We performed a comparison between Dell NetWorker and Unitrends 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."The solution is very user-friendly. After setting up five machines for our customers we teach them how to set up the agent and start doing their backups. It is very easy for them once they see how to do it, they like to do it on their own."
"The GUI is user-friendly."
"The solution is stable."
"The updated graphical interface is better than it used to be."
"The solution is very stable, especially if you are using a RAC environment."
"Data domain is a good feature."
"The solution has a longer lifespan."
"The software implementation takes about 30 minutes."
"Replication to Forever Cloud."
"It is very easy to set up and get started. Almost too easy. We racked this device and had it up and running in less than 15 minutes."
"The ability to backup both physical and virtual machines, along with having an appliance store the backups locally instead of on a file server, NAS, or SAN."
"They have great support."
"The simple and fast restore routine."
"Stability-wise, I rate this solution a nine out of ten."
"If you are a large organization, this is a product for you."
"Iinstant recovery (allows a spin-up of your image as a VM on the appliance)."
"Currently, the NetWorker server only supports the Windows server bare-metal recovery, so an improvement would be built-in support for Linux and UNIX BMR."
"The solution could be graphically better."
"The UI is not user-friendly."
"It could be more 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."
"he API side of the solution has certain shortcomings."
"Could have a better recovery system."
"Its console UI should be better. It should also have more out-of-the-box reporting functionalities. It should also have easier cloud integration. They have got cloud boost and things like that, but if you want to directly back up to the cloud, I'm not too sure whether you can do it. For example, you can easily send data from Commvault to AWS, Azure, or a container, but it seems to be not so easy in NetWorker."
"There are some questions as to how safely they are storing backup data."
"There are a few quirks where the GUI, agent, and back-end are not precisely meshed."
"I would like to see more storage options for the free version."
"There's a lot that can be made better. For example, it could be more scalable."
"It could be a little more customizable."
"Unitrends can be challenging to scale."
"Probably the biggest issue I've had is actually paying for the unit, and part of that problem is that they use a third party for the billing."
"No appliance update notifications."
Dell NetWorker is ranked 13th in Backup and Recovery with 73 reviews while Unitrends is ranked 45th in Backup and Recovery with 34 reviews. Dell NetWorker is rated 7.8, while Unitrends is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Dell NetWorker writes "A stable tool that has an easy-to-use GUI that enables quick restoration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Unitrends writes "The solution can be used to back up servers and Hyper-V cluster nodes, but its support is super expensive". Dell NetWorker is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Dell Avamar, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup and Commvault Cloud, whereas Unitrends is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Arcserve UDP. See our Dell NetWorker vs. Unitrends report.
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