I did not encounter any deployment issues.

We have a very complex and unusual environment so it took a while to get things working.

Not really. However, I have extensively used HP Data Protector in other roles with other organisation so I know the product very well. This was key consideration in the initial selection as it reduced costs and risks for the deployment.

The deployment was standard, other than hardening the product for use in our secured environment.

No issues encountered.

Generally no, but there were some issues that appeared when we first tried to deploy the software to a HANA database environment. However, they happened mainly because of the HANA database Linux environment.

I have not encountered any deployment, stability or scalability issues.

Deployment of our new HPE Data Protector 9 environment went quite smoothly, even with the addition of our HPE StoreOnce appliances, which were new to me and required a lot of planning in regards to scheduling/creation of backup stores, etc. Our HPE consultant was very helpful in assisting me in the execution of the new environment.

Part of this project was a requirement to migrate all the servers and data from the legacy Cell Manager (DP7) across to the new Cell Manager (DP9). This project has been very frustrating, as it has been fraught with technical issues. The main issue was a corrupt IDB (DP7). HPE support had worked on this issue for a long time. They had our entire environment in their labs and to date have not been able to resolve the IDB corruption. Currently, we are working with one of the HPE consultants to manage the export of the data via a custom script. Time will tell how successful this migration will be, but until then, I will just have to continue managing two onsite production DP environments.

Overall, deployment was fine except for one major issue that was very annoying -- the proper functioning and ease of configuration of clients behind firewalls and other security mechanisms.

We've had no issues deploying it.

There have been no issues with the deployment.

There are always issues with deployments and it's never the same issue twice. Most are easy to resolve, but some issues are very frustrating. Again, most revolve around virtual environments.

We have had some bumps here and there as you would expect from a product in this category.

I haven't had any issues with deployment.

We've had no issues with deployment.

We had some issues with the Exchange agent, but this was resolved with HP support.

There were no issues with the deployment.

We've had no issues deploying it.

No, Data Protector is very easy to deploy itself. The final touches are more complicated because of the specificity of each environment.

No, but it depends on the application platform you want to work on.

We've had no issues deploying it.

I've had no issues with deploying it.

Yes, we've had some issues with deployment. Sometimes we've needed to connect to a client and launch the deployment from there.

It deploys without any issues.

In new installations I’ve never found any problems, but with the upgrade from v7 to v8, I found some problems with the IDB errors.

There have also been issues with Exchange integration misconfigurations and licenses.

It's very easy to deploy.

We haven't had any issues with deployment.

There have been no issues with the deployment.

When well-planned out and tested deployment was effectively flawless.

Yes, client install is an issue for IT guys.

No issues encountered.

No issues as the installer detected it quickly.

Upgrades can lead to issues with the internal database.

At the moment, we are updating to v9 together with an HP consultant, so hopefully he can help us with our issues.

No issues so far.

- Sometimes you will have problems to push the data protector client installation (Edit the hosts file on the installation server, cell manager and the client)