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 Pure Storage FlashArray is the all-flash storage performance, low latency, and efficiency of their de-duplication technology. Additionally, the ease of use is good compared to other storage systems. The features in data protection, snapshotting, and replication between data centers and sites are superior to other solutions."
"The deduplication and compression rates are beyond impressive."
"It comes with a large number of features out-of-the-box, which makes it easy for us to see problems and manage capacity."
"The deduplication in the array combined with its snap technologies allows the product to be remotely/manually controlled or scheduled."
"It's just very easy for general block storage."
"Processes that used to take 40 minutes to two hours can be completed in five minutes."
"The amount of throughput that we're getting is really nice."
"It worked flawlessly."
"The speed and, for us in particular in what we're doing, the data de-duplication."
"The ratio between the physical storage and the storage we use is very high."
"Implementation of the solution is very simple."
"The most valuable aspect is the use of solid-state storage drives instead of spinning drives."
"The capacity that we're saving by using Kaminario's K2 is giving us a four-to-one ratio for our deduplication."
"Data reduction and snapshot abilities: Smaller footprint in the datacenter (lower cost for power, cooling, etc.)."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the always-on data deduplication."
"Latency is definitely the big key for us."
"Storage is expandable with no extra cost."
"Technical support has been fantastic. We always get answers quickly whenever we call."
"Good performance, reliable and agile."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to continue our business needs and have higher visibility. It has definitely increased our business productivity levels."
"VMware vSAN is easy to configure, with basic functionality and the customer can maintain the solution."
"I have found that the multi-homing feature is very valuable in VMware vSAN. It is an easy-to-use solution."
"VMware comes with different stacks like VMware Cloud Foundation, which is integrated with different VMware modules. There's interoperability between VMware products."
"The product's initial setup phase is simple."
"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 haven't seen ROI yet."
"The credentials on the iSCSI interface are only available to type in with the Chrome browser, and not with the Firefox browser."
"I would like to see a Nagios monitoring plugin which watches the health and performance of the system. The only one available just checks volume capacity."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"Most of our upgrades have not been as smooth as they should have been."
"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."
"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 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."
"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 LDAP for the management panel; I've been notified they might be currently working on it."
"The front panel of the drive shelf doesn't always seat firmly."
"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."
"Some of the nice to haves for us, in terms of today, would be VVols but again, it’s not a critical feature."
"The interface look and feel could be improved."
"The UI could certainly be better. The inside into what's actually going on with vSAN would be nice to know."
"vSAN does not have online dedup. When opening the inline dedupe, the performance will be lower than off inline."
"I would rate the stability a seven out of ten."
"I would like for the next release to be a bit cheaper."
"There is always a challenge with their firmware."
"While I like the replication and compression features, there is a problem with them running too slowly."
"On the DevOps side, if there could be more automation it would be more helpful."
"There is room for improvement in vSAN's ability to debug. When it's not working well, debugging becomes quite challenging. Identifying issues when it's lagging or not functioning properly can be difficult."
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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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