We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage 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."The most valuable feature is its speed."
"They have really good baked in analytics to show you trends for growth history, so it does help with future planning for data growth."
"Data reduction and compression. Sub millisecond latency."
"Very stable; no worries about how much it can handle."
"It comes with a large number of features out-of-the-box, which makes it easy for us to see problems and manage capacity."
"We've had to use tech support on a number of occasions. They did everything remotely and talked us all the way through. They fixed the issue within 30 minutes. Every single time we contact them, they're perfect. I would give their technical support a ten out of ten."
"The amount of data that I have moved to it from legacy storage has enabled us to retire units that are three or four times the physical size."
"It does efficient work of storing data while still delivering the performance that you would normally expect from a higher priced solution."
"Not only is it high performing, but it is also more compact and fits better in our storage arrays than equipment from other storage providers."
"InfoSight. It's AI for the data center. It's very easy, it does a lot of the work for the customer... InfoSight and the whole system, help them to deal with troubleshooting."
"Even if one control fails, it automatically turns on the other controller and everything moves from one to the second instantaneously without any issues."
"HPE Nimble Storage uses the InfoSight platform and it is useful because we can identify the faults and can analyze the performance. It has many other features. This feature is the best that I have observed from HPE Nimble Storage."
"I really like the form factor, which is nice and compact and small."
"If a ransomware or enterprise-level attack happens, my infrastructure remains totally secure. If any virtual machine gets damaged or collapses, we have built a backup solution, which will take a minute to restore the same version of HPE Nimble Storage in our company."
"The solution is quite scalable."
"It's given us more time to do the important things, less time worrying about SANs and failures and picking up the pieces. It just works."
"Scale out is a differentiator for them, especially in the enterprise market. It's key for a lot of customers."
"The ratio between the physical storage and the storage we use is very high."
"The most valuable aspect is the use of solid-state storage drives instead of spinning drives."
"The capacity that we're saving by using Kaminario's K2 is giving us a four-to-one ratio for our deduplication."
"It provides a full feature set without separate licensing (deduplication, compression, snapshot, asynchronous replication, stable performance, etc.)."
"Data reduction and snapshot abilities: Smaller footprint in the datacenter (lower cost for power, cooling, etc.)."
"Latency is definitely the big key for us."
"The GUI is very straightforward and easy to use."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"The price should be lower."
"The scalability of the solution is not as good as it probably could be."
"Some services could be inserted directly into the SAN, so Pure Storage could complete with the HyperFlex."
"I would like to see the NAS add-on component become more fault-tolerant than just a single virtual machine running inside the array. I'm unwilling to use it for that reason."
"Pure Storage FlashArray could improve by being more secure."
"The price of the solution can improve."
"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."
"The most difficult part about Nimble was the fact that it didn't have a standard length."
"I would like to see the network portion of the product improve, especially with some of the things which are coming out from Aruba and HPE. Both are innovating more of an automated networking. I would like to see our Nimble meld into that and do some automated networking."
"The HPE Nimble Storage could have better integration with monitoring and machine learning system information solutions."
"I would like to see SSL Certification."
"There is a new version of the Nimble and 3PAR systems called Alletra and they have a lot of new features."
"I would like to see integration with OneView, at least for reporting or some sort of monitoring."
"I would like deduplication by default on all the volumes. I still don't understand (or know why) dedupe isn't enabled for the templates out-of-the-box. We have to go in and manually enable it each and every time."
"I would like to see native network attached storage (NAS) functionality. Our customers are looking for NAS, and Nimble can't give it to them."
"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."
"I would like to see LDAP for the management panel; I've been notified they might be currently working on it."
"A single pane of glass to monitor/manage multiple arrays would be helpful."
"The interface look and feel could be improved."
"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'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 front panel of the drive shelf doesn't always seat firmly."
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HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 117 reviews while Kaminario K2 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in All-Flash Storage. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while Kaminario K2 [EOL] is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". 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 Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and IBM FlashSystem, whereas Kaminario K2 [EOL] is most compared with .
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