We performed a comparison between Dell VPLEX, NetApp OnCommand Insight, and SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Dell Technologies, NetApp and others in Storage Management."The best feature of VPLEX storage is its ability to consolidate storage. It also provides the highest RPO and RTOs for replication technology. VPLEX enables application mobility."
"Its mirroring capabilities allow for data to be mirrored across two different data centers, so if one center were to crash or fail, the other center could take over and keep everything running smoothly."
"The capacity to migrate machines onto VPLEX is great — it's very clean. We can migrate machines and add arrays easily."
"Storage virtualization and geographic resilience for Metro Sans, plus a great performance improvement."
"The most valuable feature is deduplication, as we have no duplication in the snapshots."
"Mobility enables us to carry out an internal migration of data."
"Dell's technical support is awesome. We received instant support from EMC as long as we had an active contract."
"The solution works well. It's very reliable."
"It gives visibility to the VMs."
"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."
"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."
"Being able to immediately look at my data. See the sizing, where I'm at on different virtual machines."
"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."
"The Performance Manager: Where we get performance statistics."
"Performance monitoring of hundreds of switches and being able to see results in one dashboard."
"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 initial setup is very straightforward."
"With Dell VPLEX, there are some bugs with Broadcom."
"There can be delays in getting performance reports."
"Today, it needs a huge effort that is not acceptable during disaster recovery."
"I would like to have site-to-site replication capability for applications."
"The initial setup is complex."
"Dell VPLEX should improve its integration and user interface and be easier to configure."
"VPLEX's engine-based architecture is complex, so the implementation is challenging and takes more time. It's also difficult to fix hardware issues. When an appliance fails, it takes Dell EMC a long time to fix it because spare parts are in short supply."
"The price is a problem with EMC due to the fact that it's more expensive than the other vendors."
"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 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."
"Just make it one product, not in pieces like performance and discovery. Stop having all these individual pieces."
"I'd like it to be more stable, simpler, and get Java out of it."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"OnCommand Insight lacks AI to protect against ransomware and identify users accessing things abnormally."
"The solution could always be more easily scalable."