Dell Avamar Primary Use Case
We use Dell Avamar for backing up a VMware environment.
View full review »The main use of Dell Avamar is as a backup and storage solution.
We're a managed services provider, and we've developed a custom version of Avamar. It is intended to be a product for single customers, but we transformed it into a multi-tenant platform.
Avamar is a hybrid solution. We can deploy Avamar as a direct-to-cloud service, or we can deploy agents onto customers' endpoints at their branches, and they can then back up straight into our mobile attendant platform and update centers. We also offer customers on-premise appliances.
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Dell Avamar
April 2024
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Umar-Qureshi
Deputy Manager at Reliance Industries Ltd
We're using Dell Avamar for data and endpoint protection.
View full review »Our clients have found Avamar to be effective for their backup and disaster recovery needs. It serves as a comprehensive data protection suite, meeting the requirements of all virtualization platforms.
View full review »We use the Dell Avamar solution to backup endpoints, including desktops and laptops. We also use it to back up virtual servers using Dell Avamar. With this server, we take backups of all the employees' desktops and laptops. We haven't encountered any backup and restore problems with Avamar. If we will need any support, we will get it from Dell.
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Haseeb Sheikh
Manager Private Cloud Solutions at ufone
Our company has more than 5,000 employees, and we use the Avamar solution for the protection of our rear environment, we are protecting 1,500+ VMs using this solution.
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Sun Kittisobhon
Professional Service Manager at Wish Enterprise Group co., ltd
My clients use Avamar to back up VM solutions on VMware's infrastructure.
View full review »We've been using this solution to backup our servers. It is a simple backup and restore data application.
View full review »My primary use case is backend storage for our VMs. We are fully virtualized, using VMware for our virtualization layer, and we use multiple VMs for our applications, so we have multiple workloads for the education school information systems. Then we have our ERP and HR systems, and our infrastructure monitoring the networking solutions, and so on. All these VMs are backed up using Avamar.
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Robert Osbourn
Unix Architect at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees
It is a backup solution. So, we do daily backups of around 3,000 VMware guests. That is normally just an image backup where it goes to the VMware API, backs up the image file, and then puts it on the backend to Avamar into Data Domain. It has a specialized storage system that does dedupe and compression, so we can get more on a single disk array. We have more than one site. We have a primary site and a secondary site.
At the Data Domain level, we replicate site to site every backup every day so that we have the availability in our secondary site for every VM. The replication is done with the architecture of the Data Domain itself.
We have the rapid recovery solution that allows you to stand up any box at either location and have it come up online within just a minute or two. That's done via NFS. It becomes a data store into VMware, and then you vMotion it out. So, it has got rapid recovery at both locations as well.
We are using its newest version. We keep it up to date.
View full review »Dell Avamar is a source-based backup solution. It is the best backup solution for people with laptops and desktops from various offices with a small bandwidth. We also use it for remote office backup tasks.
View full review »Mainly we suggest it to our users, to our clients, when it comes to a fully virtualized environment of VMware.
View full review »We're a solutions provider with backup and recovery software as our main focus, and my work deals with customer support for the backup domains from an architect's perspective.
Usually, it's for on-prem server backup. It's mostly virtual. We have VM backups and subsequent file backups, and we do file restores. In addition, the customer I work for has old Domino Notes, and we also provide support for that with Avamar.
We mostly work with its latest or latest minus one version. It depends on the bug fixes and vulnerabilities in a version.
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reviewer1645866
VP Global Infrastructure at a media company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We use Avamar for all of our backup and data management solutions in our co-location facility. I have two co-location facilities with one in Carrollton, Texas, and one in Austin.
I have data domains, Avamar platforms, and Avamar software that we use across our enterprise.
I manage a global technology team and a global infrastructure team. We use those platforms across all of our data centers, as well as on our sites where we have on-premises storage for either our Burrtec solutions or Isilon solutions that we have in territories, where we have to have data remain in the country due to the compliance requirements. We use it globally.
