NetApp presented on its product OnComand Insight at Storage Field Day 16 this year. What made the presentation unique from the rest of the presentations was that it was about an analytics and monitoring tool. The only such presentation at the event. OnCommand is an on premise appliance that can be setup as a VM in your environment. Once it is fully deployed it will start reporting information about your environment. Unlike other similar products it only reports on what it sees in your data center. As opposed to comparing your environment to other environments.
OnCommand Insight is always watching your environment, and If an issues arises it can be setup to automatically generate a ticket and alert the proper team of the issue. It supports Restful API so whatever needs to be done can be scripted out, and Licensing is done by the raw capacity.
They also spoke of the product Cloud Insights. It is not a direct replacement for OnCommand, but takes many of its features and adds on top of it. Cloud Insights is designed for the modern Hybrid data center. It can monitor both what is on premises and what is running in the cloud. As more and more companies go hybrid it is imperative to have a tool that can monitor both and give recommendations on where to run a workload.
One of my favorite features is that is agnostic of what it monitors. Monitoring is done via plugins and there is a large repository where you can download more. It reminds me a lot of EMC ViPR SRM as it could monitor more than just EMC products, but NetApp has really gone a step further and its capabilities.
Take a look at the presentation from NetApp and the rest of the Storage Field Day 16 presentations here.
Brandon Graves 