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."The most valuable feature for me in Dell Avamar is the automation, which is good for completion."
"The product is good for backups."
"All the features in the system are highly valuable."
"The product has a proven track record of good backups without much of a failure ratio. It also has a good backup in terms of the compression ratio."
"The tool's most valuable features are backup management and speed."
"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."
"It's stable and offers good performance."
"So far, Avamar covers everything we want. We are replicating to other sites for disaster recovery, so it's working well for us."
"It changed the way we do Disaster Recovery (DR) around NetApp replication."
"NAS stability"
"The most important features are SnapVault, Snapshots, and SnapMirror."
"Reliable storage solution with an easy setup. It has high availability and makes single file restoration easy. It also has good stability and scalability."
"It is good to have a unified storage where you can have block and file level protocols."
"It allows our Windows and Unix teams to have a centralized point to share data between the two."
"The storage efficiency provided a maximum savings in our storage utilization."
"The strong point is that our clients like this are RadLV (Radiology Low-Value). They also use SnapMirror and MetroCluster."
"More integration would be helpful, as well as the addition of more applications."
"Compared with Cohesity or Rubrik, which have some continuous data protection for backup and replication, this solution tends to lack in this area."
"If you don't have DPA, the reporting features are not as user-friendly, so reporting is something that they can improve on."
"The bare-metal restores could be improved."
"If there is a need to move the data from one backup solution to another, it might be difficult since there is no option for a straightforward migration."
"The initial setup is a bit complex and could be simpler."
"If you need to pull data out of it to offload to tapes, that's messy. You have a mechanism for it, but it is painful."
"The product could be improved by simplifying the components available."
"With scalability, we feel the system is limited."
"If our customer needs a high-performance storage solution then we don't recommend this product."
"NetApp systems are somewhat more complex, though not excessively so. If you're transitioning from a Windows server environment to NetApp, get training or education; otherwise, you might struggle with this solution."
"Its operating system is very cumbersome. However, after you set it up, it runs pretty smoothly. Its file system is not very dynamic. It is very static."
"There is room for improvement in deployment and configuration processes."
"Cost is always a factor. Some people choose EMC or Dell because they perceive NetApp as being more expensive."
"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."
"NetApp is costly when compared to Dell."
Dell Avamar is ranked 3rd in Deduplication Software with 81 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 5th in Deduplication Software with 97 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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