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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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- Incremental backup identification (21)9.393%
- Deduplication and file compression (22)8.686%
- Universal recovery (20)8.585%
- Multiple backup destinations (20)6.060%
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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 desktops/laptops.
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Data Center Backup
Data center backup tools send data to a secure storage location after encryption and de-duplication
- 8.5Universal recovery(20) Ratings
Universal recovery is the ability to restore backups to any machine regardless of the platform
- 8.5Instant recovery(19) Ratings
Instant recovery is the ability to restore operations very rapidly
- 9.4Recovery verification(17) Ratings
Recovery verification is automated testing and verification of backups
- 8.6Business application protection(17) Ratings
Protection of all applications running in the data center
- 6Multiple backup destinations(20) Ratings
Multiple backup destinations is the ability to backup data to more than one location
- 9.3Incremental backup identification(21) Ratings
Incremental backup identification is the ability to identify incremental changes since last backup
- 3.6Backup to the cloud(10) Ratings
Ability to store and back up data to the cloud
- 8.6Deduplication and file compression(22) Ratings
Integrated deduplication and compression capabilities
- 8.5Snapshots(16) Ratings
Ability to take regular snapshots to ensure that Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is met
- 7.7Flexible deployment(12) Ratings
Deployment on any servers with full support for all applications being used
- 8.4Management dashboard(13) Ratings
Web-based dashboard allowing configuration and monitoring of all backups
- 4.7Platform support(14) Ratings
Product supports multiple operating systems and applications
- 8.6Retention options(15) Ratings
Provision of best-practice and customizable retention policies with reporting
- 8.6Encryption(14) Ratings
Data encryption to ensure that data is safe while being backed-up
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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.
Deployment Options
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 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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(1-2 of 2)- Avamar performs data deduplication on the remote host. This greatly reduces the amount of traffic that each backup requires. This even applies to the virtual environment through change block tracking. Backup times are reduced from hours to minutes.
- The management interface makes it easy to configure and maintain data retention periods. Many times certain data must be kept for an extended period of time. There is a specific menu for managing retention periods.
- The system is able to recover itself from a hard failure with virtually no loss of backups. There is a checkpoint taken each day that provides a recovery point in the event of a catastrophic failure. Since this is a node based system, the loss of more than one node could require a recovery be performed.
- While another grid must be purchased, the replication utility allows all backups to be replicated to another grid at a remote location. This ensures the resilience of the backups in the event there is the loss of the primary data center.
- Also works on HCI devices performing image-level backups as in our primary data center environment
- There is also now an All-in-One appliance for smaller locations
- The upgrade process is rather complicated. It needs to be performed by EMC support, and there are a lot of diagnostics and test that must be performed ahead of scheduling the upgrade. Some additional modules such as the NDMP accelerator must be upgraded as part of a separate process.
- Interoperability with other EMC products is not always seamless or immediate. An upgrade may require another EMC product be upgraded before there full interoperability returns.
- Maintenance renewals can be a headache if different modules were purchased at different times. You need to make sure your new purchases are aligned with the renewals of your existing hardware. This is referred to as "co-terming".
- Universal recovery
- 90%9.0
- Instant recovery
- 100%10.0
- Recovery verification
- 90%9.0
- Business application protection
- 100%10.0
- Multiple backup destinations
- 100%10.0
- Incremental backup identification
- 100%10.0
- Backup to the cloud
- 60%6.0
- Deduplication and file compression
- 100%10.0
- Snapshots
- 100%10.0
- Flexible deployment
- 20%2.0
- Management dashboard
- 70%7.0
- Platform support
- 90%9.0
- Retention options
- 100%10.0
- Encryption
- 60%6.0
- The fact that all backups can be monitored and maintained from a single product has greatly simplified my life. Where I used to spend a lot of time in the mornings going from system to system to check the backups, now I can just check everything in one place.
- The data deplication greatly reduced the amount of time and bandwidth required to complete the backups. For example, one backup that used to take over two hours to complete, now finishes in about 20 minutes.
- There has been a reduction in the amount of time spent on support calls. It was not uncommon to spend countless hours on a support call with Symantec when we were using their products.
- Being able to backup and recover critical data.
- Maintain backups for an extended period of time due to legal hold
- Easy to maintain and manage
- While under legal hold, we have configured the backups for specific system to not auto-delete. Then once the hold is over, the deletion of this data is a simple as selecting the appropriate backups and deleting. This avoids the long process of locating and then deleting the data.
- In the event there would need to be a much longer retention period, there is a "tape-out" option. This allows backups that need to be kept for years to be sent to a tape and stored offsite.
- While we do not currently have SharePoint, Avamar would be capable of backup up that product.
- Avamar could be used in the event we would need to migrate data from one type of storage to another. The would allow a backup from one system and a restore to another. The restore would then have all of the ACL's intact just as they were on the source.
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- Data deduplication is the best feature. The amount of data backed up to space used has been impressive.
- Ease of backing up whole VMs with vCenter integration makes a bare metal restore really easy.
- Because of the deduplication, the backup times are really quick and don't heavily impact the servers. Also makes it really light over the WAN.
- The client interface has constant JAVA issues and can be slow and chunky. We have often had issues with current versions of JAVA breaking it so it will not even run.
- The backup clients are split out for function. Although this makes them light, it also makes it cumbersome to upgrade clients. The naming scheme can also be confusing for the clients.
- Universal recovery
- 90%9.0
- Instant recovery
- 90%9.0
- Recovery verification
- 90%9.0
- Business application protection
- 90%9.0
- Multiple backup destinations
- 90%9.0
- Backup to the cloud
- 90%9.0
- Deduplication and file compression
- 100%10.0
- Even though Avamar appears expensive out of the box, the fact that they don't charge by the client makes them affordable over other solutions if you have a large number of servers.
- We have had to use the bare metal restore on two occasions and the speed and efficiency was incredible. Getting a server back up and running quickly can be a life saver.
- Being JAVA based on the management can make things difficult in a crisis. The last thing you want to deal with is SSL cert errors and JAVA versioning issues.
- Daily backups of core systems. Because of the speed and reliability, it is perfect for that.
- Cross WAN backups. Dedup makes backups over the WAN to be fast and light on your network.
- No need for the tape sprawl. Because it is contained, no need to switch out tape and move to a secure location.
- User controlled backups.
- Partnering with another organization in a different state, split the cost in half and solves the off site dilemma.
- We are doing more user desktop backups.