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 is fast and reliable. It works."
"Its array houses our entire production environment."
"Access speed and power consumption are most valuable."
"The performance of the storage is just unbelievable."
"The compression and deduplication features help to make the best use of the capacity."
"It is the SAN backbone for our company."
"It does efficient work of storing data while still delivering the performance that you would normally expect from a higher priced solution."
"The most valuable features are the replication of data and the continuous snapshot that we can take from the disc."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the always-on data deduplication."
"Latency is definitely the big key for us."
"Built-in snapshot support gives us SAN-side functionality most other platforms would have had us license separately."
"Logic/software management"
"It provides a full feature set without separate licensing (deduplication, compression, snapshot, asynchronous replication, stable performance, etc.)."
"Inline compression"
"Implementation of the solution is very simple."
"The capacity that we're saving by using Kaminario's K2 is giving us a four-to-one ratio for our deduplication."
"All the features are working great."
"The solutions best feature is that it is easy to use."
"The vSAN features we've found most helpful are live application migrations and storage policies. It has storage, policies, application, and DRS policies. Automation is there."
"Storage virtualization software with a good storage management feature. It's a scalable and stable software."
"I have found the solution to be scalable."
"Technical support has been fantastic. We always get answers quickly whenever we call."
"It is simple to manage, very easy to implement and troubleshoot in case of any failures."
"The most valuable features are secure IOPs and LAN security."
"I’d love to view the average, minimum and maximum performance in the reports (Analysis tab - Performance) but it is only graphics and you need to export data in CSV to find this information."
"We haven't seen ROI yet."
"It needs to improve its price."
"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."
"The number of Filesystems is limited, which it is not on the EMC VNX."
"I would like some form of QoS implemented. As a service provider, it would be beneficial to have it."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"There's always an opportunity for new feature functionality."
"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 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."
"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."
"The system currently has a 15TB LUN size limit and that snapshots need to be scheduled through script API instead of the GUI."
"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 like to see LDAP for the management panel; I've been notified they might be currently working on it."
"I see room for improvement for vSAN just around general hardware compatibility and expanding that sort of matrix."
"The integration could be improved. I would like to see integration with other platforms."
"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."
"Integration could be better."
"They can package it in a way that is specific to the hardware infrastructure and the hardware platform. It should stay fairly up to date with the drivers and the manufacturer issues. The problem with uncoupling the proprietary technology and component capabilities is that by uncoupling them, you run into some concerns or challenges over the poor performance model. These concerns really come when you start talking about high performance, high bandwidth, and high availability types of environments. While vSAN is a leader, in a critical view, it is not about being cost-effective. It is more about the immediate impact of money loss to the business in critical applications where we want to maintain a continuous operational 59 model. It is, however, good for QA/QC tasks. I don't necessarily know how it works in regards to VDI or virtual desktop infrastructure."
"It can be very expensive."
"The quality of the customer service and support depends on the vSAN case. For example, if I open ten cases, maybe two or three get resolved quickly. But the other cases have a slow response."
"It could be more robust. The latency is also an issue for us, and the reliability. I would like it to be faster and a little more flexible."
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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 13 reviews. Kaminario K2 [EOL] is rated 8.8, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Gives us a lot of advantages when we need to expand resources". 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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