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NetApp OnCommand Insight vs SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor comparison

NetApp and SolarWinds are both solutions in the Storage Management category. NetApp is ranked #4, while SolarWinds is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.0. NetApp holds a 5.9% 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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92% willing to recommend
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100% willing to recommend
 

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We performed a comparison between NetApp OnCommand Insight and SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

NetApp OnCommand Insight
Ranking in Storage Management
4th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SolarWinds Storage Resource...
Ranking in Storage Management
7th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Storage Management category, the mindshare of NetApp OnCommand Insight is 5.9%, down from 6.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor is 4.9%, up from 2.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Storage Management Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
NetApp OnCommand Insight5.9%
SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor4.9%
Other89.2%
Storage Management
 

Featured Reviews

Anuj_Jain - PeerSpot reviewer
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 - PeerSpot reviewer
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."
"It gives us the ability to look at our storage and figure out what we are doing with it. Without it, we are sort of blind."
"It has helped us optimize our storage."
"It gives visibility to the VMs."
"It's stable and gives good feedback on performance."
"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 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."
"Performance monitoring of hundreds of switches and being able to see results in one dashboard."
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"The initial setup is very straightforward."
 

Cons

"I would like them to develop voice commands so that I can say to the product, "Create a volume.""
"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'd like it to be more stable, simpler, and get Java out of 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."
"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."
"Just make it one product, not in pieces like performance and discovery. Stop having all these individual pieces."
"You can build those out, but initially when you bring up the dashboard, that was one thing they couldn't take away. They couldn't change that. It just looks kind of kludgy. I'd like it to look a lot more clean when I first login."
"A little bit more from technical support would give us a little bit more insight."
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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."
"For me, it is always too much. Licensing is on TBs, and I think, nowadays that is outmoded."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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Company Size

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Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise31
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Questions from the Community

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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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What is your primary use case for SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor?
We are still working with SolarWinds and use the NPM product along with SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor.
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What advice do you have for others considering SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor?
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 servi...
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Also Known As

OCI
SolarWinds SRM
 

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
 

Sample Customers

Société Générale, TechnologyOne
NetSuite, Youngs Seafood, APS Bank, Sven Meinks
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