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PROS

Dell EMC Avamar offers strong source-based deduplication, significantly reducing backup windows and bandwidth requirements.
The integration with Data Domain enhances Dell EMC Avamar's capabilities, offering high compression ratios and effective collaboration for backup processes.
Dell EMC Avamar provides rapid backup and recovery speeds, enhancing the efficiency and reliability of data protection.
The scalability of Dell EMC Avamar supports large environments efficiently, capable of handling thousands of VMs for backup and replication.
Dell EMC Avamar facilitates stable and reliable backups and has proven effective in reducing data and costs through its deduplication and compression features.

CONS

Desktop-laptop backups and backup over the WAN need significant improvement and better integration with cloud solutions.
Licensing lacks flexibility; upgrades in storage size necessitate license updates.
Integration with Hyper-V and compatibility with plugins like SAP HANA are limited.
Technical support is not as efficient as competitors, and setup is complex, requiring skilled engineers.
Scalability creates difficulty in modification; improvements needed in reporting and tape connectivity.
 

Dell Avamar Pros review quotes

reviewer840024 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 16, 2024
It is a cost-effective solution.
RO
Jul 2, 2021
Every product is good and bad, but its claim to fame is that it is scalable. We're doing more than 3,000 VMs. Every single night a complete image backup to disks and replication are easily done in under four hours.
Rahul Sarangdhar - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 30, 2023
For the on-prem backup, it has all the necessary features that we require. They keep coming up with new scripts and new updates.
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Vivek Jaiswal - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 22, 2024
Easy to configure and highly reliable for backup.
reviewer1688637 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 8, 2021
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.
TawfikOUKICHA - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 16, 2022
It is a very complete product.
Vivek Jaiswal - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 28, 2021
The product has a proven track record of good backups without much of a failure ratio. It also has a good backup in terms of the compression ratio.
reviewer1645866 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 13, 2021
The most valuable features are scalability and integration.
Mostafa Gouda - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 3, 2024
The function I find most valuable in Dell Avamar is its ability to take differential backups for users. This feature is very effective for both backup and restore operations. We've had multiple cases where we needed to restore files directly from Avamar, and it worked perfectly. The Delta feature, which captures changes in user files, is particularly useful.
AP
Dec 8, 2022
The setup is very easy.
 

Dell Avamar Cons review quotes

reviewer840024 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 16, 2024
The tool's interface is very much in a spreadsheet format...reporting is an area with shortcomings requiring improvement.
RO
Jul 2, 2021
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.
Rahul Sarangdhar - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 30, 2023
Avamar is not the best tool when it comes to taking Azure backups. Like Commvault, if Avamar can support VM-level backups for the cloud, that would make it a bit better.
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Vivek Jaiswal - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 22, 2024
The UI is quite old. We've been using this UI since last year, and they haven't changed it. It would be better to update the UI periodically and create attractive dashboards from an administrative point of view.
reviewer1688637 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 8, 2021
When you get down to doing certain things, such as somebody wants a particular file restored, the process by which you do that is stupid. You kind of have to know exactly where to look for in order to find it. Even on older backup products that I've used, I didn't have that kind of problem. If we were looking for a file with a particular kind of a name, the solution would find that file anywhere irrespective of where it resides within the backup system. So, we didn't have to know the name of the specific server, the specific timeframe, almost all the characters of the file name, and all kinds of data in order to find a file. In Avamar, we got to know these details. We've gone around and around with them on that, and their attitude seems to be that it is working just fine. There is nothing for them to improve. The organizational system of other products that I'm working with, such as Zerto and Cohesity, seems to be centered around the tasks that you would most commonly do and want to do, as opposed to we've laid it out in a really neat technical hierarchy.
TawfikOUKICHA - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 16, 2022
We'd like to see something that could also work with Unix servers and physical servers to have a unified solution that works with everything.
Vivek Jaiswal - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 28, 2021
The user interface still needs to have some level of improvement. It could be more user-friendly and intuitive.
reviewer1645866 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 13, 2021
Dell hasn't done a good job at handling these upgrades, or the way EMC used to handle them.
Mostafa Gouda - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 3, 2024
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.
AP
Dec 8, 2022
The support is very bad.