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's all about ease of use and reliability."
"It has many features and capabilities such as local protection and global protection."
"The partitions function well for backup storage."
"It is easy to control the storage."
"OnCommand Insight's most valuable feature is the ability to see figure applications."
"We haven't gone to the extent where we are using the anomaly detection, but from a reporting perspective and single-pane-of-glass perspective, to look at our heterogeneous infrastructure, it is doing a great job."
"Being able to immediately look at my data. See the sizing, where I'm at on different virtual machines."
"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."
"What I found most valuable in NetApp OnCommand Insight is that it gives me a complete view of the environment, particularly an end-to-end view. I can locate my searches and view my storage devices. I can also find my recent servers and other host devices. I can then map all those into a single view, so that I can learn about the performance of my devices, or if there's a bottleneck at a particular place. I like that I can view all those information in NetApp OnCommand Insight. I like that very much. I also like that NetApp OnCommand Insight has a very good interface that allows you to create and customize reports, and it also offers a bundle of reports as well."
"I am very happy with the stability. When your customers don't notice anything wrong, that's the biggest win for a product."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Enhance SNMP monitoring in order to broaden the number of storages that can be discovered."
"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."
"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."
"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 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."
"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?""
"A little bit more from technical support would give us a little bit more insight."
"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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