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."Provides fast access and is user-friendly."
"I find two features of Pure Storage most valuable. The first is the "safe mode" function, and the second is its simplicity."
"Has also helped simplify storage for us. The other person we put in there, took about a week to implement. And we had both arrays set up within around four hours with a thirty minute drive time between the two locations."
"Technical support is good."
"Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"Pure Storage technology allowed us to automate tasks, reducing something which started as a 12-hour turnaround down to about 15 minutes."
"It is easy to manage. You don't have to have the same people who used to manage the Dell EMC arrays because the solution is more intuitive."
"The availability and ease of use are the big features."
"Performance Integration with Commvault"
"The quality of the service and management tools let us make contractual guarantees for storage performance for customers. That's something we couldn't do before."
"VMware integration, why is pretty self-explanatory."
"They have really thought through their solution. They've covered everything."
"The capacity for data storage and compression is good."
"It's very stable and fast, and I am very happy with the deduplication. It saves a lot of space, which is great."
"It's easy to use, it's just like 3PAR. I made clusters of 32 hosts with 50 volumes and that took barely an hour. I scripted a lot of it, filled in the names of volumes, the names of servers."
"Regarding their support, you always get through to somebody who knows exactly what they're talking about."
"The speed and, for us in particular in what we're doing, the data de-duplication."
"The most valuable aspect is the use of solid-state storage drives instead of spinning drives."
"The capacity that we're saving by using Kaminario's K2 is giving us a four-to-one ratio for our deduplication."
"The ratio between the physical storage and the storage we use is very high."
"Data reduction and snapshot abilities: Smaller footprint in the datacenter (lower cost for power, cooling, etc.)."
"Inline compression"
"Implementation of the solution is very simple."
"The GUI is very straightforward and easy to use."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"We would like more extended historical data to help with some of the capacity planning. This is something that we are asking for all the time. E.g., what was the historical performance of this particular volume? So, we would like more historicals."
"The way Pure Storage does the controller storage warranty or replacement has been an issue for some people who just replace the controllers every couple of years, and that's where some of the confusion with pricing and support has come in. They should be clear on the way the controller replacements happen, as it is important to know whether or not you can get a good return on them, because it can be a little confusing."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"Storage. There could be better storage."
"HPE Nimble Storage could be improved with some critical application or servers."
"I’d like to see in-line deduplication extended to Nimble non-flash (called “Hybrid”) arrays, even if it’s only the C500 and higher controllers that support it."
"Nimble requires its DNS to work in order to interface with VMware vCenter is a little thorn in my eye, but I am being nitpicky here."
"I would like to have more administrative rights, for example, root-level administrative rights to the underlying OS of the storage array. We want more access to the kind of underlying infrastructure of the storage array rather than relying on support. However, most companies are looking to have more managed solutions which is the opposite direction of what I want."
"I have problems with the next servicer. For example, I have a new device and it needs to connect to Nimble."
"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."
"I'd like to see more granular quality of service rules. Currently, I think currently there's not much room for maximum IOPS, but there's not an option for minimum IOPS for a given volume."
"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 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 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."
"The interface look and feel could be improved."
"The management graphical interface needs more improvement."
"I would like them to improve the look of the product’s external casing and shelves."
"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."
"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 119 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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