We performed a comparison between Dell EMC Avamar and Dell EMC Networker based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Dell EMC Avamar wins out in this comparison due to its robust performance as well as its impressive data reduction and deduplication abilities. In addition, Dell EMC Avamar received positive feedback in the ROI category.
"We love the instant recovery functionality. It's very useful."
"Dell Avamar has a push upgrade feature that lets you simultaneously push updates to thousands of clients. I also found the self-service part of Dell Avamar helpful."
"The most valuable feature for me in Dell Avamar is the automation, which is good for completion."
"We used Dell Avamar for backup and recovery of a virtual environment."
"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."
"Stable and scalable backup and recovery software, with good technical support."
"The installation process is pretty straightforward."
"For the on-prem backup, it has all the necessary features that we require. They keep coming up with new scripts and new updates."
"The full backup is a great feature. Restoration is also good and very quick."
"The best feature of Dell EMC NetWorker is its wide spectrum of available plugins for each and every software that you can back up, such as SAP HANA, Oracle, AXI-based machines, or Dell-based machines. Whatever you want to back up, you can do it with Dell EMC NetWorker. It is a very solid backup software. It is the oldest backup software from EMC, and it comes from Dell EMC's legacy."
"The GUI is the best feature. It's very good and easy to use."
"It is scalable software. All you need to increase is its RAM and CPU. It's pretty easy."
"If it's set up the right way, it's a stable product."
"NetWorker is fast and reliable."
"Data domain is a good feature."
"The extensive information provided on tool properties has been very useful, specifically the information on databases"
"It was challenging to back up our Exchange database, which is one of the reasons we did not continue using this solution."
"I want to see a more user-friendly and administrator-friendly Dell Avamar. The solution also needs a better UI and dashboard."
"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."
"Avamar is dependent on the hardware. It can't be implemented with ordinary storage. It can only be implemented with an EMC product. We want to have a backup solution that allows us to use independent storage and other hardware. It would be good if they can simplify its technology and make it possible to implement it with another storage. This is probably not possible because Avamar is an EMC product, and EMC would like to sell its own products."
"The user interface still needs to have some level of improvement. It could be more user-friendly and intuitive."
"We have had a lot of problems with the Dell EMC Avamar solution. The snapshots are not being erased after backup."
"It's very slow to backup and store information. It has two consoles and an application which are more difficult to use than a solution like Veeam."
"Avamar cannot back up Nutanix as a virtual solution."
"It's not easy to integrate. We have to read a lot of documentation in order to configure the solution."
"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 UI is not user-friendly."
"It is not easy to understand and deploy. It is complex in nature. Simplicity is not there. When we deploy it, the customer always needs some training from us. To make it user friendly, there should be one agent that can be used to back up every product. Dell EMC NetWorker uses so many user agents. In PowerProtect Data Manager, you can just install its VM, import that VM into vCenter, and you can start to do backups directly from vCenter. However, in Dell EMC NetWorker, you always need one server, and from that server, you need to initiate all backups. You must know the interface and the CLI. It is not user friendly. It would be a great feature if we can deploy Dell EMC NetWorker on a virtual machine, like Avamar. The additional features that are required in Dell EMC NetWorker are already available in PowerProtect Data Manager and Avamar. Therefore, there is no need to enhance Dell EMC NetWorker. It would be better if they can just rename it to PowerProtect Data Manager or Avamar."
"When you're working with VMware, you need to use vProxy machines. You have to install the vProxy for every host in the VMware environment."
"The UI needs some enhancement to be more user-friendly."
"The team does not have enough knowledge to support you."
Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while Dell NetWorker is ranked 14th in Backup and Recovery with 73 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while Dell NetWorker is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Dell Avamar writes "Stable, integrates well with other solutions, and has a good price, but its UI needs a refresh". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell NetWorker writes "A stable tool that has an easy-to-use GUI that enables quick restoration". Dell Avamar is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA), Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Dell NetWorker is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Commvault Cloud and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our Dell Avamar vs. Dell NetWorker report.
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