View full review »When Avamar started out, it used to be for a small to medium environment, but now it's done a lot of changes and it's a good backup solution, especially within your VMware environment.
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Coenie Rossouw
Storage specialist at Vodacom Business
It specifically caters to the backup needs of our data, ensuring secure and compliant operations.
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Atul Pandya
Project Engineer at Concept Information Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.
We are using Avamar as support for the VMware Virtual Machine Backup. The chain blocking is very good. With Dell Avamar, we have integrated with Dell EMC Data Domain. It has a 97% completion ratio. That's the reason we are using Dell EMC Avamar.
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Deena Khattab
MIS Manager at Misr Glass Manufacturing
We have three sites. We deployed Avamar on one site three years ago then added the same setup for the other sites. Following best practices, we're using Avamar with Dell Data Domain for data compression and deduplication.
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reviewer1688637
Senior Engineer, Disaster Recovery at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is our main backup system while we're in the middle of switching over to Cohesity.
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Mina-Magdy
Senior Infrastructure Solutions Specialist at Fiber Nisr
Our company is Dell EMCs largest partner in Egypt and the Middle East. We have a titanium partnership with them and I'm the senior infrastructure solutions specialist.
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Ahmed-AZZAM
Pre-Sales Manager at ACS
We're using it in our company. We primarily use the solution as a backup.
View full review »I'm using the solution for our entire daily data backup for laptops and desktops. We also use it for some of our virtual machines and some of our databases systems.
The primary use case is for remote office or branch office type protection.
We don't have a current instance. It is pretty old. We have tried desperately to decommission Avamar.
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MuathAlhwetat
SAN and UNIX Administrator at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use this solution for tape backup and data domain. It is an on-premises deployment.
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reviewer1715061
DGM Data Centre at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
We use it for our desktops and laptops end-users. We have a network in place for server backup and archive.
View full review »This product is very easy to use. The interface is easier to use than other backup solutions. The product is mature and can handle all of our data protection.
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Khalid AbaAlkhail
System Administrator at sang
Our primary use case for Dell Avamar is for backup purposes.
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reviewer2023947
System Analyst II at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Our use case for this solution is robust and involves backing up various systems.
View full review »We use it as a backup and restore solution for our customers. For replication, we use the Data Domain application. We replicate from our primary site to the DR site.
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Rishiraj Nandedkar
Deputy General Manager ( Practice Head Data Protection and Migration) at Netmagic Solutions (An NTT Communications Company)
I recently stopped using this product because my work moved away from operations and I'm now a patents director, so I generally do the designing. My client was looking for backups and for an application along with a desktop backup. We are partners with Dell and I'm the deputy general manager of the company.
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reviewer1029222
Storage Management Specialist at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
We deal with data that has compliance requirements for long-term retention, which is like 10 years plus the life of the client. As long as they're in our program, we have to keep anything related to them for that time period, which can run up to 30 years. We deal with all things related to that. I'm a storage management specialist and we are customers of Dell.
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PradeepKumar11
IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We primarily use the solution as a backup. Avamar is used to back up our production workloads. Production workloads include Oracle, EBS, SharePoint, file and print service, other application services.
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Absar Khan
Backup Administrator at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We are using Dell EMC Avamar for backing up our virtual environment.
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reviewer1289250
Storage Administrator at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We primarily use the solution for virtual infrastructure.
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ADRIAN AHUMADA
Manager of Production Systems at COMERCIAL CITY FRESKO
Backup of virtual machines.
View full review »Dell Avamar is integrated with data protection and data domain. We have integrated it with vCenter and a couple of virtual machines from Dell Avamar to the data protection sources.
View full review »Dell EMC Avamar is a backup solution. It has integration with the hardware that Dell has and you can backup many things, such as snapshots.
View full review »We primarily use the solution the database replications in web hosting, mostly.
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Olivier Mougin
Architecte Backup at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
The primary use case of this solution was for projects to backup customer laptops for the application capabilities.
