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Lenovo TS Series vs NetApp OnCommand Insight comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Lenovo TS Series
Ranking in Storage Management
15th
Average Rating
10.0
Number of Reviews
1
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 August 2026, in the Storage Management category, the mindshare of Lenovo TS Series is 3.0%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp OnCommand Insight is 8.4%, up from 6.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Storage Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
NetApp OnCommand Insight8.4%
Lenovo TS Series3.0%
Other88.6%
Storage Management
 

Featured Reviews

Mohammad Jundiah - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at Qatar Datamation Systems
Easy to use, manage and deploy
There are a lot of problems when you recover a tape. Like, if the website actually went down, there would be some problems recovering the tape. When it comes to the tape recovery, it's just a hassle. It's just that some data might be lost, and some accounts here and there might be lost. So, the whole operation when it comes to the covering of the tapes is quite a hard one.
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

"The most valuable aspect is that after our site blows up, we can recover the site afterward."
"It has helped us optimize our storage."
"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."
"The Performance Manager: Where we get performance statistics, is about the best method we have right now for monitoring our individual virtual machines."
"It gives us the ability to report on all our storage environment, monitor, visualize, and pinpoint problems, focus on and project usage growth, monitor and measure performance of all the stores, and use it for capacity planning, forecasting, and comparing performance over several years and across different vendors."
"It simplified the administration of our storages and environment."
"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."
"OnCommand Insight's most valuable feature is the ability to see applications, as you can tag applications in all the different elements of an application and have it in a single view so you can see bullies and victims and get to the root cause of problems in the environment you would otherwise be unaware of."
"Performance monitoring of hundreds of switches and being able to see results in one dashboard."
 

Cons

"There are a lot of problems when you recover a tape. Like, if the website actually went down, there would be some problems recovering the tape. When it comes to the tape recovery, it's just a hassle."
"Its only drawbacks are it's expensive and the upgrades are somewhat difficult."
"Just make it one product, not in pieces like performance and discovery. Stop having all these individual pieces."
"The product is not easy to learn from the materials provided. We still have questions regarding it."
"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."
"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 think one of the weaknesses is pulling in systems outside of virtual environments, of physical hosts, and the like."
"Perhaps integration with other platforms; any other monitoring, other kinds of storage platforms."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Compared to the competitors, it's a pretty cheap solution."
"Pricing for NetApp OnCommand Insight could be cheaper. On a scale of one to five, I would rate its price a four."
"The company has saved money by narrowing down issues faster using servers and performance."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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Top Industries

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Construction Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Marketing Services Firm
10%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise31
 

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