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 of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"The most valuable feature is test performance. It helps us store large amounts of data along with providing us faster retrieval of data."
"Having an intuitive user interface to get things running is great."
"The solution helps to simplify storage."
"The predictive performance analytics is a very good feature, as our system is performing better than before."
"The most valuable feature is how it simplifies the management of the SAN."
"They have really good baked in analytics to show you trends for growth history, so it does help with future planning for data growth."
"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 capacity for data storage and compression is good."
"Definitely ease-of-use. I've experienced many different arrays out there and Nimble is definitely there."
"Deduplication and compression."
"The most valuable features are its cost-effectiveness, performance, and its deduplication deficiencies."
"InfoSight - analytics sight that collects data for all Nimble arrays deployed"
"I have added expansion shelves on several of them. It is simple to do. You plug it in, you attach two cables, then you press one button, like "Add", and that is all you have to do."
"InfoSight has identified controller failures or performance issues."
"The stability is awesome. The product has always been reliable. It has been 100 percent up. We have never had any downtime with it. Even if a controller fails due to our firmware or whatever, it rolls over to the second one and keeps us running."
"Data reduction and snapshot abilities: Smaller footprint in the datacenter (lower cost for power, cooling, etc.)."
"Implementation of the solution is very simple."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the always-on data deduplication."
"The most valuable aspect is the use of solid-state storage drives instead of spinning drives."
"The increased performance is many times above our previous array performance in all metrics. Integration with vSphere features is also a definite plus."
"The capacity that we're saving by using Kaminario's K2 is giving us a four-to-one ratio for our deduplication."
"Built-in snapshot support gives us SAN-side functionality most other platforms would have had us license separately."
"The ratio between the physical storage and the storage we use is very high."
"A minor issue that comes to mind is that, every once in a while, a hard drive will go bad."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see automated copy data management for SQL Server."
"One thing I'd like to see in a future release is integration between their main storage array and what they call their FlashBlade product; to be able to snapshot directly from the primary array into multiple different backup copies on FlashBlade."
"The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."
"The price of this solution could be improved."
"As long as they always improve on IOPS speed, that's all we're really looking for. The faster the storage can be the more we can do speed of application and speed of use."
"It was a little costly. The price was ultimately higher than both of the other solutions that we evaluated. I'd say that's the only downside."
"Automation could be simplified."
"I would like to see an added feature to auto-fix, or a dynamic alerting system on storage."
"I would like to see SSL Certification."
"The solution requires a higher availability."
"You could argue that it would be preferable if everything were cheaper in order to save taxpayer money."
"I'd also like to see them incorporate tools that let me get granular with the VMs. I want to see an individual VM, I want to Snapshot and recover an individual VM."
"I would like to have integration into cloud providers, apart from HPE."
"The only thing that I can really compare Nimble to is all-flash because, right now, Nimble is a hybrid solution. I would like to see them come out with an all-flash alternative."
"The most difficult part about Nimble was the fact that it didn't have a standard length."
"The management graphical interface needs more improvement."
"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."
"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 like them to improve the look of the product’s external casing and shelves."
"I would like to see LDAP for the management panel; I've been notified they might be currently working on it."
"Some of the nice to haves for us, in terms of today, would be VVols but again, it’s not a critical feature."
"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."
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HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 15 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 "A tool that offers protection against ransomware and other enterprise-level attacks". On the other hand, HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and NetApp AFF, whereas Kaminario K2 [EOL] is most compared with .
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