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NetApp OnCommand Insight vs NetApp OnCommand [EOL] comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

NetApp OnCommand [EOL]
Average Rating
7.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
NetApp OnCommand Insight
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
Storage Management (2nd)
 

Featured Reviews

Henry Aragon - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Administrator at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
Versatile data protocols improve efficiency while execution capabilities need enhancement
The ease of configuring NetApp FAS series is noteworthy, as they support multiple standards like iSCSI, NFS, Fibre Channel, and NVMe. NetApp's data efficiency protocols are unmatched in the industry. ActiveIQ offers significant improvements in data monitoring and error notification. It provides crucial data management features and has versatile support for various protocols and standards, making it a one-size-fits-all storage solution.
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.

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

Pros

"The system manager helps us to manage our NetApp server with a user-friendly GUI instead of a CLI, giving us fast, simplified configurations, simplified management, and extensive administrative capabilities that unlock the power of clustered Data ONTAP and clustered scale-out storage."
"Their technical support is very strong."
"NetApp's data efficiency protocols are unmatched in the industry."
"In OnCommand Unified Manager, we can monitor the entire cluster as well as configure data protection through Unified Manager."
"One of the main features is the ability to run the block and file storage from the same system."
"Snapshot is a valuable feature."
"The ease of configuring NetApp FAS series is noteworthy, as they support multiple standards like iSCSI, NFS, Fibre Channel, and NVMe."
"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."
"It's a stable solution, and in general we can monitor the system efficiently."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of OCI is the ability to correlate a lot of different data sources together."
"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'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."
"The Performance Manager: Where we get performance statistics."
"If you're going to do any reasonable-sized NetApp installation, you need to have it."
"It's uniquely valuable, because it's really at the top of its class."
 

Cons

"The technical support is not very good and could be significantly improved."
"The solution lacks the ability to generate reports from Snapshot."
"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."
"My advice to those wanting to implement this solution is that the file storage is good, but the block storage is not good."
"The tool is not intuitive and the menus are confusing, especially the snapshot view."
"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."
"ActiveIQ only provides read access and does not allow making changes directly."
"There are always areas for improvement, but they need intuitive browser-based GUI, wizard-driven configuration to get up and running quickly, automated non-disruptive (Data ONTAP) upgrade, storage provisioning and disk aggregate management, CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, FC, and FCoE configuration, Snapshot and SnapMirror management, SnapVault support, storage virtual machine management, monitoring of HA pairs, support for SVMs with Infinite Volume, user interface enhancements, support for storage Quality of Service (QoS), support for all NetApp FAS systems and FlexArray software, support for NetApp All Flash FAS, and built-in reports and dashboard summarizing data around inventory, capacity, and efficiency at the enterprise level."
"Maybe lower the price."
"Any increase in loading times, or anything like that, would be useful for us. It's slow, the user interface could be improved a little bit."
"The product is not easy to learn from the materials provided. We still have questions regarding it."
"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."
"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."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"When we compare with other similar kinds of products from Dell EMC and HP, the price of NetApp OnCommand is reasonable."
"The tool is cheaper than EMC but more expensive than HP and Pure Storage. I would rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."
"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."
"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."
"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
Construction Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Recruiting/Hr Firm
9%
Insurance Company
8%
Construction Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Marketing Services Firm
9%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise31
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp OnCommand?
NetApp collaborates with us to provide deals when possible, optimizing storage based on business requirements, allowing us to save on costs for unnecessary storage space.
What needs improvement with NetApp OnCommand?
ActiveIQ only provides read access and does not allow making changes directly. Making it capable of executing changes to NetApp would be beneficial.
What advice do you have for others considering NetApp OnCommand?
My overall rating for NetApp OnCommand is seven out of ten. The solution offers unmatched data efficiency protocols. Improving ActiveIQ by allowing it to execute changes to NetApp would make it eve...
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Also Known As

NetApp Operations Manager, NetApp SANscreen
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Sample Customers

Norfolk County Council, Yahoo Japan, Sheridan College, Citrix Systems, Avanade, Quasar Data Center, DG Khan Cement Co. Ltd.
Société Générale, TechnologyOne
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