We performed a comparison between Kaminario K2 [EOL] and SolidFire 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 mobile app is very helpful."
"This solution is very scalable."
"Pure is simple to set up and manage on a day-to-day basis."
"The reliability is very good."
"Performance is the most valuable feature."
"The initial setup was very straightforward and very quick. It was up and running in our data center within 24 hours of receiving it."
"FlashArray has many valuable features. It's very user-friendly and it has high availability, so there is comparatively less downtime. During maintenance, there is no shutdown procedure, so you can directly power off the Array and manage the shutdown process without any data loss, which is a unique feature. Managing replication and data migration is also very easy."
"Pure gives us better compression, it's easier to manage, a lot less hands-on."
"Latency is definitely the big key for us."
"The increased performance is many times above our previous array performance in all metrics. Integration with vSphere features is also a definite plus."
"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."
"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."
"Built-in snapshot support gives us SAN-side functionality most other platforms would have had us license separately."
"Implementation of the solution is very simple."
"It provides a full feature set without separate licensing (deduplication, compression, snapshot, asynchronous replication, stable performance, etc.)."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Feature-wise, it is a good solution allowing users to monitor and simplify their networks. The solution also provides its users with flexibility by enabling them to utilize its extensions."
"Individual settings you can put on each individual volume, if you want to do that."
"The quality of service for minimum iOS, to maximum iOS in a multi-terminal environment is very powerful. The SQL service feature is the best part of SolidFire."
"The square footage for doing development is at a premium when dealing with government networks. To be able to put a lot of IOPS in a lot of high-speed performing drives in a very small location which requires very little HVAC with very little power, it is very valuable to us."
"Being able to provide quality of service as promised."
"SolidFire provides seamless performance across your storage system when you need to scale up. Other storage systems do not do that."
"The most valuable feature is the performance, as well as how you manage performance on the system."
"Its price could be cheaper. It is not the cheapest one out there, but I'm not directly involved in the figures and negotiations."
"The one major gripe I have is that there is no snapshotting enabled by default on the SAN."
"The price should be lower."
"Self-backup is the only feature lacking in this solution."
"The backend of this solution utilizes an Active/Passive architecture, rather than an Active/Active architecture, which is a disadvantage, when compared to some of its competitors. Its storage capacity should be expanded in the next release."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"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."
"We have not seen a reduction in our TCO nor have we seen ROI."
"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 interface look and feel could be improved."
"I would like them to improve the look of the product’s external casing and shelves."
"I would like to see LDAP for the management panel; I've been notified they might be currently working on it."
"The system currently has a 15TB LUN size limit and that snapshots need to be scheduled through script API instead of the GUI."
"Some of the nice to haves for us, in terms of today, would be VVols but again, it’s not a critical feature."
"The front panel of the drive shelf doesn't always seat firmly."
"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."
"I would like to see integration with the cloud, number one. Being able to spin SolidFire in the cloud."
"We had some false positives, power supplies failing, and that's really been about it. We had a couple of glitches during some upgrade processes but nothing that was really concerning to us."
"The scalability of HCI or SolidFire as such isn't a concern, but when you compare it to PowerMax or NetApp AFF series devices, scalability is a concern because it's only the drives that are connected to the nodes. We don't have any shelf connectivity."
"The inclusion of more protocols and interfaces would make it easier to integrate with other products."
"The technical support is really bad and has to be improved."
"It's a very good Windows-type solution. But we do a lot of legacy systems and the like. So it's getting that incorporated into it that would help us."
"So feature-wise, I would say more reporting tools that could be merged into it."
"You don't have business continuity with SolidFire. I think it could be a nice feature to have in the future."
Earn 20 points
Kaminario K2 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in All-Flash Storage while SolidFire is ranked 19th in All-Flash Storage with 33 reviews. Kaminario K2 [EOL] is rated 8.8, while SolidFire is rated 8.2. 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 SolidFire writes "A versatile storage solution suitable for various workloads in cloud environments providing scalable architecture, granular Quality of Service and consistent performance". Kaminario K2 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas SolidFire is most compared with NetApp AFF, Dell PowerStore and VMware vSAN.
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