We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Control and NetApp OnCommand 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."The product keeps historical data for a very long time."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use. The ability to get into a storage device and look at whatever you are trying to look at as far as performance, then obtain the reports that you need to do your analytical work."
"The granularity of this solution has been most useful. Customers can click on a single item and get the information only for the single item they choose."
"Spectrum Control is highly secure and competitively priced."
"Technical support is quite responsive and helpful."
"In my opinion, it's the best monitoring and report creation tool for IBM storage devices. You can do a lot of performance stats and reports with very nice tools for IBM storage devices."
"The benefits would be mostly the ability to diagnose a problem."
"Spectrum Control's scalability is fine - we can extend it for the backup requirement."
"One of the main features is the ability to run the block and file storage from the same system."
"Snapshot is a valuable feature."
"In OnCommand Unified Manager, we can monitor the entire cluster as well as configure data protection through Unified Manager."
"I am impressed with the product's ability to warn us whenever something is wrong with the system. It is connected with Active Directory and Exchange. Whenever there is anything wrong with NetApp, the solution will alert you to an event error, post which you can start to troubleshoot."
"The pain points were, and may still continue to be, the fact that there are multiple components of the product which are installed, you might say, somewhat individually."
"Spectrum Control could be more user-friendly."
"The initial setup for IBM Spectrum Control is a bit complicated. They should also make it easier to integrate and use the Cosmos Analytics tool, which is very complicated."
"The database could be improved so that the complexity of installation could be easier. We would also like to have more granularity in the profiles and products for users. We would like to link the users to the tool to managers or auditors."
"If we were to add VM level performance being able to monitor VMs on a VM level, then that would be good."
"I would like to see is more information regarding the copy groups (the replication)."
"The solution must support multi-vendor storage."
"At present, OnCommand Unified Manager has just the monitoring and data protection features. It would be better to add some features for entire cluster management and storage management. Automation should also be included so that instead of separately accessing Unified Manager and OnCommand Workflow Automation, we can work in a single window. It is very much required."
"The tool is not intuitive and the menus are confusing, especially the snapshot view."
"There could be better performance in block storage and the GUI could be improved because not every operation is available. You need some operations in the CLI."
"The solution lacks the ability to generate reports from Snapshot."
IBM Spectrum Control is ranked 1st in Storage Management with 8 reviews while NetApp OnCommand is ranked 3rd in Storage Management with 5 reviews. IBM Spectrum Control is rated 7.8, while NetApp OnCommand is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Control writes "Scalable but not user-friendly". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp OnCommand writes "Provides alerts on events and errors of NetApp". IBM Spectrum Control is most compared with IBM Storage Insights and CA 1 Tape Management, whereas NetApp OnCommand is most compared with NetApp OnCommand Insight, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Dell VPLEX, Dell Storage Resource Manager and NetApp BlueXP. See our IBM Spectrum Control vs. NetApp OnCommand report.
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