We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and Veeam Agent for Linux [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."Dell Avamar has helped our organization by allowing us to do backups."
"The solution is easy to use and has high performance."
"The solution scales well."
"It's a good solution."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"Every product is good and bad, but its claim to fame is that it is scalable. We're doing more than 3,000 VMs. Every single night a complete image backup to disks and replication are easily done in under four hours."
"Dell EMC Avamar is easy to work with and is user-friendly."
"The installation process is pretty straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to pick up individual files."
"I like the incremental backups and their failover."
"What I find most valuable about this solution, is that the user experience is very simple."
"It's simple to use."
"The technical support is good."
"The flexibility and user-friendliness of Veeam make it very IT operations-friendly."
"Veeam Agent for Linux's most valuable feature is the compatibility with virtual machines, such as VMware."
"It's stable and reliable."
"Compared with Cohesity or Rubrik, which have some continuous data protection for backup and replication, this solution tends to lack in this area."
"Avamar is still competitive because of the way we have deployed it, but we need to diversify and shift away from specific technologies. In addition to hypervisors, virtual machines, and bare metal servers, our customers need protection for Microsoft 365, SaaS, and the public cloud, so we need other technologies in the business to cater to those customers' needs. Those are the enhancements we would want from the Avamar platform, but that's not likely to happen. Dell has PowerProtect and Apex backup services. There are other Dell solutions that we'll use to fulfill our customers' requirements."
"If you don't have DPA, the reporting features are not as user-friendly, so reporting is something that they can improve on."
"There are limitations when trying to use this solution with Hyper-V."
"Its ability to back up very large objects can be improved. In terms of new features, they can include the ability to use cloud services, like S3, more natively."
"Technical support should be more knowledgeable."
"The reporting should be improved, as we currently have to use another tool for that purpose."
"When you get down to doing certain things, such as somebody wants a particular file restored, the process by which you do that is stupid. You kind of have to know exactly where to look for in order to find it. Even on older backup products that I've used, I didn't have that kind of problem. If we were looking for a file with a particular kind of a name, the solution would find that file anywhere irrespective of where it resides within the backup system. So, we didn't have to know the name of the specific server, the specific timeframe, almost all the characters of the file name, and all kinds of data in order to find a file. In Avamar, we got to know these details. We've gone around and around with them on that, and their attitude seems to be that it is working just fine. There is nothing for them to improve. The organizational system of other products that I'm working with, such as Zerto and Cohesity, seems to be centered around the tasks that you would most commonly do and want to do, as opposed to we've laid it out in a really neat technical hierarchy."
"It's scalable, but it's not scalable on every platform."
"In terms of the physical environment, I'd like them to integrate it with other kinds of solutions. We don't just work with Microsoft or Linux, but other kinds of infrastructure data as well."
"There is a compatibility issue with HCI."
"I would like to be able to install Veeam directly to Linux instead of having to go through a Windows server."
"There isn't much to improve. They just need to follow the trend or the development of other Linux products. Follow in terms of making the product compatible with new versions of Linux. They just need to include as many versions for Linux as possible."
"It would be much better if more applications were supported on the Linux side. For example, their agent for Windows not only can back up the Windows machine, but it can also back up Active Directory for granular restore, SQL servers, Exchange, Oracle, SharePoint, etc. When it comes to Linux, only Oracle databases are supported. There are workarounds, though."
"They could be more customer-friendly."
"The pricing could be lowered if possible."
Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while Veeam Agent for Linux [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Backup and Recovery with 23 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while Veeam Agent for Linux [EOL] is rated 8.0. 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 Veeam Agent for Linux [EOL] writes "Reliable and issue-free with a helpful onboarding wizard". 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 Veeam Agent for Linux [EOL] is most compared with Microsoft DPM.
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