Dell Unity XT Unified Storage vs. Veeam Data Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Dell Unity XT Unified Storage
Score 9.5 out of 10
N/A
Dell Unity XT hybrid flash arrays are storage systems for running general purpose workloads that do not require the low latencies and speed of all flash/NVMe architectures. Unity XT hybrid flash arrays balance performance, efficiency, features or outcomes.N/A
Veeam Data Platform
Score 9.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Veeam’s® premier product, Veeam Backup & Replication™, delivers availability for all cloud, virtual, Kubernetes and physical workloads. Through a management console, the software provides backup, archival, recovery and replication capabilities.
$428
per year per 5 instances
Pricing
Dell Unity XT Unified StorageVeeam Data Platform
Editions & Modules
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Veeam Data Platform Essentials
$428
per year per 5 instances
Veeam Data Platform
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Dell Unity XT Unified StorageVeeam Data Platform
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Dell Unity XT Unified StorageVeeam Data Platform
Considered Both Products
Dell Unity XT Unified Storage
Chose Dell Unity XT Unified Storage
I came into Dell EMC SC Series Compellent with only limited knowledge of the Dell EMC Unity. Don't get me wrong, the Dell EMC Unity is fine for what it needs to do. The next series or next class of storage is the Compellent. We had to go this direction with storage, as the …
Veeam Data Platform

