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We performed a comparison between Dell VPLEX 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Dell VPLEX vs. NetApp OnCommand Insight Report (Updated: March 2024).
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"Dell's technical support is awesome. We received instant support from EMC as long as we had an active contract.""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.""The solution works well. It's very reliable.""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.""Storage virtualization and geographic resilience for Metro Sans, plus a great performance improvement.""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."

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"I am very happy with the stability. When your customers don't notice anything wrong, that's the biggest win for a product.""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 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.""Being able to immediately look at my data. See the sizing, where I'm at on different virtual machines.""The Performance Manager: Where we get performance statistics.""The machine learning features help me troubleshoot faster.""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.""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."

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Cons
"The price is a problem with EMC due to the fact that it's more expensive than the other vendors.""There can be delays in getting performance reports.""VPLEX hardware migration to spare equipment in case of major disruption.""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 initial setup is complex.""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.""With Dell VPLEX, there are some bugs with Broadcom."

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"I'd like it to be more stable, simpler, and get Java out of it.""Just make it one product, not in pieces like performance and discovery. Stop having all these individual pieces.""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?"""Enhance SNMP monitoring in order to broaden the number of storages that can be discovered.""I would like them to develop voice commands so that I can say to the product, "Create a volume."""A little bit more from technical support would give us a little bit more insight."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "We struck a great deal with Dell EMC, so for us, VPLEX was not very expensive."
  • "VPLEX is a little bit expensive in my personal opinion."
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  • "Pricing by terabytes, not the end of the world, and that's okay. Stop if I want this, I have to buy that. Just release it as a single product."
  • "The cost: It is expensive as a solution. You need to be an expert to get anything out of it and we don't have that kind of expertise."
  • "For me, it is always too much. Licensing is on TBs, and I think, nowadays that is outmoded."
  • "The company has saved money by narrowing down issues faster using servers and performance."
  • "We like that it is one license and everything is bundled in together."
  • "We just made a major investment back in May of this year, so we'll have it for another four and a half or five years easily. Thus, we have a five year bumper to bumper agreement."
  • "Pricing for NetApp OnCommand Insight could be cheaper. On a scale of one to five, I would rate its price a four."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Dell's technical support is awesome. We received instant support from EMC as long as we had an active contract.
    Top Answer:This is an enterprise solution so licensing costs are generally on the higher side. There will be additional costs if you want to do a network cluster for business servers.
    Top Answer:Dell VPLEX should improve its integration and user interface and be easier to configure. Any EMX product, be it PowerMax, VMAX, or DMAX, works based on the CLI. A person has to be very good at running… more »
    Top Answer:OnCommand Insight's most valuable feature is the ability to see figure applications.
    Top Answer:Pricing for NetApp OnCommand Insight could be cheaper. On a scale of one to five, I would rate its price a four.
    Top Answer:OnCommand Insight is really limited compared to what Cloud Insights is doing. It lacks AI to protect against ransomware and identify users accessing things abnormally.
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    Overview
    Wth EMC VPLEX you can deploy next-generation virtualization architecture to enable simultaneous information access within, between, and across data centers, move applications, virtual machines, and data in and between data centers without impacting users and deliver application and data availability within the data center and over distance with full infrastructure utilization and zero downtime.

    NetApp OnCommand Insight management software delivers consistent insight across your data center so you can monitor and manage your hybrid IT multivendor storage, compute, and switching infrastructures.

    Sample Customers
    Kindred Healthcare, Regis Aged Care, WeBank SpA, Panduit, Munson Healthcare
    Société Générale, TechnologyOne
    Top Industries
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    Comms Service Provider38%
    Healthcare Company25%
    Energy/Utilities Company13%
    Government13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company20%
    Government14%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Healthcare Company6%
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    Energy/Utilities Company17%
    Manufacturing Company13%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Government8%
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    Computer Software Company19%
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Government13%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Company Size
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    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise58%
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    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise65%
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    Small Business6%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise86%
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    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise4%
    Large Enterprise82%
    Buyer's Guide
    Dell VPLEX vs. NetApp OnCommand Insight
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Dell VPLEX vs. NetApp OnCommand Insight and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Dell VPLEX is ranked 1st in Storage Management with 18 reviews while NetApp OnCommand Insight is ranked 6th in Storage Management with 37 reviews. Dell VPLEX is rated 8.2, while NetApp OnCommand Insight is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell VPLEX writes "It's an excellent solution for data mobility and disaster recovery, but the CLI can be difficult for beginners". 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 VPLEX is most compared with IBM Spectrum Virtualize, IBM SAN Volume Control and NetApp OnCommand, whereas NetApp OnCommand Insight is most compared with NetApp OnCommand and Dell Storage Resource Manager. See our Dell VPLEX vs. NetApp OnCommand Insight report.

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