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reviewer933660
Vice President at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
We use Dell EMC Avamar for backing up the data on the endpoint devices of the users.
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reviewer1456230
Head Cyber Security at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
We use Dell EMC Avamar for our critical servers backups.
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reviewer1043256
Principal Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It was initially used for remote office, branch office backups, but eventually, it started to be used for small and large data centers.
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PaulLemmons
Lead Systems Software Engineer at Tucson Medical Center
File level, backup and recovery of data stored on AIX, Linux, and Windows server to Data Domain storage.
We use this product for Windows and Linux servers, and we have both file and database backups stored on them. We use them at smaller sites, which are small offices that are located around the world.
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reviewer1267071
Senior Consultant at a tech company with 11-50 employees
We are system integrators who are selling backup solutions, and Dell EMC Avamar is one of the products that we implement for our clients.
I had come across it for backing up laptops and VMware but previously, I have had clients using it to backup system machines like AIX, Solaris, and others. Slowly, people are moving away from those.
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Hermann Eric Steve ZE MVONDO
Expert IT Infrastructure and Systems at ITGSTORE CONSULTING
As solution providers, we provide solutions to meet the objectives and goals of customers. We provide a general global architecture and the right solution that will solve a customer's problem and meet the goal at the fixed cost. If the customer doesn't mention a specific provider, then to meet the goal, we use the provider that we have to.
We use the on site version.
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Systemdmn67
System Admin at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees
We recently stopped using this solution but it was being used to back up our servers and client machines.
We were using an on-premises deployment.
View full review »Our primary use case for Dell Avamar is backup and verification.
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OlegIvanov
General Director at miromix unitedMiroMIX United
Dell EMC Avamar is used for backups and data recovery.
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Shiraz Ahmed
Founder & CEO at Technomatters
My customer has a huge virtual environment — vCenter and VMware. They need images backed up, they have different workloads like Oracle, SAP, and NetWorker. They have a compliance policy that they have to tape out but Avamar, out of the box, cannot do the tape out. That's why I had to introduce NetWorker into the picture.
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Redouane Chtioui
Responsable des Systèmes Départementaux at CIH BANK
We use the solution to protect our virtual machine.
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reviewer1787382
Analista de Sistemas SR at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
When I was working for a company we used Dell EMC Avamar to backups of the system's data.
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Mohamed-Ashraf
System Operation Engineer at Stayfit
We primarily use the solution as a backup.
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reviewer1702752
Senior Account Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The solution can be used for the backing up of all environments, including those which are virtual and involve databases and applications.
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Shehan Attapattu
head of presales at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
In a data center, the entire workloads are virtualized, and they are backing up the content, and sometimes because of bandwidth, operations need to be backed up quickly. In that kind of scenario, this source site replication is very supportive. Avamar evaluates the data that's already backed up, and only the chain blocks can be transferred via the network. There won't be any heavy network traffic, and the time it takes to backup is quick and within the window.
On the client-side, we can also backup clients with Avamar. These days with the pandemic, most of them work from home, and we're using less network bandwidth to backup end user transfers.
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reviewer1345311
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We are system integrators. We resell, we deploy, and we support our clients.
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Presales Engineer at Eta2u
In Romania, more customers own their enterprise software. But the new wave wants to also try cloud data centers and cloud backup and so on.
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Stanislaw Jagielski
Trainer, storage consultant at Oxon
Data backup is our primary usage of the solution.
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reviewer1565502
SAN Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use this solution for backups and restoring.
The solution can be deployed on cloud or on-premises.
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reviewer1544718
Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We use a basic called a DPS. Typically, we are using mostly networkers just to back up most of the workloads, like cellphone audio ware and the connection, et cetera.
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Radu Negru
Product Manger at System Plus
The primary use case is backup, but in this case, my customers want to offload the Avamar server on tape.
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Dell Avamar
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Dell Avamar. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
768,246 professionals have used our research since 2012.