Sr. storage Administrator at Nationwide Children's Hospital
Real User
Top 5
2023-11-02T16:33:00Z
Nov 2, 2023
The primary use case for Cloud Insights is to provide visibility into our storage groups and other products we don't natively have access to. It gives a lot of behind-the-scenes knowledge about what was happening with the internal personalization group. We had access to their environment to back it up and assist them with the REST situation.
Product Manager - Netapp at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Top 20
2023-04-06T09:56:30Z
Apr 6, 2023
The first use case for NetApp Cloud Insights is to monitor clients' infrastructure, excluding their networking equipment, such as IP-based network switches. NetApp Cloud Insights allows clients to monitor their solution from the application down to the storage layer, without drilling down to specific issues such as heat maps, bottlenecks, or spikes in IOPS. This functionality is not limited to NetApp storage or products; it also supports other vendors' products, including HPE, IBM, Dell, and Hitachi, as well as various server vendors and solutions such as Nutanix, VMware, and applications like Oracle, SQL, Microsoft, Linux, and Kubernetes. The second use case involves end-to-end cyber resilience, starting from the storage layer, where it provides intelligence to interconnect with the on-tap feature. This ensures that any anomaly within a ransomware attack can be detected, reported, and action is taken, such as creating a snapshot. This allows the system or site administrator to recover from a ransomware attack if needed. Additionally, the system can perform cost calculations for multiple business units based on storage capacities, such as calculating the cost of storage per TB or GB. Capacity planning can also be done to determine how long the resources will last before running out. The solution can be deployed across public, private, and hybrid cloud services and we use AWS, Azure, and Google.
Director of IT at a logistics company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
2020-10-20T04:19:00Z
Oct 20, 2020
We use it primarily to look at both performance and security around our NetApp Filers. I know it can expand to other entities within the NetApp, but we really focus on looking at our Filers and using Cloud Secure to see potential ransomware attacks, unauthorized changes to files, and deletions. It's a SaaS solution hosted by NetApp.
Information Technology Consultant at TELUS Corporation
Consultant
2020-10-11T08:58:00Z
Oct 11, 2020
The main benefit of NetApp Cloud Insights is that it's agentless. It just collects information from the SNMP protocol. We had NetApp ONTAP installed and we paired with VMware. The biggest challenge for any company is to find the bottleneck on the Edge of the technologies, like between VMware and NetApp. Both products have great reporting and monitoring tools, but whenever it comes to finding issues on the Edge between those products, you can hardly identify whether it's a storage issue or whether it's a virtualization issue. NetApp Cloud Insights greatly blends the performance data, approximates, links together the performance usage from the VMware and NetApp perspectives, and provides you a single pane of glass in terms of the reporting and monitoring through the virtual machine to the hardware storage. You can find any major bottlenecks or any issue points you need to work on. In any IT infrastructure, whenever you improve, like if you buy faster storage, then you move bottlenecks from storage to the network or to the servers. The biggest challenge is to find where that bottleneck is to resolve the issue. I personally found NetApp Cloud Insights very useful in this sense because we were a heavily virtualized environment. We were a heavily virtualized environment with the NFS Protocol, as our storage main Storage Protocol, we were able to easily nail, locate, and resolve some performance issues using Cloud Insights, which would have been very hard to identify. The biggest challenge though is the licensing model for Cloud Insights. For example, for our environment, the price of purchasing was close to the price of the storage itself, which is why we didn't actually pursue using Cloud Insights further.
Storage Engineer at a media company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
2020-08-19T07:57:00Z
Aug 19, 2020
It is for long-term tracking of performance information. I am also looking at the interaction between NetApp systems and non-NetApp systems. It's only really being used for the storage, and to a limited extent, our VMware. It is maybe being used once or twice a day at most. We're not using it actively. We are just using it in kind of a testing phase.
We're using it for monitoring and managing all of the NetApp storage in our environment, both in the cloud and on-prem. We are expanding it to use it with our virtualized environment and with our in-house storage environments.
