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 technical support is very good."
"Scalability is one of the best features. You can quickly add more. You can swap out the drives with larger sizes, you can add more shelves. All of that is perfect - the whole concept of keeping it modular..."
"It has been very stable. I have not seen or heard of downtime storage issues after moving over to it."
"The stability is perfect. The reliability is 100% and the latency is always lower than 1 millisecond."
"On a scale of one to ten, where ten is the most comfortable pricing, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"It is an easy to use product for all of my team members."
"We like the data reduction rates. That has been really helpful. You get 4U of Pure storage replacing something like two racks of spinning disks. One of the things that has contributed to that are the data reduction rates."
"The most valuable features of Pure Storage FlashArray are the management view of the solutions, ease of provision, and deprovision, it is fantastic."
"It's easy to use, it's just like 3PAR. I made clusters of 32 hosts with 50 volumes and that took barely an hour. I scripted a lot of it, filled in the names of volumes, the names of servers."
"It has totally taken away a layer of time and effort, management-wise, from two engineers to give that time back into developing more solutions. It has provided us essentially with a platform to go away and be more creative, knowing that that is stable and can do whatever we chuck at it."
"HPE Nimble Storage is quick to release updates that fix bugs or problems and the failover has been good."
"Its speed, ease of use, and it has been completely reliable."
"There are a lot of redundancies in all the right areas, so it is pretty stable."
"The most valuable features are the duplication and compression traffic. We have second storage that we can use for the synchronization of data between the data centers."
"The valuable features include encryption of data, hybrid performance, firmware updates, and overall simplicity."
"They could probably improve an organization with just about anything. It is all a matter of ease of use, ease of the implementation, etc."
"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."
"Data reduction and snapshot abilities: Smaller footprint in the datacenter (lower cost for power, cooling, etc.)."
"The ratio between the physical storage and the storage we use is very high."
"Inline compression"
"The speed and, for us in particular in what we're doing, the data de-duplication."
"Scale out is a differentiator for them, especially in the enterprise market. It's key for a lot of customers."
"It provides a full feature set without separate licensing (deduplication, compression, snapshot, asynchronous replication, stable performance, etc.)."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"There's always an opportunity for new feature functionality."
"The file functionality could be better."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"I would like to see more detailed reporting on the data. However, it would be nice to know what are the exact VMs usage after deduplication and/or what that VMs actual latency and bandwidth is, outside of VMware."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"The solution needs to be an active-active controller."
"I would like to see an added feature to auto-fix, or a dynamic alerting system on storage."
"The solution could reduce its price."
"If they could reduce the cost, that would be ideal."
"It was a bit expensive."
"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."
"The large hardware components may be difficult to fit into some standard racks."
"I would like to see more integrations."
"Some of the nice to haves for us, in terms of today, would be VVols but again, it’s not a critical feature."
"The interface look and feel could be improved."
"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 would like to see them work with Cisco, so it comes off the FIs, instead of having to go through my 10-gig network."
"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 system currently has a 15TB LUN size limit and that snapshots need to be scheduled through script API instead of the GUI."
"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."
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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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