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."The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are management and administration user-friendliness, provisioning, and performance."
"Provides fast access and is user-friendly."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"The deduplication and compression rates are beyond impressive."
"It is an easy to use product for all of my team members."
"The ease of management is one of the most valuable features of this solution. I would have also said that it's pretty fast but now our SQL servers are starting to beat it up pretty bad."
"The most valuable feature is its speed."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. You simply plug it in and turn it on."
"The storage capacity efficiency is phenomenal. It is off the charts in comparison to the compression ratios that we got before. We are able to save a lot more to the device."
"The setup was very, very simple. When we got our AF5000, no kidding, we had it up in production within two hours"
"There are a lot of redundancies in all the right areas, so it is pretty stable."
"We get storage access without the need for more human monitoring of those resources."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The performance and the processor are good."
"This solution has given us reliability that is evident by the fact that it has been running for five years with virtually no hiccups."
"InfoSight has allowed us to centralize our management, understanding how it correlates to the array. It has identified a network issue in the network configuration of ESXi hosts. It enables us to get servers back up faster by 25 percent."
"Inline compression"
"The speed and, for us in particular in what we're doing, the data de-duplication."
"The capacity that we're saving by using Kaminario's K2 is giving us a four-to-one ratio for our deduplication."
"The most valuable aspect is the use of solid-state storage drives instead of spinning drives."
"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 increased performance is many times above our previous array performance in all metrics. Integration with vSphere features is also a definite plus."
"Scale out is a differentiator for them, especially in the enterprise market. It's key for a lot of customers."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve in the area of cryptographic information in the consoles. The user-friendliness could improve. The Pure Storage FlashArray team should come and log into the system with their maintenance credentials and then pull out the information as evidence of cryptography."
"Storage. There could be better storage."
"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."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"In the configuration, which we brought in or tested it in, it has a very limited config as far as the array goes. That said, it still did more than our anticipation."
"I would like to see active replication. I know that it's available now but I haven't tried it yet. I hope that it works."
"I like what they're doing, but some of my customers complain that they do not have all the bells and whistles and knobs to fine-tune workloads that some of the competitors have. In my opinion, that's good. All customers don't have dedicated storage gurus, and they can get themselves into trouble if they fine-tune too many of those high-performance knobs, but they do get knocked down. Pure Storage takes a hit in the minds and opinions of some of the customers because they cannot customize things as much as compared to a legacy storage provider's appliance such as NetApp, Dell EMC, or even HPE. I personally think 95% of my customers are better off letting the system fine-tune itself. That was something that you needed to do 12 or 15 years ago, but now with all-flash, the technology can handle what it needs to handle. Customers just end up shooting themselves in the foot if they are tweaking too many default settings."
"It would be good to have metrics of the box's performance so we can see what it delivers, but currently, I can't see what it's actually doing."
"The HPE Nimble Storage could have better integration with monitoring and machine learning system information solutions."
"A feature that would be a nice addition to the next release would be a filer option. A filer option so that you could connect the sim or NFS or chips like NetApp does for NAS functionality."
"The scalability could be better."
"It was a bit expensive."
"I want it to be an active-active array. Nimble would be great as an active-active array because then everything checks out. It would give a feeling of comfort."
"The quality of technical support depends on which member of the support team you speak with."
"I’d like to see in-line deduplication extended to Nimble non-flash (called “Hybrid”) arrays, even if it’s only the C500 and higher controllers that support it."
"There is no active-active controller, which means that we can only have one controller online at a time."
"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."
"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 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."
"I would like them to improve the look of the product’s external casing and shelves."
"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."
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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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