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NetApp OnCommand Insight vs SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor comparison

NetApp and SolarWinds are both solutions in the Storage Management category. NetApp is ranked #5, while SolarWinds is ranked #14. NetApp holds a 5.9% mindshare in SM, compared to SolarWinds’s 4.0% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of NetApp users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of SolarWinds users who would recommend it.
NetApp OnCommand Insight
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92% willing to recommend
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100% willing to recommend
 

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Executive Summary
We performed a comparison between NetApp OnCommand Insight and SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor 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 OnCommand Insight
Ranking in Storage Management
5th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SolarWinds Storage Resource...
Ranking in Storage Management
14th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Storage Management category, the mindshare of NetApp OnCommand Insight is 5.9%, down from 6.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor is 4.0%, up from 2.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Storage Management Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
NetApp OnCommand Insight5.9%
SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor4.0%
Other90.1%
Storage Management
 

Featured Reviews

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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SK
Reliable with good storage capabilities but sometimes shows a misleading status
The solution is straightforward to set up. It is easy; it's not complicated at all. I'd rate the ease of setup five out of ten. It's in the middle in terms of the level of difficulty. However, I find it quite simple. It takes the usual amount of time to set up due to all the modules. When we install a product on SolarWinds or the RMM platform, they take a similar amount of time. There is no specific time for a single module. If you deploy a single module will take almost the same time. If you deploy ten models together, they will have similar timing since they all are on the same RMM platform.
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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

"It's stable and gives good feedback on performance."
"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."
"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."
"It gives visibility to the VMs."
"The Performance Manager: Where we get performance statistics."
"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."
"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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"The initial setup is very straightforward."
 

Cons

"I would like them to develop voice commands so that I can say to the product, "Create a volume.""
"OnCommand Insight lacks AI to protect against ransomware and identify users accessing things abnormally."
"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."
"Just make it one product, not in pieces like performance and discovery. Stop having all these individual pieces."
"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."
"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."
"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?""
"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."
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"The solution could always be more easily scalable."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise31
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Also Known As

OCI
SolarWinds SRM
 

Overview

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.

NetApp

The storage monitoring and capacity management software from SolarWinds gives you deep visibility into the performance of your multi-vendor storage arrays, and helps you closely watch the application stack for storage issues that affect application performance.

SolarWinds
 

Sample Customers

Société Générale, TechnologyOne
NetSuite, Youngs Seafood, APS Bank, Sven Meinks
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