Item: Dell Avamar
Rating: 2
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Dell Avamar

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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 and Cons

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.

Return on Investment

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

Usability

Avamar has a famously over complicated interface that is unintuitive.

Key Insights

Do you think Dell Avamar delivers good value for the price?

Are you happy with Dell Avamar's feature set?

Did Dell Avamar live up to sales and marketing promises?

Did implementation of Dell Avamar go as expected?

Would you buy Dell Avamar again?

Likelihood to Recommend

Dell Avamar used to be one of the best products on the market. And, if you already have the product or are locked to the ecosystem, it will work well for you with some effort into configuration and education on its use. However, the price point on the product and lack of innovation in regards to user friendliness has made it a product I would no longer choose.

Dell Avamar Feature Ratings

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Dell Avamar was a great product in its heyday but that day has passed