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."It is an SSD array that has awesome performance, low submillisecond latency, and does what it is supposed to do. It just works, which is difficult for things to do anymore."
"Having an intuitive user interface to get things running is great."
"The ease of use. That's what our customers love. They say it's very easy, they don't need special training, they don't need to call us or any other company or integrator to help them do their job. That's the main reason they purchase Pure."
"I use all the features of this solution and I find them to be easy to use and functional, such as the compression and capacity to expand."
"The performance of the storage is just unbelievable."
"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."
"Pure Storage FlashArray's overall speed is its most valuable feature."
"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 fact that you can manage the requirements is one the most valuable features of HPE Nimble Storage. The other is the rapid deployment time."
"InfoSight - analytics sight that collects data for all Nimble arrays deployed"
"The solution runs pretty fast."
"The deployment is fast."
"InfoSight has helped us resolved an issue where the snapshots were growing too big."
"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 capacity for data storage and compression is good."
"The solution's uptime is fantastic. It's 100 percent. In addition, Nimble's storage capacity efficiency is very effective."
"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."
"Implementation of the solution is very simple."
"The GUI is very straightforward and easy to use."
"The ratio between the physical storage and the storage we use is very high."
"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."
"I'd like to see a move towards individual VMs for what the performance of each VM is in a VD infrastructure. I can see the overall volume, but I would love to see things in a more granular level on the VM side."
"I would like to see data tiering to AWS."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"The price should be lower."
"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."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve some aspects. There are certain features that are good and there are some features that I see some issues with at the technical level. Those issues are related to replication. They need to resolve those issues, which I have already highlighted to the Pure team. Additionally, there are some issues in the active cluster that could improve."
"They should work on their upgrades, they're not smooth."
"Having something native in the Pure Storage ecosystem would make it integrated and in one single company, and we wouldn't have to work with multiple organizations."
"An area that needs improvement is extending the life of the device after five years."
"I think the scalability of HPE Nimble Storage could be improved."
"The amount of firmware updates released seem excessive."
"The solution could improve by having more granularity. For example, having the ability to go deeper into specific IO channels or specific latency issues that can happen would be a benefit. HPE has this ability on their side but it would be useful to have it on our side."
"The HPE Nimble Storage could have better integration with monitoring and machine learning system information solutions."
"There is no active-active controller, which means that we can only have one controller online at a time."
"The solution requires a higher availability."
"The only thing I'm really looking for in my next array is some hyperconverged, so if they had something in that space... But I know they have SimpliVity so that is probably not going to happen."
"I would like them to improve the look of the product’s external casing and shelves."
"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."
"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."
"Access to technical support should be improved for our region. Technical support is good, but they're very hard to access."
"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."
"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 118 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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