We performed a comparison between Kaminario K2 [EOL] and NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays 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 most valuable feature of Pure Storage FlashArray is its high stability level."
"The console is simple to use. It has good performance. It is easy to install, understand, and manage, with a good ratio of deduplication and compression. It is doing its job."
"This is the best all-flash storage array on the market."
"The predictive performance analytics are good."
"We consume less physical storage because of the solution’s deduplication and compression."
"It reduces space and the polar consumption. It also accelerates the application."
"The most valuable feature is replication."
"Our storage phones home. It is smart and intelligent in that aspect, which has been huge for us. We don't have to be storage administrators."
"Inline compression"
"Scale out is a differentiator for them, especially in the enterprise market. It's key for a lot of customers."
"The capacity that we're saving by using Kaminario's K2 is giving us a four-to-one ratio for our deduplication."
"Data reduction and snapshot abilities: Smaller footprint in the datacenter (lower cost for power, cooling, etc.)."
"Implementation of the solution is very simple."
"Logic/software management"
"Built-in snapshot support gives us SAN-side functionality most other platforms would have had us license separately."
"The ratio between the physical storage and the storage we use is very high."
"It is a very stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its speed."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The NetApp EF-Series gave our organization easy access to our data bases."
"This storage solution is both stable and scalable, and it works for our needs."
"Having the option of such high-speed storage in the data center is what makes it valuable."
"We use it for our VDI environment, and have not had any complaints with it."
"Considering the cost, I find NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays to be the best storage available in the market."
"We would like to be able to connect to data tape for backup, specifically to the LTO backups."
"I like what they're doing, but some of my customers complain that they do not have all the bells and whistles and knobs to fine-tune workloads that some of the competitors have. In my opinion, that's good. All customers don't have dedicated storage gurus, and they can get themselves into trouble if they fine-tune too many of those high-performance knobs, but they do get knocked down. Pure Storage takes a hit in the minds and opinions of some of the customers because they cannot customize things as much as compared to a legacy storage provider's appliance such as NetApp, Dell EMC, or even HPE. I personally think 95% of my customers are better off letting the system fine-tune itself. That was something that you needed to do 12 or 15 years ago, but now with all-flash, the technology can handle what it needs to handle. Customers just end up shooting themselves in the foot if they are tweaking too many default settings."
"On a couple of occasions, the waiting time for an upgrade has been pretty substantial."
"A three wave application or multi wave application synchronization would be an improvement."
"The connectivity needs improvement. You do not have the possibility to have a file and block connectivity at the same time on the same machine. It has limited ability to do so."
"The price of Pure Storage FlashArray could be better."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"I would like to see more cloud integration."
"I would like to see LDAP for the management panel; I've been notified they might be currently working on it."
"I would like them to improve the look of the product’s external casing and shelves."
"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."
"The management graphical interface needs more improvement."
"A single pane of glass to monitor/manage multiple arrays would be helpful."
"The front panel of the drive shelf doesn't always seat firmly."
"Access to technical support should be improved for our region. Technical support is good, but they're very hard to access."
"Some of the nice to haves for us, in terms of today, would be VVols but again, it’s not a critical feature."
"The dashboard could be simplified."
"This solution does not have any compression or deduplication."
"They could improve overall scalability through performance. Denser capacity, which is doable, it is what the competition is doing."
"The only major drawback is the replication between EF-Series units."
"Its pricing should be better. Its price is competitive, but they need to improve the pricing. They have different licensing models, which they need to improve. My expectation was cloud integration, which they have, but it is a different license. Therefore, people cannot enjoy it. If I want to use it, I need to pay extra. There is a cost involved for everything, but it should reach everyone. It is similar to having a Rolls-Royce, but you need to pay extra for the key. If you want the key, you need to pay."
"A little more manageability, a simpler management interface. It's not necessarily that it's way overly complex. It's just that it's not as easy as the FAS series."
"I would like to shrink it more, if we can. The smaller, the better."
"Better integration with other brands is important so we would like to see it easier to integrate."
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Kaminario K2 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in All-Flash Storage while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is ranked 23rd in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews. Kaminario K2 [EOL] is rated 8.8, while NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is rated 8.6. 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 NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays writes "A storage solution that offers great stability, resilience, and support". Kaminario K2 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and HPE Primera.
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