NetApp OnCommand Insight vs SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor comparison

NetApp and SolarWinds are both solutions in the Storage Management category. NetApp is ranked #3, while SolarWinds is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.0. NetApp holds a 6.5% mindshare in SM, compared to SolarWinds’s 4.9% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of NetApp users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of SolarWinds users who would recommend it.

NetApp OnCommand Insight

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between NetApp OnCommand Insight and SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor 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.

To learn more, read our detailed NetApp OnCommand Insight vs. SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor Report (Updated: February 2026).

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Categories and Ranking

NetApp OnCommand Insight

Ranking in Storage Management

3rd

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

SolarWinds Storage Resource...

Ranking in Storage Management

6th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Storage Management category, the mindshare of NetApp OnCommand Insight is 6.5%, up from 6.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor is 4.9%, up from 2.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Storage Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
NetApp OnCommand Insight	6.5%
SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor	4.9%
Other	88.6%

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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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AbdulKader Mohandes

Senior Systems Engineer at Al Jazeera Media Network

Custom alerts and rich performance metrics have improved server monitoring and storage planning

We use customizable alerts extensively with different services, because the exchange services are different from Active Directory or DNS or anything else. We have customizable alerts for each service. I do not use the historical data trends that predict future storage needs. Perhaps some of my colleagues use it, but I do not. I would like to see a focus on broadcast services in the future to make it better. Broadcast services, specifically TV broadcast services, would be valuable to us because we come from a broadcast technology background and would appreciate having some features related to that. I would rate this review as an eight out of ten.

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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 Performance Manager: Where we get performance statistics."

"I am very happy with the stability. When your customers don't notice anything wrong, that's the biggest win for a product."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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"The initial setup is very straightforward."

Cons

"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 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'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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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"The solution could always be more easily scalable."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"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."

"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."

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Top Industries

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Marketing Services Firm

16%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Healthcare Company

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Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	31

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What needs improvement with SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor?

The number of similar alerts is the main area for improvement. Alert noise would be great to reduce.

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We are still working with SolarWinds and use the NPM product along with SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor.

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Also Known As

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Overview

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.

NetApp

The storage monitoring and capacity management software from SolarWinds gives you deep visibility into the performance of your multi-vendor storage arrays, and helps you closely watch the application stack for storage issues that affect application performance.

SolarWinds

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