We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Control 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."The installation was very easy. You just install an agent on a server, and you give that agent access to your storage device, then it just collects the data. It took five minutes to set up."
"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 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."
"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 benefits would be mostly the ability to diagnose a problem."
"Technical support is quite responsive and helpful."
"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."
"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."
"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 gives visibility to the VMs."
"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."
"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 solution must support multi-vendor storage."
"If we were to add VM level performance being able to monitor VMs on a VM level, then that would be good."
"Spectrum Control could be more user-friendly."
"I would like to see is more information regarding the copy groups (the replication)."
"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."
"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 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."
"I'd like it to be more stable, simpler, and get Java out of it."
"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 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."
"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 them to develop voice commands so that I can say to the product, "Create a volume.""
"Just make it one product, not in pieces like performance and discovery. Stop having all these individual pieces."
"A little bit more from technical support would give us a little bit more insight."
IBM Spectrum Control is ranked 1st in Storage Management with 8 reviews while NetApp OnCommand Insight is ranked 6th in Storage Management with 37 reviews. IBM Spectrum Control is rated 7.8, while NetApp OnCommand Insight is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Control writes "Scalable but not user-friendly". 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". IBM Spectrum Control is most compared with IBM Storage Insights and CA 1 Tape Management, whereas NetApp OnCommand Insight is most compared with NetApp OnCommand and Dell Storage Resource Manager. See our IBM Spectrum Control vs. NetApp OnCommand Insight report.
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