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 most valuable feature of this solution is the support."
"The ease of management is one of the most valuable features of this solution. I would have also said that it's pretty fast but now our SQL servers are starting to beat it up pretty bad."
"We also use VMware integrations developed by Pure, their plugins in our vCenter environment. They help by allowing our non-technical operations teams to deploy new data stores and resize data stores without me having to involve myself all the time to do those simple tasks."
"NVMe data storage platform that's easy to set up and easy to use. It's stable, with a lower response time, and quick technical support."
"All updates, upgrades, and hardware work are all performed on-line with no impact."
"It is the SAN backbone for our company."
"As soon as we introduced our first Pure Storage FlashArray, the first benefit was at least twice the performance increase. Our production databases simply ran twice as fast with no other change."
"The deduplication and compression meet all of our system requirements."
"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"
"Data reduction and snapshot abilities: Smaller footprint in the datacenter (lower cost for power, cooling, etc.)."
"Latency is definitely the big key for us."
"Implementation of the solution is very simple."
"The ratio between the physical storage and the storage we use is very high."
"The most valuable aspect is the use of solid-state storage drives instead of spinning drives."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"vSAN provides default HA configurations, where if any host goes down, the VM moves around within the host. Even though the disks are local, the VMs moves around with the vSAN disk and vSAN provides a high availability on its own."
"In my opinion, vSAN is the most natural way to migrate to a fully hyperconverged solution. If a customer needs a more scalable solution with consolidated management, vSAN is excellent."
"The most valuable thing about vSAN is that all of its features have been working well for us for the past two years. We haven't had an issue with them."
"The most valuable features for us are the ability to scale out the nodes independently, and the flexibility of the nodes. We can put almost any type of server in there with our connectivity and everything works great."
"The most valuable features are Erasure Coding, Deduplication and Compression, and the advancement in stretching regarding replication."
"It is very well known in the industry, and there are a lot of technical resources around it. This is a big thing for me because, at the end of the day, when you implement it, you need to support it."
"The performance has exceeded our expectations and exceeded our traditional converged infrastructure."
"The 3PAR SSD arrays that we have are still failing a lot so even though we're under warranty, we still have to get someone out and usually have someone troubleshoot so that usually adds onto the cost. With Pure, we've had a disc fail and we pop it out and you pop it in and it's good to go."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"We would like more extended historical data to help with some of the capacity planning. This is something that we are asking for all the time. E.g., what was the historical performance of this particular volume? So, we would like more historicals."
"We would like to see better troubleshooting aspects. It helps us if we can find out where the problem is. Right now, it's difficult. Sometimes it's difficult to pinpoint the issue. If they had more visibility and more troubleshooting feature built into the tool that would really help."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"Its price could be cheaper. It is not the cheapest one out there, but I'm not directly involved in the figures and negotiations."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"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."
"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 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."
"The front panel of the drive shelf doesn't always seat firmly."
"The management graphical interface needs more improvement."
"I see room for improvement for vSAN just around general hardware compatibility and expanding that sort of matrix."
"The solution could maybe improve failure protection."
"The solution could be improved by having more filtered and multiple view volumes instead of a single view."
"Some intelligence can be added to the newest version to provide more flexibility between storage tiers."
"The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"This is quite an expensive solution."
"In a future release, they could add micro-segmentation or security level features integrated into vSAN."
"vSAN does not have online dedup. When opening the inline dedupe, the performance will be lower than off inline."
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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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