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 is the SAN backbone for our company."
"We've been using FlashArray's snapshot for backups. Their replication across sites and response time are also excellent."
"It has made working with storage as easy and simple as it should be."
"We like the data reduction rates. That has been really helpful. You get 4U of Pure storage replacing something like two racks of spinning disks. One of the things that has contributed to that are the data reduction rates."
"The tool has reduced our power consumption."
"The stability and performance are the best things about the solution."
"We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"It helps simplify storage. When you're running Pure all-flash, you don't have to do a lot of the old Oracle best practices. You don't have to worry about putting log files on a different disk channel than the data files, and those types of issues... That has made it vastly easier to do large volumes, rapid provisioning in databases, without taking a performance hit."
"Scale out is a differentiator for them, especially in the enterprise market. It's key for a lot of customers."
"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."
"The GUI is very straightforward and easy to use."
"Inline compression"
"Implementation of the solution is very simple."
"Data reduction and snapshot abilities: Smaller footprint in the datacenter (lower cost for power, cooling, etc.)."
"It provides a full feature set without separate licensing (deduplication, compression, snapshot, asynchronous replication, stable performance, etc.)."
"It's got full API functionality and the performance is pretty steady."
"Overall performance of the solution."
"The quality of service for minimum iOS, to maximum iOS in a multi-terminal environment is very powerful. The SQL service feature is the best part of SolidFire."
"It's a very compact device. For a medium-sized business, it's very helpful because the device is efficient and very fast."
"SolidFire provides seamless performance across your storage system when you need to scale up. Other storage systems do not do that."
"The simplicity of it."
"The system efficiency is excellent overall."
"If you buy the solution for its specific purpose it will work well."
"The GUI could improve, it could be more intuitive. There is hidden functionality."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"In some cases, we get into very in-depth conversations around movement of specific data and, what's more, chunk sizes. The documentation lacked any description or information on that."
"In terms of the future, I have been excited by some of the copy data management stuff that they're talking about building into the environment. There are feature sets where I've done a lot of automation work. So, I am always looking forward to extensions of their API. They're also talking about a phone home centralized analytics database being used as a centralized management console with a list of new cloud features, but this doesn't seem finalized."
"The number of Filesystems is limited, which it is not on the EMC VNX."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"Having something native in the Pure Storage ecosystem would make it integrated and in one single company, and we wouldn't have to work with multiple organizations."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see them work with Cisco, so it comes off the FIs, instead of having to go through my 10-gig network."
"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."
"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."
"The management graphical interface needs more improvement."
"I would like to see LDAP for the management panel; I've been notified they might be currently working on it."
"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."
"So feature-wise, I would say more reporting tools that could be merged into it."
"It would be good to provide administrative access at the root level to be able to do things with the system, if need be."
"One of the challenges we faced while using SolidFire was that the product line that we were using in our company was discontinued."
"I think there is room for improvement needed with its storage capability. A bigger node is needed."
"SolidFire could improve in terms of hardware robustness."
"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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