We performed a comparison between Kaminario K2 [EOL] and Pure Storage FlashBlade 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 has good stability for our company."
"The amount of throughput that we're getting is really nice."
"With Pure Storage, we don't see any latency or IOPS. It has been a very seamless integration."
"Performance, dedupe, and that it works well with database workloads are its most valuable features."
"I like the speed, and I like the API and how programmable it is."
"Data reduction and compression. Sub millisecond latency."
"On a scale of one to ten, where ten is the most comfortable pricing, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"We were actually able to do multiple upgrades, including head upgrades and moving between the platforms, M20 and M50, over the years. We have never once lost a ping and have never had an outage due to an OS upgrade or a complete head upgrade."
"The GUI is very straightforward and easy to use."
"Inline compression"
"The most valuable feature is definitely the always-on data deduplication."
"The increased performance is many times above our previous array performance in all metrics. Integration with vSphere features is also a definite plus."
"Latency is definitely the big key for us."
"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 ratio between the physical storage and the storage we use is very high."
"Logic/software management"
"The most valuable feature of this solution is performance."
"The initial setup was straightforward. If you know how to plug in power and network you're pretty much qualified. They were on site to configure the network, the box to fit into our network architecture. Other than that, we self-managed from there."
"The product is scalable and easy to expand."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its fast performance, especially in handling snapshots. It helps during power outages when we need to quickly move data between different data centers. It ensures efficient replication and helps maintain our data centers' uptime."
"The onboarding and integrated monitoring tools are pretty good."
"It is very easy to use, and it is very fast."
"We have seen a reduction in the total cost of ownership by around 20%."
"I would rate this solution an eight plus. It has has good flexibility and stability, it's easy to manage and the response time is good."
"We need to add more storage in Pure Storage FlashArray with the cluster mode activated for us to have better performance."
"With scalability, I have run into a little problem with our last upgrade. There were some undocumented limitations to the number of drives that our controller could run on. So, instead of putting in a new data pack as we had anticipated, we had to keep adding and removing to get up to the capacity that we needed to be. What should have been a one day process (or a few hours) turned into a month and a half process."
"Just some nit picky stuff, like allowing servers and volumes to be grouped. Therefore, it would easier to work with them in the GUI."
"In the next release, I would like to see file-level encryption."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"I had to contact customer support when a drive failed as I was doing a couple of OS upgrades."
"It is way in excess of what we need. If anything, we could see a bit more speed. I'm just comparing it with what some of my colleagues who are implementing their own systems do."
"The price of this solution could be improved."
"I would like them to improve the look of the product’s external casing and shelves."
"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."
"The front panel of the drive shelf doesn't always seat firmly."
"The management graphical interface needs more improvement."
"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."
"A single pane of glass to monitor/manage multiple arrays would be helpful."
"Some of the nice to haves for us, in terms of today, would be VVols but again, it’s not a critical feature."
"File storage needs a lot of improvement. Mainframe connectivity also needs improvement because it requires additional components to be integrated with Pure Storage FlashBlade. If you want to keep your backup data, then this becomes an even more expensive solution because Pure Storage FlashBlade will not be able to meet your backup needs."
"I would like to see better integration."
"The technical support needs to improve. When we open a case, it is auto assigned to a support tech person. Nine out of ten times, we get an email right back saying that person is off until tomorrow. I cannot handle that. They just did this over the weekend to us, too. I had to call our rep and have them do something about it."
"I have not seen ROI."
"It would be nice if you could store file-based in the same box with the same technology."
"I would like to see more VM-Aware features in the next release of this solution."
"It usually comes down to just what you hit and the value you're getting when you spend the money and license the products. I would always go, "If you want to make things better, lower your price and make your licensing simpler." There's always an opportunity around that."
"In terms of scalability, it doesn't expand out quite as robustly as some of the others, but it covers 90% of the market in what it does."
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Kaminario K2 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in All-Flash Storage while Pure Storage FlashBlade is ranked 16th in All-Flash Storage with 31 reviews. Kaminario K2 [EOL] is rated 8.8, while Pure Storage FlashBlade is rated 8.8. 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 Pure Storage FlashBlade writes "A high-performing and scalable solution that improves data performance for S3 workloads". Kaminario K2 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Pure Storage FlashBlade is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), VAST Data, MinIO, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Dell ECS.
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