Quick & Easy Storage
June 28, 2019
Quick & Easy Storage
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Kaminario K2
Kaminario K2 is one of two all-flash storage arrays supporting the entire organization. Our environment is 99% virtualized using VMware vCloud Suite, including our Tier 1 applications and database servers. We protect our mission-critical systems by replicating real-time to our disaster recovery site containing a second K2, which also runs a small number of production workloads in addition to DR. We use hypervisor-based replication from Zerto to perform the replication and automated failover.
- Great performance
- Great support
- Super-simple to use
- Not well known, so third-party support is lacking
- Data reduction is good, but not as good as expected (actual 2.7:1)
- Installing K2 reduced runtime of one of our batch processes, freeing up one employee for other tasks.
- Less time managing storage.
We performed a bake-off with K2 and one other vendor and they performed identically. K2 pricing was aggressive, performance was great, and it offered the features that we needed at a price that we could afford.