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CA Allocate DASD Space and Placement vs NetApp OnCommand Insight comparison

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Categories and Ranking

CA Allocate DASD Space and ...
Ranking in Storage Management
12th
Average Rating
6.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
NetApp OnCommand Insight
Ranking in Storage Management
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Storage Management category, the mindshare of CA Allocate DASD Space and Placement is 3.2%, down from 3.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp OnCommand Insight is 8.6%, up from 6.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Storage Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
NetApp OnCommand Insight8.6%
CA Allocate DASD Space and Placement3.2%
Other88.2%
Storage Management
 

Featured Reviews

it_user354057 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mainframe Storage Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's a space recovery product that helps us fix problems before they happen so we work on them after running a job, but I don't want to have to touch a file to make changes or updates.
One of the biggest benefits of CA Allocate is in the cost. We initially went with BMC MainView, which is a great product and a little more user friendly than CA Allocate. But because of our good relationship with CA, we were able to mimic everything we had with BMC. Any issues we had doing that, CA collected them right away to help us. As a space recovery product, CA Allocate helps us fix problems before they happen and then we work on them after we run a job. If somebody does not put the right space parameter, we let the job run and then we fix it after. If somebody does not optimize a data set, we run our reports after talking to these people without ever having an event waste CPU cycles.
Anuj_Jain - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Team Lead at Kyndryl
Gives an end-to-end view of your environment and has a very good interface for report creation and customization
NetApp OnCommand Insight is a pretty good tool, and the only concern I have with it is the price. Its price is quite high and could be improved because the licensing feature of this particular tool is on a per GB basis instead of the price being for the complete tool itself. The more you discover, the more you need to pay, and this makes NetApp OnCommand Insight more costly when compared to other tools which are available in the market. My company doesn't have a cloud environment, so all storage is on-premises. I'm not aware of the integration of NetApp OnCommand Insight with the cloud environment, but the tool fits all the marks in terms of what I require and need. It checks all columns for me, so at the moment, nothing comes to mind in terms of additional features I'd like to see from the tool in the future.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"As a space recovery product, CA Allocate helps us fix problems before they happen and then we work on them after we run a job."
"We have saved significantly by using OCI; I don't know the exact amount but it's more than a million."
"We can analyze the arrays overall performance down to a LUN level, very quickly, with this product."
"The Performance Manager: Where we get performance statistics, is about the best method we have right now for monitoring our individual virtual machines."
"The Performance Manager: Where we get performance statistics."
"It's a stable solution, and in general we can monitor the system efficiently."
"Right now, it's our single pane of glass to monitor our entire infrastructure."
"We had stuff that we could bring up, so our data was protected, which is what it is all about."
"It gives us the ability to look at our storage and figure out what we are doing with it. Without it, we are sort of blind."
 

Cons

"Allocate is a good product, but it's not there yet in terms of that."
"There was a minor issue where we were receiving a notification that a cluster was not available, or communication to the cluster."
"It's the interop matrix. And if there was a chance to orchestrate on a heterogeneous structure using OCI, that would be a great start; or at least a plugin to each one of them, that would be a great start too."
"Email notifications Data store recoveries Moving into the cloud. They should include more of these type of things."
"Enhance SNMP monitoring in order to broaden the number of storages that can be discovered."
"Just make it one product, not in pieces like performance and discovery. Stop having all these individual pieces."
"We have had great success with OCI from the reporting perspective, but when it comes to other heterogeneous data sources, there might be some disconnects."
"When we first went to Cluster Mode, we had a lot of problems. Setup took a few months. We had people onsite, including one of the top guys from NetApp for a while. Going from 7-Mode to Cluster Mode was rough."
"We're not using it to its full potential, so it is hard to provide feedback here."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"We like that it is one license and everything is bundled in together."
"Pricing by terabytes, not the end of the world, and that's okay. Stop if I want this, I have to buy that. Just release it as a single product."
"For me, it is always too much. Licensing is on TBs, and I think, nowadays that is outmoded."
"The cost: It is expensive as a solution. You need to be an expert to get anything out of it and we don't have that kind of expertise."
"We just made a major investment back in May of this year, so we'll have it for another four and a half or five years easily. Thus, we have a five year bumper to bumper agreement."
"Pricing for NetApp OnCommand Insight could be cheaper. On a scale of one to five, I would rate its price a four."
"The company has saved money by narrowing down issues faster using servers and performance."
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Top Industries

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Construction Company
16%
Healthcare Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Outsourcing Company
9%
 

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Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise31
 

Also Known As

BrightStor DASD Space and Placement
OCI
 

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