Dell NetWorker Valuable Features
The solution only backs up change blocks. So, the backups are skinny, and we can revert our VM. If we did a Windows patch on a VM and the VM didn’t boot, we can restore our change blocks instead of restoring the whole VM. It takes minutes. Anybody could drive the GUI. We don't have to be a backup and storage person to use the product. It can be done quickly. It is its biggest value.
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reviewer1984581
Senior Systems Administrator at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees
In Dell NetWorker, it is very simple to back up VMs. Finally, the backup of VMC is working reliably and is simple. We are also backing up to data domains, which are well integrated with NetWorker.
Additionally, we are backing up to tape. Everything works fine. There is mutual compatibility so that we can move backups and clone backups from data domains to tape. It's great. Also, we are using a cloud tier to offload backups on Data Domain 6800s.
View full review »The standout feature of Dell NetWorker is its expertise in handling our VMware environment. It makes the whole backup process for virtual servers, especially in large VMware setups like ours, a breeze. The proxy setup in the VMware part is super handy. Another great feature is Client Direct, which lets our clients send backup data directly to Data Domain or backup storage. This is a big win as it skips the network traffic, making backups smoother and more efficient.
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Dell NetWorker
April 2024
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Dell NetWorker's valuable feature is its ability to configure the network for immutability, specifically for backups. It is the most essential feature nowadays. We can take immediate backups. It has a good compression ratio as well.
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Ramkumar Kolli
Sr. Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Feature-wise, the most valuable ones stem from the fact that it is the most flexible and easiest backup for your virtual machines, along with being the backup of a wide range of databases using modules.
View full review »The solution offers very good backups and has all of the basic features any other solution would have on offer.
There's tight integration between Data Domain and NetWorker as well. Data Domain is an EMC product. They have very good integration between the two.
The initial setup is simple.
Its stability is very good.
The solution can scale.
View full review »The software’s best feature is data backup for any system. Using it, we can back up virtual machines, servers, different applications, and modules.
View full review »Dell NetWorker's user interface is quite simple and very interactive. The solution's user interface is easy to manipulate or maneuver around.
View full review »The most valuable feature of the solution is a function in Dell NetWorker that works if the data that you are supposed to restore is resilient. If the data you want to restore is incomplete, then it has some functionality that will restore everything that is okay and skip the part that is not okay, so you get almost everything back.
The solution offers time management, reduces operational cost and do multiple backups at a time.
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Haseeb Sheikh
Manager Private Cloud Solutions at ufone
NetWorker's most valuable feature is recovery, including the policy-based backups that can be configured.
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Saiyed Shahab Ahmed
Chief Digitalization Executive at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most valuable feature is the Dell EMC-based product backups. We were using Dell storage, and it offered good compatibility with it.
The solution is stable.
It can scale.
Technical support has been helpful.
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Vlad Prozhogin
Managing Partner at SkyF Labs
NetWorker, you can realize any architecture with NetWorker because it's a comprehensive solution. They have many agents for other applications.
View full review »Backup reliability for this solution is fine. It's good.
View full review »With NetWorker, I'm still trying to use it more now, as I wasn't so much in the past.
I like how easily I am able to recognize the labels, the barcodes on the tape. With NetWorker, once you know your tapes and you have your record of them, you should be able to identify them easily.
The updated graphical interface is better than it used to be.
The initial setup is very straightforward.
The solution is very stable.
We find the product to be scalable.
Technical support is very helpful.
View full review »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.
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reviewer1486476
Consultant, Backup Systems at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
The GUI is user-friendly.
The performance is improving. It used to be that NetWorker's performance was not very good but after integration with Data Domain, and after they switched to a quality-based network solution, the performance increased.
Over the past five to six years, the speed that NetWorker connects between networks and servers has improved. It used to take a long time.
We are using DD Boost and it is helpful.
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Wasi Rizvi
IT Specialist at a university with 10,001+ employees
Storage-wise, EMC is user-friendly.
View full review »The most valuable feature of Dell NetWorker is its quick configuration and handling of large databases.
View full review »Deduplication is the most valuable feature of this solution.
It is very intuitive and easy to use.
View full review »The most valuable features for us at the moment are NFS, file system backup, and IP backup.
