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What is Dell Avamar?
Dell Avamar is a hardware and software data backup and deduplication product. It provides protection and recovery through a complete software and hardware solution when paired with Dell Data Domain for virtual environments, remote offices, enterprise apps, NAS servers, and…
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Dell Avamar is a hardware and software data backup and deduplication product. It provides protection and recovery through a complete software and hardware solution when paired with Dell Data Domain for virtual environments, remote offices, enterprise apps, NAS servers, and desktops/laptops.
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What is Dell Avamar?
Dell Avamar is a hardware and software data backup and deduplication product. It provides protection and recovery through a complete software and hardware solution when paired with Dell EMC Data Domain for virtual environments, remote offices, enterprise apps, NAS servers, and desktops/laptops.
Dell Avamar enables backup and recovery by reducing the size of backup data at the client–before it’s transferred across the network and stored. Avamar's variable-length deduplication reduces network traffic by only sending unique blocks, compressed and encrypted over local area networks (LANs) or wide area networks (WANs). Blocks that were previously stored are never backed up again.
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Avamar Data Store – According to Dell, Avamar Data Store is the easiest and fastest way to deploy this solution. It combines a Dell EMC-certified purpose-built backup appliance and Avamar deduplication backup and recovery software in a fully integrated, scalable, prepackaged solution.
Avamar Business Edition –Dell Avamar Business is a deduplicated backup solution designed for midmarket companies, featuring simplified management, making it ideal for organizations with limited IT resources.
Avamar Virtual Edition – Avamar deduplication backup software and virtual appliances deployed in AWS, Azure, and VMware Cloud on AWS.
Integration with Dell EMC Data Domain deduplication storage systems – Utilize Avamar with Data Domain devices sold directly through Dell
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Dell Avamar is a hardware and software data backup and deduplication product. It provides protection and recovery through a complete software and hardware solution when paired with Dell Data Domain for virtual environments, remote offices, enterprise apps, NAS servers, and desktops/laptops.
Reviewers rate Recovery verification highest, with a score of 9.4.
The most common users of Dell Avamar are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Dell Avamar is a versatile backup solution that has been adopted by organizations across various industries. Many users have found that Avamar allows them to consolidate their backup infrastructure, making it easier to monitor and manage all enterprise backups with a single tool and console. With Avamar, users are able to back up a wide range of assets including physical servers, virtual machines, network attached storage, and even cloud environments. The flexibility of Avamar has made it an ideal choice for businesses with diverse IT architectures.
One prominent use case for Avamar is its ability to simplify backup operations for remote plants and offices. By installing the Avamar agent on physical servers located at remote sites, users are able to perform image-level backups of the virtual machines in those environments. This not only reduces network traffic over the WAN, but also ensures that critical data from remote locations is protected. Additionally, Avamar's deduplication technology helps optimize storage usage, allowing organizations to efficiently manage their capacity and scale as needed.
Managed service providers have also found great value in Avamar as it enables them to effectively manage backup and restore operations for their clients. Leveraging Avamar's deduplication technology and always incremental method, service providers are able to offer reliable and efficient backup services while minimizing storage costs. The easy-to-use interface of Avamar allows these providers to quickly set up backup scenarios and achieve desired results, ensuring the continuity of their clients' business operations.
The compression and deduplication properties of Avamar have received positive feedback from customers, highlighting the effectiveness of the software in optimizing storage utilization. Users appreciate the simplicity and speed of the restore process with Avamar, enabling them to quickly recover important files or entire servers when needed. Furthermore, customers have confidence in Avamar's long-term reliability, knowing that it will continue meeting their backup needs as their infrastructure grows and expands.
Overall, Dell Avamar serves as a valuable backup solution for organizations seeking to streamline their backup operations, protect critical data, and optimize storage efficiency. Its wide range of use cases, from consolidating backup infrastructure to simplifying remote site backups and supporting managed service providers, has made it a trusted choice for businesses around the globe.
