We performed a comparison between Dell NetWorker 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 best feature of Dell EMC NetWorker is its wide spectrum of available plugins for each and every software that you can back up, such as SAP HANA, Oracle, AXI-based machines, or Dell-based machines. Whatever you want to back up, you can do it with Dell EMC NetWorker. It is a very solid backup software. It is the oldest backup software from EMC, and it comes from Dell EMC's legacy."
"The GUI is user-friendly."
"Dell EMC NetWorker is scalable."
"The most valuable features for us at the moment are NFS, file system backup, and IP backup."
"I like that it's stable and scalable."
"There are no problems in terms of stability."
"The GUI is the best feature. It's very good and easy to use."
"This solution is really the best in the market! After evaluating other solutions, we automatically decided to use this one."
"Restoring and cloning are easy to do."
"Being able to add everything in as resource groups is a valuable feature... Having all the SQL servers put into specific buckets, based on their year of release - 2008, 2012, 2014 - allows us to get almost immediate backups that are easily seen and reported on."
"Most banks and financial institutions use the solution."
"It allows us to easily take a Snapshot and use it with any backup tools. We can also take Snapshots on the application side. We can also take Snapshots on the application side. If we want to restore an SAP or an Oracle machine, a normal Snapshot won't do it, but we can do so with SnapCenter."
"The way that it interconnects with VMware is really handy, because you can go right into your vSphere client, where you spend a lot of the day anyway, right-click on one of the VMs where you have backups running for however long, and you can restore either some files or restore the entire thing."
"I like the instant backups and recovery feature that SnapCenter provides within NetApp storage systems."
"It's integrated with VMware vCenter. You can also see the backups there and you can do a restore completely out of vCenter."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"Dell NetWorker could improve the GUI to include rack recovery."
"We would like support for tape space reclaim, using either the same or another pool."
"I would like to see the user interface improved, more documentation, faster support, and it could be easier to configure."
"Currently, the NetWorker server only supports the Windows server bare-metal recovery, so an improvement would be built-in support for Linux and UNIX BMR."
"The security features need backup and encryption. It would be nice if they added this feature. I would also like to be able to decrypt when restoring the security features. Hackers can sense these vulnerabilities today, and we need to have our enterprise prepared."
"I would like to see encryption included in the next release to encrypt the data that we are backing up."
"Reporting templates could be easier to understand and more comprehensive."
"They need more support for image backups."
"I'm waiting for SnapCenter for hybrid solutions. Right now, we only have SnapManager for hybrid. I need agents for that. People are looking to install SnapCenter in a SQL environment, but where they're running SQL on Hyper-V and using virtual files. Currently, we don't have support for hybrid."
"We have experience some difficulties with our current support. We are engaging in engineering level support because some of our problems are more technical."
"I would like to see replication support between systems. Right now, it's kind of limited. We manage them separately from the storage system interface, not from SnapCenter. It would be nice if it was integrated into SnapCenter."
"The DBAs are comparing it to SMO but it doesn't have a lot of the functionalities that SMO has."
"Some of the minor functionalities from SnapManager did not transfer over to SnapCenter. These should be added in future releases."
"There is one area that needs improvement and that's in the alerting. When you set up your SMTP alerts, it only has - and I don't understand why - the ability to send an anonymous SMTP. It doesn't do basic authentication, which frustrated me for a while until I figured out that I'm not missing something. It's just not there."
"The compatibility with other manufacturers, like Oracle and Hyper-V, could be improved. I would like to see it be more compatible with other software."
"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."
Dell NetWorker is ranked 14th in Backup and Recovery with 73 reviews while NetApp SnapCenter is ranked 40th in Backup and Recovery with 24 reviews. Dell NetWorker is rated 7.8, while NetApp SnapCenter is rated 8.0. 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 NetApp SnapCenter writes "A stable solution that is mostly used by banks and financial institutions". Dell NetWorker is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Dell Avamar, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup and Commvault Cloud, whereas NetApp SnapCenter is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, NetApp Cloud Backup, Commvault Cloud and Veritas NetBackup. See our Dell NetWorker vs. NetApp SnapCenter report.
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