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 tool has reduced our power consumption."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"We have tons of capacity on it."
"One of the features that my customers are really interested in is immutable snapshots. There are immutable snapshots to which your applications can be reverted back if you are hit by some kind of ransomware threat or malicious attack. That's kind of a key deal, and it is one of the selling points I use to point out to my customers the value and the features that Pure Storage brings to the table."
"The deduplication in the array combined with its snap technologies allows the product to be remotely/manually controlled or scheduled."
"For us, the most valuable feature is the compression and deduplication. Being able to deploy a three to one ratio for storage is absolutely critical in today's world with the growing need for storage and the growing need for more space."
"As soon as we introduced our first Pure Storage FlashArray, the first benefit was at least twice the performance increase. Our production databases simply ran twice as fast with no other change."
"It is the SAN backbone for our company."
"The increased performance is many times above our previous array performance in all metrics. Integration with vSphere features is also a definite plus."
"Latency is definitely the big key for us."
"Logic/software management"
"It provides a full feature set without separate licensing (deduplication, compression, snapshot, asynchronous replication, stable performance, etc.)."
"The speed and, for us in particular in what we're doing, the data de-duplication."
"Built-in snapshot support gives us SAN-side functionality most other platforms would have had us license separately."
"The GUI is very straightforward and easy to use."
"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 simplicity of it."
"Being able to provide quality of service as promised."
"Overall performance of the solution."
"It's a very compact device. For a medium-sized business, it's very helpful because the device is efficient and very fast."
"The scalability and being able to implement it quickly."
"SolidFire provides seamless performance across your storage system when you need to scale up. Other storage systems do not do that."
"Individual settings you can put on each individual volume, if you want to do that."
"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."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."
"The 3PAR SSD arrays that we have are still failing a lot so even though we're under warranty, we still have to get someone out and usually have someone troubleshoot so that usually adds onto the cost. With Pure, we've had a disc fail and we pop it out and you pop it in and it's good to go."
"It would be nice to have a better view of the allocated capacity on their Platform as a Service solution because we have to do some manual calculations to understand how much we are going to pay every month to use the storage that is allocated."
"Larger capacity and more storage ports would be the two things I'd like to see."
"It is not possible to create a cluster on top of multiple arrays."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"The credentials on the iSCSI interface are only available to type in with the Chrome browser, and not with the Firefox browser."
"I would like to see LDAP for the management panel; I've been notified they might be currently working on it."
"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 would like them to improve the look of the product’s external casing and shelves."
"The system currently has a 15TB LUN size limit and that snapshots need to be scheduled through script API instead of the GUI."
"Some of the nice to haves for us, in terms of today, would be VVols but again, it’s not a critical feature."
"The front panel of the drive shelf doesn't always seat firmly."
"Access to technical support should be improved for our region. Technical support is good, but they're very hard to access."
"A single pane of glass to monitor/manage multiple arrays would be helpful."
"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."
"One of the challenges we faced while using SolidFire was that the product line that we were using in our company was discontinued."
"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."
"So feature-wise, I would say more reporting tools that could be merged into it."
"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."
"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."
"We had some false positives, power supplies failing, and that's really been about it. We had a couple of glitches during some upgrade processes but nothing that was really concerning to us."
"The upgrade process could be better."
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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