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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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"In OnCommand Unified Manager, we can monitor the entire cluster as well as configure data protection through Unified Manager."
"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."
"Snapshot is a valuable feature."
"One of the main features is the ability to run the block and file storage from the same system."
"NetApp is competitive in terms of licensing costs."
"Their technical support is very strong."
"The ease of configuring NetApp FAS series is noteworthy, as they support multiple standards like iSCSI, NFS, Fibre Channel, and NVMe."
"One of the main features is the ability to run the block and file storage from the same system."
"For troubleshooting, for the way we use it, it's good, and for a large environment, it seems to have been integrated in pretty well."
"What we are getting out of it and what we are providing to the leadership has been extremely valuable to them."
"The most valuable feature of OCI is the ability to correlate a lot of different data sources together."
"It's able to simplify looking at performance on all of our clusters, all of the nodes, all the volumes, in one place, without having to log into each individual storage array and look at it."
"Right now, it's our single pane of glass to monitor our entire infrastructure."
"NetApp gives our clients the best infrastructure with fast and easy administration."
"The Performance Manager: Where we get performance statistics."
"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."
 

Cons

"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."
"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."
"ActiveIQ only provides read access and does not allow making changes directly."
"The technical support is not very good and could be significantly improved."
"The solution lacks the ability to generate reports from Snapshot."
"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."
"My advice to those wanting to implement this solution is that the file storage is good, but the block storage is not good."
"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."
"Just make it one product, not in pieces like performance and discovery. Stop having all these individual pieces."
"But if they would just continue the platform support for other vendors besides NetApp on the OCI part."
"I think one of the weaknesses is pulling in systems outside of virtual environments, of physical hosts, and the like."
"I would like them to develop voice commands so that I can say to the product, "Create a volume.""
"Our initial experience with OCI wasn't good."
"OnCommand Insight is really limited compared to what Cloud Insights is doing."
"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."
"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."
"Pricing for NetApp OnCommand Insight could be cheaper. On a scale of one to five, I would rate its price a four."
"For me, it is always too much. Licensing is on TBs, and I think, nowadays that is outmoded."
"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

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
13%
Recruiting/Hr Firm
11%
Insurance Company
10%
Construction Company
8%
Marketing Services Firm
13%
Healthcare Company
10%
Construction Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
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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