Dell Storage Resource Manager vs NetApp OnCommand Insight comparison

"The partitions function well for backup storage."

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

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

"It is easy to control the storage."

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

"We haven't gone to the extent where we are using the anomaly detection, but from a reporting perspective and single-pane-of-glass perspective, to look at our heterogeneous infrastructure, it is doing a great job."

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

"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."

"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."

"This gives me better performance numbers and gives me more information about where my loopholes are, where I need to target my customers, where I need to go back and retain storage."

"Once we gathered and saw what we were doing with everything, we saved close to a petabyte worth of data by being able to delete old data and move stuff around. Thus, we became more efficient."

"What I found most valuable in NetApp OnCommand Insight is that it gives me a complete view of the environment, particularly an end-to-end view. I can locate my searches and view my storage devices. I can also find my recent servers and other host devices. I can then map all those into a single view, so that I can learn about the performance of my devices, or if there's a bottleneck at a particular place. I like that I can view all those information in NetApp OnCommand Insight. I like that very much. I also like that NetApp OnCommand Insight has a very good interface that allows you to create and customize reports, and it also offers a bundle of reports as well."

"Technical support is inadequate."

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

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

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

"The initial setup is complex. There is a lot of stuff to set up. I had to teach my guys a lot of things, so there was a lot of learning."

"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."

"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."

"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?""

"Enhance SNMP monitoring in order to broaden the number of storages that can be discovered."

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

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

"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."

"There are no licensing costs for this product."

"The solution is mid-priced."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."