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 feature is replication."
"The most valuable feature is its upgradeability."
"Technical support is good."
"We like the speed. It's very low latency. In virtualization, you can mask lots of problems, and even in code you can mask lots of problems, with low latency. It's just pure speed and low latency."
"The availability and ease of use are the big features."
"Very efficient storage"
"Cost, racial per terabyte, and speed is why we chose PureStorage. It was no brainer."
"It is always out of the box, and ready to use."
"They do a good job of helping people do storage in a very simple way."
"The solution is scalable."
"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."
"Updates are very easy to do when the customer is connected to the internet."
"HPE Nimble Storage is very stable and performs well."
"Definitely ease-of-use. I've experienced many different arrays out there and Nimble is definitely there."
"Nimble's support is awesome and one of the best. You sort of get a Tier 3 plus guy every time that you call, no matter if it is a Tier 0 issue. This is super helpful in case we ever have problems."
"It's given us more time to do the important things, less time worrying about SANs and failures and picking up the pieces. It just works."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the always-on data deduplication."
"The increased performance is many times above our previous array performance in all metrics. Integration with vSphere features is also a definite plus."
"Logic/software management"
"It provides a full feature set without separate licensing (deduplication, compression, snapshot, asynchronous replication, stable performance, etc.)."
"The GUI is very straightforward and easy to use."
"The speed and, for us in particular in what we're doing, the data de-duplication."
"Inline compression"
"Implementation of the solution is very simple."
"The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."
"I would rate this solution an eight. There's always room for improvement, nobody is perfect to get a ten out of ten. They do what they do well. It's not cheap but we it's for uses that we needed."
"I would like to see them develop the ability to integrate with more AWS services. There are increasingly more and more services coming out from AWS but there are also certain constraints where we can't move everything over to a cloud as well. We would like for things that are on-premise to be easily integrated with AWS."
"There's always an opportunity for new feature functionality."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve the recent file storage capabilities because it is lacking a lot of features."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"The initial setup of the product is complex."
"Web GUI should be HTML5."
"They keep talking about doing one-to-many replication. This is what we'd like to see, just to help with data replication."
"Pure Storages have some option, which allows us the ability to directly download that host inventory and volume report. We can receive everything directly generated from the storage itself. We do not need to use some other web browser or something. If HPE Nimble Storage could do the same it would be a benefit."
"When we’re setting up the solution, making options available regarding the replication tool mechanism would be ideal."
"I don't think it is officially released yet, but the main reason that we chose Nimble is because of the sync rep feature. So, I would like to see that further evolve. This feature will be essential for our setups."
"I would like to have integration into cloud providers, apart from HPE."
"There is a new version of the Nimble and 3PAR systems called Alletra and they have a lot of new features."
"I would like to see more advanced analytics in the next release of this solution."
"The management graphical interface needs more improvement."
"The system currently has a 15TB LUN size limit and that snapshots need to be scheduled through script API instead of the GUI."
"Some of the nice to haves for us, in terms of today, would be VVols but again, it’s not a critical feature."
"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."
"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 them to improve the look of the product’s external casing and shelves."
"The interface look and feel could be improved."
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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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