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Dell Storage Resource Manager (SRM) vs NetApp OnCommand Insight comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Dell Storage Resource Manag...
Ranking in Storage Management
3rd
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
NetApp OnCommand Insight
Ranking in Storage Management
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Storage Management category, the mindshare of Dell Storage Resource Manager (SRM) is 5.7%, down from 7.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp OnCommand Insight is 7.9%, up from 6.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Storage Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
NetApp OnCommand Insight7.9%
Dell Storage Resource Manager (SRM)5.7%
Other86.4%
Storage Management
 

Featured Reviews

Kazi Amranul Houqe - PeerSpot reviewer
First Assistant Vice President (FAVP) & Unit Head of Server & Storage Management Unit at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Has streamlined provisioning and enabled centralized monitoring across hybrid environments
Considering nowadays, all the concentration is focusing on data protection, data security, and data resilience with Dell Storage Resource Manager (SRM). I suggest to the Dell team to concentrate on data security and cybersecurity, as it is the most significant concern. I work in a bank, and for financial organizations, much focus is spotlighted on how to protect data, secure data, and prevent any kind of fraud. Many financial organizations' data is corrupted and hacked by third parties, so it's crucial to find ways to protect data security and save data by creating an air-gap solution. Having ideas on an air-gap solution to prevent data leakage without a network layer would be beneficial. Maintaining a security layer is important, so this is my expectation for Dell.
Anuj_Jain - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It's all about ease of use and reliability."
"Dell Storage Resource Manager (SRM) is most useful because it is easy to use and easy for provisioning on all hostings, proactively viewable to manage, and the storage controller information is given to the functional, all in a single dashboard."
"The partitions function well for backup storage."
"Managing multiple storage arrays under one console was a valuable feature of this product."
"It is easy to control the storage."
"The partitions function well for backup storage."
"Ease of administration fits in well with all the EMC SAN storage."
"You have a singular view across all of your storage platforms of what is being used, what is available, and then being able to manage and manipulate those resources as long as it has the capability to manage them."
"We have saved significantly by using OCI; I don't know the exact amount but it's more than a million."
"NetApp gives our clients the best infrastructure with fast and easy administration."
"It's centralized, it's got a lot of data in there, and we can utilize the data that's in there and the output to other systems to run scripts off of it, so it's pretty versatile."
"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."
"It has given us a lot more information than what we could have done ourselves, or with other products."
"It's given us a better concept of what we've got out there and where our hurt points are, where we need some more work in the different areas, where we might need to move volumes around to get better performance, and also definitely to see where that capacity is, see if we need to add more 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."
"If you're going to do any reasonable-sized NetApp installation, you need to have it."
 

Cons

"Technical support is inadequate."
"Technical support needs improvement, as well as the engineering resources, who do the upgrades."
"I would like to see third-party storage management."
"To be frank, I believe there are many other applications that allow us to manage the array, along with in-depth analysis. Even EMC has developed better products than ECC."
"When it was deployed, it was challenging to manage."
"Technical support needs improvement, as well as the engineering resources, who do the upgrades."
"The support needs to be improved because I have found that even simple issues take a long time to be solved."
"The installation was complex because we had to setup multiple servers."
"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 to see better graphics. We have seen regular graphs and pie graphs. I am sure that there are better ways to show this information."
"A little bit more from technical support would give us a little bit more insight."
"OnCommand Insight is really limited compared to what Cloud Insights is doing."
"Enhance SNMP monitoring in order to broaden the number of storages that can be discovered."
"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."
"I think there are issues with the Java Stack. Java seems to use a lot more memory than other solutions."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"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."
"For me, it is always too much. Licensing is on TBs, and I think, nowadays that is outmoded."
"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."
"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 like that it is one license and everything is bundled in together."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Healthcare Company
6%
Marketing Services Firm
13%
Healthcare Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise31
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Dell Storage Resource Manager?
Considering nowadays, all the concentration is focusing on data protection, data security, and data resilience with Dell Storage Resource Manager (SRM). I suggest to the Dell team to concentrate on...
What is your primary use case for Dell Storage Resource Manager?
The use case for Dell Storage Resource Manager (SRM) is good for us, as there is good provisioning and we use it for the resource manager for thin provisioning and managing the storage. I'm using a...
What advice do you have for others considering Dell Storage Resource Manager?
I was using Dell Storage Resource Manager (SRM) fully on-prem, but currently, it is almost a hybrid solution. The banking applications are diverting from on-prem to the cloud and Kubernetes microse...
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Also Known As

Dell EMC SRM, Dell EMC ViPR SRM, ViPR SRM, EMC ControlCenter, ECC, EMC ProSphere
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Sample Customers

HNTB Corporation
Société Générale, TechnologyOne
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