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SySA43dmin
System Administrator with 1-10 employees
Currently, the best feature is the DR replication for us. So, whatever data we are taking in the backup, it will get replicated end of day to our DR site.
View full review »The feature that offers the greatest benefits in ensuring data integrity is its backup capability. This feature significantly enhances speed and efficiency, which is crucial for our operations. Additionally, NetWorker can be installed on Linux systems, and it offers a virtual appliance option, which enhances security measures.
I like that it's stable and scalable.
View full review »The valuable features are scalability, virtual environment protection, and the migration to OneCloud feature. All the features are excellent.
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Stanislaw Jagielski
Trainer, storage consultant at Oxon
The possibility of recovering up-to-the-moment data is very useful. You can have any backup registry onsite. There's a special database, which will contain all index orders. The only thing you have to do is set up the backup medium with the proper backup. It's very easy to use.
There is really broad coverage as to what can be protected. That's the thing from the point of view of the usage and from the point of view of the technology itself. It's very important how it can operate easily and how it can be integrated with Data Domain.
Once it's set up properly, it works very smoothly. It's a pretty straightforward setup.
The solution is stable.
It has lots of great features, and we don't find anything lacking.
It is very scalable.
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reviewer1702752
Senior Account Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The solution is very user-friendly. After setting up five machines for our customers we teach them how to set up the agent and start doing their backups. It is very easy for them once they see how to do it, they like to do it on their own.
Dell EMC NetWorker is a complete solution, providing end-to-end, disk to disk to tape backup features, which makes it more suitable for customers here in Oman.
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Shrikant Teggi
Sr. Area Technical Manager at Tata Elxsi
This is a good solution and our clients are happy with it. There are no issues and it meets expectations. It's very user-friendly with a good interface.
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SunilKumar
Manager at Securetech
This solution had multiple options like configure management, user data, and server and enterprise data. The solution is simple to understand. Some products only use storage media, but Dell NetWorker has multiple options.
View full review »The extensive information provided on tool properties has been very useful, specifically the information on databases.
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reviewer1195509
Senior Solutions Sales Consultant at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
The most valuable feature is NetWorker's integration with the data domain that transfers the data directly into the Dell appliance, so the data doesn't need to pass through the network. NetWorker acts like a pipe, allowing the data to flow directly from the database or the VMware environment to the data domain.
View full review »DD Boost integration for capacity reduction and backup window.
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Shrikant Teggi
Sr. Area Technical Manager at Tata Elxsi
The GUI is the best feature. It's very good and easy to use.
It is very easy to manage and easy to configure the backup.
View full review »It's easy to configure and manage.
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Amine Koulali Idrissi
Senior Infrastructure Consultant at FORUM INTERNATIONAL
The solution offers compatibility with many types of database systems. It is one of the largest backup solutions. Additionally, it gives important information about data domain systems with deduplication.
View full review »The interface is user-friendly and can be used by the end-users.
View full review »It's easy to use.
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reviewer1133397
Administrative at a university with 51-200 employees
The backup capabilities and the automatization of the backup - along with the potential to make the back up on a virtual machine - are the solution's most valuable aspects.
It's not just about making a backup on a file level. It's about backing up the entire machine all at once that's very useful for us.
SK
Sufyan Khan
CTO at New Horizon Computers
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.
View full review »The support for legacy products is very good.
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Bolaji Olaloku
Enterprise Backup Administrator at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
It has deduplication capabilities, where you have two similar data sets. This helps to speed up backup processes because it takes a shorter amount of time to do a backup because it has the deduplication feature already. Though, you have to buy this deduplication software separately from the license.
View full review »- Very nice tools (nsrwatch, nsradmin) in CLI for administration, monitoring, and management. And GUI is available with enterprise level as well.
- NetWorker’s commands are executed directly from shell/command line (you don’t need to log in to the DB or to any other kind of tool).
- Very good backward and forward compatibility between NetWorker’s versions. You are not limited by higher version on backup client side.
- Availability of cumulative hot fixes.
- NetWorker server is supported on Windows and Linux OSs (unlike Commvault).
- List of supported OSs and their versions is really long and it is the same for DBs and applications.
