We performed a comparison between BDRSuite and Dell Avamar based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We have seen ROI. The real return is when something bad happens. All the proof of concept work that we did, all the testing we did, it all panned out for us. We're already seeing a return on that."
"The most important features are the backup and the availability of the Universal Explorer. The in-transit compression is great."
"We invest in the backup so the continuity of the data is not affected."
"The Vembu BDR product is very intuitive and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the ability, from a console, to manage the different computers to be backed up."
"The network solution is the most important feature, because we have our own backup server and are doing file backups for our customers."
"Their technical support is very good to work with, as they are able to propose alternate solutions to problems that work well for us."
"The product is very reliable and works well out of the box; many of our customers are buying it."
"Dell EMC Avamar has many valuable features. It's very stable and it's easy to manage."
"Dell Avamar has helped our organization by allowing us to do backups."
"We've been using this solution to backup our servers. It is a simple backup and restore data application."
"Its deduplication technologies are the best in the market, currently."
"Quick incremental backups and product replication are the two highlights of the product. Once you capture a full backup, incrementals are pretty quick. It is fairly efficient from that perspective."
"I think the brand is very good. Support is also very nice for end users and integration with EMC products for businesses."
"The stability is okay."
"Easy to configure and highly reliable for backup."
"The process is a bit cumbersome when you remove an agent, delete that job, and add the agent to the same server. Even though the agent is already installed in that server, the system does not recognize it. We have to uninstall the current agent, restart the server, install the push agent - a new agent - and then restart the server. I think they should try to avoid that."
"The only place where I would really want to see improvement, out the gate, is more granular scheduling... If I want to do an offset or to only do two backups on Friday and Saturday - versus whole hourly incrementals during the week - I don't have that granularity right now."
"They said they can support Red Hat Virtualization and we assumed that they support any compatible system but we found we need to do a network backup or a network image, which is not what it said on their website. I have had many discussions with them about where this component is. Initially, I was searching for a component which would back up Red Hat Virtualization. They said they support this in the same way they support Hyper-V and VMware. I haven't found the feature in their portal or in any of their software. They haven't made a special agent for it, in the way they did for Hyper-V."
"There were issues with the implementation because of incompatibilities between the tool implementation and our current VMware installation. So, it was an implementation issue that doesn't allow me to use it for VMware backup in the manner in which we would want to use it. That wasn't clear from the evaluation stage nor was it clear from the first utilization of it because it worked in the environment that it was being evaluated in. Based on that, we went ahead and made the purchase of the full implementation. At that point, it became clear that there would be limitations in that implementation that could not be overcome without doing upgrades to the production environment."
"There was one issue though with the hardware IDs. When I went to a different version of Hyper-V, the hardware IDs weren't restored and the machine got two new IDs. The preliminary unique IDs weren't restored, so I had to reactivate programs."
"The phone [support] system is a negative five on a scale from one to ten, where one is the worst. They wanted me to leave a message. When there is a problem with the product and you call in, you want to talk to somebody or wait to talk to somebody, not leave a message."
"It is not a well-known software. People do not know about Vembu."
"There are bugs. For one month, I encountered a big issue where my storage pool could not be identified. My backups were stopped because they were not able to locate the storage pool. So, I removed the settings and started the backups again. The application is not stable. It needs some debugging and testing on the build side of production."
"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."
"In my opinion, the user interface and the user friendliness could be improved. The specific thing I have in mind are the graphics, which are not quite user-friendly."
"The stability could improve, a lot of scheduled backups failed at one time."
"The interface has room for improvement. It's not ideal right now."
"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."
"Dell Avamar could improve by adding more backup features."
"The solution used to freeze sometimes while taking a snapshot backup."
"Dell hasn't done a good job at handling these upgrades, or the way EMC used to handle them."
BDRSuite is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 63 reviews while Dell Avamar is ranked 11th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews. BDRSuite is rated 8.2, while Dell Avamar is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of BDRSuite writes "Can automatically pull the virtual machines that we have in an environment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell Avamar writes "Stable, integrates well with other solutions, and has a good price, but its UI needs a refresh". BDRSuite is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, NAKIVO Backup & Replication, Vinchin Backup & Recovery, Acronis Cyber Protect and Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, whereas Dell Avamar is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell NetWorker, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our BDRSuite vs. Dell Avamar report.
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