Dell VPLEX vs NetApp OnCommand Insight comparison

"Mobility enables us to carry out an internal migration of data."

"Storage virtualization and geographic resilience for Metro Sans, plus a great performance improvement."

"Dell's technical support is awesome. We received instant support from EMC as long as we had an active contract."

"Its mirroring capabilities allow for data to be mirrored across two different data centers, so if one center were to crash or fail, the other center could take over and keep everything running smoothly."

"The solution works well. It's very reliable."

"The best feature of VPLEX storage is its ability to consolidate storage. It also provides the highest RPO and RTOs for replication technology. VPLEX enables application mobility."

"The most valuable feature is deduplication, as we have no duplication in the snapshots."

"The capacity to migrate machines onto VPLEX is great — it's very clean. We can migrate machines and add arrays easily."

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

"We haven't gone to the extent where we are using the anomaly detection, but from a reporting perspective and single-pane-of-glass perspective, to look at our heterogeneous infrastructure, it is doing a great job."

"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."

"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."

"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 us the ability to look at our storage and figure out what we are doing with it. Without it, we are sort of blind."

"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."

"It has helped us optimize our storage."

"Dell VPLEX should improve its integration and user interface and be easier to configure."

"I would like to have site-to-site replication capability for applications."

"VPLEX hardware migration to spare equipment in case of major disruption."

"VPLEX's engine-based architecture is complex, so the implementation is challenging and takes more time. It's also difficult to fix hardware issues. When an appliance fails, it takes Dell EMC a long time to fix it because spare parts are in short supply."

"There can be delays in getting performance reports."

"The price is a problem with EMC due to the fact that it's more expensive than the other vendors."

"With Dell VPLEX, there are some bugs with Broadcom."

"Today, it needs a huge effort that is not acceptable during disaster recovery."

"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."

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

"OnCommand Insight lacks AI to protect against ransomware and identify users accessing things abnormally."

"I'd like it to be more stable, simpler, and get Java out of it."

"I would like them to develop voice commands so that I can say to the product, "Create a volume.""

"The UI: They have been growing and changing. There's been some growing pains with that, but they are moving into the new HTML5 interface, which is fantastic."

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

"Just make it one product, not in pieces like performance and discovery. Stop having all these individual pieces."

"VPLEX is a little bit expensive in my personal opinion."

"We struck a great deal with Dell EMC, so for us, VPLEX was not very expensive."

"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."

"For me, it is always too much. Licensing is on TBs, and I think, nowadays that is outmoded."

"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 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."

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