We performed a comparison between Dell NetWorker and Unitrends 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."Very user-friendly with a good interface."
"Deduplication is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The initial setup is very easy. It's incredibly fast."
"The solution has minimized the recovery time objective, and the recovery point objective, the RTO and RPO. Most customers are looking for to minimize downtime. The solution has helped ensure this."
"It has the ability to support all kinds of backups. It can be used to back up databases, operating systems, virtual machines, Lotus Notes, and Exchange. It can also do remote image backups for remote sites. It integrates and works with Data Domain. It is an enterprise-class product that can be used for anything and everything across multiple sites and locations. It is also very scalable."
"The initial setup is simple."
"Anybody could drive the GUI."
"Dell NetWorker's valuable feature is its ability to configure the network for immutability, specifically for backups."
"Stability-wise, I rate this solution a nine out of ten."
"VM backup is much faster and more reliable, as I can test my backups with Data Copy Access jobs."
"I like the fact that you can recover the VMs inside the appliance. For example, they're basically running this appliance on a Linux-based distribution, and they're spinning off KVM virtual machines inside."
"They have great support."
"The ability to diversify jobs within the same server helps break down a large chunk of data into more manageable and concentrated chunks."
"When we talk about a backup point of view, from a backup perspective, it's a good one."
"The ability to backup both physical and virtual machines, along with having an appliance store the backups locally instead of on a file server, NAS, or SAN."
"I am impressed with the tool's reporting and UniView features."
"In the next release, I would like to see better pricing and more integration with the other products in Dell EMC."
"The solution could be graphically better."
"It would be beneficial to have a single user interface for all of the features."
"The user interface has to be improved"
"It's not easy to integrate. We have to read a lot of documentation in order to configure the solution."
"The management of Dell Networker is quite cumbersome."
"We are able to do direct backups, but analyzing the logs is not straightforward."
"We are looking forward to better stability in future versions."
"Making the seeding process more accessible and easier to understand. Also, make more of the undocumented best practices easier to find."
"Techs don't see to be well-versed in troubleshooting issues that arise and tickets stay opened for weeks for resolution."
"It would be great to have the job throttle/limit the max number of backups on a single ESXi host."
"Comparing the features and the working pattern, definitely they have to come down on pricing if they want to compete in the market."
"Follow up for the DRaaS service setup. I'm still waiting to schedule a DRaaS test after upgrading several months ago."
"I would like to see more storage options for the free version."
"Unitrends can be challenging to scale."
"The amount of updates which are being released. Updates should be limited to two or three a year, focusing more on quality instead of a rushed bug release."
Dell NetWorker is ranked 14th in Backup and Recovery with 73 reviews while Unitrends is ranked 42nd in Backup and Recovery with 34 reviews. Dell NetWorker is rated 7.8, while Unitrends is rated 7.8. 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 Unitrends writes "The solution can be used to back up servers and Hyper-V cluster nodes, but its support is super expensive". Dell NetWorker is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Dell Avamar, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup and Commvault Cloud, whereas Unitrends is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our Dell NetWorker vs. Unitrends report.
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