Dell NetWorker Scalability

Derrick Brockel - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager of Operations at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

I rate the tool’s scalability an eight out of ten.

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RJ
Senior Systems Administrator at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is scalable. We have around 3000 to 4000 staff and maybe 50,000 students using this solution. Just one person is required for administration and backup tasks.

The backup responsibilities are handled by two people, but there isn't even a dedicated person for it. We also have other responsibilities, so we are two part-time administrators.

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MostafaSoudy - PeerSpot reviewer
Backup Team Head at Commercial International Bank

I would rate the scalability of the solution as a seven out of ten. We have two administrators using it at our company.

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Abdellah Djebli - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Manager, Epic program at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I rate the platform's stability a seven out of ten.

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RK
Sr. Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

It is scalable software. All you need to increase is its RAM and CPU. It's pretty easy. Apart from that, if it's the backend, where the data is stored on the data domain, it is again a scalable product.

Most large enterprises use the solution. With the storage and with the databases, Dell NetWorker has a wide range of modules to cover these databases and backups.

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NAYAB RASOOL SHAIK - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at Infineon Technologies

The solution can scale. We only need to get an additional license if we want to do a scaling of our infrastructure. We just need to buy the capacity we need. We can just upgrade the RAM in case it needs additional resources also. We can even deploy another NetWorker server. 

Scaling is purely based on capacity. You don't have to buy it per server either as most of the servers are virtualized. As you have the socket license and the capacity license, then you can actually deploy a new server.

We have more than 1,000 users on the solution right now. 

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Lysias Albert Singbo - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at AfDB

We have less than ten users for Dell NetWorker.

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Isaac Fisher - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Financial Officer at STL

Our clients for Dell NetWorker are mostly enterprise businesses.

I rate the solution ten out of ten for scalability.

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Robert-Nilsson - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Development Manager at Gignos

The scalability part of the product is very positive since you can scale it up or down as much as you like without any limitations.

In Sweden, where I used the tool, there were around a hundred users.

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A. Ahad Alam - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Systems Group at NCCPL

300 users are using the solution in our company.

I rate the solution’s scalability an eight out of ten.

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HS
Manager Private Cloud Solutions at ufone

NetWorker isn't scalable - you can't add more nodes to it, although you can add some data zones. If you want to add environments to NetWorker, you have to deploy more standalone solutions. 

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SS
Chief Digitalization Executive at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is a scalable product. I'd rate it eight out of ten. It extends well. 

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VP
Managing Partner at SkyF Labs

Dell NetWorker's scalability is good. My company has several thousands of users.

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Arsalan Orayedh - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Delivery Engineer at Gulf Air

This solution is scalable. It's easy to scale. The only thing that matters in terms of scalability is the storage for the data domain, e.g. adding the disk and another unit, and that's it.

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Isaac Fisher - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Financial Officer at STL

The solution scales well. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so. 

We have five people working on the solution in our company.

We do not plan to increase usage at this time. In fact, we may switch to another solution.

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Mark Torpy - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Protection Specialist at Tech Mahindra Limited

It is very scalable. It is used by our customers, and their user base is quite large with around 3,000 users.

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AK
Consultant, Backup Systems at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

It is easy to scale and I have not found any issue in doing so. However, there can be issues when a proper sizing tool hasn't been used. We have had trouble with giving requirements based on what the sizing tool reports.

We have approximately 100 people user NetWorker and supporting the customers.

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WR
IT Specialist at a university with 10,001+ employees

Scaling out is very easy. We have a capacity-based license so we have no issues with the scalability.

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Chea Thoya - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Unit Head - Enterprise Compute and Business Resiliency at Konvergenz

We have four engineers using this solution in my company and we plan to increase our usage.

Dell NetWorker is a scalable solution.

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OmobolajiOlaloku - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Enterprise System Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Dell EMC NetWorkerDell is a scalable product.

We upgraded to a newer version twice.

We have a large company with over 200 users.

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Michael Schwarzer - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at INT/box GmbH

This is a highly scalable solution, but on a larger scale, it is not very stable.

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SS
System Administrator with 1-10 employees

This solution is bundled with this DD 2500. But, there is some limitation for scalability of the DD 2500 shells. I can add only one more single shell, and that is a limitation.

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AndreTan - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Continuity Specialist at Sapta Tunas Teknologi

I would rate its scalability capabilities seven out of ten. Our clients are mostly large enterprise organizations.

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Pratyush Bhosale - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Manager - information technology at UTKARSH SMALL FINANCE BANK LIMITED

Dell NetWorker is a scalable product.

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate its scalability at seven.

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Ahmed Essa - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at Share Technologies

Dell NetWorker is a software, it is not scalable. This is not required.

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ValereFEUGWANG - PeerSpot reviewer
Information System Consultant at CFAO Technologies

The solution is scalable.

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EB
Lead Offering Solution Architect Cloud and Workload with 10,001+ employees

We use the solution every day, for all of our backups. We don't plan to increase usage, but we do use it extensively right now.

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Mirza Rahim - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Leader : IT Infrastructure and Service Delivery at United Energy Pakistan Ltd

The solution is scalable, and approximately 1,000 users utilize the solution in our organization.

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SJ
Trainer, storage consultant at Oxon

It's scalable. You can scale on one single computer up to hundreds of them on computers, or thousands of virtual machines with the same Networker products.

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ST
Sr. Area Technical Manager at Tata Elxsi

The scalability is good, we currently have over 100 users. 

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SK
Manager at Securetech

It is scalable after a specific limit. It is suitable for medium-sized enterprises. We have about 1,000 users.

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DanielArregui - PeerSpot reviewer
Technological Infrastructure Project Engineer at Sinetcom SA

It is really scalable but the scaling process is not that easy. You have to find the documentation to support setting it up for scale.

