NetApp BlueXP vs NetApp OnCommand Insight comparison

NetApp BlueXP and NetApp OnCommand Insight are both solutions in the Storage Management category. NetApp BlueXP is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.0, while NetApp OnCommand Insight is ranked #4. NetApp BlueXP holds a 4.5% mindshare in SM, compared to NetApp OnCommand Insight’s 5.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of NetApp BlueXP users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of NetApp OnCommand Insight users who would recommend it.

NetApp BlueXP

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100% willing to recommend

NetApp OnCommand Insight

Read 37 NetApp OnCommand Insight reviews

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92% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between NetApp BlueXP and NetApp OnCommand Insight based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Storage Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

NetApp BlueXP

Ranking in Storage Management

2nd

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

NetApp OnCommand Insight

Ranking in Storage Management

4th

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Storage Management category, the mindshare of NetApp BlueXP is 4.5%, down from 6.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp OnCommand Insight is 5.9%, down from 6.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Storage Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
NetApp BlueXP	4.5%
NetApp OnCommand Insight	5.9%
Other	89.6%

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Naveen Radhwani

Head IT at TO THE NEW Digital

Improved security and performance and helps with data management

It's improved our data management significantly. The performance and transfer of data have improved significantly. The security functionality is very good. We are much more secure now. It has improved our disaster recovery. We now have a good disaster program in place thanks to BlueXP. BlueXP assists us with AI-driven data operations.

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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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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The software interface can extract the data from the backend effectively."

"NetApp BlueXP makes it easier to deliver products and manage inventory."

"The primary benefit is that it simplifies data management. We face a lot of classification issues with our customers. They need to classify data, but they don't know how to do it. We can help them do it using BlueXP Datasense."

"It has improved our disaster recovery."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to view all our different systems in one place. That's the most important feature for us."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"It gives visibility to the VMs."

"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."

"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."

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Cons

"The VMware capabilities can be improved."

"Performance could be a little better. In my opinion, it's a bit slow. If you click on something, it takes a while for the data to load."

"It's a very expensive product."

"The tool needs to make its licensing pages more user-friendly."

"The dashboard management could be improved."

"Just make it one product, not in pieces like performance and discovery. Stop having all these individual pieces."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I would like them to develop voice commands so that I can say to the product, "Create a volume.""

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

"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."

"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?""

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"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."

"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."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

25%

Real Estate/Law Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

Retailer

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Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	1
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	4

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	31

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp BlueXP?

The pricing is reasonable. I'd rate the affordability seven out of ten.

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What needs improvement with NetApp BlueXP?

The dashboard management could be improved.

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What is your primary use case for NetApp BlueXP?

We primarily use the solution as storage for our media files. We have an online system. The processing is also being done on that storage server. It's like native storage.

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Also Known As

NetApp Cloud Manager, NetApp OnCommand Cloud Manager

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Overview

NetApp BlueXP brings storage and data services together in a unified control plane that will revolutionize your experience. An intuitive interface and powerful automation help decrease resource waste, complexity, and the risk of managing diverse environments. Operational simplicity, here you come.

BlueXP. Its short name belies its myriad capabilities. So, what is BlueXP, and what can it do for you? BlueXP:

Is a unified control plane delivering a simplified hybrid multicloud experience for storage and data services.
Helps you deploy, discover, manage, and optimize data and infrastructure with the simplicity of SaaS.
Combines visibility and manageability of storage instances, with data services like data protection, governance and compliance, mobility, and resource monitoring and optimization.
Enables multicloud operations via a unified control plane to eliminate fragmented and redundant toolsets, frameworks, lexicons, and competencies.

In short, BlueXP enables the evolved cloud you need to run your business your way.

NetApp

NetApp OnCommand Insight management software delivers consistent insight across your data center so you can monitor and manage your hybrid IT multivendor storage, compute, and switching infrastructures.

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