Data deduplication greatly reduces backup traffic and backup times: Users have stated that Avamar's data deduplication feature has significantly reduced the amount of backup traffic, even in virtual environments with change block tracking. This has resulted in a considerable decrease in backup times, transforming hours-long backups into mere minutes.
Ease of use in configuring and maintaining data retention periods: Reviewers have praised Avamar's management interface for its ease of use when it comes to configuring and maintaining data retention periods. The specific menu dedicated to managing retention periods has been particularly helpful for users who need to retain certain data for an extended period of time.
Highly resilient system with minimal loss of backups: Users value Avamar's ability to recover itself from hard failures with virtually no loss of backups. The daily checkpoints provided by the system ensure a recovery point in case of catastrophic failures, instilling confidence in the resilience and reliability of their backups.
Complicated Upgrade Process: Some users have found the upgrade process for Dell Avamar to be complicated and requiring support from EMC. They mention that there are diagnostics and tests that need to be performed before scheduling the upgrade, and upgrading additional modules can be a separate process.
Issues with Client Interface: Several reviewers have expressed frustration with the client interface of Dell Avamar. They report constant JAVA issues, slow performance, and a cumbersome user experience. The interface tends to break when using current versions of JAVA, rendering it non-functional.
Expensive Renewals: Many users have mentioned that renewing Avamar contracts after the initial support package expires is extremely expensive. This has been a concern for customers as they find the cost of maintenance renewals to be high.
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December 28, 2021
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Score 9 out of 10
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- Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery and Veeam Backup & Replication
Avamar has a light and simple management interface. Backup operations can be configured easliy. Job tracking is detailed and descriptive. Platform-independent working flexibility is a big advantage.
I would say that Dell EMC Avamar is really nice for an on-premise proposal, so it's hard to compare against another tool.
May 02, 2021
Dell EMC Avamar Review
We had an agreement with Dell so we got a good deal on the IDPA appliance. Unfortunately we didn't review other solutions, which was a horrible mistake.
December 13, 2019
EMC Avamar: A boon for backup fraternity.
EMC Avamar is always incremental and deduplication rate is higher for variable block-level deduplication, restoration is faster as compared to other tools, backups cannot be accidentally deleted as there is an option for retiring the backups, retention is straightforward. EMC Avamar BMR is faster than any tool and there is less administration than many things handled by EMC (upgrade, security patch, HFS check troubleshoot).
December 04, 2019
The downside to Dell EMC Avamar
- Veeam Backup & Replication
The upside to Avamar versus Veeam is that Avamar has a machine tied to the software. Veeam is good software but it is only as good as the back-end storage.
September 06, 2019
Dell EMC's new Avamar VE and front end!
Avamar has simplied the back up approach in their VE edition and is much easier to use than Data Protector. Backing up multiple VMs takes minutes instead of hours now. Creating policies, retentions, and schedules, is vastly improved and much easier.
August 02, 2019
A cloud tool that needs to evolve
Unfortunately, Avamar has stayed behind solutions like Solarwinds Backup and Datto in many different things, like the management of the applications being only desktop, the old fashion interfaces and configurations and specially the fact that it doesn't work as a business continuity tool, which makes it mostly and out-dated application when you compare it with how the market is evolving.
July 29, 2019
EMC Avamar
EMC Avamar offers backup and recovery for desktops and laptops, allowing users to extend the power of Avamar "deduplication" backup software with the aim of eliminating the risk of data loss. Backup processes are performed automatically and in the background to ensure comprehensive protection without disrupting users. Avamar also provides a secure interface, which its users can use to start backup processes and recover data (without help desk intervention).
July 29, 2019
Avamar Backup System Review
Each one of these products did one thing well. Avamar was able to backup all of the different OS types and different types of data. Also, the reliability and support of Avamar are so much better.
July 25, 2019
Enterprise Level Backup Solution
Reliability. Avamar is hands down more reliable than any other backup solution I have used.
