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Dell VPLEX vs NetApp OnCommand Insight comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

Dell VPLEX
Ranking in Storage Management
4th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
19
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 June 2026, in the Storage Management category, the mindshare of Dell VPLEX is 6.6%, down from 7.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp OnCommand Insight is 7.9%, 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 Insight7.9%
Dell VPLEX6.6%
Other85.5%
Storage Management
 

Featured Reviews

Shailendra Choudhary - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Has supported enterprise projects consistently but pricing remains a challenge for broader adoption
We are system integrators and resell the HCI solution. We have worked with Dell VPLEX for approximately two to three years. We have been in several RFCs, and Dell VPLEX is implemented in the enterprise segment only. The solution is expensive and requires more budget, so people in the SMB segment do not prefer it. We typically recommend Dell VPLEX for customers who already work with other Dell products.
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

"The support is good, and you don't have to wait long before things get done."
"We have see performance improvement in our databases."
"Due to the large number of models and different brands it is a very good solution to virtualize volumes."
"With VPLEX, we are able to automate this process where failovers between sites now occur automatically."
"With the help of EMC VPLEX we simplified the architecture and improved the response time."
"It’s a great product; very reliable."
"The capacity to migrate machines onto VPLEX is great — it's very clean. We can migrate machines and add arrays easily."
"For a new application setup, it worked like a charm."
"The machine learning features help me troubleshoot faster."
"OnCommand Insight's most valuable feature is the ability to see figure applications."
"It gives us the ability to report on all our storage environment, monitor, visualize, and pinpoint problems, focus on and project usage growth, monitor and measure performance of all the stores, and use it for capacity planning, forecasting, and comparing performance over several years and across different vendors."
"Time to resolution has gone way down, especially when working with the current performance issue."
"It's a stable product."
"The Performance Manager: Where we get performance statistics."
"Has made our operations simpler."
"We didn't have good insight into what our systems were doing until we had that product."
 

Cons

"The solution is expensive and requires more budget, so people in the SMB segment do not prefer it."
"VPLEX's engine-based architecture is complex, so the implementation is challenging and takes more time. It's also difficult to fix hardware issues. When an appliance fails, it takes Dell EMC a long time to fix it because spare parts are in short supply."
"With Dell VPLEX, there are some bugs with Broadcom."
"We experienced increases in latency in accesses to disks and some bugs on engines."
"The licensing model for enterprise storage (EMC VMAX) and integrating the solution into the actual storage frames instead of a separate product."
"Today, it needs a huge effort that is not acceptable during disaster recovery."
"The price is a problem with EMC due to the fact that it's more expensive than the other vendors."
"Based on our requirements, we bought this product for doing online data migrations without data disruption, but we realized that there is a limit to backend storage that can be encapsulate to it."
"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."
"We suffer a little bit from stability. At each batching cycle, we find some services that need to be restarted."
"Enhance SNMP monitoring in order to broaden the number of storages that can be discovered."
"Perhaps integration with other platforms; any other monitoring, other kinds of storage platforms."
"It would be helpful if it were easier to create queries. It's not very intuitive."
"I think there are issues with the Java Stack. Java seems to use a lot more memory than other solutions."
"I felt like it was complex. They said it was simple but, they have a guy who will come out and help you through the process."
"Our initial experience with OCI wasn't good."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"VPLEX is a little bit expensive in my personal opinion."
"We struck a great deal with Dell EMC, so for us, VPLEX was not very expensive."
"The company has saved money by narrowing down issues faster using servers and performance."
"Pricing for NetApp OnCommand Insight could be cheaper. On a scale of one to five, I would rate its price a four."
"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."
"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 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."
"We like that it is one license and everything is bundled in together."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Healthcare Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Construction Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Marketing Services Firm
11%
Healthcare Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise12
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise31
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Dell VPLEX?
Some of the products are very easy to implement, while others are more difficult, and our team seeks support help when required. Regarding the integration part, the delivery team handles all integr...
What is your primary use case for Dell VPLEX?
We are implementing Cohesity, Hitachi, Dell, and Nutanix, VMware, vSAN; multiple products. We have recently started working with Cohesity because there was not much presence in India for Cohesity, ...
What advice do you have for others considering Dell VPLEX?
Hitachi Systems Microclinic has been renamed to Hitachi Systems India Private Limited. The email address has been changed to shailendra.chaudhry.hd at hitachi-systems.com from shailendra_singh.chau...
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