Quest NetVault Plus Reviews

We primarily use the solution for backup in retail machines for VMware.

I do like that we are able to create backup jobs on the solution.

The restore functionality needs improvement. The biggest downgrade from Veea  Backup & Replications is the number of docs that can run at the same time. I also find that because it's a web-based solution it runs slow. You have to wait a while until it refreshes. The refresh needs to be much faster, and the restore has to be more accurate.

The stability of the solution is poor.

Scalability is not so good. We don't have plans to expand. In fact, we have plans to switch to VM.

We have contacted technical support and they've been very good.

We used to use Veeam Backup, but only for testing purposes.

The initial setup is straightforward. It's not that complicated. Deployment took maybe about 15 minutes. The solution takes a lot of maintenance because every day we have to check to see which jobs have failed and then go in and re-edit those jobs. We have two people that work to maintain the system.

We are using the on-premises version of the solution.

I'm not a big fan of it. I much prefer Veeam Backup & Replication.

In terms of advice I could give, If your company is using it for a small business or a small data center of maybe one hundred machines, then the solution would be okay. For us, we are worldwide and we have 10,000 machines. It's much more suited to smaller organizations.

I would rate the solution as five out of ten.

We are a solution provider and this is one of the products that I provide technical support for.

Our customers use it for application and database backup and recovery.

The user interface is good.

The granularity of file restoration needs to be improved.

I would like to see the option of cloud-based management.

I have been working with Quest NetVault for almost three years.

Every product has known issues when it comes to stability. However, with NetVault, we have not had any serious problems.

We have not had any trouble with scalability.

The technical support from the vendor is good and we don't have any issue with it.

I have worked with several backup and recovery solutions such as Commvault and Veeam.

NetVault does not have the feature set that Commvault has.

If the steps are followed properly then the initial setup will be straightforward.

We implement and deploy NetVault for our customers. If we have any trouble then we eventually resolve it. We don't simply tell the customer that it isn't possible. Ultimately, our customers have been happy with the solution.

Every product has advantages and disadvantages. The suitability of NetVault depends on the customer's environment and the requirements. Customers do not have the same kind of environment, which means that what works fine with one customer may leave another with issues.

This is a good solution, but some products have better features such as archiving and deduplication. In my opinion, Commvault is the best choice for backup and recovery.

I would rate this solution a five out of ten.

We primarily use the solution for security logs and for end-customer security.

The solution allows us to block off our network and only give access to whatever we want.

I don't have complete hands-on knowledge, so I can't speak to what is missing on the solution.

The interface can be improved. It should be more clear what features are available and make them easy to find.

The pricing could be adjusted. Right now, it's quite high.

I've been using the solution for six months.

I've heard from our L3 team that there have been a few hiccups on the stability side. Occasionally when we implement a policy change, for example, it doesn't deflect much. I'm not sure if it's a fault in the system or the configuration.

Technical support has been good. When we log a case, we'll get a call within 24-48 hours. They help get issues resolved if there are any hiccups. If an engineer cannot resolve the issue they will also move it up to another level. That may mean we have to wait a few more hours for them to get back to us in order to resolve the issues. 

We've been satisfied with the level of service we've received so far.

I'm not sure if there were other solutions evaluated before choosing this one. Management makes these types of decisions.

The solution's initial setup is straightforward so long as you take the time to study the solution beforehand. We were able to implement the solution within a week. We needed four people for deployment.

We had a vendor on the Dell side that assisted with the implementation.

The solution is a bit costly.

We're partners with Dell. We don't have complete access to the solution; we only have limited access. We use the on-premises deployment model.

We have two customers on the solution and we are also using it in our company.

If the solution fits the user's requirements and budgets, they should consider implementing it.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

The features that help us to search tables/databases available in the backup list are most valuable to us.

Sometimes tables/databases are dropped accidentally by clients. They ask us whether the backup of a particular table/database is available for a particular date. Instead of searching from each backup, we can search from all the backups and the search results shows all the available backups along with backup date and expiration. This feature saves a lot of time and help us to restore things quickly.

The netvault solution was installed on really big scale, we used to manage database and files system backup.
The software was installed on 30 Bar Servers of Europe’s 8 Big Telecom Operators.
Due to official reasons I cannot disclose the name of the telecom companies.
The BAR solution was installed on really big scale.
With the help of this tool we were able to meet the adhoc backup and restore requests from 8 countries in timely manners.
The catalogue databases of netvalut was very efficient and it helped us to search tables/views/dbs from different backup sets in quickway .
Built in reports were very helpful to conduct the analysis of the media utilization and capacity planning.

This tool was very useful to plan for the really large data backup. We have utilized this tool to backup 150 TB data on a weekly basis.

This product should have a web interface.

I have been using this product for three years.

The license expired without any warning and that caused us some problems. There should be a warning in advance.

We never had any scalability issues.

We never had any technical issues, so we never had the opportunity to contact them either.

We never used any other prior solution on that project.

The initial setup was done by another team, so I cannot give any insight on this.

I was not part of the team that made this decision.

This product is very useful and cost effective.