We performed a comparison between Dell VPLEX and NetApp OnCommand Insight based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Storage Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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 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."
"Storage virtualization and geographic resilience for Metro Sans, plus a great performance improvement."
"The capacity to migrate machines onto VPLEX is great — it's very clean. We can migrate machines and add arrays easily."
"The most valuable feature is deduplication, as we have no duplication in the snapshots."
"The solution works well. It's very reliable."
"Mobility enables us to carry out an internal migration of data."
"Dell's technical support is awesome. We received instant support from EMC as long as we had an active contract."
"OnCommand Insight's most valuable feature is the ability to see figure applications."
"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."
"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 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."
"The machine learning features help me troubleshoot faster."
"It's stable and gives good feedback on performance."
"I am very happy with the stability. When your customers don't notice anything wrong, that's the biggest win for a product."
"It gives visibility to the VMs."
"The price is a problem with EMC due to the fact that it's more expensive than the other vendors."
"The initial setup is complex."
"Dell VPLEX should improve its integration and user interface and be easier to configure."
"With Dell VPLEX, there are some bugs with Broadcom."
"There can be delays in getting performance reports."
"VPLEX hardware migration to spare equipment in case of major disruption."
"Today, it needs a huge effort that is not acceptable during disaster recovery."
"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."
"I would like them to develop voice commands so that I can say to the product, "Create a volume.""
"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 to see better graphics. We have seen regular graphs and pie graphs. I am sure that there are better ways to show this information."
"From 7-Mode to C mode a migration happened and many features, like FTP and SFTP, were dropped. We have been using it, but there needs to be better communication when features are dropped because there are end users using it who might find it a shock: "Oh, why was that dropped?""
"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."
"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."
"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."
Dell VPLEX is ranked 2nd in Storage Management with 18 reviews while NetApp OnCommand Insight is ranked 6th in Storage Management with 37 reviews. Dell VPLEX is rated 8.2, while NetApp OnCommand Insight is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell VPLEX writes "It's an excellent solution for data mobility and disaster recovery, but the CLI can be difficult for beginners". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp OnCommand Insight writes "Gives an end-to-end view of your environment and has a very good interface for report creation and customization". Dell VPLEX is most compared with IBM Spectrum Virtualize, IBM SAN Volume Control, NetApp OnCommand and Huawei OceanStor DJ, whereas NetApp OnCommand Insight is most compared with NetApp OnCommand and Dell Storage Resource Manager. See our Dell VPLEX vs. NetApp OnCommand Insight report.
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