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."It worked flawlessly."
"Most of the problems that we had in the past with the performance in IOPS have disappeared. It has been a great improvement for our customers' services."
"The management is simple in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. You simply plug it in and turn it on."
"They have really good baked in analytics to show you trends for growth history, so it does help with future planning for data growth."
"The most valuable feature is its upgradeability."
"The solution is very reliable."
"We put a fair amount of stress on it because we run sequel workloads and we run web applications where the same web files are hit over and over. We have had almost zero stability issues with that SAN, that has been really great for us."
"It provides a full feature set without separate licensing (deduplication, compression, snapshot, asynchronous replication, stable performance, etc.)."
"Inline compression"
"The most valuable feature is definitely the always-on data deduplication."
"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."
"Latency is definitely the big key for us."
"Implementation of the solution is very simple."
"The increased performance is many times above our previous array performance in all metrics. Integration with vSphere features is also a definite plus."
"The GUI is very straightforward and easy to use."
"It is very easy to scale up SolidFire."
"Individual settings you can put on each individual volume, if you want to do that."
"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 dashboard is such that you don't need to be a storage expert to administer it."
"It's a very compact device. For a medium-sized business, it's very helpful because the device is efficient and very fast."
"Feature-wise, it is a good solution allowing users to monitor and simplify their networks. The solution also provides its users with flexibility by enabling them to utilize its extensions."
"I would say in terms of architecture and in terms of functionality, the product is quite good."
"SolidFire is one of the products that does have great APIs right out-of-the-box. It works great. The tools and the other stuff seem to work a little better right out-of-the-box than the ONTAP stuff does, C-Mode."
"The solution is not cheap."
"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 solution could improve by having a multi-tenant feature."
"The price could be better."
"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."
"I would like to see more cloud integration."
"There are scenarios with very specific functionality around VMware integration particularly to do with the way we'd like to manage LUNs in VMware. The tools are pretty good but there's room for improvement there."
"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."
"Some of the nice to haves for us, in terms of today, would be VVols but again, it’s not a critical feature."
"Access to technical support should be improved for our region. Technical support is good, but they're very hard to access."
"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 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."
"I would like to see LDAP for the management panel; I've been notified they might be currently working on it."
"A single pane of glass to monitor/manage multiple arrays would be helpful."
"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."
"You don't have business continuity with SolidFire. I think it could be a nice feature to have in the future."
"There is room for improvement with a focus on creating a centralized storage system, functioning similar to AWS."
"The scalability of HCI or SolidFire as such isn't a concern, but when you compare it to PowerMax or NetApp AFF series devices, scalability is a concern because it's only the drives that are connected to the nodes. We don't have any shelf connectivity."
"SolidFire could improve in terms of hardware robustness."
"The tool should improve its initial cost which is expensive compared to other products."
"The technical support is really bad and has to be improved."
"This solution would be improved if it were made to be more compatible with other products."
"A little better segregation of the multi-tenancy. Right now, it's just VLAN-specific, that's all you can do."
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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