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 initial setup was very straightforward and very quick. It was up and running in our data center within 24 hours of receiving it."
"The back-end data reporting for Pure Storage is phenomenal. The data that you can see on the performance of your customers' array, so you can be proactive about upgrades or enhancements, and is a phenomenal tool to have access to as a partner. I haven't seen this type of stuff out of anything of the other storage systems."
"The most valuable feature is how it simplifies the management of the SAN."
"The deduplication in the array combined with its snap technologies allows the product to be remotely/manually controlled or scheduled."
"The performance of the storage is just unbelievable."
"The GUI is very easy to use and intuitive."
"The tool has reduced our power consumption."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is the complete set of functions it provides."
"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 GUI is very straightforward and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the always-on data deduplication."
"It provides a full feature set without separate licensing (deduplication, compression, snapshot, asynchronous replication, stable performance, etc.)."
"The increased performance is many times above our previous array performance in all metrics. Integration with vSphere features is also a definite plus."
"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.)."
"The capacity that we're saving by using Kaminario's K2 is giving us a four-to-one ratio for our deduplication."
"We can add a node, we add compute, we add storage, and we've had really good luck with that."
"Individual settings you can put on each individual volume, if you want to do that."
"The scalability and being able to implement it quickly."
"Templates are already predefined for it. If you're coding it up, it will take two days. You can pick up a template right there from the API, and it just works for you. Implementation done in 10 minutes."
"The dashboard is such that you don't need to be a storage expert to administer it."
"If we get complaints about any kind of performance metric issues, whether it's storage related or something on the virtual side, we use it to pinpoint what the actual issue is."
"The most valuable feature is the performance, as well as how you manage performance on the system."
"It's a very compact device. For a medium-sized business, it's very helpful because the device is efficient and very fast."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve by being more secure."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"We would like to see more cloud support, which we know is coming, although it's not out yet. It's going to be released in the next versions. That would be the biggest win, if additional cloud support is built into the array."
"I would love for them to have a hyper-converged solution."
"The front panel of the drive shelf doesn't always seat firmly."
"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."
"The system currently has a 15TB LUN size limit and that snapshots need to be scheduled through script API instead of the GUI."
"A single pane of glass to monitor/manage multiple arrays would be helpful."
"I would like to see LDAP for the management panel; I've been notified they might be currently working on it."
"The interface look and feel could be improved."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The tool should improve its initial cost which is expensive compared to other products."
"So feature-wise, I would say more reporting tools that could be merged into it."
"You don't have business continuity with SolidFire. I think it could be a nice feature to have in the future."
"The inclusion of more protocols and interfaces would make it easier to integrate with other products."
"SolidFire could improve in terms of hardware robustness."
"SolidFire should start from two nodes instead of the four nodes. That's the only thing. In a lot of solutions, we have to use four nodes, that's the better thing. But as a starting point, two is better. That's why their starting point is expensive."
"When you set up the nodes, we have to serial into each one of these nodes to configure the IP ranges. It's still very easy, but it's time consuming."
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 8.4. 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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