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

"It is easy to control the storage."

"The partitions function well for backup storage."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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'd like it to be more stable, simpler, and get Java out of it."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The solution is mid-priced."

"There are no licensing costs for this product."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."