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NetApp OnCommand Insight

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.

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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.

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Storage Field Day Is Almost Here

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I am getting really excited about Storage Field Day coming up.  This is going to be my first Field Day experience, and it is going to bring many brand new experiences for me.  I am ready to see what the vendors have to present, and ready to learn many new things.

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I have been on vacation for the last week, so when I got back I was really surprised about some recent changes.  The vendor Seagate is no longer going to be presenting, and in their place will be Netapp.  Netapp is a company that I really did not know much about until it its acquisition of Solidfire.  I had been following Soldfire for some time before Netapp acquired them, and they have recently announced a Hyper-Converged product.  The HCI market is becoming much more competitive with an increasing number of vendors in it.  All the major storage vendors have an HCI offering such as DellEMC with their VxRail, HPE with Simplivity, and Cisco with HyperFlex.  It only makes sense that Netapp would get into the market.  I am curious to see how their product will differentiate from all of its competitors.

Check back next week for an update on Netapp, and all the other vendors presenting at Storage Field Day 13.  I plan to have many more post to cover everything that will be presented at Storage Field Day.

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