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

Dell Technologies and NetApp are both solutions in the Storage Management category. Dell Technologies is ranked #9, while NetApp is ranked #8. Dell Technologies holds a 6.6% mindshare in SM, compared to NetApp’s 6.4% mindshare. Additionally, 62% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of NetApp users who would recommend it.
Dell Storage Resource Manag...
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62% willing to recommend
NetApp OnCommand Insight
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  • 343 Comparison Views
92% willing to recommend
 

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We performed a comparison between Dell Storage Resource Manager (SRM) and NetApp OnCommand Insight based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Dell Storage Resource Manag...
Ranking in Storage Management
9th
Average Rating
7.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
NetApp OnCommand Insight
Ranking in Storage Management
8th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Storage Management category, the mindshare of Dell Storage Resource Manager (SRM) is 6.6%, down from 7.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp OnCommand Insight is 6.4%, down from 6.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Storage Management
 

Featured Reviews

Kazi Amranul Houqe - PeerSpot reviewer
Great features that allow for supervision of storage, management of users and driver-related updates
It needs to be segregated if you compare the EMC storage with HP and IBM. We have to identify the reliability of the fiber channel ports. If this can be improved, it will be better for the end-user. There are issues if you manage through the sensory in the fiber channel. We want to be able to manage things like storage, hosting, details about the mount point, and how much IOP is collapsed to which host in any single console. In addition, it will help us to identify and segregate the issues blocks.
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Anuj_Jain - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"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."
"The partitions function well for backup storage."
"Scalability: If you're from a large enterprise, it's easy for us to go into customer environments and pull the data out. It's very security-friendly."
"This gives me better performance numbers and gives me more information about where my loopholes are, where I need to target my customers, where I need to go back and retain storage."
"The Performance Manager: Where we get performance statistics."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I am very happy with the stability. When your customers don't notice anything wrong, that's the biggest win for a product."
"The machine learning features help me troubleshoot faster."
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Cons

"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."
"Technical support needs improvement, as well as the engineering resources, who do the upgrades."
"Enhance SNMP monitoring in order to broaden the number of storages that can be discovered."
"I'd like it to be more stable, simpler, and get Java out of it."
"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."
"Just make it one product, not in pieces like performance and discovery. Stop having all these individual pieces."
"OnCommand Insight lacks AI to protect against ransomware and identify users accessing things abnormally."
"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 them to develop voice commands so that I can say to the product, "Create a volume.""
"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."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"There are no licensing costs for this product."
"The solution is mid-priced."
"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 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."
"We like that it is one license and everything is bundled in together."
"Pricing for NetApp OnCommand Insight could be cheaper. On a scale of one to five, I would rate its price a four."
"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."
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Also Known As

Dell EMC SRM, Dell EMC ViPR SRM, ViPR SRM, EMC ControlCenter, ECC, EMC ProSphere
OCI
 

Overview

ViPR SRM is a software solution that provides multi-vendor capacity, performance, and configuration dashboards and reports for traditional and software-defined storage resources.

Dell Technologies

NetApp OnCommand Insight management software delivers consistent insight across your data center so you can monitor and manage your hybrid IT multivendor storage, compute, and switching infrastructures.

NetApp
 

Sample Customers

HNTB Corporation
Société Générale, TechnologyOne
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July 2025
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