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Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Dell Unity XT Unified StorageVeeam Data Platform
Enterprise Flash Array Storage
Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of Product A and Product B
Dell Unity XT Unified Storage
9.3
15 Ratings
2% above category average
Veeam Data Platform
-
Ratings
Flash Array Performance9.413 Ratings00 Ratings
Flash Array Integration9.413 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Compression9.712 Ratings00 Ratings
Non-Intrusive Upgrades8.815 Ratings00 Ratings
Simplicity9.015 Ratings00 Ratings
Power Savings9.614 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Dell Unity XT Unified Storage
-
Ratings
Veeam Data Platform
9.1
182 Ratings
12% above category average
Universal recovery00 Ratings9.9148 Ratings
Instant recovery00 Ratings9.0159 Ratings
Recovery verification00 Ratings9.4161 Ratings
Business application protection00 Ratings9.0148 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings9.9172 Ratings
Incremental backup identification00 Ratings9.4178 Ratings
Backup to the cloud00 Ratings8.0109 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings9.4166 Ratings
Snapshots00 Ratings8.9155 Ratings
Flexible deployment00 Ratings9.0144 Ratings
Management dashboard00 Ratings7.522 Ratings
Platform support00 Ratings8.5148 Ratings
Retention options00 Ratings9.5150 Ratings
Encryption00 Ratings9.5129 Ratings
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User Ratings
Dell Unity XT Unified StorageVeeam Data Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
(20 ratings)
9.4
(637 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.9
(31 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(3 ratings)
9.7
(26 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(6 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(6 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(6 ratings)
9.9
(32 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(19 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
9.3
(5 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(6 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(6 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(6 ratings)
User Testimonials
Dell Unity XT Unified StorageVeeam Data Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
Dell Technologies
Dell EMC Unity is an easy system and very flexible component and very easy to navigate while providing effective services and management of multiple project information management and the data pulling from the supported third-party platform is easy and quick. Excellent reporting features and easy to use and the analytics tools are amazing.
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Veeam Software
We have a small deployment with a handful of physical hosts and two dozen or so virtual servers. It's been a perfect fit for us to manage all those backups and to restore entire systems from or even pull specific files/folders from a backup as needed if just a few things need changed/rolled back.
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Pros
Dell Technologies
  • Enables you to create multiple copies of any database.
  • Data savings feature with compression.
  • Integrity with VMWare, RHEL, Oracle.
  • The best option is a midrange unified storage array in a customer environment.
  • Some models support NMMe.
  • Copy Data Management (iCDM), Data-At-Rest-Encryption (D@RE).
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Veeam Software
  • File-level restore is quick, reliable, and much simpler than other platforms I've used
  • Replication is extremely simple to configure and test
  • Agent setup for user endpoints and subsequent backup storage is incredibly simple
  • Cloud repository configuration is extremely straightforward and well-documented
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Cons
Dell Technologies
  • Alerting: receiving an alert when an issue occurs. That is good to know. However, if the alert is cleared, or somehow no longer in alarm, no email is received. At times I will receive the email alert on weekends, not knowing if the issue is resolved or not until Monday when I can access the unit. I have learned in most instances, the alert is a false alarm, which could be a problem.
  • The alerting itself is sometimes not clear. For example, it tells me the link is down, we reset the connection, the link is still down, a tech was dispatched, he troubleshot, and finally the alarm cleared. This incident took almost a week. It went back into alarm after he left, then suddenly it cleared on its own.
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Veeam Software
  • Support could stand to improve by a bit. The level of support has seemingly lessened over the years I've been using it.
  • It needs to be able to report backup repository statistics better when XFS and ReFS are in use.
  • It could be a little better about cleaning up after itself (old logs, etc.).
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Likelihood to Renew
Dell Technologies
No answers on this topic
Veeam Software
I have used many other data backup products that are on the market. I trust the configuration options within Veeam to do as they are labeled, without any specific back end software changes that may cause backups to fail if you don't use a systems integrator.
I trust the product for my own home environment as well due to relationship I have with the product at work.
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Usability
Dell Technologies
Very cumbersome compared to other vendors in the same marketplace.
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Veeam Software
Veeam is fairly simple in terms of how it is set up; its not an overly-complicated dashboard that can be intimidating to less technically-inclined users. Veeam also offers good instructional videos to help users work through how to do specific functions. I appreciate that they have specific video tutorials rather than having users scroll through a cumbersome manual.
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Reliability and Availability
Dell Technologies
No answers on this topic
Veeam Software
The Veeam Backup & Replication solution is up and running every time you need it as it was planned. In more than 3 years that we have been using the product every night, it might have failed or presented an error once or twice, so the availability percentage is almost at 100%.
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Performance
Dell Technologies
No answers on this topic
Veeam Software
Veeam does a good job with backing up our servers in a timely manner. We are still at the beginning of our Veeam use and are pleased with the speed at which we can access the system as well as the backups and restore points. Veeam is definitely superior to our previous backup system in terms of speed and accessibility
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Support Rating
Dell Technologies
Not only support for Unity, but for any Dell product, whether for companies or for the end consumer. Support is agile, helpful, and always focused on solving the problem. To date, there has been no problem that Dell's support has failed to resolve and help us with.
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Veeam Software
The support team has never asked me to jump through silly hoops or waste time on pointless exercises. They seem to truly have a handle on what may be wrong. In fact, when we were having trouble getting our license renewal setup (because of yet another license migration at Veeam) a support incident got us connected to the right people to get our renewal done in time.
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Implementation Rating
Dell Technologies
No answers on this topic
Veeam Software
(I assume this question should say "Veeam" and not "Crownpeak Universal Consent Platform") Planning is key. Planning your backup schedule, size, data restore points, replication if you're doing that, &c. Testing is also important; make sure you back something up and then do a test restore. Set up alerts so you know if things aren't working (or even if they are, always good to know that too).
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Alternatives Considered
Dell Technologies
I was instructed to buy these arrays, but I was not given the opportunity to evaluate other arrays. We evaluated other products in the market that competed with Unity and found that the younger array built from scratch had far better features, software, and ease of use. The Unity system has a unique way of storing the data when compared with other systems.
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Veeam Software
We used Zerto and CA Arcserve to address these needs without migrating to Veeam Backup & Replication. Zerto is a very successful instant backup and we are still using it now. It does what Veeam application cannot do in instant replication. CA Arcserve, on the other hand, is clearly lagging behind the Veeam Backup & Replication product and does not meet today's requirements.
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Scalability
Dell Technologies
No answers on this topic
Veeam Software
In terms of scalability for our company, Veeam was able to cover our backup needs with ease. They have options for even more individualized backup if we were to need them; i.e. if a specific workstation needs its own independent backup. We have not used these resources yet, but I am confident they will be beneficial to our company in the near future.
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Return on Investment
Dell Technologies
  • Less business downtime and reliability is a major business concern. DELL EMC UNITY addresses this concern well and provides robust storage.
  • Investing in UNITY system is less expensive than all-flash storage systems.
  • Managing and provisioning VMware disks became simpler from a single interface in the Vcenter
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Veeam Software
  • Confidence before starting riskier maintenance windows is a large component of what veeam is able to offer for us
  • Some of the segmentation between different backup servers across our data enters causes unnecessary delays or backups that are duplicated unnecessarily
  • Lack of certain storage vendors being natively supported requires hacky workarounds not fit for a production environment
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ScreenShots

Veeam Data Platform Screenshots

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