We performed a comparison between Dell ProtectPoint [EOL] and Oracle Data Guard based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."The speed and the ease of the initial setup are both good. It is not complex."
"One of the features I find most valuable, is the good technical support."
"It's a very good solution if you want to protect your data across two data centers, or you have a middle man or many administrators who use these solutions for protecting their data. It's very reliable compared to other solutions that are most often not storage-based."
"Oracle Data Guard has a nice feature called the DataGuard snapshot to open the solution in the read-write mode and make some changes to the database."
"Snapshot and Data Guard Manager are awesome features."
"Oracle Data Guard is scalable. I rate it a ten out of ten."
"It is a top-notch product, super stable, making it our go-to for internal operations."
"With Data Guard, Oracle guarantees zero data loss, providing peace of mind for organizations relying on their data for critical operations."
"The most important feature is that if I want to test the database at the disaster recovery site, I can take a snapshot, test it, and then revert it back to the original state without needing to restore the complete database from the primary data center to the disaster recovery."
"We use Data Guard for online replication from data center, to data center for high availability. This is the most important feature."
"The interface and documentation need to improve."
"The product has to be more mature, like to be another six to eight months on the market. A lot of maturity needs to be incorporated."
"It is a very useful administrative IT tool. It saves on costs."
"The implementation is complex for anyone who's jumping into it without any experience. It's all command-line driven implementations. For some, that's a turn-off."
"They may need to include the monitoring and the alerting part in Data Guard."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The IP implementation and maintenance are a little bit hard to manage across Oracle solutions, including Oracle Data Guard."
"We would like to be able to see the date time stamp when you execute DGMGRL commands."
"For every standby server you have, you must pay a licensing fee, which is the main disadvantage."
"Overall, there are some operational issues that need to be dealt with."
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Dell ProtectPoint [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Backup and Recovery while Oracle Data Guard is ranked 11th in Backup and Recovery with 31 reviews. Dell ProtectPoint [EOL] is rated 7.6, while Oracle Data Guard is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell ProtectPoint [EOL] writes "Speedy and easy setup but it needs to mature ". 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 ProtectPoint [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Oracle Data Guard is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Veritas NetBackup, Commvault Cloud and Carbonite Server.
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