Originally, we evaluated CommVault with Avamar and due to some differences at the time we decided to go with Avamar. Some of those reasons against CommVault no longer exist, but we have been satisfied with Avamar. Other more current products have been reviewed such as Rubrik and HYCU for our data center, but they also lack certain features. One of the primary being the ability to backup desktop\laptops. While this is not a huge need for us, it is still a need and many of the newer products do not have this ability.
I personally would put Dell EMC Avamar at the top of the list for backup/restore data protection. Given the size of the deployment and the technical expertise of the engineers the implementation was flawless and timely. We vetted other companies backup solutions against Dell EMC Avamar and Avamar came out on top because of storage cost, simplicity of setup, technical support, deduplication, single pane of glass management.
July 06, 2019
Avamar: Chosen by evolution for natural de-selection
I have evaluated ComVault, Cohiesity, and Rubrik. All three were better choices based on:
- VMWare support: Live mounts, instant recovery, and file-based recovery from VM snapshots
- Web-Based management: No java or flash required. Modern interface. HTML. Cross-platform.
- Ease of use and configuration (Cohiesity and Rubrik). ComVault made Avamar look easy.
- Upgradability: No fork-lift upgrades. Software upgrades are simple.
January 29, 2019
Avamar on my mind
- Data Protector (formerly HP Data Protector)
December 10, 2018
Avamar backup solution
Avamar was already implemented in the organization when I started so I am unfamiliar what other solutions were evaluated.
July 14, 2016
EMC Avamar Backup appliance review.
Avamar was selected for me to use by our corporate office. The user interface of Backup Exec was easier to use, but as far as reliability, Avamar was much better. I always had failures with Backup Exec backups and restores. That is one thing I never had to worry about with Avamar.
- BackupExec, Symantec NetBackup Appliance and Veeam ONE
BackupExec and NetBackup both would choke on data that was being replicated by
DFSR. I needed a product that could handle that data, as well as do client side deduplication and compression.
Veeam, as well as some other VM backup solutions, were horrible at managing their own snapshots. If I wasn't on top of them, there was a good chance we'd have critical systems go down. Avamar was excellent at managing snapshots as well as backing up my ESX environment.
DFSR. I needed a product that could handle that data, as well as do client side deduplication and compression.
Veeam, as well as some other VM backup solutions, were horrible at managing their own snapshots. If I wasn't on top of them, there was a good chance we'd have critical systems go down. Avamar was excellent at managing snapshots as well as backing up my ESX environment.
February 23, 2016
Ding Dong the Tapes are dead - Avamar backups just work!
- Symantec Backup Exec and FireEye
We were considering going with the newer version of the tape backup method we have been using for years. However tapes deteriorate and off site storage adds up. Backups are slow, recovery from incremental backups is slow and unreliable.
FireEye backup to the cloud was cost prohibitive at the time, and end user confidence was not high for data stored electronically off site. Our finance department did not want financial data stored outside of our environment on public servers.
FireEye backup to the cloud was cost prohibitive at the time, and end user confidence was not high for data stored electronically off site. Our finance department did not want financial data stored outside of our environment on public servers.
December 28, 2015
Avamar is key when raising the bar for Data Protection.
- Veeam Backup & Replication and IBM Endpoint Manager
Avamar is just overall easier to use and seems to be more versatile. And user-friendly is key when training new team members here at the organization.
October 09, 2015
Avamar Backup
We had different backup system before. We used 2 different ones the last 2 years but we ended up with Avamar. Since then we never really change our backup system because we got the result we wanted from Avamar.
October 09, 2015
Avamar, Tape Robot Terminator!
I started with Avamar as a tape backup replacement. I had drives at each location and a tape robot at the central data center. Moving to disk backup with no tape switch out was incredible. With tech today, almost all backup is disk backup. Avamar's quality hardware and deduplication technology has kept it ahead of the curve with other competitors even today. When I have had to call EMC for support they have been quick and efficient in solving the issue. The amount of time saved from going from tape to centralized disk, frees up so much of my time and keeps me from chasing my tail finding tapes.