We performed a comparison between Dell NetWorker and HPE StoreOnce based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."The solution is scalable."
"Very user-friendly with a good interface."
"It's a good product that can be integrated easily with the Data domain."
"Storage-wise, EMC is user-friendly."
"The response time of the tech support is swift. The support is fantastic."
"The backup capabilities and the automatization of the backup - along with the potential to make the back up on a virtual machine - are the solution's most valuable aspects."
"NetWorker is fast and reliable."
"The most valuable feature of Dell NetWorker is its quick configuration and handling of large databases."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"Catalyst backup is used to back up Oracle databases, and provides very good throughput during backups."
"The scalability is very good."
"The speed and deduplication ratio are two of the most valuable features of the solution."
"We also really benefit from the GUI capabilities."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication and compression capabilities."
"Deduplication and compression are in a good ratio. It supports the HPE Catalyst protocol, which is much faster than NFS and other protocols. We use CommVault and Veeam, and these two solutions support the Catalyst protocol very well and are integrated at high speed. It is faster than normal access."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that the tool provides good value for somebody who needs an affordable and reliable storage solution."
"The data storage capabilities should be improved."
"I would like to see the user interface improved, more documentation, faster support, and it could be easier to configure."
"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."
"I would like to see better support for the container systems, and we would like to see more support for image backups instead of pure file backups."
"The front end of the solution could improve. The user-friendliness is lacking."
"Reporting templates could be easier to understand and more comprehensive."
"Support is definitely an area of concern because of the time it takes to resolve our issues."
"The process of upgrading versions should be improved because as it is now, you have to completely uninstall the old version first, and then install the new version."
"improvement? HPE StoreOnce has a limitation with respect to controllers. Other tools offer more than one controller. I feel that the high availability of the view controller should be redundant. The tool’s control and UI part should be improved and made more advanced. The feature that helps with the manual movement of tapes should also be improved."
"The user interface of HPE StoreOnce should be more user-friendly. Additionally, the configuration and troubleshooting could be better."
"We would like to see some improvements in the Veeam Backup & Replication integration. It's good, but it has a lot of room to improve. In particular around the inability to easily move data between StoreOnce appliances."
"Agnostic backups."
"The user interface of HPE StoreOnce is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"In terms of areas for improvement, I believe HPE StoreOnce could learn from competitors like Dell's Data Domain and ExtraHop in refining its architecture."
"The product could be improved with better support for data protection."
"The repository should have an extension to connect to the cloud and deposit the backups."
Dell NetWorker is ranked 14th in Backup and Recovery with 73 reviews while HPE StoreOnce is ranked 2nd in Deduplication Software with 103 reviews. Dell NetWorker is rated 7.8, while HPE StoreOnce is rated 8.4. 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 HPE StoreOnce writes "Helps to consolidate D2D backups and has a good deduplication ratio". Dell NetWorker is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Dell Avamar, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup and Azure Backup, whereas HPE StoreOnce is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Dell PowerVault, ExaGrid EX Series, DD Boost and HPE Primera.
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