Micro Focus Storage Operations Manager [EOL] vs NetApp OnCommand Insight comparison

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Micro Focus Storage Operati...

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8.0

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8.4

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reviewer1181289

Cloud Services - Service Assurance Tools Consulting Lead at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Helpful support, useful AI, and reliable

We are using SNM Traps connectors to have all the events in Micro Focus Storage Operations Manager Micro Focus Storage Operations Manager could improve by having more parameters for storage. When you take the solution out of the box there need to be some more features built-in. I have been using…

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Anuj_Jain

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.

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

Pros

"The stability of the Micro Focus Storage Operations Manager is good."

"Scalability: If you're from a large enterprise, it's easy for us to go into customer environments and pull the data out. It's very security-friendly."

"The most valuable feature of OCI is the ability to correlate a lot of different data sources together."

"NetApp gives our clients the best infrastructure with fast and easy administration."

"For the reporting side, the data warehouse side, if you're good with that, it can get really detailed reports that are good for showing people, at any level of the company."

"This is a very good tool to see everything on an overview: Where and what are the devices, how much storage you are using, how much Apple storage, and with what connectivity is being used."

"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."

"OCI is a very strong product, it has so many features and a handful of features that are really good, such as analytics and the reporting."

"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."

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Cons

"Micro Focus Storage Operations Manager could improve by having more parameters for storage. When you take the solution out of the box there need to be some more features built-in."

"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 UI: They have been growing and changing. There's been some growing pains with that, but they are moving into the new HTML5 interface, which is fantastic."

"Perhaps integration with other platforms; any other monitoring, other kinds of storage platforms."

"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."

"It would be helpful if it were easier to create queries. It's not very intuitive."

"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."

"The stability is terrible. It breaks all the time."

"We suffer a little bit from stability. At each batching cycle, we find some services that need to be restarted."

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

"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 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."

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

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Also Known As

HPE Storage Essentials, HPE Storage Operations Manager

OCI

Overview

With Micro Focus Storage Essentials, you can manage complexity and growth, improve storage utilization and reduce cost, and align storage service to business needs.

OpenText

NetApp OnCommand Insight offers centralized performance monitoring, data correlation, and capacity analysis for seamless storage environment management and growth forecasting.

Designed for efficient storage management, NetApp OnCommand Insight supports VMware integration, comprehensive reporting, security features, and scalability. Its intuitive interface enables tracking of utilization and vulnerability mitigation. It provides analytics-driven troubleshooting and supports diverse vendor systems, facilitating data integration across storage environments. Additionally, it aids in the management of file and block storage protocols and integrates storage devices from different vendors for a unified performance overview. Continuing enhancements in cloud integration and UI simplification are desired, along with better reporting and support for non-NetApp storage systems. Its cost and licensing model are areas where users seek improvement, as well as more graphical reporting.

What Are The Key Features of NetApp OnCommand Insight?

Performance Monitoring: Centralized monitoring of storage environments.
Data Correlation: Facilitates efficient data integration and analysis.
Capacity Analysis: Helps in future capacity planning.
VMware Integration: Seamless integration with VMware environments.
Comprehensive Reporting: Detailed storage usage reports.
Security: Robust security features for data protection.
Scalability: Supports growth in storage demands.

What Benefits and ROI Should Users Look For?

Efficiency: Simplifies storage management processes.
Insights: Provides valuable analytics for informed decision-making.
Growth Forecasting: Assists in predicting future storage needs.
Troubleshooting: Aids in identifying and resolving issues.
Integration: Supports a wide range of vendor systems.

In diverse sectors like technology, finance, and energy, organizations leverage NetApp OnCommand Insight to manage large data storages and analyze VMware performance. It supports Oracle, SQL, and seismic data applications, maintaining a configuration management database for devices and workloads in virtualization environments.

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Sample Customers

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