Dell EMC Avamar

EMC Avamar (THE HYBRID)

What do you like best? It is easily manageable via the GUI. Client insttallatiion is also a breeze to implement What do you dislike? No Fiber connection. Seems as though with Data Centers today if this product had Fiber the communication across the Data Centers and replication will increase. What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? I am leaving the tape environment and the de-duplication is great!

Its a Great solution for Small to medium size business. Easy to use and implement

What do you like best? Well we used to have this solution implemented for backups of physical and virtual servers for data around the 2TB of size. For this requirements this is a good solution. It is a appliance so the solution is pre-configure and with a fix sized of data for every data node you added. I like the most is that with just install the agent you can rapidly start backup jobs and the deduplication features are good for to backups on average 2 x the data. The solution works ...

EMC Avamar working for our needs and beating the competition

What do you like best? The algorithms used to reduce the amount of data actually transferred has made this a success for us where other products have failed. What do you dislike? The interface at times can be challenging. The requirement for Java bits heads with our security posture. The lack of generalized knowledge and freedom of troubleshooting steps from EMC seems very limited vs other better know products. We should have to involve EMC's support for minor issues. Recommendations to ...

End user

What do you like best? Dedupe on the front end, daily operations are simple, good support What do you dislike? Takes a long time to restore data. Log files and reporting could be better and offer more information for troubleshooting Recommendations to others considering the product qualify the data to be backed up, and send 2 people for training consider having professional services install and also provide knowledge transfer to internal employees/admins What business problems are you ...

Works well for disk to disk backup

What do you like best? ease and speed of backup to disk product What do you dislike? It is a pain to add more disk if you don't configure enough space for what you need and the to tape archive is not as promised What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? The ending of tape, this is a huge benefit

Versatile backup program but requires a lot of detailed config

What do you like best? VMWare backup with GLR and change block tracking enabled is pretty good. CIFS backup is very quick using NDMP Accelerator node for large amounts of data. Deduplication works especially well when paired with data domain as the backup target for storage. Replication is fairly simple and probably the most reliable part of the software. What do you dislike? This is not an easy out of the box solution. Requires many different configuration pieces and plugins to make the ...

Avamar Review

What do you like best? Avamar is a distributed index based architecture and does not maintain a single meta database, rather it uses the self describing organization of the unique ID’s. The Avamar server takes checkpoints which are snapshots in case a roll back to a previous state is required. What do you dislike? It mainly suits with small or Medium level enterprises. Avamar has a performance impact on the customer’s application servers as it is a client side only implementation. What ...

I oversee all aspects of the backup and restoration process for our company.

What do you like best? The technology associated with the EMC Avamar production is excellent. The capability for retaining large amounts of data for long retention periods is amazing. What do you dislike? The EMC AVAMAR interface is lacking and not easy to use. Reporting features within the application are poor at best. Another application like EMC DPA is necessary in order to get meaningful information. Recommendations to others considering the product Purchase any training you can ...

Great product, not so great support.

What do you like best? Client side or server side dedupe. Great WAN optimization. What do you dislike? EMC support is not very helpful until level II, often time level III. Recommendations to others considering the product Avamar's version of NDMP go far beyond the standard NDMP specifications therefor is not supported by other Storage Vandors like NetApp (who helped write the spec, if you go this route, by the highest level of support offered. What business problems are you solving with ...

A proven product

What do you like best? We can backup almost all operating systems. OSX ? windows? linux ? virtual machines ? AIX ? SOLARIS? the list goes on and on. What do you dislike? It takes a bit of patience to administer the system at first. There is definitely a learning curve involved. Recommendations to others considering the product Reach out to someone with experience before committing to the product. At this price point, there needs to be some expectation management. What business problems ...