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 stability and performance are the best things about the solution."
"It is easy to deploy and it's all-flash, so it's very fast."
"I use all the features of this solution and I find them to be easy to use and functional, such as the compression and capacity to expand."
"Redundancy and the fault tolerance of the platform are the most impressive."
"I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is."
"It is pretty much just plug and play. There is not that much to do with it. It is very easy to use."
"The scalability options are very nice because you can scale it much better and faster. The scalability was there in the previous environment also, but this is far better than what we had before. It basically helps the user in case they are looking for more storage. We can scale it much faster."
"The first year, we started out with one or five terabytes and it took what was 20 terabytes of storage down to less than one terabyte."
"The increased performance is many times above our previous array performance in all metrics. Integration with vSphere features is also a definite plus."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the always-on data deduplication."
"The capacity that we're saving by using Kaminario's K2 is giving us a four-to-one ratio for our deduplication."
"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."
"Inline compression"
"The GUI is very straightforward and easy to use."
"The ratio between the physical storage and the storage we use is very high."
"The most valuable feature is the simplicity of its scalability: being able to grow it without having to make sure you get the right disks and the right nodes. The solution is also easy to manage. It's all right there in the vSphere Client. You're not going through multiple things. You don't have to know, once you've created the vSAN node. You add storage, it sees it, and you create your data storage from there. Everything is right there for you."
"The simplicity, as well as the integration with virtualization."
"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."
"We've found the solution to be scalable."
"We have found the solution to be very scalable."
"The solution's unified administration is its most valuable aspect."
"I have found the solution to be scalable."
"It would be nice if Pure had something in its portfolio that provided higher deduplication and compression for backups."
"In terms of the future, I have been excited by some of the copy data management stuff that they're talking about building into the environment. There are feature sets where I've done a lot of automation work. So, I am always looking forward to extensions of their API. They're also talking about a phone home centralized analytics database being used as a centralized management console with a list of new cloud features, but this doesn't seem finalized."
"Storage. There could be better storage."
"The backend of this solution utilizes an Active/Passive architecture, rather than an Active/Active architecture, which is a disadvantage, when compared to some of its competitors. Its storage capacity should be expanded in the next release."
"It is not possible to create a cluster on top of multiple arrays."
"The system has dual controllers but does not have a high level of resiliency built-in."
"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."
"What it needs to do is work a little closer with solutions, like VMware, so it understands the particular workloads that are on it. Today, it does not understand the applications which are running against it."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"A single pane of glass to monitor/manage multiple arrays would be helpful."
"The management graphical interface needs more improvement."
"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."
"There are certain shortcomings in the stability of the product where improvements are required."
"This solution is not great for large file shares/object/rich media repository."
"This product is very expensive."
"It is an expensive solution."
"Troubleshooting tools could be improved."
"I would like to see it be more hardware-agnostic. Other than that, the only other complication is - and it has gotten better with the newer versions - that lately, once you're running an all-flash, if you need to grow or scale down your infrastructure, it's a long process. You need to evacuate all data and make sure you have enough space on the host, then add more hosts or take out hosts. That process is a little bit complex. You cannot scale as needed or shrink as needed."
"Ease of administration is one area where vSAN could be improved."
"We are facing some problems with updates with the VMware vSAN. When we upgraded from version 6.5 to 7, we have been faced with many problems. They have been deploying many hotfixes for this version, and they need to continue to improve this version."
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 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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