2020-05-21T06:20:30Z

What needs improvement with Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA)?

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
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OI
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2023-12-15T11:02:41Z
Dec 15, 2023

The only thing that could be improved would be the complexity of the initial setup.

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JEREMY LASSALLE - PeerSpot reviewer
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2023-11-15T11:49:25Z
Nov 15, 2023

Managing the product is a little bit complicated.

Babawale Awojinrin - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-08-17T13:31:00Z
Aug 17, 2023

The solution should be easier to use. Also, there is a lot of documentation available but it has a cost variable so the cost variable should be removed so that more people can take interest.

SK
Real User
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2023-07-18T11:10:50Z
Jul 18, 2023

Dell PowerProtect DP needs to include more features and improve backup for a continual base.

RK
Real User
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2023-06-28T10:33:00Z
Jun 28, 2023

Dell has a product called DP Central, DPC for short. It is a single point from where you can monitor multiple systems. For example, Avamar and Data Domain are storage solutions that can be added explicitly into DPC and monitor everything from one place. But we cannot add IDPA to DPC, and each IP has a DP Central, which cannot monitor other IDPAs. If a customer has, let's say, ten to 15 IDPAs, he will have about ten different centralized monitoring tabs.

Johny John - PeerSpot reviewer
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2022-04-12T11:44:17Z
Apr 12, 2022

I can't speak to any missing features. We are happy with the product. We would like to see the pricing drop a bit.

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SR
Real User
2022-02-03T11:13:00Z
Feb 3, 2022

I would like to see more options and features about Recovery from Dell EMC Cloud Tier

BH
Real User
2021-10-15T18:06:17Z
Oct 15, 2021

After resizing and compression, the system continuously runs out of space. Dell EMC doesn't do automatic cleanup or other things, so we constantly have to manually go in there or work with Dell support on this. The solution has not been working as advertised.

Mark Torpy - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 20
2021-06-19T05:06:18Z
Jun 19, 2021

The biggest issue is with the SSO, which is missing. With other products, you login into a single user and have access to everything. DPC is not integrated. You can log into it but you have to log into Avamar and Data Domain separately. It's not really a single sign-on to the entire environment in one shot. I would like to see it fully integrated. They need to bring in the SSO so that you can log in once to the IDPA and should be able to access everything through a single user. You shouldn't have to re-authenticate to each of its components. This is a problem. They have multiple logins. They could have made it easier by using SSO. Another area that is missing is the two-factor authentication. The two-factor authentication is missing from Dell products. They don't have the ability to integrate with Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator, or Okta. There is no way of doing two-factor authentication. They need SSO with role-based access. You will have role-based access control to log in, then you should be able to define that login. You can define what access levels it has to the various components. For example, I log in with one user, I should be able to say only have one backup operator, access to Avamar or Data Domain. I can have admin access, search, or have admin, your advisor, the DPA, or I can have normal monitoring of user access. I should be able to define that in a central location.

AA
Real User
2020-05-21T06:20:30Z
May 21, 2020

In general, there is no perfect solution and there is always room for improvement. The price could be lowered slightly, to make it more competitive.

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