NetApp Cloud Insights Valuable Features

JL
Sr. storage Administrator at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Cloud Insights gives us visibility into more than just our infrastructure. Our virtualization and storage groups are separate. Virtualization and computing are separate, but we can manage the storage infrastructure and switching. It became confusing when we were trying to troubleshoot because we knew what we were presenting to them and loosely what was supposed to be on it, but we didn't know what they did. It turns into a game of 20 questions. 

Sometimes, you say, "We're getting alerts for this. Can you tell us what's going on?" It immediately turns into a battery of questions: What type of concerns? Who's complaining? With Cloud Insights, we can identify the problem device and see what's in it. We can see what node it's on. We've got one virtual machine that's pulling in 20 other ones, so we can ask the virtualization guys, "Are you concerned about this? You're not? Okay, you deal with this later." 

Cloud Insights enabled us to make better decisions with our infrastructure instead of blindly knocking on doors, saying, "Hey, are you getting alerts, too?" It has helped diagnose a rash of issues. It's led us to some significant annoyances with Cisco and getting them to assist in resolving some of them.

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VW
Senior Systems Engineer at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable features are the dashboards and data visualization. There are multiple ways to visualize data.

It's cleaner than traditional graphs like bar graphs or line charts. 

For monitoring, the infrastructure stack is pretty holistic. It's not a LAN WAN monitoring tool, so it's not really going to look at the network side of things other than SAN Fabrics. As far as the infrastructure deck that we have, it's also pretty holistic.

Moreover, the solution is good at pinpointing problem areas; it is able to pull in metrics from all different sources in the infrastructure stack, figure out the relationships between them, and then allow me to graph it all in a unified interface and consume the data in one place. Being able to look at latency literally in a single graph and examine it at the VM level, data store level, and SAN level and compare that within a single graph is hugely powerful.

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AT
Information Technology Consultant at TELUS Corporation

The visibility and usage optimization are the most valuable features. I liked the product very much. Its dashboards and the alerting systems are very easy to implement in any environment.

Its ability to quickly inventory our resources, figure out interdependencies across them, and assemble a topology of your environment is brilliant. There is a price associated with it. Whenever you target a NetApp environment, it is included in the price but whenever you want to add different vendors, like VMware and Cisco, the price greatly spikes. Inventorization helps us a lot to visualize the environment.

It's priceless when you work with eight different vendors, in a multi-vendor environment and Cloud Insights can actually identify those links between VMware and physical servers and storage, and that helps to troubleshoot and solve issues right there. It helps to proactively make decisions.

Their advanced analytics for pinpointing problem areas are great. If you're using separate tools, for example, vRealize Ops manager and Unified Manager from vRealize from VMware and Unified Manager from ONTAP, you can find some anomalies in both of them, but you can never link them together in one logical structure. Unified Cloud Insights, however, really goes through and links them together. For example, if you have a contention, like virtual CMTS contention, it doesn't mean that your storage has issues. It also can mean that there is a network problem below or some faulty network adapter network port, or even a physical server. In this sense, Cloud Insights is very valuable. It enables you to find out multi-tiered issues.

Advanced Analytics also helped to reduce the time it takes to find performance issues. It just reduces the time to find issues. And it can predict issues which otherwise, would take hours or days to find.

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Yaswanth Yathaluru - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Storage & Backup Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

The visibility and assistance with security vulnerabilities are valuable. For example, last year we had an issue with log forgeries but it was easy to fix because the dashboard highlighted the issue and provided solutions.  

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EA
Senior Systems Administrator at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Among the most valuable features are the queries and reporting that allow us to look at the utilization of resources, at how well the storage is performing, and to report on which resources are being used by which business units. We can track usage across the entire environment, across applications, business units, cost centers, etc.

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DR
Storage Engineer at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees

One feature we appreciate the most is its ability to take snapshots, which adds an extra layer of security and allows us to protect our data effectively. The visibility is incredibly important for us. It allows us to monitor and track who is accessing our data and what actions they are performing, even if they have legitimate access rights. 

I've been quite impressed with the capability to create an inventory of resources as it allows us to easily assess our space, capacity, and performance.

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PG
Director of IT at a logistics company with 501-1,000 employees

Cloud Secure is definitely the most valuable feature and being able to see file level activity. It gives real-time alerting on possible ransomware attacks and provides file security review. It helps us to see if something abnormal is happening on the system before it's too late.

Since it is cloud-based, it can be accessed from anywhere. That is good because we can check up on any types of issues affecting our on-prem equipment. Being able to look at that from anywhere has been very efficient.

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WW
Engineer Manager at FTSC

The solution is easy to deploy.

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AN
Product Manager - Netapp at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The ease of installation is good.

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NG
Storage Engineer at a media company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I use Cloud Secure quite a lot. It's useful to track down what has happened in cases where users' files have gone missing, or they have lost them.

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FA
Virtualization/Storage Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

Cloud Insights' best features are visibility and the connector to move the workloads.

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