We performed a comparison between Dell NetWorker and HPE StoreOnce 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 solution has a longer lifespan."
"The backup software has been much faster since we've deployed the solution."
"The software implementation takes about 30 minutes."
"Dell EMC NetWorker is scalable."
"Good scalability and virtual environment protection."
"It's easy to use."
"The solution is stable."
"NetWorker's most valuable feature is recovery, including the policy-based backups that can be configured."
"HPE StoreOnce is an easy-to-use tool."
"The product’s data retention is very good."
"The hardware is strong and all the equipment has a good infrastructure. Personally, I think it's the best storage product in HPE for small to medium-sized businesses."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its catalyst mode, along with better performance, backup, and recovery."
"The solution's licensing policy is more practical and not confusing."
"The deduplication feature in this product is amazing."
"I'm impressed with their support structure, call availability, understanding, flexibility in scheduling remote sessions, and accommodating customer timeframes."
"The product's most valuable feature is stability."
"We would like support for tape space reclaim, using either the same or another pool."
"The solution could be graphically better."
"In the next release, I would like to see better pricing and more integration with the other products in Dell EMC."
"The configuration is too complex."
"The interface could have a different appearance."
"The licensing rules are difficult to navigate and understand."
"NetWorker sometimes has issues with the backup not starting and with connecting to the Oracle servers."
"The user interface has to be improved"
"Agnostic backups."
"HPE StoreOnce Backup to Disk (BTD) is not a good backup solution for NAS devices. It does not have a dual controller, so if one controller fails, the entire system will go down."
"The user interface of HPE StoreOnce should be more user-friendly. Additionally, the configuration and troubleshooting could be better."
"I would like to see better integration with Veeam software."
"improvement? HPE StoreOnce has a limitation with respect to controllers. Other tools offer more than one controller. I feel that the high availability of the view controller should be redundant. The tool’s control and UI part should be improved and made more advanced. The feature that helps with the manual movement of tapes should also be improved."
"This product would be improved with the inclusion of more features to security or WORM."
"The solution would be improved if it could also be used as a data store for VMware."
"Hardware maintenance involves some downtime for backup destination storage which can be a problem for some."
Dell NetWorker is ranked 14th in Backup and Recovery with 73 reviews while HPE StoreOnce is ranked 2nd in Deduplication Software with 102 reviews. Dell NetWorker is rated 7.8, while HPE StoreOnce is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell NetWorker writes "A stable tool that has an easy-to-use GUI that enables quick restoration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE StoreOnce writes "Helps to consolidate D2D backups and has a good deduplication ratio". Dell NetWorker is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Dell Avamar, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup and IBM Spectrum Protect, whereas HPE StoreOnce is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Dell PowerVault, ExaGrid EX Series, DD Boost and HPE Primera.
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