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 support team is available all the time and they seem to know what they are doing."
"The performance of the storage is just unbelievable."
"At this point, I don't know anything that they could provide in a better way."
"Pure gives us better compression, it's easier to manage, a lot less hands-on."
"The job of support for the storage engineers dramatically changed. We know more quickly the automation of the provisioning. We can now focus on things that bring more value to the company than just managing storage."
"We also use VMware integrations developed by Pure, their plugins in our vCenter environment. They help by allowing our non-technical operations teams to deploy new data stores and resize data stores without me having to involve myself all the time to do those simple tasks."
"The scalability is good."
"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."
"The most valuable aspect is the use of solid-state storage drives instead of spinning drives."
"Scale out is a differentiator for them, especially in the enterprise market. It's key for a lot of customers."
"Inline compression"
"It provides a full feature set without separate licensing (deduplication, compression, snapshot, asynchronous replication, stable performance, etc.)."
"Latency is definitely the big key for us."
"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."
"The increased performance is many times above our previous array performance in all metrics. Integration with vSphere features is also a definite plus."
"The benefits are better up-time, better response time."
"The hardware and software of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays are easy for us to use."
"The speed is the most valuable feature."
"Rapid deployment, easy integration management and cloning of areas."
"We do a lot of in-house, application-dependent type things, where we find the different niches to the different things. Certain things they do better. We've found that it actually does very well on some of our higher-end applications."
"This storage solution is both stable and scalable, and it works for our needs."
"It provides multi-protocol, which is what gives the edge when it comes to big lineage PC workloads."
"The NetApp EF-Series gave our organization easy access to our data bases."
"I think replication is one area that still needs improvement. Earlier, Pure Storage FlashArray only had IP-based replication. There was no API-based replication, but they have enhanced the feature now. However, they need to work on API replication for C-type of arrays."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"Storage. There could be better storage."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"The solution is not cheap."
"There are many features which need to be added, particularly on the replication side."
"In the next release of the solution I would like to see Vormetric native block encryption."
"They should work on their upgrades, they're not smooth."
"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 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."
"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."
"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."
"The interface look and feel could be improved."
"I would like them to improve the look of the product’s external casing and shelves."
"The management graphical interface needs more improvement."
"I've observed an issue when creating a new storage solution with NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays."
"They could improve overall scalability through performance. Denser capacity, which is doable, it is what the competition is doing."
"It was difficult to implement and lacks some additional features that would be useful, but as a solution fits a particular need for our organization."
"As far as the manageability, being able to port between the two and have to do less training in-house from a customer point of view, that would be the part to improve."
"I would like to see higher-capacity drives, as they come out; I have heard that 15 TB are out on a different NetApp series. Getting those on the EFs would be nice."
"It needs a better management tool."
"NetApp could improve the speed of the rebuilding rate."
"Better support technicians for CAPP."
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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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