Dell Avamar Reviews

The solution offers good storage.

The product is very stable.

I have found the product to be scalable. 

The pricing of the solution is pretty good and not too expensive. 

The interface is great.

The documentation on offer is very helpful and thorough. 

Overall, the solution is good right now. I can't think of where I have seen any missing features. 

The solution, in the future, should offer support for mobile. 

I've been using the solution for more than 10 years.

The stability, in general, has been great. There are no bugs or glitches. It does not crash or freeze. It's reliable and the performance is good. 

The scalability of the product is good. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so. 

I don't directly use the support services on offer. If I have questions, I tend to direct that to the developers, and not Dell.

I'm also familiar with Dell DataDomian, which I also work with. 

As long as you follow the implementation directions, it's not too bad. 

While I didn't directly purchase it myself and was not involved in the licensing process, it's my understanding that the cost is reasonable and the pricing is good.

I'm a freelancer and an EMC instructor.

I'm not an expert in the solution, however, for me, it's been a very positive experience. 

I'd advise potential new users to pay attention to the details and to follow the implementation instructions. If you do that, you'll be fine.

I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten.

The solution can be used for the backing up of all environments, including those which are virtual and involve databases and applications. 

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. It should be on desk and desks solution, which comes with Power Protect and is called data domain. It offers a very small footprint for long term, backup retention, in the realm of 55 times a single duplication ratio. This means that if a person backs up something on one, he will have one petabyte of storage, which can store up to five petabyte of backup copies. This combination makes Dell EMC one of the most perfect solutions available. 

Avamar does not offer the tape-out, meaning that what a person backs up can only be kept on a disc based appliance, one which is supplied by Avamar. The tape lacks connectivity, which means that if a customer wishes to take tape-out, Avamar is not a fit. He must look for a networker which offers up to tape. The solution should improve its tape-connectivity features. 

As we have been serving as the Dell EMC legacy partners since before Dell took over, our company has been dealing with Avamar since the get go, back in 2014. 

The solution is certainly stable and comprises 70 percent of the market share. 

The solution is highly scalable. Both the licensing and hardware capabilities are without limit. The storage box can be scaled in petabytes. 

As, generally speaking, Dell EMC is an enterprise solution company, its technical support is always good. 

The initial setup used to be complex, but has since become much easier, more user friendly and faster. 

The solution is not expensive for the value one gets. The most expensive thing involves one's data. Should a person's data be compromised, he would be willing to pay a million dollars to retrieve it. This makes the payment of an additional premium for its protection worthwhile. 

The licensing capabilities are limitless. 

The main difference between Avamar and Networker involves the tape-out. Generally speaking, our customers have compliance policies to keep the tapes out, which is why we mostly recommend Networker. As such, most of my installations are on Networker, not Avamar. 

I consider the solution to be most comprehensive in all respects. It has an understanding of most of the vendor's applications. 

I rate Dell EMC Avamar as an eight out of ten. 

The primary use case is backup, but in this case, my customers want to offload the Avamar server on tape.

I like Dell EMC Avamar's compression of data.

It's stable and scalable, and I have not had any problems with it.

The initial setup could be a bit simpler.

An offload to tape would be a great additional feature. The audit people ask for data to be put somewhere else in another location to have a gap between backup data and tape, but the Avamar solution only backs up on Avamar store.

I've been using it for about two and a half years.

It's very stable and is the most stable solution I've seen.

It's scalable, and I have not had any problems with it.

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

The price is fair.

If the setup is done right, it can be great.

I would rate Dell EMC Avamar at eight on a scale from one to ten.

We use Dell EMC Avamar for our critical servers backups.

The solution is easy to use and has high performance.

The solution could improve by having better integration and more flexibility.

I have been using Dell EMC Avamar for approximately one year.

The solution is stable.

The solution is scalable, we have hundreds of users using this solution.

There is a license required for this solution.

I recommend this solution to others.

I rate Dell EMC Avamar a seven out of ten.

The solution is easy to use.

We've found the product to be stable. 

The scalability is there if a company needs to expand it out.

The initial setup is easy and the deployment is fast.

The solution should offer a better data domain.

It would be helpful if the product offered more integration potential.

I've dealt with the solution for three or four years at this point. It's been a while. 

The solution is stable. there are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. The performance is quite good. 

The scalability potential is good. If you are a company that needs to scale, you can do so with this product.

We do not have a lot of customers using this solution. Only maybe five to six percent of our customer base uses it.

The technical support is quite good. they are helpful and responsive and we are satisfied with the level of support they provide. 

We did not find the initial setup to be overly complex. It's pretty straightforward. 

The deployment is fast. You can have everything up and running in three to four hours. 

We have four to five people on staff that can handle deployment and maintenance duties. 

I handled the implementation myself. I did not need the help of an implementor or consultant. I can do it alone, in-house. 

At this time, we do not pay any licenses to Dell.

We don't have a lot of customers that use the product, however, we are recommending it often.

Our customers are using the latest version of the product, however, I can't speak to the exact version number.

On a scale from one to ten, I'd rate the solution at a seven. 

I'd recommend the solution to other users and companies. It's worked well for a few of our customers. 

