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NetApp BlueXP vs NetApp OnCommand Insight comparison

NetApp BlueXP and NetApp OnCommand Insight are both solutions in the Storage Management category. NetApp BlueXP is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.4, while NetApp OnCommand Insight is ranked #8. NetApp BlueXP holds a 4.3% mindshare in SM, compared to NetApp OnCommand Insight’s 5.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of NetApp BlueXP users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of NetApp OnCommand Insight users who would recommend it.
NetApp BlueXP
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100% willing to recommend
NetApp OnCommand Insight
Read 37 NetApp OnCommand Insight reviews
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92% willing to recommend
 

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We performed a comparison between NetApp BlueXP 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

NetApp BlueXP
Ranking in Storage Management
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
NetApp OnCommand Insight
Ranking in Storage Management
8th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Storage Management category, the mindshare of NetApp BlueXP is 4.3%, down from 5.6% 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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Naveen Radhwani - PeerSpot reviewer
Improved security and performance and helps with data management
It's improved our data management significantly. The performance and transfer of data have improved significantly. The security functionality is very good. We are much more secure now. It has improved our disaster recovery. We now have a good disaster program in place thanks to BlueXP. BlueXP assists us with AI-driven data operations.
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Anuj_Jain - PeerSpot reviewer
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 software interface can extract the data from the backend effectively."
"The primary benefit is that it simplifies data management. We face a lot of classification issues with our customers. They need to classify data, but they don't know how to do it. We can help them do it using BlueXP Datasense."
"It has improved our disaster recovery."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to view all our different systems in one place. That's the most important feature for us."
"NetApp BlueXP makes it easier to deliver products and manage inventory."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It's stable and gives good feedback on performance."
"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."
"It has helped us optimize our storage."
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Cons

"Performance could be a little better. In my opinion, it's a bit slow. If you click on something, it takes a while for the data to load."
"The VMware capabilities can be improved."
"It's a very expensive product."
"The dashboard management could be improved."
"The tool needs to make its licensing pages more user-friendly."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I'd like it to be more stable, simpler, and get Java out of it."
"It's the interop matrix. And if there was a chance to orchestrate on a heterogeneous structure using OCI, that would be a great start; or at least a plugin to each one of them, that would be a great start too."
"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."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
39%
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Government
7%
Manufacturing Company
16%
Computer Software Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Government
10%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about NetApp BlueXP?
NetApp BlueXP makes it easier to deliver products and manage inventory.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp BlueXP?
The pricing is reasonable. I'd rate the affordability seven out of ten.
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What needs improvement with NetApp BlueXP?
The dashboard management could be improved.
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Also Known As

NetApp Cloud Manager, NetApp OnCommand Cloud Manager
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Overview

NetApp BlueXP brings storage and data services together in a unified control plane that will revolutionize your experience. An intuitive interface and powerful automation help decrease resource waste, complexity, and the risk of managing diverse environments. Operational simplicity, here you come.

BlueXP. Its short name belies its myriad capabilities. So, what is BlueXP, and what can it do for you? BlueXP:

  • Is a unified control plane delivering a simplified hybrid multicloud experience for storage and data services.
  • Helps you deploy, discover, manage, and optimize data and infrastructure with the simplicity of SaaS.
  • Combines visibility and manageability of storage instances, with data services like data protection, governance and compliance, mobility, and resource monitoring and optimization.
  • Enables multicloud operations via a unified control plane to eliminate fragmented and redundant toolsets, frameworks, lexicons, and competencies.

In short, BlueXP enables the evolved cloud you need to run your business your way.

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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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Sample Customers

RapidScale, Bank of Cyrus, Societe Generale, Denver Broncos
Société Générale, TechnologyOne
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