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SA
Senior Solutions Sales Consultant at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

NetWorker is highly scalable because Dell uses the vProxy. You can scale as much as you want because you already do the load balancing through the VM proxy. You can install a hundred servers with no problem because the data is transferred from VMware to the appliance, through the disk, or through the tape. While the vProxy makes the installation more complicated, it can scale as much as you want.

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it_user752889 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer / Backup Admin at a government with 10,001+ employees

Scalability of this solution is very good. We have approximately four hundred employees using this solution.

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it_user738378 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Infrastructure Architect at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Early on, we had limitations in the number of servers as a single DataZone could manage when pushed up to deploy multiple DataZones. Those numbers have significantly increased but for large environments, this could still be a limit. The number of connections that the solution uses with the VMware Hypervisor can cause issues with vCenter's performance, but that is more a limitation with VMware than EMC NetWorker.

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ST
Sr. Area Technical Manager at Tata Elxsi

Scalability for us is limited because we are using this solution for system backup. and not beyond that. We don't have any cloud, and we do not have any snapshot; it is simply a file system backup.

We have not yet explored scalability. Our requirement is a very basic one.

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it_user303789 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Analyst at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees

When I used to work in a consultant office, we had to split one backup server into three to support the amount of clients. This customer had a lot of backup server instability.

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AK
Senior Infrastructure Consultant at FORUM INTERNATIONAL

We have more the five customers using Dell EMC NetWorker.

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Anteneh Asnake - PeerSpot reviewer
Modern Data Center and Cloud Engineer II at IE Network Solutions PLC

This is a scalable product.

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reviewer1315983 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It's not scalable. Once you have created a backup server and you have configured it for a specific load, then you can't change it. 

You have to estimate how big the load is that you are going to have. If that increases, suddenly, you will need to create a new server. 

I wouldn't suggest that it is scalable. Scalability is an area that needs improvement.

We are an admin group and we have several technicians that look into it as well. We have 40 users in our organization.

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MC
Administrative at a university with 51-200 employees

It would be hard to judge the scalability as we have never tried to expand the solution. However, I suspect it may be challenging as the solution has difficult licensing rules.

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AS
Business Development Manager, Technology Integration Services at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is definitely scalable.

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SK
CTO at New Horizon Computers

It always provides you ethical backup. When you reach your maximum license capability, it never stops you from doing your backups. This is a caring feature of this solution that I always liked. 

When you get a license for one terabyte, you can back up 100 terabytes of data. They never stop you from doing that ethically. We always need to follow the ethics of any software. Customers in Pakistan are using over commercial licenses, and they are happy with this feature.

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reviewer1315983 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It's a scalable solution.

We have approximately 5,000 clients per backup server, and we have six servers.

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BO
Enterprise Backup Administrator at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

It is pretty scalable. This is not an issue. 

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it_user155190 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

There were no scalability issues.

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WC
Storage Analyst III at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dell EMC NetWorker is scalable.

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HZ
System Administration Team Leader at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dell EMC NetWorker is scalable.

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FA
Systems Administrator Team Leader at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

In terms of scalability, unfortunately, we were unable to upgrade the EMC NetWorker. We're still on version 8.1. So I have no idea of the capabilities of the latest release in terms of scalability. But for sure, when you compare to other products, EMC NetWorker will not be able to compete because other products are more agile and more compatible with many cloud vendors. They need to put more effort into that.

Despite it being more complex, it is a very powerful solution but still requires effort so that users can have good access to it. I cannot see people choosing EMC Networker. At the moment everybody chooses to go for Veeam and Commvault. At the moment everybody is waiting for BIM to go to Commvault. I've been in a deep study of the previous one and backup solutions, and I met many people and everybody prefers to go with Commvault or Veeam. I didn't see anybody preferring to go with EMC NetWorker.

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SK
CTO at New Horizon Computers

Dell EMC NetWorker is scalable.

We have many different companies that we deal with, some are banks, using Networker. One of the largest companies in Pakistan has been using this solution since 2015. Another client with a big data center has been using it since 2016. We have many other vendors who are happy with this solution.

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ME
IT Infrastructure Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

The scalability of the solution is okay.

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it_user324444 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Associate - System Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We had no problems with scalability. We have two data centers with different infrastructure.

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TL
Presales Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

While it might be scalable, every day we see some new operating systems and some new updates, and so on. Occasionally, there is a problem with these new one updates, due to the fact that something is changed in some settings in the new system. Therefore, when you use the old settings for such a backup, sometimes it doesn't work normally. You need to go back and recalibrate.

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MS
Solution Architect & Technical Team Lead at NDS

We're not such a big organization that we need to scale and it would take a few years before we did that, if at all, so I can't comment on scalability. We have two administrators using the solution. Primarily we just go to the backup console every day to check things are okay. It could be managed by one person but having an extra backup doesn't hurt. 

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SA
head of presales at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It's a backup system that is backing up more than 50 different systems.

We plan to continue using this solution. It's a good product.

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SC
System Administrator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Dell EMC NetWorker is scalable but it has some limitations.

We have approximately five people using this solution in my organization.

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it_user882309 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The solution has very good scalability.

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it_user469044 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT
AF
Storback at storback

NetWorker is scalable. 

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RV
Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It's a scalable solution. We have 10 customers and we plan to continue using it.

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it_user972078 - PeerSpot reviewer
Backup and Storage Administrator at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

NetWorker has very good scalability. 

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AM
System Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Dell EMC NetWorker is a scalable solution.

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it_user687456 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Network Administrator at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
Buyer's Guide
Dell NetWorker
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Dell NetWorker. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
767,667 professionals have used our research since 2012.