges in the Arabic implementation and in migration, but for daily work, it's fine."
"It is suitable for medium-sized businesses and data centers with less number of users and less important data. It is not really an enterprise-level solution. It needs more capacity. It is also not really stable. It should be more stable. It should also support any server model. It is really weak in this area."
"The main problem for 3PAR right now is cost."
"The configuration and flexibility should improve."
"We would also like to see improvements to the ease of administration of 3PAR."
"A single pane of glass to monitor/manage multiple arrays would be helpful."
"I would like to see them work with Cisco, so it comes off the FIs, instead of having to go through my 10-gig network."
"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."
"The front panel of the drive shelf doesn't always seat firmly."
"The system currently has a 15TB LUN size limit and that snapshots need to be scheduled through script API instead of the GUI."
"Access to technical support should be improved for our region. Technical support is good, but they're very hard to access."
"I would like to see LDAP for the management panel; I've been notified they might be currently working on it."
"Some of the nice to haves for us, in terms of today, would be VVols but again, it’s not a critical feature."
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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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