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."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 most valuable feature is deduplication, as we have no duplication in the snapshots."
"Storage virtualization and geographic resilience for Metro Sans, plus a great performance improvement."
"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 capacity to migrate machines onto VPLEX is great — it's very clean. We can migrate machines and add arrays easily."
"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."
"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."
"It's stable and gives good feedback on performance."
"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."
"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 machine learning features help me troubleshoot faster."
"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 initial setup is complex."
"There can be delays in getting performance reports."
"I would like to have site-to-site replication capability for applications."
"Dell VPLEX should improve its integration and user interface and be easier to configure."
"The price is a problem with EMC due to the fact that it's more expensive than the other vendors."
"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."
"VPLEX hardware migration to spare equipment in case of major disruption."
"With Dell VPLEX, there are some bugs with Broadcom."
"I'd like it to be more stable, simpler, and get Java out of it."
"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."
"A little bit more from technical support would give us a little bit more insight."
"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."
"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."
"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."
Dell VPLEX is ranked 2nd 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, NetApp OnCommand and Huawei OceanStor DJ, 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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