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Dell VPLEX vs NetApp OnCommand Insight comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

Dell VPLEX
Ranking in Storage Management
4th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
19
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 June 2026, in the Storage Management category, the mindshare of Dell VPLEX is 6.6%, down from 7.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp OnCommand Insight is 7.9%, up from 6.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Storage Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
NetApp OnCommand Insight7.9%
Dell VPLEX6.6%
Other85.5%
Storage Management
 

Featured Reviews

Shailendra Choudhary - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Has supported enterprise projects consistently but pricing remains a challenge for broader adoption
We are system integrators and resell the HCI solution. We have worked with Dell VPLEX for approximately two to three years. We have been in several RFCs, and Dell VPLEX is implemented in the enterprise segment only. The solution is expensive and requires more budget, so people in the SMB segment do not prefer it. We typically recommend Dell VPLEX for customers who already work with other Dell products.
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

"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 most valuable feature is deduplication, as we have no duplication in the snapshots."
"VPLEX offers a large compatibility matrix and valuable features."
"With VPLEX, we are able to automate this process where failovers between sites now occur automatically."
"Mobility enables us to carry out an internal migration of data."
"It’s a great product; very reliable."
"The business continuity is sorted, as the data is in two data centers, i.e., readable and writable, and if one side goes down, there is no downtime and the other side continues non-disruptively."
"Due to the large number of models and different brands it is a very good solution to virtualize volumes."
"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 benefit is that it is not just the storage itself."
"The Performance Manager: Where we get performance statistics, is about the best method we have right now for monitoring our individual virtual machines."
"Performance monitoring of hundreds of switches and being able to see results in one dashboard."
"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."
"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."
"We can analyze the arrays overall performance down to a LUN level, very quickly, with this product."
 

Cons

"We experienced increases in latency in accesses to disks and some bugs on engines."
"Maybe setup a one-to-many cluster, instead of just a 1-to-1."
"The solution is expensive and requires more budget, so people in the SMB segment do not prefer it."
"Due to the bug with Broadcom, we have had a massive crisis on VPLEX. This little bug has caused roughly one thousand machines to go down."
"There can be delays in getting performance reports."
"With Dell VPLEX, there are some bugs with Broadcom."
"The licensing model for enterprise storage (EMC VMAX) and integrating the solution into the actual storage frames instead of a separate product."
"I would like to have site-to-site replication capability for applications."
"I think there was an issue with the actual usage of some of the storage, so that could be a little bit more detail we can get in to."
"Email notifications Data store recoveries Moving into the cloud. They should include more of these type of things."
"I rate it an eight out of 10 because of the features that it lacks and the stability, although that is getting better."
"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."
"The stability is terrible. It breaks all the time."
"I think one of the weaknesses is pulling in systems outside of virtual environments, of physical hosts, and the like."
"We suffer a little bit from stability. At each batching cycle, we find some services that need to be restarted."
"It is very hard to implement. It takes a long time to learn."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We struck a great deal with Dell EMC, so for us, VPLEX was not very expensive."
"VPLEX is a little bit expensive in my personal opinion."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Healthcare Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Construction Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Marketing Services Firm
11%
Healthcare Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise12
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise31
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Dell VPLEX?
Some of the products are very easy to implement, while others are more difficult, and our team seeks support help when required. Regarding the integration part, the delivery team handles all integr...
What is your primary use case for Dell VPLEX?
We are implementing Cohesity, Hitachi, Dell, and Nutanix, VMware, vSAN; multiple products. We have recently started working with Cohesity because there was not much presence in India for Cohesity, ...
What advice do you have for others considering Dell VPLEX?
Hitachi Systems Microclinic has been renamed to Hitachi Systems India Private Limited. The email address has been changed to shailendra.chaudhry.hd at hitachi-systems.com from shailendra_singh.chau...
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