Dell Avamar vs Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup [EOL] comparison

Dell Technologies and Nutanix are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Additionally, 87% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 50% of Nutanix users who would recommend it.

Dell Avamar

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87% willing to recommend

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50% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Dell Avamar and Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup are leading solutions in the data protection space. Dell Avamar is seen as more cost-effective, while Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup is noted for its robust integration and scalability.

Features: Dell Avamar is praised for efficient data deduplication, broad platform support, and cost-effectiveness. Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup stands out for seamless integration with Nutanix HCI, simplified management, and scalability.

Room for Improvement: Dell Avamar users suggest enhancements in reporting, analytics, and documentation. Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup users seek better documentation, more intuitive setup processes, and improvements in user guidance.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Dell Avamar deployment is straightforward but requires expertise for complex environments. Customer service receives mixed reviews with praise for problem resolution. Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup offers deployment simplicity through its tight integration with Nutanix HCI, and its customer support is highly rated for prompt and effective resolutions.

Pricing and ROI: Dell Avamar users find the initial setup cost reasonable with ROI through reduced storage needs via deduplication. Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup users note higher upfront costs, justified by streamlined operations and lower long-term management expenses, offering a higher initial investment that aligns well with modern infrastructure for sustained returns.

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Categories and Ranking

Dell Avamar

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (7th), Deduplication Software (5th)

Nutanix Mine Integrated Bac...

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Featured Reviews

Ayodeji Oyewole

Managing Director at Atlantic factorial

Reliable with good backups but has occasional failures

I use Dell Avamar primarily for backup and recovery The most valuable feature for me is the backup functionality. It gives large enterprises the comfort of knowing their workloads are being backed up. There are instances where backups fail on certain applications, which is an area that could be…

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Ingvar Ingason

Channel Sales Manager at Arrow Electronics

An affordable product that offers a reasonably good technical support

I rate the product's initial setup phase an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is a difficult setup phase, and ten is an easy setup phase. The product's installation phase took me around two weeks. On average, it usually takes about a week or two to deploy when everything is in place. The solution is deployed on a hybrid cloud from Azure.

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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

"Its deduplication technologies are the best in the market, currently."

"Dell Avamar has helped our organization by allowing us to do backups."

"We are talking about a complete end-to-end solution which comes with its own hardware storage to back up the data on tape-less."

"We used Dell Avamar for backup and recovery of a virtual environment."

"Avamar's source side deduplication is very strong, it can easily back up remote sites' data, and not much bandwidth is required on the Avamar side."

"The installation process is pretty straightforward."

"Scheduling is valuable. It does a good job of backing up, and it does a good job of restoring. Nobody has got a problem with that. The agents are well supported."

"We love the instant recovery functionality. It's very useful."

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"I like the autofill-over feature and the simplicity of the solution."

"Nutanix can converge legacy-style rack mount servers, so it is highly scalable."

"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...I rate the technical support a nine out of ten."

"Nutanix has its own backup system known as HYCU, as well as its own virtual server."

"We find the ease of use valuable."

"We use this solution as an integrated backup solution and it is integrated from the backup provider to the Nutanix solution."

Cons

"Reporting in Dell Avamar needs improvement. The current reporting tool is very basic, and you have to dig deep into each function to get the information you need. For example, getting the status of failed and succeeded backups is very difficult in Avamar compared to Veeam. As for additional functionality, I would suggest improving WAN optimization. It's very important for getting offline or off-site backups. It should also include a tool to check for ransomware which would be beneficial. If a backup is vulnerable to ransomware, there should be a way to detect it, like using ARR rules to ensure your backup is ransomware-free. I haven't had any experience integrating Dell Avamar with AI solutions. It’s also a good point that Avamar doesn't offer such integrations, which is an area where Dell could improve."

"It is very scalable, and that's its claim to fame, but that also makes it hard to make changes. Anytime there is a large piece of software, changing that piece of software is harder. You've got a larger install base, so you can't just rapidly change. We also use another product called Veeam, and it has this new feature called Continuous Data Protection, which basically lets you get very close to the way the system was in time. We have a system or two up there on which we have set 10 minutes Continuous Data Protection. So, we can roll it back to whatever it was 10 minutes ago, 20 minutes ago, or 30 minutes ago. This feature doesn't exist in Avamar Data Domain. That's the one feature I'd like to see first."

