NetApp OnCommand Insight Reviews

The data analytics for helping track down issues.

It's quicker to fix issues.

They're moving away from the Java interface, but there are still some things that are only in the Java versus the web interface.

About three years.

It's a stable product. No issues.

I think there are issues with the Java Stack. Java seems to use a lot more memory than other solutions.

I haven't used it.

We're a water and electric company. I wouldn't say the product is uniquely valuable to our industry, but it is valuable.

It's moving in the right direction. I think there are some things that it still hasn't quite got but it's a very good product.

The flexibility to use it.

It simplified the administration of our storages and environment.

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

I have been using it for about three years.

I executed/deployed it the first time alone. When I need support, I ask for it.

The stability is very good. We have not had a problem yet.

The scalability is good.

The technical support is good. They solve the problems/issues that we have.

Some of the most valuable ones are actually being able to pull statistics off of the devices within our enterprise and correlate them to predict trends which are happening. 

Biggest benefits are with analytics on devices and some of the applications. Case in point, Exchange and SQL, seeing how they are doing with trending, then as we are adding things, see how it is changing that trend.

In the government and military industries specifically, it is unique. It has helped a lot. It is a little misunderstood still, but what we are getting out of it and what we are providing to the leadership has been extremely valuable to them. 

We can't encompass everything into it yet. E.g., the plugins for the other vendors' products that we can't currently monitor.

I have been using it for just over a year now.

I came into it after it was already in place. However, it was being underutilized, so we started bringing in a few of the OCI experts to spin us up to speed on what it is capable of and how we could use it.

It is extremely stable. 

For scalability, out of a 10, I would give it a nine. Mainly, this is because we have some other vendors' solutions, like Nutanix, where we do not have the plugins for them yet.

The product we use in our datacenter, and mostly I want to know about our datacenter's situation. In terms of the performance, before it was kind of is slow but now it is good. And the UI is good, after an upgrade, now it's a 7.3, I think.

Has made our operations simpler. Helped to know our datacenter, every detail. Helped to view our company infrastructure very well.

I don't know, the product is very good. Maybe lower the price.

More than two years.

It's very stable, and high performance, I think that's a very a good product.

It maybe have crashed in some situations, but it was not very critical because they have very good HA function, and the auto support is very good. It may be because we should have upgraded but didn't.

That's good support. The response time is very quick. They have good documentation. They also respond by telephone and contact us directly.

No.

It was very easy. No problems.

We chose this solutions because of our datacenter. We usually monitor our datacenter and have to check and everything.

The ease of use, because we don't have much time to learn all the new things.

The things we're able to derive, we're able to use that and figure out what the next steps would be that bring value to the company, or our organization. We get strategic insights and plan ahead.

Perhaps integration with other platforms; any other monitoring, other kinds of storage platforms.

It's OK so far. I don't think we push it to the limit of what it can do, so I think it's been pretty stable for us. It's been pretty good so far.

We haven't really found time to upgrade it, so we've been pretty happy with where we're at. I forget what version we're at. But so far it's been OK.

Like I said, we don't push it too much. We're using it for a few things and that's pretty much it.

We don't look at it from that perspective. We don't have a lot of devices that we monitor. So we don't need it from that perspective.

I think one colleague has used it once, maybe twice, that's it. I, personally, have not.

When selecting a vendor to work with the most important criterion for us is how easy is it to work with them. Our group is very small. We really don't have time to do a lot of back and forth with the vendors. It's either they want to deal with us or they don't, period. If they want work with us, we go ahead. If not, then we move on.

I give it an eight out of 10 because, again, we're not pushing it as much as we probably could and should. I think if we got down to knowing the nitty-gritty of it, we'd probably like it a lot more. But like I said, we just don't have time to use it that much.

If I were to advise a colleague at a different company who is looking at OCI and other similar solutions, I would say know the functions or features you want to use. Outside of that, do what we did not do, really try to get to know the product and do a deep dive into it.