We performed a comparison between Dell PowerMax NVMe 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."I like FlashArray's ActiveCluster as well as its snapshot and cloning capabilities."
"Performance, deduplication, compression, and fast response time for requests from servers and applications."
"The initial setup was straightforward in the way that it was a database vacuum storage."
"Technical support is good."
"Because of the encryption, we have different storage and the encryption can go over both."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support."
"The deduplication and compression meet all of our system requirements."
"The solution is easy to scale. I'm running two environments right now, so I need to scale. I'm running a part technology. I've got an A-side and a B-side."
"It was easy for teams to pick up the technology with very limited exposure and training, then implement and support it."
"PowerMax is a compact high-performance appliance. It is one of the best devices in terms of performance specs. It includes an NVMe All-Flash Array."
"The optimization of the cache memory of each engine and the use of persistent memory."
"I am impressed with the tool's reliability since we see a few hardware failures with it. Also, the solution's replication configuration is good."
"The number one most valuable feature is reliability. I want to go home at the end of the day and come in the next day knowing it works, especially since we have storage offshore."
"We are most interested in cloud utilization."
"The smaller footprint of the device has been really nice. We have gone from eight bays to one bay. Having one floor tile in our data center has been pretty awesome. A lot less power and HVAC cooling is being consumed."
"Dell PowerMax NVMe's tech support is good."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the always-on data deduplication."
"It provides a full feature set without separate licensing (deduplication, compression, snapshot, asynchronous replication, stable performance, etc.)."
"Built-in snapshot support gives us SAN-side functionality most other platforms would have had us license separately."
"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."
"Logic/software management"
"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."
"I’d love to view the average, minimum and maximum performance in the reports (Analysis tab - Performance) but it is only graphics and you need to export data in CSV to find this information."
"There are a lot of things to improve."
"I would love to see a true one click upgrade solution. Right now, you have to click and schedule an appointment with Pure Storage to be able to upgrade. I would love for it to automatically download, install, and fall-over every controller as it updates."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve by being more secure."
"The higher education moves slowly. We are still looking forward to implementing the full list of existing features."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"It is a bit expensive."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in terms of integration with various service providers for public clouds."
"Since the merging of EMC and Dell into Dell Technologies, there has been a hurdle that they've had to overcome, and they're not over it yet. It takes two to three times longer for things to get fixed than it did when they were separate companies. That is something that has to be fixed."
"We have issues that we don't know about, which Dell EMC fixes."
"The price cap of Dell PowerMax NVMe is very high."
"They can make the GUI better, especially for the ones that come out of the box. We did encounter a bit of difficulty in setting up the storage. We had to deploy Solutions Enabler on a Linux machine to be able to fully interact with the storage. They need to upgrade the web interface for the management of the storage that comes out of the box. The management interface for NFS is also a bit old and not very intuitive."
"I would like to see more development in the cloud environment. It would be good if it comes in the cloud kind of setup."
"The technical support is lacking. We are working with Dell EMC to get some better understanding of this."
"Some of the management features could be simplified and that's probably the main thing they need to address."
"The interface look and feel could be improved."
"I would like them to improve the look of the product’s external casing and shelves."
"Some of the nice to haves for us, in terms of today, would be VVols but again, it’s not a critical feature."
"The system currently has a 15TB LUN size limit and that snapshots need to be scheduled through script API instead of the GUI."
"I would like to see LDAP for the management panel; I've been notified they might be currently working on it."
"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."
"Access to technical support should be improved for our region. Technical support is good, but they're very hard to access."
"A single pane of glass to monitor/manage multiple arrays would be helpful."
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Dell PowerMax NVMe is ranked 8th in All-Flash Storage with 66 reviews while Kaminario K2 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in All-Flash Storage. Dell PowerMax NVMe is rated 8.8, while Kaminario K2 [EOL] is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Dell PowerMax NVMe writes "Simplified storage provisioning for us, enabling us to assign any volumes in two to three minutes". 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 PowerMax NVMe is most compared with Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem, Dell Unity XT, Huawei OceanStor Dorado and Dell XtremIO, whereas Kaminario K2 [EOL] is most compared with .
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