- Provided documentation from EMC is quite good and well organized.
- Block based backup and parallel save stream features are really helpful for classic backup of big file systems and lot of small files.
- DDboost protocol speeds up backups and saves bandwidth of your LAN.
- Possibility to create and use your own scripts in backup process or in administration.
Provides backup automation and monitoring centralization. Having easy scalability of the covered data zone is also a big advantage.
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reviewer1777704
Storage Analyst III at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I started off as a storage engineer and ended up owning Dell EMC Data Domain and Dell EMC NetWorker. I've not used any other backup solutions at this scale. Dell EMC NetWorker does what I need it to do, it's efficient.
View full review »Backup jobs can be scheduled and automated
Monitoring of backups and configuration tasks are centralized
Compatibility of the solution covers large OS/DataBases/Applications
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reviewer1096965
Systems Administrator Team Leader at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Although Dell EMC NetWorker is a little bit more complex to combine with other products, it is really a very strong product. It became stronger when we started doing backups to disks instead of to data simulators when we import the Data Domain. The solution became stronger because the backup to disks is faster and the duplication ratios and compression are very high so it will save lots of space at this storage size. The granularity of the Exchange Servers is very good.
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Sufyan Khan
CTO at New Horizon Computers
Dell EMC NetWorker is a very solid Backup software. It is the oldest backup software from EMC. It comes from Dell EMC's legacy.
The most valuable feature of NetWorker is the wide spectrum of available plugins for each and every software you can back up. For example, SAP, SAP S/4HANA, Oracle, and AIX.
Networker is very good backup software. It always provides you with incremental backups.
When you reach out to your maximum license availability, or you exceed your license limit, NetWorker never stops doing your backups.
With one terabyte of a license, you can back up a hundred terabytes of data back up. They never stop doing that. We always need to follow a fixed software but some customers have an overcapacity license, and they are happy about this feature.
It has a rich set of features.
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Ashraf Ali
Senior Consultant at global brands
The full backup is a great feature. Restoration is also good and very quick.
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OscarSuarez
Works at AIT Grupo
Stability of NetWorker is very good.
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Mahmoud Ezz Eldin
IT Infrastructure Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's a very good solution if you are using an Oracle-like environment. It's a very good, very powerful solution, but at the same time, it's a legacy solution. That's why we moved from NetWorker to Commvault.
View full review »- Support for various operating systems, we use, AIX, Solaris, Linux, VMware, and Windows
- Excellent deduplication with Data Domain Boost
- A good user interface, so we can, from a single console, manage the entire backup infrastructure
TL
reviewer1510746
Presales Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The solution has a longer lifespan. The customer doesn't have to change their solution and upgrade every four years. It's much better for the customer to have a stable piece of software that has a lifespan of maybe ten years or more.
NH
Nezar Hamed
Senior Storage Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Data domain is the best feature in this solution. I think that this application was better when it was a backup window for a huge number of VMs.
Networker with Data Domain has a great value in integration with VMware regarding the enhanced backup window and high value of deduplication and capacity saving we can get with this setup especially in case of protecting high number of VMs.
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Muhammad Sharfuddin
Solution Architect & Technical Team Lead at NDS
This is a very precise and simple solution which is a great feature. It's also very stable and straightforward if you follow the documentation.
This is a good solution and I can't think of any additional features they could include. I went for NetWorker because it's a good physical as well as virtual environment, and the best possible solution compared to the other products on the market. The others are also good but I like NetWorker better.
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Shehan Attapattu
head of presales at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It's a good product that can be integrated easily with the Data domain.
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reviewer719127
System Administrator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Dell EMC NetWorker integrates well with our domain and the performance is quite good on-premise. We receive approximately 1 terabyte within one hour.
View full review »The backup and configuration for the virtual environment have been the most valuable features, especially with VMware.
View full review »- Management GUI
- Pools to direct backups to storage
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Adalberto Filho
Storback at storback
NetWorker is fast and reliable.
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reviewer1544718
Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It can support many different versions, both newer and older.
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reviewer721980
System Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It is the best umbrella, serving the best applications.
View full review »It is application aware for Meditech, Exchange and SQL. We do not want to check for successful backup in multiple locations. We want the backup application to handle all of that.
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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.