We performed a comparison between Kaminario K2 [EOL] and NetApp AFF 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 stability and performance are the best things about the solution."
"The GUI is very easy to use and intuitive."
"Processes that used to take 40 minutes to two hours can be completed in five minutes."
"Our storage phones home. It is smart and intelligent in that aspect, which has been huge for us. We don't have to be storage administrators."
"The scalability is good."
"We find the ease of usability and setup valuable."
"Their technical support is excellent. It's the best out of any of the vendors we work with."
"We are very happy with the data deduplication and compression ratio that we have on the platform."
"Scale out is a differentiator for them, especially in the enterprise market. It's key for a lot of customers."
"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 most valuable feature is definitely the always-on data deduplication."
"The increased performance is many times above our previous array performance in all metrics. Integration with vSphere features is also a definite plus."
"Built-in snapshot support gives us SAN-side functionality most other platforms would have had us license separately."
"The capacity that we're saving by using Kaminario's K2 is giving us a four-to-one ratio for our deduplication."
"Logic/software management"
"The most valuable feature is speed."
"We have SQL clusters across the United States. It has sped up our IOPS and made it a lot easier for users."
"NetApp AFF is very good at cleaning up your storage."
"NetApp tech support is so good. Their tech support has always been so stable and the people are so good in case of any failure or any good feature that needs to be updated or features that supposedly can help with performance to improve some performance. NetApp support is one of the best that I deal with."
"Our AFF 8040 is currently helping us in terms of response time and speed because it is a flash system. Most importantly, it enables our SQL Cluster to respond to database queries and things a lot faster. It minimizes latency."
"It impacts customer retention because of its overall ease. When you are running a business, where time is a factor, that is the biggest selling point. Things happen really rapidly, when they happen, and being able to say, "Yeah, we can get this up and running in a day, if you want," or even less time in some cases. Sometimes, that can be what makes or breaks our case."
"We have had issues before on our infrastructure where 20 to 30 percent of the people would come to us pointing the finger at the storage technology or storage back-end. That is now virtually zero."
"The performance. The flash performance helps move data pretty fast."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"It is a bit expensive."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"It needs to improve its price."
"The initial setup was a little complex. We had some initial issues with the design and had to help correct some of the white papers for it, but it wasn't your standard use case."
"I would love for them to have a hyper-converged solution."
"Some of the nice to haves for us, in terms of today, would be VVols but again, it’s not a critical feature."
"The system currently has a 15TB LUN size limit and that snapshots need to be scheduled through script API instead of the GUI."
"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."
"A single pane of glass to monitor/manage multiple arrays would be helpful."
"Access to technical support should be improved for our region. Technical support is good, but they're very hard to access."
"The management graphical interface needs more improvement."
"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 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."
"The Bezels need improvement."
"Cleaning up false positives on alerts. We get a lot of those."
"This is an expensive solution that could be cheaper."
"The dashboard needs improvement. The dashboard needs some uplift"
"I would like to see aggregate level encryption in the next release. This is critical."
"The support documentation has room for improvement."
"Stability could be improved."
"The system is pretty stable but most of the ONTAP versions are not really stable. There have been multiple bugs in different ONTAP versions."
Earn 20 points
Kaminario K2 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in All-Flash Storage while NetApp AFF is ranked 2nd in All-Flash Storage with 280 reviews. Kaminario K2 [EOL] is rated 8.8, while NetApp AFF is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Kaminario K2 [EOL] writes "Built-in snapshot support gives us SAN-side functionality most other platforms license separately". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp AFF writes "Since switching, our clients have reported improved performance and reduced latency". Kaminario K2 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas NetApp AFF is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, VMware vSAN and NetApp FAS Series.
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