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."As soon as we introduced our first Pure Storage FlashArray, the first benefit was at least twice the performance increase. Our production databases simply ran twice as fast with no other change."
"Having an intuitive user interface to get things running is great."
"Its array houses our entire production environment."
"Simplicity and reliability are the most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray."
"It's easy to use, and the maintenance upgrades to get free controllers work really well."
"The top-tier support and reliable storage are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The most valuable feature is its speed."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"Performance Integration with Commvault"
"The replay and IOPS work well."
"It dynamically understands what data is being stored on it and where to store it, because they have got a flash array at the front, then obviously the standard style of storage at the back."
"Nimble Storage is a great storage solution which will give you a lot insight on the growth of your storage."
"InfoSight. It's AI for the data center. It's very easy, it does a lot of the work for the customer... InfoSight and the whole system, help them to deal with troubleshooting."
"The most valuable features are its cost-effectiveness, performance, and its deduplication deficiencies."
"HPE Nimble Storage is quick to release updates that fix bugs or problems and the failover has been good."
"The most useful features are high availability and the storage snapshot backup functionality."
"The speed and, for us in particular in what we're doing, the data de-duplication."
"It provides a full feature set without separate licensing (deduplication, compression, snapshot, asynchronous replication, stable performance, 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."
"Logic/software management"
"The GUI is very straightforward and easy to use."
"Ease of use: My installers - my administrators over the system - they love how easy and fast it is to install and spin up a LUN and get going."
"The capacity that we're saving by using Kaminario's K2 is giving us a four-to-one ratio for our deduplication."
"The price should be lower."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"We understand that they're thinking about it, but one of the things that would be nice is if they added some basic file-level capabilities to the platform. The idea is that they would run a basic NFS or CIF share from the controllers. FlashBlade is the powerhouse for File and Object storage, but if you don't need all that power, a lightweight file function would make FlashArrays more versatile."
"The price could be better."
"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."
"We would like to see better troubleshooting aspects. It helps us if we can find out where the problem is. Right now, it's difficult. Sometimes it's difficult to pinpoint the issue. If they had more visibility and more troubleshooting feature built into the tool that would really help."
"I think replication is one area that still needs improvement. Earlier, Pure Storage FlashArray only had IP-based replication. There was no API-based replication, but they have enhanced the feature now. However, they need to work on API replication for C-type of arrays."
"They keep talking about doing one-to-many replication. This is what we'd like to see, just to help with data replication."
"The solution that I have is a hybrid, not a full flash. The hybrid version could be improved."
"I want to see the full integration with OneView. I know they have started it, but I haven't had a chance to look at and evaluate it."
"Scalability, in terms of being able to scale out, is not easy and should be improved."
"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."
"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."
"We want to start storing data in the cloud really soon and we are looking at options."
"I would like to see an added feature to auto-fix, or a dynamic alerting system on storage."
"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 would like to see LDAP for the management panel; I've been notified they might be currently working on it."
"I would like them to improve the look of the product’s external casing and shelves."
"The front panel of the drive shelf doesn't always seat firmly."
"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."
"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."
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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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