We performed a comparison between Kaminario K2 [EOL] and VMware vSAN 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 support team is available all the time and they seem to know what they are doing."
"With Pure Storage, we don't see any latency or IOPS. It has been a very seamless integration."
"It is the SAN backbone for our company."
"FlashArray has many valuable features. It's very user-friendly and it has high availability, so there is comparatively less downtime. During maintenance, there is no shutdown procedure, so you can directly power off the Array and manage the shutdown process without any data loss, which is a unique feature. Managing replication and data migration is also very easy."
"It does efficient work of storing data while still delivering the performance that you would normally expect from a higher priced solution."
"Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"Most of the problems that we had in the past with the performance in IOPS have disappeared. It has been a great improvement for our customers' services."
"This solution is very scalable."
"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."
"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."
"It provides a full feature set without separate licensing (deduplication, compression, snapshot, asynchronous replication, stable performance, etc.)."
"Inline compression"
"The GUI is very straightforward and easy to use."
"The increased performance is many times above our previous array performance in all metrics. Integration with vSphere features is also a definite plus."
"The most valuable aspect is the use of solid-state storage drives instead of spinning drives."
"There is not a lot of maintenance required."
"vSAN Health is a feature designed to monitor the health and performance of the vSAN environment. It's crucial for us and our customers to frequently check on this to ensure everything is operating smoothly."
"The simplicity, as well as the integration with virtualization."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The scalability is very good and the solution is stable and reliable."
"VMware vSAN's most valuable features are the capability to consolidate standalone physical infrastructure into virtualization and the ease of management."
"The most valuable feature is the simplification of storage. We no longer need to deal with Fibre Channel and the external storage arrays."
"The most valuable features of VMware vSAN are that it receives updates frequently, has good compression, optimized storage, and they provide webinars on what is new. Additionally, the integration with third-party products is good and it is easy to manage."
"With scalability, I have run into a little problem with our last upgrade. There were some undocumented limitations to the number of drives that our controller could run on. So, instead of putting in a new data pack as we had anticipated, we had to keep adding and removing to get up to the capacity that we needed to be. What should have been a one day process (or a few hours) turned into a month and a half process."
"As long as they always improve on IOPS speed, that's all we're really looking for. The faster the storage can be the more we can do speed of application and speed of use."
"I would like to migrate to the cloud in the future and know how that would actually work with this product."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"I would like to see more detailed reporting on the data. However, it would be nice to know what are the exact VMs usage after deduplication and/or what that VMs actual latency and bandwidth is, outside of VMware."
"I would rate this solution an eight. To make it a ten it would have to be a little cheaper."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve the recent file storage capabilities because it is lacking a lot of features."
"The file functionality could be better."
"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 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 front panel of the drive shelf doesn't always seat firmly."
"The management graphical interface needs more improvement."
"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."
"A single pane of glass to monitor/manage multiple arrays would be helpful."
"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."
"The interface look and feel could be improved."
"While I like the replication and compression features, there is a problem with them running too slowly."
"Disaster recovery needs to be improved, when there is a crisis, there is a problem with what is the quickest way to get out of it."
"The solution functions as the marketing says, as long as you follow certain rules."
"It doesn't seem like it gives the performance that an actual SAN would give for heavy IOPS, read/writes."
"When designing the implementation for vSAN, I have noticed that it requires a minimum of six nodes, and this creates a problem when it comes to maintenance. If, out of the six nodes, I put one node in maintenance mode, then vSAN does not create other VM components."
"The UI falls short compared to other solutions. It needs some development to make it more user-friendly."
"The server files are larger than before."
"When we talk about improvements for vSAN, there is some way to go from a at least stability perspective. Adding all these new features is nice, but we are now at the level that most of the features you need in production are there."
Earn 20 points
Kaminario K2 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in All-Flash Storage while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 226 reviews. Kaminario K2 [EOL] is rated 8.8, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. 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 VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Kaminario K2 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and NetApp AFF.
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