We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage 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."We've had to use tech support on a number of occasions. They did everything remotely and talked us all the way through. They fixed the issue within 30 minutes. Every single time we contact them, they're perfect. I would give their technical support a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are simplicity, ease of use, and dashboard management."
"It's reduced our overhead management time on storage, since it is so simple to get in and just provision a volume, present it to the host, and then you are done."
"The most valuable feature is how it simplifies the management of the SAN."
"Very efficient storage"
"We have seen savings in our storage. The speed of deployment has gone from several days to a few minutes. This product has reduced that time into minutes, simplifying storage for us."
"We are very happy with the data deduplication and compression ratio that we have on the platform."
"It simplifies storage."
"The capacity for data storage and compression is good."
"Good architecture and produces a lot of IOPS."
"Regarding their support, you always get through to somebody who knows exactly what they're talking about."
"InfoSight has identified controller failures or performance issues."
"InfoSight has helped us resolved an issue where the snapshots were growing too big."
"We have found the advantage of it is the easy, rapid setup, but also that it is very easy to manage."
"It's given us more time to do the important things, less time worrying about SANs and failures and picking up the pieces. It just works."
"The most valuable feature is the NVMe flash storage."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the always-on data deduplication."
"Latency is definitely the big key for us."
"Logic/software management"
"The increased performance is many times above our previous array performance in all metrics. Integration with vSphere features is also a definite plus."
"The speed and, for us in particular in what we're doing, the data de-duplication."
"Built-in snapshot support gives us SAN-side functionality most other platforms would have had us license separately."
"Implementation of the solution is very simple."
"The GUI is very straightforward and easy to use."
"One thing I'd like to see in a future release is integration between their main storage array and what they call their FlashBlade product; to be able to snapshot directly from the primary array into multiple different backup copies on FlashBlade."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"Pure Storage will have issues with positioning in the near future since its a relatively new company. For now, customers need a PoC to trust using the solution, as it can't stand on its brand name alone. They need to improve Pure Storage's marketing."
"From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable."
"The product should improve its response time. I have also encountered issues with its configuration."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"The price should be lower."
"HPE Nimble Storage could be improved with some critical application or servers."
"The stability can be improved."
"I would like to see an added feature to auto-fix, or a dynamic alerting system on storage."
"We have had some stability issues with one array which has happened twice during subsequent software updates but is due to a bad Postgres database."
"I think the scalability of HPE Nimble Storage could be improved."
"When sizing the array based on requirements the option to add more network cards for throughput would be something to help clients."
"I would like to see more advanced analytics in the next release of this solution."
"It was a bit expensive."
"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."
"The interface look and feel could be improved."
"The management graphical interface needs more improvement."
"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."
"A single pane of glass to monitor/manage multiple arrays would be helpful."
"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 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."
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HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 117 reviews while Kaminario K2 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in All-Flash Storage. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while Kaminario K2 [EOL] is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". 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 Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and IBM FlashSystem, whereas Kaminario K2 [EOL] is most compared with .
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