We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and NetApp FAS Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Deduplication Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Scheduling is valuable. It does a good job of backing up, and it does a good job of restoring. Nobody has got a problem with that. The agents are well supported."
"It's a good solution."
"The solution is very stable."
"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."
"The most valuable feature for me in Dell Avamar is the automation, which is good for completion."
"Avamar's source side deduplication is very strong, it can easily back up remote sites' data, and not much bandwidth is required on the Avamar side."
"Easy to configure and highly reliable for backup."
"We have a lot of backups, and this tool helps us with the RMAN Backup."
"A reliable and easily managed storage system is a key performance factor. The system also has more features than we require."
"The strong point is that our clients like this are RadLV (Radiology Low-Value). They also use SnapMirror and MetroCluster."
"Can use both SAN and NAS at the same time."
"Compression of the backup Oracle by RMAN on NFS saves space 5:1."
"I like the unified management feature because sometimes you end up running a single protocol on the entire system."
"At the moment, we use NetApp SnapMirror to replicate data to another filer at an offsite location for backup. So, I like this feature."
"Reliable storage solution with an easy setup. It has high availability and makes single file restoration easy. It also has good stability and scalability."
"Good for NAS and unified solutions."
"More integration would be helpful, as well as the addition of more applications."
"Technical support should be more knowledgeable."
"It would be helpful if the product offered more integration potential."
"The challenges we do face typically revolve around aligning specific features with our accustomed tool usage."
"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."
"The solution used to freeze sometimes while taking a snapshot backup."
"The interface has room for improvement. It's not ideal right now."
"It would be helpful if there was cloud support."
"The solution's configuration is not flexible."
"I’ve found that I use command line more often than I thought needed. Some things should be done in the GUI, and command-line switches can be overwhelming and take up a lot of time."
"I think this kind of infrastructure is mostly obsolete. To keep up with developments in this space, you need to move all these features to an All-Flash solution."
"Installation of the additional switches and ETP could be improved."
"Replication should ideally be part of the ONTAP base bundle."
"We would like to have further integration with some backup products. They have some of them already, but there could be more."
"Cluster mode needs to be more ubiquitous."
"The user interface could be improved."
Dell Avamar is ranked 3rd in Deduplication Software with 81 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 5th in Deduplication Software with 98 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while NetApp FAS Series is rated 8.8. 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 NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers good performance and ". 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), whereas NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and IBM FlashSystem. See our Dell Avamar vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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