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 security operating system is its most valuable feature because it's very simple, easy to use, and operate. You don't have to do very serious training to operate this equipment. It's user-friendly and pretty straightforward."
"The amount of throughput that we're getting is really nice."
"The job of support for the storage engineers dramatically changed. We know more quickly the automation of the provisioning. We can now focus on things that bring more value to the company than just managing storage."
"Has also helped simplify storage for us. The other person we put in there, took about a week to implement. And we had both arrays set up within around four hours with a thirty minute drive time between the two locations."
"The initial setup was really straight forward."
"We were actually able to do multiple upgrades, including head upgrades and moving between the platforms, M20 and M50, over the years. We have never once lost a ping and have never had an outage due to an OS upgrade or a complete head upgrade."
"The best feature is consistently lower latency, even when IOPS crank up to over 75K. The product maintains submillisecond response time, which is incredible."
"It is the SAN backbone for our company."
"The capacity that we're saving by using Kaminario's K2 is giving us a four-to-one ratio for our deduplication."
"Scale out is a differentiator for them, especially in the enterprise market. It's key for a lot of customers."
"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.)."
"The speed and, for us in particular in what we're doing, the data de-duplication."
"Logic/software management"
"Built-in snapshot support gives us SAN-side functionality most other platforms would have had us license separately."
"Implementation of the solution is very simple."
"The most valuable features are productivity and data storage."
"The implementation is simple, it was very straightforward. It took us approximately three weeks because it was installed in four locations."
"Very good VCG notification feature."
"The most valuable feature is that it is software-defined storage. Also, being able to do maintenance on the fly is a real benefit: migrating off, updating, and then moving the guest back on to the nodes."
"The performance of VMware vSAN is very good."
"The solution fits well with my requirements."
"It is simple to manage, very easy to implement and troubleshoot in case of any failures."
"Since the storage space is local to the hosts, it reduces the overall response time and improves the performance."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"The primary drawback is the cost, which can be prohibitive for small configurations."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"They are doing some stuff with containers and an object search. These could be improved, because containers is one of the main topics that we are talking with our customers about."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve the recent file storage capabilities because it is lacking a lot of features."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see automated copy data management for SQL Server."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"I want to learn more about command line usage which I have not explored much yet. However, there are many automated solutions for repetitive tasks. I would like to see additional features like performance monitoring, configuring of alerts, and the customization of alert thresholds in the next release."
"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."
"I would like them to improve the look of the product’s external casing and shelves."
"Some of the nice to haves for us, in terms of today, would be VVols but again, it’s not a critical feature."
"Access to technical support should be improved for our region. Technical support is good, but they're very hard to access."
"The interface look and feel could be improved."
"The management graphical interface needs more improvement."
"A single pane of glass to monitor/manage multiple arrays would be helpful."
"The system currently has a 15TB LUN size limit and that snapshots need to be scheduled through script API instead of the GUI."
"The solution could maybe improve failure protection."
"I'd like to see better integration with the Update Manager, with respect to firmware updates for hardware."
"The biggest room for improvement I see in vSAN is the lack of SAN connectivity. I've kind of joked around that there is no "SAN" in vSAN. And it's something that we've worked to try and introduce some options for, and we're going to continue to work towards that."
"More focus has to be put on deduplication and compression with a hybrid architecture."
"I would love for this product to be cheaper and easier to configure."
"I think it needs to be more cost-effective. I would also say that even though the capacity is good, there is also room for improvement there. Also, they could improve the security of the system."
"The interface is a little complicated, it could be simplified with more graphical gadgets. We have many servers, and the built-in functions, such as rate configuration, are a bit complex."
"It can be very expensive."
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 219 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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