Dell Avamar was a great product in its heyday but that day has passed
November 25, 2025
Dell Avamar was a great product in its heyday but that day has passed

Score 2 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Dell Avamar
We used the Dell Avamar product to backup approximately 100 vms in our VMware environment. This was to address the standard business practice of automating backups in order to recover from disaster, corruption or bad actors. We used the Avamar product both as a standalone and as a piece of the IDPA product.
Pros
- Backup
- Restore
- Schedule
Cons
- Avamar’s usability was very lacking. You had to really know the product to be able to deploy it.
- Troubleshooting the product could be very complicated.
- It wasn’t uncommon for the product to require manual intervention to get rid of orphaned snapshots.
- Avamar is higher priced than many comparable products.
- Dell Avamar was positive as far as reliability
- Dell Avamar was a negative as far as usability
- Dell Avamar is overpriced based on the competition
Do you think Dell Avamar delivers good value for the price?
No
Are you happy with Dell Avamar's feature set?
No
Did Dell Avamar live up to sales and marketing promises?
No
Did implementation of Dell Avamar go as expected?
No
Would you buy Dell Avamar again?
No
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