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CA Allocate DASD Space and Placement vs NetApp OnCommand Insight comparison

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Categories and Ranking

CA Allocate DASD Space and ...
Ranking in Storage Management
13th
Average Rating
6.0
Number of Reviews
1
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 October 2026, in the Storage Management category, the mindshare of CA Allocate DASD Space and Placement is 3.3%, down from 3.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp OnCommand Insight is 8.6%, up from 6.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Storage Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
NetApp OnCommand Insight8.6%
CA Allocate DASD Space and Placement3.3%
Other88.1%
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Featured Reviews

it_user354057 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mainframe Storage Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's a space recovery product that helps us fix problems before they happen so we work on them after running a job, but I don't want to have to touch a file to make changes or updates.
One of the biggest benefits of CA Allocate is in the cost. We initially went with BMC MainView, which is a great product and a little more user friendly than CA Allocate. But because of our good relationship with CA, we were able to mimic everything we had with BMC. Any issues we had doing that, CA collected them right away to help us. As a space recovery product, CA Allocate helps us fix problems before they happen and then we work on them after we run a job. If somebody does not put the right space parameter, we let the job run and then we fix it after. If somebody does not optimize a data set, we run our reports after talking to these people without ever having an event waste CPU cycles.
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

"As a space recovery product, CA Allocate helps us fix problems before they happen and then we work on them after we run a job."
"We had stuff that we could bring up, so our data was protected, which is what it is all about."
"Performance monitoring of hundreds of switches and being able to see results in one dashboard."
"I would say that if you've got a large virtual environment with a NetApp storage - OCI is written by NetApp - it would almost be silly to look elsewhere."
"For the reporting side, the data warehouse side, if you're good with that, it can get really detailed reports that are good for showing people, at any level of the company."
"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."
"OCI is a very strong product, it has so many features and a handful of features that are really good, such as analytics and the reporting."
"It's stable and gives good feedback on performance."
"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."
 

Cons

"Allocate is a good product, but it's not there yet in terms of that."
"I think one of the weaknesses is pulling in systems outside of virtual environments, of physical hosts, and the like."
"We're not using it to its full potential, so it is hard to provide feedback here."
"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.""
"Perhaps integration with other platforms; any other monitoring, other kinds of storage platforms."
"We have had great success with OCI from the reporting perspective, but when it comes to other heterogeneous data sources, there might be some disconnects."
"Any increase in loading times, or anything like that, would be useful for us. It's slow, the user interface could be improved a little bit."
"I felt like it was complex. They said it was simple but, they have a guy who will come out and help you through the process."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Pricing for NetApp OnCommand Insight could be cheaper. On a scale of one to five, I would rate its price a four."
"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."
"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."
"We like that it is one license and everything is bundled in together."
"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."
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Construction Company
17%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Healthcare Company
10%
Marketing Services Firm
9%
 

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Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise3
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Also Known As

BrightStor DASD Space and Placement
OCI
 

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