Dell Data Protection Advisor vs NetApp SnapCenter comparison

Dell Technologies and NetApp are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Dell Technologies is ranked #25 with an average rating of 9.5, while NetApp is ranked #50 with an average rating of 7.5. Dell Technologies holds a 0.5% mindshare in BRS, compared to NetApp’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

Dell Data Protection Advisor

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88% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

Dell Data Protection Advisor

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Dell Data Protection Advisor and NetApp SnapCenter are two notable data protection solutions competing in the enterprise software market. Dell Data Protection Advisor seems to have the upper hand in deployment and customer service, while NetApp SnapCenter takes the lead in features and ROI.

Features: Dell Data Protection Advisor has comprehensive monitoring, robust alerting capabilities, and advanced data analysis. NetApp SnapCenter offers integration with diverse environments, efficient backup options, and seamless snapshot management.

Room for Improvement: Dell Data Protection Advisor could improve scalability, reporting flexibility, and customization options. NetApp SnapCenter users suggest improvements in the learning curve, support documentation, and making management more intuitive.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Dell Data Protection Advisor is praised for straightforward deployment and responsive customer service. NetApp SnapCenter reports a steeper learning curve but benefits from robust functionality.

Pricing and ROI: Dell Data Protection Advisor offers competitive setup costs with mixed reviews on ROI. NetApp SnapCenter, though higher in upfront cost, is considered worth the investment due to its extensive features and positive ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Dell Data Protection Advisor vs. NetApp SnapCenter Report (Updated: April 2025).

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Dell Data Protection Advisor

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

25th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

NetApp SnapCenter

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

50th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Dell Data Protection Advisor is 0.5%, down from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp SnapCenter is 0.6%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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ErmiasGirma

System and Cloud Deployment Engineer at Safaricom Ethiopia plc

Proactive support with predictive insights and seamless integration

As a system engineer, I am deploying Dell Data Protection Advisor solutions, especially in the areas of protection like Avamar, NetWorker, and Data Domain. Our team has deployed these solutions for three organizations in Africa and India Dell Data Protection Advisor provides proactive support by…

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Mir Gulzar Ahmed

IT Manager at Synergy Computers

Integrates well with various applications , provides a cloning feature for creating snapshots or clones of volume and a centralized command

It is basically centralized command control software. When the users visualize the workflow of the backup, the management and the customer storage administrator know the ins and outs of the backup and recovery. They can make the strategy for their backup and recovery and the certainty of their backups and restore. Strategic planning: Also, it is easy to make a strategy when you have visualized the inflow and outflow of the backup and recovery. With the CLI or native way, without any UI or management tool, you might not be able to create any strategy at all. This is especially important when you have multiple storage systems inside your data center or organization. You need a tool that connects and visualizes the workflow of the backup and recovery from all the storage systems and NetApp storage systems installed within the organization. It is very important when you have multiple storage systems, and you need to manage your backup and recovery workflow. Ease of Management: Unlike other storage vendors, NetApp has its own product called SnapCenter. Other vendors need to acquire third-party software or integrate with other software to manage storage systems. NetApp has its own solution, which is SnapCenter. NetApp's SnapCenter gels well with their storage systems and products. Ease of management is already there. It's a fine software with easy installation, management, and understanding. It's not a complicated software to understand.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable aspects of the solution are the compression and the duplication."

"This is a stable solution."

"The product's ability to give predictions and advice on how to protect data is incredible."

"The initial setup is very straightforward. Deployment typically takes about one hour. You just need one person to handle the deployment process."

"I can increase the tool's licensing as per my requirement with no conditions applied."

"The reporting feature and the Dell's continuous improvement of the solution are the most valuable features. The solution not only supports Dell Power Products but also other products."

"The solution is easy to use, flexible and has a lot of out-of-the-box functionality. You can configure the dashboards or you can use a script. However, to fully utilize its capabilities you will want to use a lot of scripts which you will need advanced training. The reports can be customized for many things, such as chargeback billing."

"The deduplication is probably the most valuable feature of that requirement."

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"It's very helpful because SnapCenter is already integrated with VMware Snapshot, so it's very easy to use."

"The initial setup was straightforward."

"I like the instant backups and recovery feature that SnapCenter provides within NetApp storage systems."

"The support from NetApp is very good, and I would rate it as ten points."

"It has greatly improved our DR activity."

"The central pane view is the most valuable feature. You have one console where you can monitor all your jobs, as opposed to going to different vCenters."

"It's all together managing both storage and backup, which makes it easier for troubleshooting issues and the automation part of it"

"It helps with strategic planning because it is easy to make a strategy when you have visualized the inflow and outflow of the backup and recovery."

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Cons

"Dell Data Protection Advisor's feature for data domain protection needs enhancement."

"Some minor adjustments could be made regarding the graphical interface and customization options."

"The solution requires more integration with our other solutions. I know that they have full integration with VMware because it is also from EMC. However, we have to have better integration with Microsoft and Nutanix as well."

