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 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."
"The software is quite complicated and useful for large corporations using different information systems."
"It can support many different versions, both newer and older."
"When it was required that data had to be restored for our customer, it was accomplished successfully and this has kept our end users satisfied."
"Dell's technical support are quite helpful with straightforward issues."
"The standout feature of Dell NetWorker is its expertise in handling our VMware environment."
"This solution is really the best in the market! After evaluating other solutions, we automatically decided to use this one."
"The backup software has been much faster since we've deployed the solution."
"It's very helpful because SnapCenter is already integrated with VMware Snapshot, so it's very easy to use."
"Technical support has been very helpful when we have issues."
"It has very fast backup and can handle a huge amount of data. It also enables really fast recovery."
"I like the instant backups and recovery feature that SnapCenter provides within NetApp storage systems."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The product’s most valuable feature is cloning."
"Restoring and cloning are easy to do."
"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."
"The user interface is hard to use, it should be simplified. There are a lot of web-based management interfaces which they should consider."
"It is a little buggy at times, which is the only thing that I dislike about this product."
"There could be a possibility of constructing full backups from incremental data intelligently."
"I haven't had a good experience with technical support. It takes them a very long time to resolve issues."
"The price could be cheaper."
"It could be more user-friendly."
"They need more support for image backups."
"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."
"Since the solution's initial setup is complex, it should make training documents available in the public space."
"Some of the minor functionalities from SnapManager did not transfer over to SnapCenter. These should be added in future releases."
"The replication feature needs improvement in future releases."
"We would like to see more granular repording and reporting in bigger sets available in SnapCenter."
"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."
"The Microsoft environment is its biggest disadvantage due to the central management of all the actions. Because the SnapCenter server is where we deploy everything, it also affects the Microsoft environment, which can cause many difficulties when resolving issues like Windows update problems."
"What I did witness lately are issues with some Microsoft KBs, the updates. But it happened only once, and not on a major platform, it was on a small one."
"The UI, the User Interface, needs to be improved. It's not as clean or modern as it could be."
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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