We performed a comparison between HPE 3PAR StoreServ and Kaminario K2 [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The initial setup is very straightforward. You simply plug it in and turn it on."
"We can store more for a cheaper price as opposed to paying for larger devices and larger rack spaces which get outdated sooner and which we'd have to change every two years. It simplifies storage for us."
"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."
"We also use VMware integrations developed by Pure, their plugins in our vCenter environment. They help by allowing our non-technical operations teams to deploy new data stores and resize data stores without me having to involve myself all the time to do those simple tasks."
"Redundancy and the fault tolerance of the platform are the most impressive."
"Non-disruptive upgrades: You can upgrade at anytime without worry."
"The speed is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The most valuable feature is it never goes down. We can expand and create volumes."
"You can have SSD drives, fast disk drives, and slower drives, redundancy between drives, and hot-swappable drives on the SSDs, the faster hard drives, and the slower drives."
"This is a very robust product and it offers everything that we are looking for."
"From a single panel, I can see the performance of my service, my network, and my storage."
"We saved a ton of power just turning off our old one when we went to the new one."
"It is a stable solution."
"3PAR is easy to keep running and does not require too much effort. It has been very reliable, which is key."
"Thanks to HPE remote IT assistance, they can do the updates with the configuration in best-case scenario."
"It's a really stable solution. We have no problems with the customer, no negative feedback from them on this."
"Data reduction and snapshot abilities: Smaller footprint in the datacenter (lower cost for power, cooling, etc.)."
"It provides a full feature set without separate licensing (deduplication, compression, snapshot, asynchronous replication, stable performance, etc.)."
"The capacity that we're saving by using Kaminario's K2 is giving us a four-to-one ratio for our deduplication."
"The ratio between the physical storage and the storage we use is very high."
"Inline compression"
"Logic/software management"
"Scale out is a differentiator for them, especially in the enterprise market. It's key for a lot of customers."
"The increased performance is many times above our previous array performance in all metrics. Integration with vSphere features is also a definite plus."
"The credentials on the iSCSI interface are only available to type in with the Chrome browser, and not with the Firefox browser."
"I would like some performance analytics which go deeper than today. It should be specific to some hosts and applications. This would be good."
"I would rate this solution an eight. There's always room for improvement, nobody is perfect to get a ten out of ten. They do what they do well. It's not cheap but we it's for uses that we needed."
"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"In the configuration, which we brought in or tested it in, it has a very limited config as far as the array goes. That said, it still did more than our anticipation."
"The only time that we had problems with it was that there was a bug in the VVol implementation but, outside of that, it has been flawless."
"Sometimes control is rebooting and nobody knows why, so there are issues."
"This solution is becoming dated."
"We have had some bad issues on stability."
"The initial setup was pretty complex. There were a lot of different things that had to happen which was the reason why they had to send out the HPE engineers to help us."
"We've had some issues when we were trying to upgrade, doing some firmware upgrades."
"We've started to see an issue with the older models that we have. We've had issues where facilities would have unscheduled power outages or scheduled power outages and the 3PARs weren't able to come up successfully. We actually had an incident recently where it wiped data that we didn't anticipate would be wiped."
"We are seeing that there are some enhancements which are required in the SSMC console. There are some features that we do not see in the dashboard."
"I would like to see NVMe support, not only on the disk side, but also in the NVMe over Fibre Channel."
"The system currently has a 15TB LUN size limit and that snapshots need to be scheduled through script API instead of the GUI."
"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."
"A single pane of glass to monitor/manage multiple arrays would be helpful."
"I would like them to improve the look of the product’s external casing and shelves."
"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."
"Access to technical support should be improved for our region. Technical support is good, but they're very hard to access."
"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 front panel of the drive shelf doesn't always seat firmly."
Earn 20 points
HPE 3PAR StoreServ is ranked 9th in All-Flash Storage with 299 reviews while Kaminario K2 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in All-Flash Storage. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is rated 8.6, while Kaminario K2 [EOL] is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of HPE 3PAR StoreServ writes "The product's technical support is outstanding as I can reach someone right away". 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". HPE 3PAR StoreServ is most compared with HPE Primera, Dell Unity XT, HPE Nimble Storage, NetApp AFF and HPE StoreOnce, whereas Kaminario K2 [EOL] is most compared with .
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