We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Control, 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."Spectrum Control's scalability is fine - we can extend it for the backup requirement."
"In my opinion, it's the best monitoring and report creation tool for IBM storage devices. You can do a lot of performance stats and reports with very nice tools for IBM storage devices."
"The granularity of this solution has been most useful. Customers can click on a single item and get the information only for the single item they choose."
"The product keeps historical data for a very long time."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use. The ability to get into a storage device and look at whatever you are trying to look at as far as performance, then obtain the reports that you need to do your analytical work."
"Spectrum Control is highly secure and competitively priced."
"The benefits would be mostly the ability to diagnose a problem."
"Technical support is quite responsive and helpful."
"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 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."
"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."
"It has helped us optimize our storage."
"OnCommand Insight's most valuable feature is the ability to see figure applications."
"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 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."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The solution must support multi-vendor storage."
"I would like to see is more information regarding the copy groups (the replication)."
"If we were to add VM level performance being able to monitor VMs on a VM level, then that would be good."
"The database could be improved so that the complexity of installation could be easier. We would also like to have more granularity in the profiles and products for users. We would like to link the users to the tool to managers or auditors."
"Spectrum Control could be more user-friendly."
"The initial setup for IBM Spectrum Control is a bit complicated. They should also make it easier to integrate and use the Cosmos Analytics tool, which is very complicated."
"The pain points were, and may still continue to be, the fact that there are multiple components of the product which are installed, you might say, somewhat individually."
"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."
"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."
"OnCommand Insight lacks AI to protect against ransomware and identify users accessing things abnormally."
"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."
"Enhance SNMP monitoring in order to broaden the number of storages that can be discovered."
"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."
"Just make it one product, not in pieces like performance and discovery. Stop having all these individual pieces."
"The solution could always be more easily scalable."
