NetApp OnCommand Insight vs SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor comparison

"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."

"It's a stable solution, and in general we can monitor the system efficiently."

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

"The Performance Manager: Where we get performance statistics, is about the best method we have right now for monitoring our individual virtual machines."

"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."

"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."

"We can analyze the arrays overall performance down to a LUN level, very quickly, with this product."

"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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"The performance metrics, especially for CPU and memory, and for the overall performance of the servers have been found most valuable."

"The initial setup is very straightforward."

"Its only drawbacks are it's expensive and the upgrades are somewhat difficult."

"Maybe lower the price."

"I think one of the weaknesses is pulling in systems outside of virtual environments, of physical hosts, and the like."

"Our initial experience with OCI wasn't good."

"From 7-Mode to C mode a migration happened and many features, like FTP and SFTP, were dropped."

"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."

"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."

"But if they would just continue the platform support for other vendors besides NetApp on the OCI part."

"The number of similar alerts is the main area for improvement."

"Scalability is my sore spot."

"The solution could always be more easily scalable."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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