Lenovo TS Series vs NetApp OnCommand Insight comparison

"The most valuable aspect is that after our site blows up, we can recover the site afterward."

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

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

"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."

"It gives visibility to the VMs."

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

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

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

"It has helped us optimize our storage."

"There are a lot of problems when you recover a tape. Like, if the website actually went down, there would be some problems recovering the tape. When it comes to the tape recovery, it's just a hassle."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Compared to the competitors, it's a pretty cheap solution."

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

"We like that it is one license and everything is bundled in together."

"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."

"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."

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