We performed a comparison between Dell Storage Resource Manager 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."It has many features and capabilities such as local protection and global protection."
"It's all about ease of use and reliability."
"The partitions function well for backup storage."
"It is easy to control the storage."
"It has helped us optimize our storage."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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 Performance Manager: Where we get performance statistics."
"Being able to immediately look at my data. See the sizing, where I'm at on different virtual machines."
"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."
"Technical support needs improvement, as well as the engineering resources, who do the upgrades."
"Technical support is inadequate."
"When it was deployed, it was challenging to manage."
"The support needs to be improved because I have found that even simple issues take a long time to be solved."
"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."
"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."
"A little bit more from technical support would give us a little bit more insight."
"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."
"Enhance SNMP monitoring in order to broaden the number of storages that can be discovered."
"When we first went to Cluster Mode, we had a lot of problems. Setup took a few months. We had people onsite, including one of the top guys from NetApp for a while. Going from 7-Mode to Cluster Mode was rough."
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Dell Storage Resource Manager is ranked 4th in Storage Management with 8 reviews while NetApp OnCommand Insight is ranked 5th in Storage Management with 37 reviews. Dell Storage Resource Manager is rated 7.2, while NetApp OnCommand Insight is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell Storage Resource Manager writes "Great features that allow for supervision of storage, management of users and driver-related updates". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp OnCommand Insight writes "Gives an end-to-end view of your environment and has a very good interface for report creation and customization". Dell Storage Resource Manager is most compared with IBM SAN Volume Control and NetApp OnCommand, whereas NetApp OnCommand Insight is most compared with NetApp OnCommand. See our Dell Storage Resource Manager vs. NetApp OnCommand Insight report.
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