NetApp Cloud Insights is an infrastructure monitoring tool that gives you visibility into your complete infrastructure. With Cloud Insights, you can monitor, troubleshoot and optimize all your resources including your public clouds and your private data centers.
The primary use case for Cloud Insights is to provide visibility into our storage groups and other products we don't natively have access to. It gives a lot of behind-the-scenes knowledge about what was happening with the internal personalization group. We had access to their environment to back it up and assist them with the REST situation.
We primarily use Cloud Insights to provide monitoring and dashboarding to our customers.
We use Cloud Secure to monitor and secure our SIS and NFS file systems, particularly for protection against ransomware threats.
The first use case for NetApp Cloud Insights is to monitor clients' infrastructure, excluding their networking equipment, such as IP-based network switches. NetApp Cloud Insights allows clients to monitor their solution from the application down to the storage layer, without drilling down to specific issues such as heat maps, bottlenecks, or spikes in IOPS. This functionality is not limited to NetApp storage or products; it also supports other vendors' products, including HPE, IBM, Dell, and Hitachi, as well as various server vendors and solutions such as Nutanix, VMware, and applications like Oracle, SQL, Microsoft, Linux, and Kubernetes. The second use case involves end-to-end cyber resilience, starting from the storage layer, where it provides intelligence to interconnect with the on-tap feature. This ensures that any anomaly within a ransomware attack can be detected, reported, and action is taken, such as creating a snapshot. This allows the system or site administrator to recover from a ransomware attack if needed. Additionally, the system can perform cost calculations for multiple business units based on storage capacities, such as calculating the cost of storage per TB or GB. Capacity planning can also be done to determine how long the resources will last before running out. The solution can be deployed across public, private, and hybrid cloud services and we use AWS, Azure, and Google.
I mainly use Cloud Insights for visualization and automation.
Our storage team uses the solution to monitor security vulnerabilities and forecast capacity.
We use it primarily to look at both performance and security around our NetApp Filers. I know it can expand to other entities within the NetApp, but we really focus on looking at our Filers and using Cloud Secure to see potential ransomware attacks, unauthorized changes to files, and deletions. It's a SaaS solution hosted by NetApp.
The main benefit of NetApp Cloud Insights is that it's agentless. It just collects information from the SNMP protocol. We had NetApp ONTAP installed and we paired with VMware. The biggest challenge for any company is to find the bottleneck on the Edge of the technologies, like between VMware and NetApp. Both products have great reporting and monitoring tools, but whenever it comes to finding issues on the Edge between those products, you can hardly identify whether it's a storage issue or whether it's a virtualization issue. NetApp Cloud Insights greatly blends the performance data, approximates, links together the performance usage from the VMware and NetApp perspectives, and provides you a single pane of glass in terms of the reporting and monitoring through the virtual machine to the hardware storage. You can find any major bottlenecks or any issue points you need to work on. In any IT infrastructure, whenever you improve, like if you buy faster storage, then you move bottlenecks from storage to the network or to the servers. The biggest challenge is to find where that bottleneck is to resolve the issue. I personally found NetApp Cloud Insights very useful in this sense because we were a heavily virtualized environment. We were a heavily virtualized environment with the NFS Protocol, as our storage main Storage Protocol, we were able to easily nail, locate, and resolve some performance issues using Cloud Insights, which would have been very hard to identify. The biggest challenge though is the licensing model for Cloud Insights. For example, for our environment, the price of purchasing was close to the price of the storage itself, which is why we didn't actually pursue using Cloud Insights further.
It is for long-term tracking of performance information. I am also looking at the interaction between NetApp systems and non-NetApp systems. It's only really being used for the storage, and to a limited extent, our VMware. It is maybe being used once or twice a day at most. We're not using it actively. We are just using it in kind of a testing phase.
We're using it for monitoring and managing all of the NetApp storage in our environment, both in the cloud and on-prem. We are expanding it to use it with our virtualized environment and with our in-house storage environments.