Micro Focus Storage Operations Manager [EOL] vs NetApp OnCommand Insight comparison

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Micro Focus Storage Operati...

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8.0

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NetApp OnCommand Insight

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8.4

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reviewer1181289

Cloud Services - Service Assurance Tools Consulting Lead at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Helpful support, useful AI, and reliable

We are using SNM Traps connectors to have all the events in Micro Focus Storage Operations Manager Micro Focus Storage Operations Manager could improve by having more parameters for storage. When you take the solution out of the box there need to be some more features built-in. I have been using…

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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 stability of the Micro Focus Storage Operations Manager is good."

"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 a centralized structure that has the ability to connect to any storage platform, it doesn't matter if it's NetApp or not, and be able to report consistently on all my fabric."

"It is uniquely valuable because it lets you see everything from the storage to our virtual or VM environment."

"The benefit is that it is not just the storage itself."

"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."

"We get strategic insights and plan ahead."

"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."

"Time to resolution has gone way down, especially when working with the current performance issue."

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Cons

"Micro Focus Storage Operations Manager could improve by having more parameters for storage. When you take the solution out of the box there need to be some more features built-in."

"The product is not easy to learn from the materials provided. We still have questions regarding it."

"I rate it an eight out of 10 because of the features that it lacks and the stability, although that is getting better."

"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?""

"Fairly straightforward, but after that, it's very complex to use and to learn and understand."

"I would like them to change the licensing model. It costs too much."

"There was a minor issue where we were receiving a notification that a cluster was not available, or communication to the cluster."

"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."

"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

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"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."

"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 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."

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

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Also Known As

HPE Storage Essentials, HPE Storage Operations Manager

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Overview

With Micro Focus Storage Essentials, you can manage complexity and growth, improve storage utilization and reduce cost, and align storage service to business needs.

OpenText

NetApp OnCommand Insight offers centralized performance monitoring, data correlation, and capacity analysis for seamless storage environment management and growth forecasting.

Designed for efficient storage management, NetApp OnCommand Insight supports VMware integration, comprehensive reporting, security features, and scalability. Its intuitive interface enables tracking of utilization and vulnerability mitigation. It provides analytics-driven troubleshooting and supports diverse vendor systems, facilitating data integration across storage environments. Additionally, it aids in the management of file and block storage protocols and integrates storage devices from different vendors for a unified performance overview. Continuing enhancements in cloud integration and UI simplification are desired, along with better reporting and support for non-NetApp storage systems. Its cost and licensing model are areas where users seek improvement, as well as more graphical reporting.

What Are The Key Features of NetApp OnCommand Insight?

Performance Monitoring: Centralized monitoring of storage environments.
Data Correlation: Facilitates efficient data integration and analysis.
Capacity Analysis: Helps in future capacity planning.
VMware Integration: Seamless integration with VMware environments.
Comprehensive Reporting: Detailed storage usage reports.
Security: Robust security features for data protection.
Scalability: Supports growth in storage demands.

What Benefits and ROI Should Users Look For?

Efficiency: Simplifies storage management processes.
Insights: Provides valuable analytics for informed decision-making.
Growth Forecasting: Assists in predicting future storage needs.
Troubleshooting: Aids in identifying and resolving issues.
Integration: Supports a wide range of vendor systems.

In diverse sectors like technology, finance, and energy, organizations leverage NetApp OnCommand Insight to manage large data storages and analyze VMware performance. It supports Oracle, SQL, and seismic data applications, maintaining a configuration management database for devices and workloads in virtualization environments.

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Sample Customers

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