AppAssure Review
October 09, 2015
AppAssure Review
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
5.3.1.60393
Modules Used
- AppAssure Backup
Overall Satisfaction with AppAssure
We initially purchased this product for the hot P to V features of AppAssure. It expanded when our remote sites needed a VM backup solution. They were running ESXi free version, so there werent many options. When we were told AppAssure could backup ESXi free we explored the software further. For the price and purpose of the solution, it was the best we could find. Since then, we've been using AppAssure to back up all our VMs in our remote sites.
- Continuous backup with deduplication and compression
- The P to V function of the software is create. To be able to back up physical machines and create a hot spare on a virtual environment was a great selling point.
- Can back up physical and virtual (ESX or Hyper-V).
- The GUI and response times are far too slow. It would be nice if this could be improved.
- Currently you can set a blanket retention policy for all protected machines. It would be great if this could get more granular and can do protection groups of machines where you can custom set retention policy
- Once again, policies where you can set backup times for groups rather than individual machines would be great.
- The compression and dedupe have been great. We are able to back up 10 VMs on only a 2 TB repository. We take differentials every 15 minutes and have held on to backup data for the past 3 years.
- The pricing of AppAssure is very competitive to the market. However, now that enterprise level backup is more of a commodity, the view of looking at AppAssure should be the Dell backup suite as whole, rather than AppAssure itself.
- Fast recovery and mount points.
Anything is better than Backup Exec. I believe Veeam is a far superior product in backing up VMs. Veeam does not have any agents that get installed on servers which is always a plus. It also connects directly to vCenter.
CommVault to me is the ultimate solution. The ability to backup physical, VMs, SQL, exchange, applications, and even do E-Discovery make it the ultimate backup suite. If you are looking at a backup suite package to cover all your needs, i think with CommVault you need not look any further.
CommVault to me is the ultimate solution. The ability to backup physical, VMs, SQL, exchange, applications, and even do E-Discovery make it the ultimate backup suite. If you are looking at a backup suite package to cover all your needs, i think with CommVault you need not look any further.