We performed a comparison between Kaminario K2 [EOL] and SolidFire 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 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."
"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 stability is very good. I've done destructive testing on it and never had any type of storage outages from it."
"The solution has probably reduced my power use substantially."
"It worked flawlessly."
"The performance is very good."
"This is the best all-flash storage array on the market."
"The amount of data that I have moved to it from legacy storage has enabled us to retire units that are three or four times the physical size."
"The ratio between the physical storage and the storage we use is very high."
"The capacity that we're saving by using Kaminario's K2 is giving us a four-to-one ratio for our deduplication."
"Logic/software management"
"Built-in snapshot support gives us SAN-side functionality most other platforms would have had us license separately."
"The speed and, for us in particular in what we're doing, the data de-duplication."
"The GUI is very straightforward and easy to use."
"The increased performance is many times above our previous array performance in all metrics. Integration with vSphere features is also a definite plus."
"It provides a full feature set without separate licensing (deduplication, compression, snapshot, asynchronous replication, stable performance, etc.)."
"The simplicity of it."
"If you buy the solution for its specific purpose it will work well."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its scalability."
"SolidFire has seamless performance for the nodes and extensions. I also like the tool’s scalability. The product’s performance does not get affected when we scale either up or down. This is not the case with other products."
"The scalability and being able to implement it quickly."
"The system efficiency is excellent overall."
"We can add a node, we add compute, we add storage, and we've had really good luck with that."
"We can just buy them, scale them as we need on demand, and we don't have to spend so many front end cycles on designing the architecture."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"It is a bit expensive."
"The solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"The primary drawback is the cost, which can be prohibitive for small configurations."
"From a scalability perspective, it is a very small storage solution, so it's not very expandable."
"If they could make it cheaper, that would be something."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"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."
"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."
"Access to technical support should be improved for our region. Technical support is good, but they're very hard to access."
"The front panel of the drive shelf doesn't always seat firmly."
"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."
"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 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."
"This solution would be improved if it were made to be more compatible with other products."
"It's a very good Windows-type solution. But we do a lot of legacy systems and the like. So it's getting that incorporated into it that would help us."
"Though it is a stable solution, its users may face some security issues at times...The security provided by the solution is one area that can be improved."
"For example, the ease of use with the reporting. Right now it's not impossible, but you have to know Sequel. It's a little time consuming to get those customized reports in there."
"The inclusion of more protocols and interfaces would make it easier to integrate with other products."
"The technical support is really bad and has to be improved."
"The tool should improve its initial cost which is expensive compared to other products."
"We are looking for, potentially, on the Active IQ reporting side, to do reporting based on the datastore. Right now, I can report on the whole SolidFire, or I can report on just a certain datastore or a volume. I'd like to take all of my VDI infrastructure, which as an example would be multiple datastores."
Earn 20 points
Kaminario K2 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in All-Flash Storage while SolidFire is ranked 19th in All-Flash Storage with 33 reviews. Kaminario K2 [EOL] is rated 8.8, while SolidFire is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Kaminario K2 [EOL] writes "Built-in snapshot support gives us SAN-side functionality most other platforms license separately". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolidFire writes "A versatile storage solution suitable for various workloads in cloud environments providing scalable architecture, granular Quality of Service and consistent performance". Kaminario K2 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas SolidFire is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore and VMware vSAN.
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