We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and Oracle Data Guard based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We used Dell Avamar for backup and recovery of a virtual environment."
"The product is very powerful and offers very good performance."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with Data Domain and your VM stacks."
"It was very simple to deploy the solution to the client that you wanted to backup."
"The solution integrates well with Unix, Windows, Hyper-V and VM."
"It is one of the best solutions for backing up Oracle and other servers."
"It's simple to configure."
"I like Dell EMC Avamar's compression of data."
"Backup and application continuity are most valuable."
"Oracle Data Guard is a free solution. When you apply for Enterprise Manager, it comes for free with the solution."
"We chose this solution for the availability of the databases. We can't afford Oracle Grid, this is the best solution if you want something similar that's less expensive."
"If you have a problem with your primary site and can't access your primary database, you can continue working with the database that you have as standby on the other site, by changing its role to primary."
"The solution can scale as needed."
"It is a top-notch product, super stable, making it our go-to for internal operations."
"The most valuable feature is the application or promotional code used in the production protocol to transfer data to the secondary database, situated on the DR site."
"We have not encountered any major challenges with replication. We were able to achieve near-real-time replication. Also, with the switchover failover, we were not getting any technical issues. It's a pretty stable product."
"Setup and deployment of this solution is complex and requires expert engineers."
"Avamar needs a greater emphasis on storage targets. If it's going to keep pace with the times, it needs more ability to leverage cloud storage."
"Technical support should be more knowledgeable."
"The solution could be a bit easier to use in the sense that they need to make it simpler to backup products and restore items."
"It lacks support for certain plugins, like SAP HANA, for example."
"It would be helpful if there was cloud support."
"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."
"Avamar cannot back up Nutanix as a virtual solution."
"The product could improve its pricing."
"One thing that can be improved is the GUI. It would be good to have a very nice GUI to easily configure and administer, providing different presentations to the database administrator. The feature that can be included is the integration with third-party monitoring systems, that is, monitoring systems from other vendors, not only from Oracle."
"There is an issue with their application on ODG. There were a lot of edits in the logs. Sometimes, we only get a little cue from the Data Guard Broker logs if there's an issue."
"They may need to include the monitoring and the alerting part in Data Guard."
"Overall, there are some operational issues that need to be dealt with."
"The deployment cost is expensive."
"A significant improvement for Oracle Data Guard would be enabling the disaster recovery site to handle read and write operations, not just data storage."
"We would like to be able to see the date time stamp when you execute DGMGRL commands."
Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while Oracle Data Guard is ranked 11th in Backup and Recovery with 31 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while Oracle Data Guard is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell Avamar writes "Stable, integrates well with other solutions, and has a good price, but its UI needs a refresh". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Data Guard writes "Ensures our databases stay in sync between the main and disaster recovery sites". Dell Avamar is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell NetWorker, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas Oracle Data Guard is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Veritas NetBackup, Commvault Cloud and Microsoft DPM. See our Dell Avamar vs. Oracle Data Guard report.
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