IBM SAN Volume Control vs NetApp OnCommand Insight comparison

IBM and NetApp are both solutions in the Storage Management category. IBM is ranked #8, while NetApp is ranked #4. IBM holds a 4.3% 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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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between IBM SAN Volume Control 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.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM SAN Volume Control

Ranking in Storage Management

8th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

NetApp OnCommand Insight

Ranking in Storage Management

4th

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Storage Management category, the mindshare of IBM SAN Volume Control is 4.3%, down from 7.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp OnCommand Insight is 5.9%, down from 6.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Storage Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
NetApp OnCommand Insight	5.9%
IBM SAN Volume Control	4.3%
Other	89.8%

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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

"The product has an ultra-low latency."

"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."

"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 virtualization layer has been great."

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

"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 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 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."

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

"The machine learning features help me troubleshoot faster."

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

"Being able to immediately look at my data. See the sizing, where I'm at on different virtual machines."

"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."

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Cons

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Patch management and upgrades must be made easier."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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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 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."

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

"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 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."

"We like that it is one license and everything is bundled in together."

"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."

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Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	31

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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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