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 most valuable feature is how it simplifies the management of the SAN."
"Performance is the most valuable feature."
"Their REST API is wonderful, well-documented, and easy to use."
"It allows engineers to focus on other things rather than doing the more manual tasks. It automates tasks, so the ease of use is extreme. It simplifies the storage."
"The solution has probably reduced my power use substantially."
"Pure gives us better compression, it's easier to manage, a lot less hands-on."
"We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The tool has reduced our power consumption."
"Logic/software management"
"The most valuable feature is definitely the always-on data deduplication."
"Latency is definitely the big key for us."
"Scale out is a differentiator for them, especially in the enterprise market. It's key for a lot of customers."
"It provides a full feature set without separate licensing (deduplication, compression, snapshot, asynchronous replication, stable performance, etc.)."
"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."
"Inline compression"
"The most valuable feature is the performance, as well as how you manage performance on the system."
"We can add a node, we add compute, we add storage, and we've had really good luck with that."
"The scalability and being able to implement it quickly."
"The system efficiency is excellent overall."
"The simplicity of it."
"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."
"It is very easy to scale up SolidFire."
"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."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"Pure Storage support could be a little better."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"We understand that they're thinking about it, but one of the things that would be nice is if they added some basic file-level capabilities to the platform. The idea is that they would run a basic NFS or CIF share from the controllers. FlashBlade is the powerhouse for File and Object storage, but if you don't need all that power, a lightweight file function would make FlashArrays more versatile."
"I would love to see a true one click upgrade solution. Right now, you have to click and schedule an appointment with Pure Storage to be able to upgrade. I would love for it to automatically download, install, and fall-over every controller as it updates."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"It is not possible to create a cluster on top of multiple arrays."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve some aspects. There are certain features that are good and there are some features that I see some issues with at the technical level. Those issues are related to replication. They need to resolve those issues, which I have already highlighted to the Pure team. Additionally, there are some issues in the active cluster that could improve."
"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."
"Some of the nice to haves for us, in terms of today, would be VVols but again, it’s not a critical feature."
"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."
"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."
"A single pane of glass to monitor/manage multiple arrays would be helpful."
"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."
"Access to technical support should be improved for our region. Technical support is good, but they're very hard to access."
"They could make the mNode more user-friendly. Now you need to configure and add nodes by CLI and it’s not really easy to manage. If they created a web interface to do the management of the mNode, that would be great!."
"There is room for improvement with a focus on creating a centralized storage system, functioning similar to AWS."
"I would like to see integration with the cloud, number one. Being able to spin SolidFire in the cloud."
"The tool should improve its initial cost which is expensive compared to 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."
"The inclusion of more protocols and interfaces would make it easier to integrate with other products."
"They could do a file-based NAS: SolidFire NAS-based. It's probably not its niche, but that is our direction, not to use block, and it's block. Solid state block is what it is."
"We have a large fiber channel infrastructure, and that's one area that we haven't seen implemented in SolidFire, its more iSCSI."
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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