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."Their technical support is excellent. It's the best out of any of the vendors we work with."
"The solution is very reliable."
"It simplifies storage."
"We've had to use tech support on a number of occasions. They did everything remotely and talked us all the way through. They fixed the issue within 30 minutes. Every single time we contact them, they're perfect. I would give their technical support a ten out of ten."
"Data deduplication is one feature I found to be the most valuable in the tool...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It's actually very stable"
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"It is an SSD array that has awesome performance, low submillisecond latency, and does what it is supposed to do. It just works, which is difficult for things to do anymore."
"The capacity that we're saving by using Kaminario's K2 is giving us a four-to-one ratio for our deduplication."
"The speed and, for us in particular in what we're doing, the data de-duplication."
"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."
"Inline compression"
"It provides a full feature set without separate licensing (deduplication, compression, snapshot, asynchronous replication, stable performance, etc.)."
"The ratio between the physical storage and the storage we use is very high."
"The GUI is very straightforward and easy to use."
"Implementation of the solution is very simple."
"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."
"One of the valuable features for us is the ability to restrict the performance capacity per client. Other solutions don't have this feature."
"The most important thing is the simplicity of the product. It is a well-established product with good stability."
"VMware vSAN has greatly reduced refresh spending."
"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."
"I have found that the multi-homing feature is very valuable in VMware vSAN. It is an easy-to-use solution."
"Easy to deploy and manage."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The product should improve its response time. I have also encountered issues with its configuration."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"Pricing could be better in comparison to other solutions."
"A year ago they promised that they would be able to read through the database encryption with more metric and they have not delivered on that patch, which is significant because it gives us back so much more storage room. We want to be able to read through the encryption."
"I would like the ability to swap out the network adapters into it. So, without taking out the whole controller, I would like to be able to swap adapters. This would make things easier."
"When we were doing some tests, we found that there was an I/O freeze when they were switching the controller."
"It took us a year to get it to stabilize and to get the best out of Pure."
"Data reduction is an area that needs improvement. There is a garbage collection service that runs but during that time, system utilization increases."
"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."
"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'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."
"The front panel of the drive shelf doesn't always seat firmly."
"The interface look and feel could be improved."
"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 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."
"When you upgrade the vSAN, there are some issues like lost data and problems with the log. The log disappears. When you upgrade the solution, you must have several logs, so if you have some problems, you can check the log server to find them."
"I would like to see better performance graphs, maybe something that you can export outside to a different console, and maybe a little bit longer time period. The 18-hour maximum, or 24-hour maximum, is kind of short. Also, the hardware compatibility limitations are a little frustrating sometimes, but as everybody's starting to adopt vSAN more, you get more options for hardware."
"The upgrading process could be simplified."
"There is a room for improvement on the latest version of compatibility with the VMware product, especially for vSAN and with other vendors on their motherboards and driver configurations."
"It would be much improved if we could somehow integrate a better backup with it. Right now, we're using Veeam and it's okay, but I would like more of a VDP vSAN solution. That would be excellent. The VDP, at least the last time we looked at, it was just not quite there."
"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."
"Its installation should be easier, and its price should be cheaper. It would be good for the product if they can include the data locality feature."
"It can be very expensive."
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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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