My customer has a huge virtual environment — vCenter and VMware. They need images backed up, they have different workloads like Oracle, SAP, and NetWorker. They have a compliance policy that they have to tape out but Avamar, out of the box, cannot do the tape out. That's why I had to introduce NetWorker into the picture.

Graphically, it's very user interactive. It's got a very nice interface. Compared to NetWorker, although Avamar is more user-friendly, it lacks support for certain plugins, like SAP HANA, for example. In this particular project that I'm working on, they need to back up SAP HANA but Avamar does not support that. Also, regarding compliance, they need to tape out. Avamar does not support that out of the box. 

I have been using this solution for over six years. 

For the project that I am currently working on, I will be using Avamar to migrate their old historical data to the new environment because this new environment is attached to Data Domain. Scalability-wise and stability-wise, I don't see any issues.

I haven't had to contact support as of yet. 

The initial setup is pretty straightforward. It's good that Dell EMC provides the virtual additions of these appliances for people to practice beforehand. Otherwise, you might be familiar with a certain version but not understand the subsequent versions. You would never know unless you could get a production set up, which is not possible. You can't go and play with the client setup. For this reason, Dell EMC, like other good vendors, offers virtual additions. Data Domain, NetWorker, Avamar, everything you can practice.

The client has directly bought this solution from another partner. I've been subcontracted for this. I don't know anything about the pricing.

Regarding end-users, I would say stick with disk-based backup. Avamar does it very well with the VMware virtual environments, even Hyper-V for that reason.

Overall, on a scale from one to ten, I would give Dell EMC Avamar a rating of seven.

The reason I am giving it a rating of seven is because of the plugin issues and the inability to tape out. Frankly, there are still a lot of clients in this region who need to be in compliance — they need the tape out. It's really a nightmare if you want to tape out with Avamar. There's a way to work around this but you've got to install an ADME node, which is actually a small brother of NetWorker. Still, it's a really painful process.

We use a basic called a DPS. Typically, we are using mostly networkers just to back up most of the workloads, like cellphone audio ware and the connection, et cetera.

The solution is very stable.

We've found the solution to be scalable.

The initial installation is pretty straightforward and quick to set up.

The user interface needs to be improved. It's not as good as it could be.

There are certain bugs in terms of support. It's too slow. It needs to be more responsive.

We've found the product to be a little costly.

I've been likely using the solution for five years at this point. It's been a while.

The solution is stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable in terms of performance overall.

We've found the solution scalable. If a company needs to expand the solution, it can do so with relative ease.

We are mostly using it for the server backups, not for the end-users.

We do plan to continue to use the solution.

The technical support isn't as good as it could be. They are rather slow to respond. They should work towards getting their support staff to be more responsive to clients when they have queries. We're not overly satisfied with the level of support provided to our organization.

We did not the initial setup to be overly complex. It's pretty straightforward and relatively easy to deploy. The deployment process itself is fast and only takes a few hours.

We only needed a product manager that handled the implementation and can handle any maintenance required.

We did not need the assistance of an integrator or consultant during our implementation process. We handled it ourselves in-house.

The solution is a bit expensive.

We are Avamar partners.

I'd rate the solution at a seven out of ten.

I'd recommend the solution to other organizations.

In a data center, the entire workloads are virtualized, and they are backing up the content, and sometimes because of bandwidth, operations need to be backed up quickly. In that kind of scenario, this source site replication is very supportive. Avamar evaluates the data that's already backed up, and only the chain blocks can be transferred via the network. There won't be any heavy network traffic, and the time it takes to backup is quick and within the window.

On the client-side, we can also backup clients with Avamar. These days with the pandemic, most of them work from home, and we're using less network bandwidth to backup end user transfers.

The source site replication feature is valuable. 

It would be better if we could integrate easily with other platforms. I would like to see better integration with VMware vCenter. We normally integrate Avamar with VMware vCenter Server and virtualize Avamar within the VM. Once, we wanted to backup only a few VMs within the vCenter, without integrating it to the vCenter. But we come across some problems. Without adding the vCenter directly, there was some difficulty in adding the VMs. When we replaced more clients in the OS, this problem was solved.

I have been using Dell EMC Avamar for three years.

Dell EMC Avamar is stable so far. As we have worked with software engineers trained to use this product, they can configure and provide support on their own.

Dell EMC Avamar is a scalable solution.

Support is okay. We don't use it frequently as our engineers can manage well. Only when they can't handle a problem, they call support. We also use technical sites and the web portal, and these help our engineers capably handle day to day requirements.

The initial setup isn't complex. Because the engineers are trained, they're familiar with the product and can do this implementation.

The implementation time depends on the data center. The issues we face are mainly on the network. For example, sometimes, their policies on implementing the communication between the servers lead to some downtime. Other than that, we can implement Dell EMC Avamar between two-three days.

We implemented Dell EMC Avamar ourselves, in-house.

It was very expensive before, but after integrating it with Dell EMC Avamar Data Protection suite licensing, we are getting better discounts.

I always see improvements on the Avamar side, and we are happy with that. 

On a scale from one to ten, I would give Dell EMC Avamar a ten.