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 first set up we had was really straight forward and simple."
"Cost, racial per terabyte, and speed is why we chose PureStorage. It was no brainer."
"We also use VMware integrations developed by Pure, their plugins in our vCenter environment. They help by allowing our non-technical operations teams to deploy new data stores and resize data stores without me having to involve myself all the time to do those simple tasks."
"The console is simple to use. It has good performance. It is easy to install, understand, and manage, with a good ratio of deduplication and compression. It is doing its job."
"It's actually very stable"
"It is all-flash. This makes it a lot faster than the rest of what we have, as it is able to drive high I/O loads, which is big for us."
"We were actually able to do multiple upgrades, including head upgrades and moving between the platforms, M20 and M50, over the years. We have never once lost a ping and have never had an outage due to an OS upgrade or a complete head upgrade."
"The most valuable feature is its upgradeability."
"Even through upgrades, there is no downtime, not even a hiccup for users."
"The setup was very, very simple. When we got our AF5000, no kidding, we had it up in production within two hours"
"The solution runs pretty fast."
"HPE Nimble Storage uses the InfoSight platform and it is useful because we can identify the faults and can analyze the performance. It has many other features. This feature is the best that I have observed from HPE Nimble Storage."
"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."
"I really like the form factor, which is nice and compact and small."
"The tool’s support is feasible."
"Performance Integration with Commvault"
"Built-in snapshot support gives us SAN-side functionality most other platforms would have had us license separately."
"It provides a full feature set without separate licensing (deduplication, compression, snapshot, asynchronous replication, stable performance, etc.)."
"Latency is definitely the big key for us."
"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 most valuable aspect is the use of solid-state storage drives instead of spinning drives."
"Inline compression"
"The GUI is very straightforward and easy to use."
"Scale out is a differentiator for them, especially in the enterprise market. It's key for a lot of customers."
"They have a product, FlashBlade, which is their object storage integration, and that's something that we haven't integrated with yet. This might be an area for additional focus as it would play into scalability, because the very nature of object storage is that it's infinitely scalable."
"The connectivity needs improvement. You do not have the possibility to have a file and block connectivity at the same time on the same machine. It has limited ability to do so."
"It was not proactive communication."
"Pure Storage will have issues with positioning in the near future since its a relatively new company. For now, customers need a PoC to trust using the solution, as it can't stand on its brand name alone. They need to improve Pure Storage's marketing."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"They could improve the price."
"The primary drawback is the cost, which can be prohibitive for small configurations."
"It's not so scalable. It's got moderate scaling capabilities right now. The clustering technology needs a bit of work, they need to improve that."
"The most difficult part about Nimble was the fact that it didn't have a standard length."
"I would like to see integration with OneView, at least for reporting or some sort of monitoring."
"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."
"There should be faster interfaces."
"The solution could reduce its price."
"The solution’s stability could be better. The tool’s pricing is high and depends on the partner."
"I have problems with the next servicer. For example, I have a new device and it needs to connect to Nimble."
"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."
"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."
"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 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."
"Access to technical support should be improved for our region. Technical support is good, but they're very hard to access."
"The interface look and feel could be improved."
"A single pane of glass to monitor/manage multiple arrays would be helpful."
"Some of the nice to haves for us, in terms of today, would be VVols but again, it’s not a critical feature."
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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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