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."It allows engineers to focus on other things rather than doing the more manual tasks. It automates tasks, so the ease of use is extreme. It simplifies the storage."
"The deduplication and compression rates are beyond impressive."
"We can store more for a cheaper price as opposed to paying for larger devices and larger rack spaces which get outdated sooner and which we'd have to change every two years. It simplifies storage for us."
"The most valuable feature is how it simplifies the management of the SAN."
"The most valuable features are extremely low latency, high IOPS with VMware, inline deduplication and compression."
"The amount of data that I have moved to it from legacy storage has enabled us to retire units that are three or four times the physical size."
"Data reduction and compression. Sub millisecond latency."
"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 ratio between the physical storage and the storage we use is very high."
"Implementation of the solution is very simple."
"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."
"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 GUI is very straightforward and easy to use."
"Inline compression"
"Logic/software management"
"You get the benefit of local storage, but you have the protection of shared storage."
"The implementation is simple, it was very straightforward. It took us approximately three weeks because it was installed in four locations."
"The most valuable features of vSAN are its simplicity to deploy and that we can use commodity disks in our servers without complexity or need for external storage arrays or storage specialists on our teams."
"The main advantage is that it's all in the box, with VMware vCenter Server product."
"The solution's unified administration is its most valuable aspect."
"I have found the solution to be scalable."
"The most valuable features are its performance, simplicity, and synchronicity with vSphere."
"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 only time that we had problems with it was that there was a bug in the VVol implementation but, outside of that, it has been flawless."
"I would like to see some improvements on the FlashBlade side around the CIFS space support. I am not super familiar with all the different NAS protocols that they run on their box, but there could be some improvements made on SMB CIFS side."
"Self-backup is the only feature lacking in this solution."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"Had some issues with Purity not being entirely compatible with VMware ESXi."
"Having something native in the Pure Storage ecosystem would make it integrated and in one single company, and we wouldn't have to work with multiple organizations."
"Storage. There could be better storage."
"The file functionality could be better."
"The management graphical interface needs more improvement."
"Some of the nice to haves for us, in terms of today, would be VVols but again, it’s not a critical feature."
"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."
"The front panel of the drive shelf doesn't always seat firmly."
"The interface look and feel could be improved."
"The system currently has a 15TB LUN size limit and that snapshots need to be scheduled through script API instead of the GUI."
"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 to see them work with Cisco, so it comes off the FIs, instead of having to go through my 10-gig network."
"I would have liked it to have been more scalable. It's scalable but not as much as, for example, the ScaleIO systems were or the Kaminario"
"Better options would be clustered nodes, or even cloud configuration. There is room for improvement in cloud configuration, we typically do web browsing for management."
"The UI could certainly be better. The inside into what's actually going on with vSAN would be nice to know."
"There needs to be an increase in the supported memory and hard disk space, as it is an area where the product currently has certain shortcomings."
"One thing in vSAN that I would like to improve is using vSAN as a repository for files or other things. For example, with Horizon, maybe we can save profiles with UEM on there. That would be a good feature that I would like."
"The only thing I can think of at this time is to improve the performance monitoring and performance visibility within the GUI."
"VMware vSAN could improve by having faster reload time and a single point of failure. Resynchronization of many hardware could be better. If you have an outage of a disc or a full system, the replication time is too slow. This has room for improvement."
"It could have some automation. We haven't involved ourselves in a lot of automation around the vSAN environment capabilities. We're still running it using a very traditional setup. So, there could be some plugins to automate it using third-party environments, such as Jenkins."
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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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