IBM SAN Volume Control vs NetApp OnCommand Insight comparison

IBM and NetApp are both solutions in the Storage Management category. IBM is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.5, while NetApp is ranked #8. IBM holds a 6.2% mindshare in SM, compared to NetApp’s 5.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

IBM SAN Volume Control

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100% willing to recommend

NetApp OnCommand Insight

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92% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between IBM SAN Volume Control and NetApp OnCommand Insight based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM SAN Volume Control

Ranking in Storage Management

4th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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NetApp OnCommand Insight

Ranking in Storage Management

8th

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Storage Management category, the mindshare of IBM SAN Volume Control is 6.2%, down from 6.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp OnCommand Insight is 5.9%, down from 7.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Nagendra Nekkala.

Senior Manager ICT & at Bangalore International Airport Limited

A sustainable product that has ultra-low latency and reliable security features

Initially, we had some challenges with massive amounts of customer data. We have an airport segment where the passenger data are required, and it’s huge data. We needed a system that could store bulk data with low latency and provide a good customer experience. The solution is very famous. Ultra latency provides miraculous performance and productivity. It also enables advanced virtualization for good scalability. Anyone can opt to use the product. Overall, I rate the tool an eight out of ten.

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Anuj_Jain

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.

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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

"With SVC it is very easy to manage and to use for migration, meaning that when we want to move or to keep control of the volume or update a server database, it is very easy. That's why we use it."

"The product has an ultra-low latency."

"The virtualization layer has been great."

"The most valuable features of IBM SAN Volume Control are the copy services, performance metrics, and analysis. Additionally, they have upgraded and introduced visual volumes."

"The solution is easy to use, easily configurable, and easy to upgrade, manipulate, and add new storage."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"It has helped us optimize our storage."

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Cons

"Patch management and upgrades must be made easier."

"IBM SAN Volume Control could improve by better integrations with other vendor systems. IBM SAN Volume Control can store the environment and are able to integrate with Veeam, but I don't know if they can integrate as well with SVC or other vendors' systems."

"They just need to put in the snap volume because now they use what is called a flash copy. This means that you have to take all the volume instead of NetApp which uses their snapshot."

"I would like to see the usage of virtualized storage boxes improved. I'd like to see this feature fixed, especially for SVC controller, and to be able to hold more storage."

"IBM support can be very slow."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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?""

"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."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"With SAN Volume Controller, we need to license by terabyte."

"The initial price of IBM SAN Volume Control is steep."

"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."

"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 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."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

17%

Energy/Utilities Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Healthcare Company

Manufacturing Company

16%

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Government

10%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM SAN Volume Control?

The product has an ultra-low latency.

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Heterogenous Storage management.

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Also Known As

IBM SVC

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Overview

Built with IBM Spectrum Virtualize software—part of the IBM Spectrum Storage family—IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) is an enterprise-class storage system that helps organizations achieve better data economics by supporting the new large scale workloads that are critical to success. SVC systems can handle the massive volumes of data from mobile and social applications and enable flexible hybrid multicloud deployments and deliver the performance and scalability needed to gain insights from the latest analytics technologies.

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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.

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