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 initial setup was really straight forward."
"Support has been helpful."
"The performance and the ever-growing maintenance are the most valuable features of this solution."
"It's just very easy for general block storage."
"We also like the compactness, the small footprint. It takes up very little space in a data center and uses little power."
"My rating of Pure Storage is a ten out of ten because of the price for performance and footprint - the overall value."
"We've been using FlashArray's snapshot for backups. Their replication across sites and response time are also excellent."
"This is the best all-flash storage array on the market."
"The most valuable aspect is the use of solid-state storage drives instead of spinning drives."
"Scale out is a differentiator for them, especially in the enterprise market. It's key for a lot of customers."
"The capacity that we're saving by using Kaminario's K2 is giving us a four-to-one ratio for our deduplication."
"Implementation of the solution is very simple."
"Inline compression"
"Latency is definitely the big key for us."
"The ratio between the physical storage and the storage we use is very high."
"It provides a full feature set without separate licensing (deduplication, compression, snapshot, asynchronous replication, stable performance, etc.)."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its scalability."
"SolidFire provides seamless performance across your storage system when you need to scale up. Other storage systems do not do that."
"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 got full API functionality and the performance is pretty steady."
"The simplicity of it."
"The most valuable feature is the performance, as well as how you manage performance on the system."
"The system efficiency is excellent overall."
"The GUI is simplistic and basic. I feel like it's explanatory, but not enough, it needs a little more to it."
"It was a little costly. The price was ultimately higher than both of the other solutions that we evaluated. I'd say that's the only downside."
"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."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"I’d love to view the average, minimum and maximum performance in the reports (Analysis tab - Performance) but it is only graphics and you need to export data in CSV to find this information."
"The internal garbage collection process has been fixed recently in some OS updates so it is more efficient but that could be just a little better."
"I would rate this solution an eight because we have had outages. The commit times went very high in the database. The whole array went down so our customers were down for around eight hours. This was a very big outage which could have been our fault because we didn't do the upgrade in time."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"The front panel of the drive shelf doesn't always seat firmly."
"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."
"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."
"I would like them to improve the look of the product’s external casing and shelves."
"A single pane of glass to monitor/manage multiple arrays would be helpful."
"Access to technical support should be improved for our region. Technical support is good, but they're very hard to access."
"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 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."
"So feature-wise, I would say more reporting tools that could be merged into 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."
"I would like to see integration with the cloud, number one. Being able to spin SolidFire in the cloud."
"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."
"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."
"SolidFire could improve in terms of hardware robustness."
"You don't have business continuity with SolidFire. I think it could be a nice feature to have in the future."
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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