NetApp OnCommand Insight Scalability

Anuj_Jain - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Team Lead at Kyndryl

I didn't see any issues with NetApp OnCommand Insight in terms of its scalability. I was also looking into what would be a good replacement for the ViPR SRM and this tool was the only one that checked all the boxes, and my company has petabytes of storage. There's no issue in relation to the scalability of NetApp OnCommand Insight.

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SC
High Performance Compute at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have like three or four petabytes, but we can use a lot more than that. As an example, back in 2012, we had about 13 racks of it, then we went down to three racks. Recently, we went down to one and a half racks and got more space than we had with those 13 racks, which was only six years ago.

We didn't even buy the solid state stuff this time. We just bought the 10 terabyte drives this time, which is pretty cool. The scalability goes way beyond anything we need. 

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NN
Lead Systems Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

We have hundreds of systems added to the OCI, and I haven't seen any problems so far: no performance, VM, or applications crashing. I'd say it's good. 

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JB
Senior Storage Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

The scalability is very good (we have scaled out previously), because you can have remote agents as well as just a central console.

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it_user750663 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Architect at US Navy

Again, it's a workhorse. When we started out, we had a very small virtual environment, maybe a 100-150 servers. We're up to about 700 now. OCI has just kept growing with it. It's been able to keep up. It's never once said, "Oh, I can't handle that many."

About the only thing we run into a problem with is licensing, sometimes. You may get too many things talking to it and they'll say, "Hey, you didn't really pay for that many licenses." But, at the end of the day NetApp will do whatever it takes to keep you up and running. They're not going to shut you down. So scalability is awesome.

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it_user750765 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Protection Specialist at Cox Enterprises

I have upgraded, maybe four times, different versions. The very first upgrade was not that easy to do because we had an old version and then it required being in a different version to upgrade automatically. But after we did that first one, they've been easy.

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DD
Integrations Director at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We've had no issues scaling so far.

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it_user750726 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Services Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have not had a chance to do that at this point. We have a certain set of systems and we are using it for so far.

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SM
Systems Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It scales to our environment, so I would say it's fine.

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WL
Technology Consultant at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Very scalable. We've recently just got the two servers for data warehouse and collection and we've haven't even hit capacity on them yet.

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it_user750675 - PeerSpot reviewer
San Administrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

You license it for whatever you need. It can scale out whatever you need to monitor.

We've added additional licensing to it. It's licensed by the amount of storage that you use, so we've purchased additional licensing.

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it_user750762 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Systems Administrator at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

I don't know if I can say too much about that. We have a very specific size, we're medium size. I can't see us scaling up very fast, but from what I've seen, it seems like it should be able to.

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MD
Technology Architect at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

We are an 18 to 20 petabyte environment. So far we haven't hit any issues where scalability was a issue.

We grew from 14 petabytes to 20 petabytes as of now. Maybe it's because of our relation with NetApp, we haven't had an issue with that so far.

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EK
Senior Storage Engineer at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

It is fairly scalable. We have not hit the limits yet, but we believe that it will be fairly easy to scale.

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JB
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

OnCommand Insight is scalable.

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it_user750744 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Analyst at BCCSS

It's just software, it's not a hardware, so I don't see that there will be problems in the future with scalability.

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it_user750864 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Engineer at Web.Com

You can add as many NetApps in there that you need to, I think. As many NetApps that you can put in there, even EMCs. We have our EMCs in there, SAN switches, and even VMware. So it's definitely scalable.

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it_user748326 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Administrator with 1,001-5,000 employees

We actually have a relatively low footprint, so we haven't scaled it up very much. Though I know we're not even close to pushing the boundaries of what we could do with it.

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GL
Responsabile Data Management DC Area Nord Ovest at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Yes, because it has a unique server module.

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it_user750690 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage And Backup Tools Manager at a tech services company

The architecture allows us to put the LAUs and roll them into a single reporting engine, either regionally and/or globally. Even though we have to add compute to monitor more storage, we don't have to go to different places to get that data, it all comes from a single point.

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it_user750660 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at TD

Scalability is fairly reasonable.

We just increased the number of agents that we have, so we didn't have any issues in deploying it. NetApp has been there with us since Day One to do the analysis and to iron out a plan for deployment. No issues there. That's very standard.

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it_user750861 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Storage Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Scalability is nice, for all scales.

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it_user750606 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Very scalable.

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it_user750600 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Admin at ZF

Very scalable, as long as you have the licenses. You just have to buy more licenses for more storage. As long as you have the money, you can support it.

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PB
Team Lead Storage at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

It can work with any protocol, with any vendor, any type of data or storage solution.

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it_user328083 - PeerSpot reviewer
CIP System Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I haven't looked into the scalability yet.

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JP
Performance Administrator at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

It has good stability.

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it_user750747 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Engineer at FBL Financial Group

It scales pretty good. You can have quite a few clusters, etc., in one instance of Insight.

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it_user750654 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nas System Administrator at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

It is very hard to implement. It takes a long time to learn. It is very unique skillset.

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it_user750807 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Architect at a energy/utilities company

The scalability is fine.

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it_user750618 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I think there are issues with the Java Stack. Java seems to use a lot more memory than other solutions.

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it_user281973 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage and VMware Expert at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

The scalability is good.

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it_user750666 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Engineer at a marketing services firm

For scalability, out of a 10, I would give it a nine. Mainly, this is because we have some other vendors' solutions, like Nutanix, where we do not have the plugins for them yet.

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it_user750732 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We don't look at it from that perspective. We don't have a lot of devices that we monitor. So we don't need it from that perspective.

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