"The functionality of the Data Protection Advisor is limited and is something that is lacking in this solution. Other solutions like CloudIQ and DDMC provide a much better outlook on how data protection should be done."

"There is a steep learning curve to use the interface and to create new reports, this could be made easier. If the solution could provide more drag and drop functionality to build more advanced reports that would be very helpful."

"We have encountered issues where we were unable to pull data from the database server. It should also improve the backward compatibility."

"The product could be improved by addressing intermittent collector failures affecting status reports' accuracy."

"They should empower their customers with the ability to upgrade this solution as long as it's in the same major release."

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"There is one area that needs improvement and that's in the alerting. When you set up your SMTP alerts, it only has - and I don't understand why - the ability to send an anonymous SMTP. It doesn't do basic authentication, which frustrated me for a while until I figured out that I'm not missing something. It's just not there."

"We have experience some difficulties with our current support. We are engaging in engineering level support because some of our problems are more technical."

"Some of the minor functionalities from SnapManager did not transfer over to SnapCenter. These should be added in future releases."

"If it was possible to create backups on non-NetApp storage, that would be helpful."

"Groups might be helpful for each site or data center so that we know a given data center has these resources while another data center has those resources. It's not always easy to group hosts by type."

"The Microsoft environment is its biggest disadvantage due to the central management of all the actions. Because the SnapCenter server is where we deploy everything, it also affects the Microsoft environment, which can cause many difficulties when resolving issues like Windows update problems."

"I would like to see replication support between systems. Right now, it's kind of limited. We manage them separately from the storage system interface, not from SnapCenter. It would be nice if it was integrated into SnapCenter."

"We have hundreds of servers and systems and hundreds of customers and they're separated in a multi-tenancy way in NetApp SVM. Right now, the problem is that it always scan all SVMs. If I backup Customer A, it scans all SVMs, or tries to scan all SVMs, if there is a backup relationship on the storage. But it doesn't have the permissions, so we run into timeouts or the backup just takes too long. They're fixing that in the upcoming release..."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's not very expensive — I think the price is fair."

"For pricing, I would rate Dell 2 out of 5. It's affordable."

"You need to make an upfront payment for three, five, or seven years and renew the licenses for support. We can do an annual maintenance contract with Dell. I would rate the product's pricing a six out of ten."

"The product is affordable."

"The product pricing has been satisfactory, particularly with the economy of scale in our agreement."

"You have to procure the license when you are ordering or quoting for Dell Data Protection Suite (DPS). DPS is bundled with the suite and comes with a license. However, if you purchase NetWorker separately then you will have to procure the license for DPS separately."

"If the customer has huge lineup of Dell Products then they receive discount on the pricing."

"Pricing is very good because if you already have NepApp controllers, then it's included."

"The licensing is well-designed because it's already included in some packages with NetApp storage. Therefore, for most customers, it's okay as the SnapCenter license is already included in some NetApp bundles."

"The license for SnapCenter was included with the storage array."

"We see a financial value with SnapCenter because we don't have to license Commvault, which is pretty expensive."

"We have a site license, so it comes with the product."

"The product is inexpensive."

"It's free. The license is included with other NetApp products."

"It comes free with the amount of equipment we purchase from NetApp. In terms of pricing, zero is my favorite number."

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Top Industries

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Government

12%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

20%

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

Government

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Dell Data Protection Advisor?

The platform's most valuable features are data protection and retention.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell Data Protection Advisor?

The product pricing has been satisfactory, particularly with the economy of scale in our agreement.

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What needs improvement with Dell Data Protection Advisor?

The product could be improved by addressing intermittent collector failures affecting status reports' accuracy. Additionally, enhancing bulk update capabilities for items like cost centers would be...

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What do you like most about NetApp SnapCenter?

Most banks and financial institutions use the solution.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp SnapCenter?

The product should be free because it is just software to administrate systems purchased from NetApp, which are already expensive.

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What needs improvement with NetApp SnapCenter?

The interface usability needs improvement. It should be more user-friendly and easier for customers to use.

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Also Known As

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Overview

Effectively managing your data protection environment can be labor intensive and complex. It requires knowledge of backup applications, replication technologies, and the entire supporting infrastructure, yet it is critical in keeping your data secure.

With Dell Data Protection Advisor, you can automate and centralize the collection, monitoring and reporting of this data and get a single, comprehensive view of your environment, no matter where your data resides. This includes monitoring data on AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

With clear visibility, you can gain actionable insight and effectively manage service levels while reducing costs and complexity. You can also collect and report on that data to help other stakeholders make the best decisions for your organization.

Data Protection Advisor is available as part of Dell Data Protection Suite.

Dell Technologies

Unified, scalable platform for application-consistent data protection and clone management. This software simplifies backup, restore, and clone lifecycle management with application-integrated workflows.

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Sample Customers

Nielsen, Trek Bicycle, Cal-Israel Credit Cards

All for One Steeb AG, Accenture

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