Dell Storage Resource Manager (SRM) vs NetApp OnCommand Insight comparison

"It's all about ease of use and reliability."

"It is easy to control the storage."

"The partitions function well for backup storage."

"It has many features and capabilities such as local protection and global protection."

"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."

"Performance monitoring of hundreds of switches and being able to see results in one dashboard."

"It's stable and gives good feedback on performance."

"The Performance Manager: Where we get performance statistics."

"The machine learning features help me troubleshoot faster."

"OnCommand Insight's most valuable feature is the ability to see figure applications."

"The most valuable feature is the security. When we identify a vulnerability, it is easy to mitigate it. NetApp provides the solution. It's also easy to create and move volumes."

"The most valuable feature is definitely the reports, the complete analysis of the data. We also like the scalability, since it can work with Hitachi, Isilon, etc."

"The support needs to be improved because I have found that even simple issues take a long time to be solved."

"When it was deployed, it was challenging to manage."

"Technical support needs improvement, as well as the engineering resources, who do the upgrades."

"Technical support is inadequate."

"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."

"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."

"OnCommand Insight lacks AI to protect against ransomware and identify users accessing things abnormally."

"You can build those out, but initially when you bring up the dashboard, that was one thing they couldn't take away. They couldn't change that. It just looks kind of kludgy. I'd like it to look a lot more clean when I first login."

"A little bit more from technical support would give us a little bit more insight."

"I would like to see better graphics. We have seen regular graphs and pie graphs. I am sure that there are better ways to show this information."

"I'd like it to be more stable, simpler, and get Java out of it."

"From 7-Mode to C mode a migration happened and many features, like FTP and SFTP, were dropped. We have been using it, but there needs to be better communication when features are dropped because there are end users using it who might find it a shock: "Oh, why was that dropped?""

"The solution is mid-priced."

"There are no licensing costs for this product."

"For me, it is always too much. Licensing is on TBs, and I think, nowadays that is outmoded."

"We like that it is one license and everything is bundled in together."

"The company has saved money by narrowing down issues faster using servers and performance."

"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."

"Pricing for NetApp OnCommand Insight could be cheaper. On a scale of one to five, I would rate its price a four."

"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."

"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."