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 predictive performance analytics is a very good feature, as our system is performing better than before."
"Data deduplication is one feature I found to be the most valuable in the tool...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The amount of data that I have moved to it from legacy storage has enabled us to retire units that are three or four times the physical size."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support."
"It has made working with storage as easy and simple as it should be."
"We were actually able to do multiple upgrades, including head upgrades and moving between the platforms, M20 and M50, over the years. We have never once lost a ping and have never had an outage due to an OS upgrade or a complete head upgrade."
"We like the speed. It's very low latency. In virtualization, you can mask lots of problems, and even in code you can mask lots of problems, with low latency. It's just pure speed and low latency."
"FlashArray has many valuable features. It's very user-friendly and it has high availability, so there is comparatively less downtime. During maintenance, there is no shutdown procedure, so you can directly power off the Array and manage the shutdown process without any data loss, which is a unique feature. Managing replication and data migration is also very easy."
"It's a really stable solution. We have no problems with the customer, no negative feedback from them on this."
"So far, we have yet to have a disk fail on either system, other than one I forced to fail when we first got the system in. So the reliability of the 3PAR system has been outstanding."
"The most valuable feature for me is the solution's availability."
"The solutions has increased our performance. We went from 24,000 IOPS to around 70,000 IOPS."
"OneView is a nice interface."
"When we started using 3PAR what we liked was the simplicity of the product. We needed a higher performance storage and, in our support model, we needed to keep the simplicity of the storage architecture, keep it as clean and as manageable as we could."
"They provide very good support for our mission-critical processes."
"This solution has given us improved application uptime and performance."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the always-on data deduplication."
"Implementation of the solution is very simple."
"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."
"Data reduction and snapshot abilities: Smaller footprint in the datacenter (lower cost for power, cooling, etc.)."
"Inline compression"
"The GUI is very straightforward and easy to use."
"The speed and, for us in particular in what we're doing, the data de-duplication."
"Latency is definitely the big key for us."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"The data reduction that we had initially anticipated when we bought Pure and we move over, is way lower than the expected reduction. It depends on the workloads, of course. But that has been a challenge at times."
"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."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"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."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"I would like to see improvement in the product's scalability. As a partner, I had serious problems because of the competition from Dell EMC and Pure."
"HPE 3PAR StoreServ should increase the storage capacity."
"We have had some bad issues on stability."
"While the stability is pretty good, it could always be improved upon."
"The only drawback on it is that tech support seems really busy. We get a critical notification when an important patch comes out, but sometimes it's a month before we can get this critical piece on because they just don't have time on their schedules to do it sooner."
"We would like to see better support for iSCSI."
"HP has several integration elements that work with other vendor storage products. I'd like to see a greater expansion on that so that a customer can do a more seamless migration from other vendor products."
"The newer versions have some other characteristics that we are not using. We would like to use them and set them up in our current version."
"I would like to see LDAP for the management panel; I've been notified they might be currently working on it."
"The front panel of the drive shelf doesn't always seat firmly."
"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."
"Some of the nice to haves for us, in terms of today, would be VVols but again, it’s not a critical feature."
"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 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."
"The management graphical interface needs more improvement."
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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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