We performed a comparison between IBM FlashSystem 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 deduplication and compression rates are beyond impressive."
"The first set up we had was really straight forward and simple."
"They are quite responsive and our local team was pretty good."
"Has also helped simplify storage for us. The other person we put in there, took about a week to implement. And we had both arrays set up within around four hours with a thirty minute drive time between the two locations."
"It upgrades in place which means we'll be using it well into the future."
"The most valuable features in Pure Storage FlashArray are deduplication and active cluster."
"The predictive performance analytics are good."
"It worked flawlessly."
"IBM FlashSystem has been stable in our operations."
"The solution is scalable and has varying degrees of scalability."
"IBM FlashSystem is a stable solution."
"The performance is very good and we use this product to enhance our core system."
"Data deduplication is one of the most valuable features of this solution."
"I like most of the features. Its speed, performance, and availability are valuable. We are implementing the data reduction technology the most."
"The speed and the ease of installation are the most valuable features."
"FlashSystem offers proven technology in a compact package."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the always-on data deduplication."
"Built-in snapshot support gives us SAN-side functionality most other platforms would have had us license separately."
"The increased performance is many times above our previous array performance in all metrics. Integration with vSphere features is also a definite plus."
"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.)."
"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 most valuable aspect is the use of solid-state storage drives instead of spinning drives."
"Logic/software management"
"In some cases, we get into very in-depth conversations around movement of specific data and, what's more, chunk sizes. The documentation lacked any description or information on that."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"This product has only two active controllers, whereas other solutions can have more. This is something that needs to improve."
"The file functionality could be better."
"I can't see where they can make anything better, unless, of course, they lower their prices even more."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"I would like to have support available in Spanish."
"It's too early to tell if we've seen a reduction in total cost of ownership. The solution is expensive."
"They don't offer subscription-based payments."
"This solution needs a management console where we are alerted to issues and can report them, or escalate them through email or another method."
"It is slightly more expensive, however, it all depends on your supplier."
"With regards to the IBM V7000 storage system, where we have multiple tiers of storage, a heat map would show I/O distribution across the tiers of storage."
"A big area for improvement is that the data reduction pool feature is not recommended for use in a production environment because it has stability and performance issues."
"The solution has a low number of NVME host attachments at 16 per IO group over the fiber channel."
"When you provision a datastore auto-format takes a long time"
"Enterprise data storage needs improvement. They should create a feature for data and file storage."
"Some of the nice to haves for us, in terms of today, would be VVols but again, it’s not a critical feature."
"I would like them to improve the look of the product’s external casing and shelves."
"The management graphical interface needs more improvement."
"The interface look and feel could be improved."
"I would love to see capacity on its DRAM. I know it's not cost effective for them to do it, but I think that it could be a big differentiator and was a big differentiator from the beginning."
"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."
"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 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."
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IBM FlashSystem is ranked 6th in All-Flash Storage with 106 reviews while Kaminario K2 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in All-Flash Storage. IBM FlashSystem is rated 8.2, while Kaminario K2 [EOL] is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of IBM FlashSystem writes "An easy GUI and simple provisioning but our model does not support compression". 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". IBM FlashSystem is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform and HPE Nimble Storage, whereas Kaminario K2 [EOL] is most compared with .
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