We performed a comparison between Dell NetWorker and HPE StoreOnce based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."I started off as a storage engineer and ended up owning Dell EMC Data Domain and Dell EMC NetWorker. I've not used any other backup solutions at this scale. Dell EMC NetWorker does what I need it to do, it's efficient."
"The backup feature for this product is good. It is easy to set up and easy to scale."
"There are no problems in terms of stability."
"The solution is very user-friendly. After setting up five machines for our customers we teach them how to set up the agent and start doing their backups. It is very easy for them once they see how to do it, they like to do it on their own."
"It is the best umbrella, serving the best applications."
"The feature that offers the greatest benefits in ensuring data integrity is its backup capability."
"NetWorker's most valuable feature is recovery, including the policy-based backups that can be configured."
"It can support many different versions, both newer and older."
"It's easy to backup data, manage. A"
"Deduplication is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that the tool provides good value for somebody who needs an affordable and reliable storage solution."
"The product’s data retention is very good."
"The deduplication feature in this product is amazing."
"The important feature is compression and duplication. It has a good compression ratio and is very stable."
"We also really benefit from the GUI capabilities."
"It is very easy to implement."
"I would like to see the user interface improved, more documentation, faster support, and it could be easier to configure."
"The interface could have a different appearance."
"The UI needs some enhancement to be more user-friendly."
"The software also isn't user-friendly like Convault or Rubrik. The solution errors and management aren't so good in comparison."
"The end-user experience is not good."
"It is not easy to understand and deploy. It is complex in nature. Simplicity is not there. When we deploy it, the customer always needs some training from us. To make it user friendly, there should be one agent that can be used to back up every product. Dell EMC NetWorker uses so many user agents. In PowerProtect Data Manager, you can just install its VM, import that VM into vCenter, and you can start to do backups directly from vCenter. However, in Dell EMC NetWorker, you always need one server, and from that server, you need to initiate all backups. You must know the interface and the CLI. It is not user friendly. It would be a great feature if we can deploy Dell EMC NetWorker on a virtual machine, like Avamar. The additional features that are required in Dell EMC NetWorker are already available in PowerProtect Data Manager and Avamar. Therefore, there is no need to enhance Dell EMC NetWorker. It would be better if they can just rename it to PowerProtect Data Manager or Avamar."
"I would like to see better support for the container systems, and we would like to see more support for image backups instead of pure file backups."
"Its console UI should be better. It should also have more out-of-the-box reporting functionalities. It should also have easier cloud integration. They have got cloud boost and things like that, but if you want to directly back up to the cloud, I'm not too sure whether you can do it. For example, you can easily send data from Commvault to AWS, Azure, or a container, but it seems to be not so easy in NetWorker."
"While StoreOnce has many features, it needs to focus on integrating with third-party backup software solutions."
"They could provide more options for storage capacity."
"HPE StoreOnce should come with a detailed installation guide."
"The GUI and its user-friendliness have some room for improvement."
"Hardware maintenance involves some downtime for backup destination storage which can be a problem for some."
"We would like to see some improvements in the Veeam Backup & Replication integration. It's good, but it has a lot of room to improve. In particular around the inability to easily move data between StoreOnce appliances."
"The product could be improved with better support for data protection."
"Its customer service could be faster."
Dell NetWorker is ranked 13th in Backup and Recovery with 73 reviews while HPE StoreOnce is ranked 2nd in Deduplication Software with 103 reviews. Dell NetWorker is rated 7.8, while HPE StoreOnce is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell NetWorker writes "A stable tool that has an easy-to-use GUI that enables quick restoration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE StoreOnce writes "Helps to consolidate D2D backups and has a good deduplication ratio". Dell NetWorker is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Dell Avamar, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup and Rubrik, whereas HPE StoreOnce is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Dell PowerVault, ExaGrid EX Series, DD Boost and HPE Primera.
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