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 technical support is very good."
"It is always out of the box, and ready to use."
"For us, the most valuable feature is the compression and deduplication. Being able to deploy a three to one ratio for storage is absolutely critical in today's world with the growing need for storage and the growing need for more space."
"Lone segmentation is simpler and more agile. It's improved the velocity in overall provisioning from project to operation."
"The performance of the storage is just unbelievable."
"The initial setup was really straight forward."
"Technical support has been amazing."
"One of the features that my customers are really interested in is immutable snapshots. There are immutable snapshots to which your applications can be reverted back if you are hit by some kind of ransomware threat or malicious attack. That's kind of a key deal, and it is one of the selling points I use to point out to my customers the value and the features that Pure Storage brings to the table."
"It is reliable, and it seems like a solid product. It has been working well so far."
"The deduplication functionality is great. We have seen a lot of benefits in the deduplication ratio. So, it has proven that it is a good cost savings."
"We choose 3PAR for its speed. It's so fast and reliable."
"Good performance because it's an all-flash system. Basically, our applications run faster."
"The solutions has increased our performance. We went from 24,000 IOPS to around 70,000 IOPS."
"With our 3PARs, we have never lost data."
"The product stands on its own in heavy enterprise environments."
"Being able to snapshot things for backup purposes has been key. We do that on our databases four times a day."
"Data reduction and snapshot abilities: Smaller footprint in the datacenter (lower cost for power, cooling, etc.)."
"The most valuable aspect is the use of solid-state storage drives instead of spinning drives."
"The GUI is very straightforward and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the always-on data deduplication."
"It provides a full feature set without separate licensing (deduplication, compression, snapshot, asynchronous replication, stable performance, etc.)."
"Implementation of the solution is very simple."
"Built-in snapshot support gives us SAN-side functionality most other platforms would have had us license separately."
"Scale out is a differentiator for them, especially in the enterprise market. It's key for a lot of customers."
"It's not so scalable. It's got moderate scaling capabilities right now. The clustering technology needs a bit of work, they need to improve that."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"We do have an issue with the vCenter integration. Pure Storage says it has a lot of free space, but vCenter says its completely full. This is because their dedupes are saved as space, but Vcenter still detects the disk as completely full. So, we do have an issue with that."
"It would be nice to have a better view of the allocated capacity on their Platform as a Service solution because we have to do some manual calculations to understand how much we are going to pay every month to use the storage that is allocated."
"The credentials on the iSCSI interface are only available to type in with the Chrome browser, and not with the Firefox browser."
"The price could be better."
"We would like to see more cloud support, which we know is coming, although it's not out yet. It's going to be released in the next versions. That would be the biggest win, if additional cloud support is built into the array."
"CIFS and SMB Shares cannot be mounted directly."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ should increase the storage capacity."
"I think cloud integration would probably be the biggest part, because that's where everyone is going and the seamless integration between on-premise and cloud is an important part of any IT strategy today."
"This product has come to the end of its lifecycle."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ has limited flexibility in building replication solutions. There are limitations to the number of IOPS the system can do. It's not bad as it is doing its job. However, for the application, if you need a toolbox, you can build everything concerning periodic replication modes of synchronous or asynchronous three-site, four-site, with supported cascading which requires you to buy an IBM product. It also takes a few hours to one day to upgrade the system and sometimes; it takes more time because, in some HPE 3PAR StoreServ 20000 Storage, you have an eight-node system. If you do an upgrade, you do it node by node and every node might take more than an hour."
"I would like the documentation easy to find. There is a lot of documentation, but sometimes it is hard to find. You have to do a lot of searching to find it."
"We would like to see a bigger integration with the Nimble Storage solution, so we can take our smaller regional companies and be able to send them into our bigger data centers and have everything work seamlessly."
"The GUI was a little hard to figure out how to use."
"We would like to see deduplication and hybrid in the next release of the solution."
"Access to technical support should be improved for our region. Technical support is good, but they're very hard to access."
"A single pane of glass to monitor/manage multiple arrays would be helpful."
"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."
"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 would like them to improve the look of the product’s external casing and shelves."
"The management graphical interface needs more improvement."
"I would like to see LDAP for the management panel; I've been notified they might be currently working on it."
"The system currently has a 15TB LUN size limit and that snapshots need to be scheduled through script API instead of the GUI."
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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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