EMC NetWorker

EMC NetWorker Review - Tim S.

What do you like best? DDBoost using client direct (DFA is the most recent feature that I have the most appreciation for within our NetWorker environment. The distributed processing of data deduplication greatly reduces the load on both the Storage Nodes (SN's and the NetWorker server allowing us to reduce the number of SN's in our backup environment. This reduces the administration effort required to maintain our environment. What do you dislike? Using DDBoost there is nothing that ...

One of the easiset business continuity solutions to implement for multiple sites

What do you like best? The interface for file-level management is easy to use and enabled us to provide a highly efficient response to requests for files pertaining to specific users and periods of time. What do you dislike? There are UNIX and Windows versions. IT managers who use the UNIX version typically see them as different enough that experience on the Windows version does not seem to be sufficient to qualify one to use the UNIX version. I don't find that to be the case at all, ...

Protection: Feature Rich, Affordable solution for physical and virtual environment.

What do you like best? Integration with VMWare management WebUI tools. What do you dislike? Backup Image management and log search or reporting features. Need to use DPA to exploit full potential of solution. Recommendations to others considering the product This is very proven solution to backup databases and network shares as well as bare bone OS. Compares very well other products. IF price is right, switch to this product. What business problems are you solving with the product? What ...

one of the leading backup software out in market

What do you like best? able to backup multiple variety of filesystems\datasets have EMC avamar code integrate with in VM backups, which provides better deduplication and changed block tracking for lower cost What do you dislike? some times gets to complex to manage, require some level of technical expertise to manage What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? able to backup data types like VMware, NDMP, SQL, Oracle under single umbrella ...

Administracion de los respaldos

What do you like best? los respaldos se realizan con efectividad, en muy pocas ocasiones falla, la restauración es rápida, las pantallas de navegación son sencillas y puedes revisar lo que se ha respaldado, la capacidad que ocupo, ver el ID, y la la hora de restaurar puedes buscar muy fácilmente la fecha ID etc. What do you dislike? cuando se des configura es muy complicado re configurar los respaldos, cuando se trata de Bases de Datos, a nivel de archivos es fácil. Cuando deja de hacer ...

Reliable and integration for many applications

What do you like best? Good scalability. Is possible automating many operations as client configuration. Is possible changing many parameters for tuning performances. What do you dislike? Centralized deploy of NetWorker agent is not very reliable. Error messages related to networking problems are often misleading What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Backup of huge MSSQL DB, SAP HANA and others using data domain boost over fiber channel

Experience lots of environments with using NetWorker.

What do you like best? The support is great if you push for the assistance you need. It is just the reduction in head count in support causing delays. At one point a 5 minute delay was unacceptable. Now a five minute delay is a great day. The variety of hardware and software supported makes the product desirable. The collaboration available within EMC is excellent. CHAT is very useful to open an initial case. The best is they do not say it is not their issue without reviewing the problem ...

EMC Networker is used to backup and restore Petabytes of data in our organization

What do you like best? EMC Networker integrates very well with Avamar and our Data Domain Storage Systems. What do you dislike? Configuration of backup jobs can be difficult Recommendations to others considering the product EMC Networker is probably the best solution. What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Backup of our older systems that we are trying to migrate out of our organization.

OpenVMS SA review of EMC Legato Networker from a Storage Node

What do you like best? The speed of the backups and the ability to stream multiple mount points at once to a single tape drive What do you dislike? Restore process in a DR environment is kind of slow... And the fact that the files are not backed up in OpenVMS file format, however, if they were then it probably wouldn't stream as fast in the backup process. What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Normal day to day backups and restores and ...

Good product

What do you like best? Networker is a good backup product. It's lightweight, and I haven't seen the client itself cause issues on any of our servers in the 11+ years I've used it. Like most enterprise products Networker needs to be setup properly and tuned for the environment it's in to be most effective. Networker does a good job, especially when using NDMP backups. While NDMP can be complex to manage and configure the performance gains are invaluable. I've also always found EMC's ...