"If there is a need to move the data from one backup solution to another, it might be difficult since there is no option for a straightforward migration."

"The initial setup is a bit complex and could be simpler."

"Avamar is still competitive because of the way we have deployed it, but we need to diversify and shift away from specific technologies. In addition to hypervisors, virtual machines, and bare metal servers, our customers need protection for Microsoft 365, SaaS, and the public cloud, so we need other technologies in the business to cater to those customers' needs. Those are the enhancements we would want from the Avamar platform, but that's not likely to happen. Dell has PowerProtect and Apex backup services. There are other Dell solutions that we'll use to fulfill our customers' requirements."

"Some customers need to back up to tape, but Avamar lacks support, so it costs a lot."

"The interface has room for improvement. It's not ideal right now."

"The tool's interface is very much in a spreadsheet format...reporting is an area with shortcomings requiring improvement."

More Dell Avamar cons

"It could be cheaper."

"The solution's setup process should be simplified."

"I would like to see the multi-cloud improve."

"This solution could be improved with regards to the hosts that integrate with the platform itself. Each of the hosts integrated with the storage and networking only provide one instance of a backup."

"The price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"Nutanix is not secure enough, and it needs to be more resilient."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is a fairly expensive solution. It cost approximately 21,000 each year."

"I rate the pricing a seven out of ten because it is expensive."

"When it comes to competition the price is not what is important, it's not the problem."

"Licensing was generally on a per VM or terabyte basis. They changed their licensing model a couple of times and turned it into socket-based licensing, which is an improvement in their licensing model."

"It is expensive. The maintenance comes with it for five years. So, you buy the whole thing for five years, and your maintenance is included with it, but it's a big chunk of change upfront. We like capital expenses because we can CapEx them. We pay once every five years, so we spend a big chunk of change. You'd have to divide that out by the five years to come up with how much it costs. It's just about three-quarters of a million dollars for five years."

"Its licensing is weird. It is not just the licenses; we also purchase hardware. With most software products, such as Veeam, Commvault, and Data Protector, there is no hardware purchase at the same time. Because Avamar and Data Domain are tied together, they have an integrated pipe. You can separate them, but basically, they're designed to work as a couple. Because the Data Domain backend is designed to do dedupe and compression, we get 60:1. When you count it, you count it as a straight compression, but of course, that's with dedupe and some other stuff. You have to buy the hardware, the licensing, and the software at the same time. So, it's not just software."

"It is expensive. Its cost is the main thing."

"It's a very high-end solution and comparable to Rubrik and Cohesity."

More Dell Avamar pricing and cost advice

"Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup is fairly priced."

"I rate the pricing a five out of ten because the price is average."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is affordable or low, and ten is expensive or high, I rate the price as two."

"While Nutanix Mine is extremely expensive for small businesses, it is a very cost-effective product for enterprise businesses."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

University

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By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

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Questions from the Community

What's the difference between Dell EMC Avamar and Dell EMC NetWorker?

From the very beginning, Dell EMC NetWorker considers users and those who might potentially become users. In terms of both pricing and setup, this product offers an experience that is significantly...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell EMC Avamar?

The cost is very significant, and it could be lower.

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What do you like most about Dell Avamar?

Easy to configure and highly reliable for backup.

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What do you like most about Nutanix Mine?

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...I rate the technical support a nine out of ten.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nutanix Mine?

On a scale of one to ten, where one is affordable or low, and ten is expensive or high, I rate the price as two.

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What needs improvement with Nutanix Mine?

The price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required.

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Overview

Dell Avamar data protection software delivers flexible and efficient backup and recovery operations that can scale from daily backup protection for endpoints to high-performance protection for large enterprises with diverse applications and workloads. With application consistent recovery, automation and fast backup and restores, Avamar can help you meet your SLAs and optimize your backup and recovery processes

If you are deploying all or part of your backup environment to the cloud, Avamar enables you to make the most of your cloud investment, enabling replication, disaster recovery and long-term retention for customers using AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.

Avamar is available as part of Dell Data Protection Suite, which offers comprehensive data protection software applications and tools. Avamar is delivered as software and as a virtual edition.

Dell Technologies

Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup is a turnkey solution that makes backup infrastructure simple and invisible by combining the Nutanix Cloud Platform technology with leading enterprise backup software for dedicated data backup and recovery.

Nutanix

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