Dell Storage Resource Manager vs NetApp OnCommand Insight comparison

"The partitions function well for backup storage."

"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."

"It gives visibility to the VMs."

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

"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."

"Performance monitoring of hundreds of switches and being able to see results in one dashboard."

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

"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."

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

"It has helped us optimize our storage."

"Technical support needs improvement, as well as the engineering resources, who do the upgrades."

"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."

"When it was deployed, it was challenging to manage."

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

"You can build those out, but initially when you bring up the dashboard, that was one thing they couldn't take away. They couldn't change that. It just looks kind of kludgy. I'd like it to look a lot more clean when I first login."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The solution is mid-priced."

"There are no licensing costs for this product."

"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."

"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 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."

"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."

"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."