We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and NetApp SnapCenter 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 product is good for backups."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The fast backup and recovery and the Full Backup features are valuable."
"For the on-prem backup, it has all the necessary features that we require. They keep coming up with new scripts and new updates."
"They are extremely reliable and scalable — they provide the best de-duplication on the market."
"Dell EMC Avamar has many valuable features. It's very stable and it's easy to manage."
"The backup and recovery speed is very fast."
"We have seen huge data reduction and data deduplication and compression, which is very cost-effective and cost-reducing for the company."
"What is very handy for our clients is the consolidated view. They have a dashboard with everything, through a single pane of glass. This is what they really need because, within seconds, they can have a good overview and see if there are any errors or any issues."
"The central pane view is the most valuable feature. You have one console where you can monitor all your jobs, as opposed to going to different vCenters."
"The Exchange plugin is the most valuable because we have a lot of customers that use SnapManager Exchange and have to migrate to SnapCenter."
"The backup features are the most valuable because they allow the DBAs to replace SnapManager for Oracle (SMO), which is going away, and to do cloning as well. We can also clone to different servers and have the actual backup clone mounted on different servers. And we can split easily too."
"It's a centralized, easy-to-use solution empowering RBAC management, monitoring, notifications, extensive logging, and backup schedules for standalone as well as groups of the same types of environments. The cloning capabilities accelerate development."
"Restoring and cloning are easy to do."
"The main advantage is its fast backup and restore."
"The centralized GUI is the best feature, that there is only one webpage where we can see the states of all the backup jobs. We can see all the tasks that are running and we can quickly see if one fails; if they are running or have any issues. We have all that in one place."
"Technical support should be more knowledgeable."
"It's not the best solution for big databases."
"Some customers need to back up to tape, but Avamar lacks support, so it costs a lot."
"Interfaces need to be improved."
"Avamar is not the best tool when it comes to taking Azure backups. Like Commvault, if Avamar can support VM-level backups for the cloud, that would make it a bit better."
"Backup image browse times should be faster."
"The UI is quite old. We've been using this UI since last year, and they haven't changed it. It would be better to update the UI periodically and create attractive dashboards from an administrative point of view."
"If you don't have DPA, the reporting features are not as user-friendly, so reporting is something that they can improve on."
"I feel a little bit that during the whole process of putting this software into production we were like a beta program. It was full of bugs... For example, we had a problem with truncating our Exchange log files... It has improved over time."
"We have experience some difficulties with our current support. We are engaging in engineering level support because some of our problems are more technical."
"We tend to have a lot of Hyper-V... so now we have two management consoles and we would ideally like to leverage SnapCenter to include Hyper-V."
"The replication feature needs improvement in future releases."
"The documentation could be a little bit better so that we could handle more of the troubleshooting ourselves, rather than having to go through support."
"The GUI is still so-so. I' don't use the GUI that often anymore because it's really slow, refreshing disks, refreshing hosts, and you have to click a lot."
"We would like to see more granular repording and reporting in bigger sets available in SnapCenter."
"Reporting of the jobs could be better."
Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while NetApp SnapCenter is ranked 40th in Backup and Recovery with 24 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while NetApp SnapCenter 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 NetApp SnapCenter writes "A stable solution that is mostly used by banks and financial institutions". 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 SnapCenter is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, NetApp Cloud Backup and Commvault Cloud. See our Dell Avamar vs. NetApp SnapCenter report.
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