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."I like its speed. It has all the features that I need."
"The predictive performance analytics is a very good feature, as our system is performing better than before."
"Their technical support is excellent. It's the best out of any of the vendors we work with."
"It's extremely stable and has good performance."
"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 stability and performance are the best things about the solution."
"It's actually very stable"
"Pure gives us better compression, it's easier to manage, a lot less hands-on."
"Nimble Storage is a great storage solution which will give you a lot insight on the growth of your storage."
"The quality of the service and management tools let us make contractual guarantees for storage performance for customers. That's something we couldn't do before."
"The solution's uptime is fantastic. It's 100 percent. In addition, Nimble's storage capacity efficiency is very effective."
"The most valuable features are its cost-effectiveness, performance, and its deduplication deficiencies."
"Performance Integration with Commvault"
"They have really thought through their solution. They've covered everything."
"The deduplication and compression capabilities are powerful."
"We have seen our average latency go from four milliseconds to point four. Therefore, we are getting 10 times better performance down to the end user on everything. We have seen an increase in our IOPS by ten times."
"Data reduction and snapshot abilities: Smaller footprint in the datacenter (lower cost for power, cooling, etc.)."
"Latency is definitely the big key for us."
"The most valuable aspect is the use of solid-state storage drives instead of spinning drives."
"It provides a full feature set without separate licensing (deduplication, compression, snapshot, asynchronous replication, stable performance, etc.)."
"Logic/software management"
"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 feature is definitely the always-on data deduplication."
"Inline compression"
"It is a bit expensive."
"They should work on their upgrades, they're not smooth."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"Part of our company works on Dell EMC because Pure Storage did not have synchronous applications when we were purchasing our products."
"It was not proactive communication."
"There's always an opportunity for new feature functionality."
"From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable."
"I really would like to see synchronous replication. This is something that when we have multiple arrays in our environment and being able to do something like a zero RPO."
"I would like deduplication by default on all the volumes. I still don't understand (or know why) dedupe isn't enabled for the templates out-of-the-box. We have to go in and manually enable it each and every time."
"HPE Nimble Storage could be improved with some critical application or servers."
"If they could reduce the cost, that would be ideal."
"When we’re setting up the solution, making options available regarding the replication tool mechanism would be ideal."
"There are customers who want to do some different things with the Microsoft Resilient File System. There are some customers who want to do different types of connectivity. I do not know if I would call that an improvement, necessarily, because if you want that, you should get a different product."
"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 would like to have more administrative rights, for example, root-level administrative rights to the underlying OS of the storage array. We want more access to the kind of underlying infrastructure of the storage array rather than relying on support. However, most companies are looking to have more managed solutions which is the opposite direction of what I want."
"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 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'm hoping to see Active Directory integration. Right now, you still have to use a local admin account to log in and manage everything."
"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 like to see them work with Cisco, so it comes off the FIs, instead of having to go through my 10-gig network."
"The management graphical interface needs more improvement."
"Access to technical support should be improved for our region. Technical support is good, but they're very hard to access."
"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."
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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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