Dell Storage Resource Manager vs NetApp OnCommand Insight comparison

"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 all about ease of use and reliability."

"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."

"Performance monitoring of hundreds of switches and being able to see results in one dashboard."

"Being able to immediately look at my data. See the sizing, where I'm at on different virtual machines."

"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."

"OnCommand Insight's most valuable feature is the ability to see figure applications."

"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."

"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 Performance Manager: Where we get performance statistics."

"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."

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

"Technical support is inadequate."

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

"Enhance SNMP monitoring in order to broaden the number of storages that can be discovered."

"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 them to develop voice commands so that I can say to the product, "Create a volume.""

"A little bit more from technical support would give us a little bit more insight."

"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 to see better graphics. We have seen regular graphs and pie graphs. I am sure that there are better ways to show this information."

"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."

"There are no licensing costs for this product."

"The solution is mid-priced."

"The company has saved money by narrowing down issues faster using servers and performance."

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

"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."

"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."