Dell Storage Resource Manager vs NetApp OnCommand Insight comparison

"It's all about ease of use and reliability."

"The partitions function well for backup storage."

"It has many features and capabilities such as local protection and global protection."

"It is easy to control the storage."

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

"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."

"The machine learning features help me troubleshoot faster."

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

"It gives visibility to the VMs."

"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."

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

"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 support needs to be improved because I have found that even simple issues take a long time to be solved."

"Technical support needs improvement, as well as the engineering resources, who do the upgrades."

"Technical support is inadequate."

"When it was deployed, it was challenging to manage."

"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."

"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?""

"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."

"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 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."

"The solution is mid-priced."

"There are no licensing costs for this 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."

"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."

"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 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."

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