We performed a comparison between Dell SC Series and Kaminario K2 [EOL] 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 initial setup is very straightforward. You simply plug it in and turn it on."
"We also like the compactness, the small footprint. It takes up very little space in a data center and uses little power."
"I never have to worry about its performance or if it is the root cause of an issue."
"We're getting good performance, and the compression ratio is also very good in Pure Storage FlashArray."
"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."
"The data reduction technology part of the scalability has been impressive, like its ability to host additional workloads, volumes of data, and databases."
"I like FlashArray's ActiveCluster as well as its snapshot and cloning capabilities."
"The solution helps to simplify storage."
"Most valuable features have been the system customization with it, the performance you receive, and their CoPilot Support (or Dell EMC Storage Support)."
"The product offers good performance and is quite powerful."
"The setup is straightforward."
"The solution is stable; we've had no problems at all."
"We see very low latency with very high IOPS for mixed workloads."
"It is fast and performs well."
"Performance-wise it's high speed. It's also more stable and scalable."
"Connecting it up, you can run it within a few hours."
"The capacity that we're saving by using Kaminario's K2 is giving us a four-to-one ratio for our deduplication."
"The most valuable aspect is the use of solid-state storage drives instead of spinning drives."
"The GUI is very straightforward and easy to use."
"The increased performance is many times above our previous array performance in all metrics. Integration with vSphere features is also a definite plus."
"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 feature is definitely the always-on data deduplication."
"Inline compression"
"The speed and, for us in particular in what we're doing, the data de-duplication."
"I want to learn more about command line usage which I have not explored much yet. However, there are many automated solutions for repetitive tasks. I would like to see additional features like performance monitoring, configuring of alerts, and the customization of alert thresholds in the next release."
"One thing I'd like to see in a future release is integration between their main storage array and what they call their FlashBlade product; to be able to snapshot directly from the primary array into multiple different backup copies on FlashBlade."
"The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."
"Going forward, don't complicate things for the customers."
"The price of the solution can improve."
"I would like to see active replication. I know that it's available now but I haven't tried it yet. I hope that it works."
"Part of our company works on Dell EMC because Pure Storage did not have synchronous applications when we were purchasing our products."
"Its price needs improvement. Its price is almost double than any other flash storage solution."
"I don't think the solution is very scalable."
"This solution could be improved if overall performance was improved and operated with a higher speed and supported a higher volume of RAM."
"Licensing, especially on the storage line, could use some simplification. It's not terrible, but, for example, with the Isilon series, they've gone to completely a la carte. A la carte is very difficult to traverse, as to what you need. It would be more beneficial, at least from my point of view as a customer, if they did it more like car companies do, where there are package lines"
"The lower model, the 3000, should have duplication. It doesn't right now. It's only from 5000 that this is offered, but it depends on the performance. It could be they don't offer it on lower models because the duplication is too much of a burden to the performance."
"The interface could be improved. It should have an application point of view."
"An issue we had was that the controller went down during an upgrade because of their upgrading the code. One side of the switch was down."
"The configuration could be easier in Dell EMC SC Series."
"While there's always room for improvement in everything, I can't really think of a specific feature of the solution that requires immediate attention."
"The system currently has a 15TB LUN size limit and that snapshots need to be scheduled through script API instead of the GUI."
"The interface look and feel could be improved."
"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 management graphical interface needs more improvement."
"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."
"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."
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Dell SC Series is ranked 24th in All-Flash Storage with 49 reviews while Kaminario K2 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in All-Flash Storage. Dell SC Series is rated 8.4, while Kaminario K2 [EOL] is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Dell SC Series writes "Automated architecture that proactively optimizes your database ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kaminario K2 [EOL] writes "Built-in snapshot support gives us SAN-side functionality most other platforms license separately". Dell SC Series is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, Huawei OceanStor and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas Kaminario K2 [EOL] is most compared with .
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