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 all-flash disc is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. You simply plug it in and turn it on."
"I use all the features of this solution and I find them to be easy to use and functional, such as the compression and capacity to expand."
"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."
"The simplicity of it. The performance is good, but the simplicity is the best thing. Storage management is quite complex, but Pure Storage is easy to manage."
"It simplifies storage."
"The most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is its high stability level."
"Logic/software management"
"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."
"Latency is definitely the big key for us."
"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."
"It provides a full feature set without separate licensing (deduplication, compression, snapshot, asynchronous replication, stable performance, etc.)."
"The most valuable aspect is the use of solid-state storage drives instead of spinning drives."
"The provisioning process is efficient and doesn't demand higher latency, ensuring optimal data transfer performance which is particularly valuable for tasks like data mining, where quick results are essential."
"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."
"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."
"Overall performance of the solution."
"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."
"If you buy the solution for its specific purpose it will work well."
"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."
"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."
"It's not so scalable. It's got moderate scaling capabilities right now. The clustering technology needs a bit of work, they need to improve that."
"It is not possible to create a cluster on top of multiple arrays."
"The setup needs to be improved the most. They can do a little more with the user interface, but the setup is what I would like to see made a bit easier."
"If they could make it cheaper, that would be something."
"Pure Storage support could be a little better."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"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."
"The management graphical interface needs more improvement."
"A single pane of glass to monitor/manage multiple arrays would be helpful."
"The interface look and feel could be improved."
"Some of the nice to haves for us, in terms of today, would be VVols but again, it’s not a critical feature."
"I would like them to improve the look of the product’s external casing and shelves."
"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 like to see LDAP for the management panel; I've been notified they might be currently working on it."
"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 inclusion of more protocols and interfaces would make it easier to integrate with other products."
"There is room for improvement with a focus on creating a centralized storage system, functioning similar to AWS."
"I think there is room for improvement needed with its storage capability. A bigger node is needed."
"This solution would be improved if it were made to be more compatible with other products."
"One of the challenges we faced while using SolidFire was that the product line that we were using in our company was discontinued."
"The tool should improve its initial cost which is expensive compared to other products."
"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."
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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