Dell Data Protection Advisor Reviews

The solution is primarily used for reporting. In the user environment the client has different queries so reports are needed to understand the size of the data that will be backed up for a week or a month. Basing on that we can forecast the size to which the data will grow. For instance, if a backup is is failing  continuously for three days, days, then it triggers an alert  for us  so that customer can pay some attention. 

The reporting feature and the Dell's continuous improvement of the solution are the most valuable features. The solution not only supports Dell Power Products but also other products. 

I'm using this solution for backup. We upload our backup to the cloud, but it is not a hybrid environment. I use it for backup mostly and access the backup on-premise. We are resellers.

The solution is deployed on-premises.

We have plans to increase usage of backup and deduplication that we are going to apply to end users.

As an example, we improved our RTO and RPO. Before using this solution, we had a ransomware event and suffered because of it.

We use the product for data protection purposes.

The platform's most valuable features are data protection and retention.

As a system engineer, I am deploying Dell Data Protection Advisor solutions, especially in the areas of protection like Avamar, NetWorker, and Data Domain. Our team has deployed these solutions for three organizations in Africa and India.

Dell Data Protection Advisor provides proactive support by giving predictions before any problems occur. It also offers valuable information about the usage of disk space and directions on adding capacity to target devices. This makes the system very beneficial for our clients.

We use Dell EMC Data Protection Advisor to receive reports on the health of the daily backups of our data in our organization. The reports give us information in many areas, such as capacity, compression, high and lowest deduplication, workloads, and the number of failures.

The solution is easy to use, flexible and has a lot of out-of-the-box functionality. You can configure the dashboards or you can use a script. However, to fully utilize its capabilities you will want to use a lot of scripts which you will need advanced training. The reports can be customized for many things, such as chargeback billing.

Additionally, we are using this solution for Dell, but Data Protection Advisor (DPA) can be used for other backup solutions, such as NetBackup, pfSense, and Veeam Backup. However, you would have to have a license.

Our use is limited to backup and recovery.

It has a lot of stock reports. I believe over 300 canned reports, which for the most part meet a lot of generic needs. As far as creating customer ports this solution has definitely evolved and become more of a construct to where you can build reports as long as you know your data sets and really customize them for your customer's environment.

In the same hindrance — this is a plus and a minus —, because Data Protection Advisor is a multi-platform, multi-vendor product, if you look for something that you know is called X in one product, it may not be called X in DPA. Column for column, that creates a mapping challenge. An example would be policy. In policy, it's called "group" in DPA.

The tool is used as a backup for Dell clients. 

I can increase the tool's licensing as per my requirement with no conditions applied. 

Our primary use case for the solution is for daily and head of reporting. It supports our chargeback process by identifying resource users, which helps ensure that departments are billed accurately for data protection services rather than receiving them for free.

The platform's most valuable features are the ability to generate tailored reports for different departments and comprehensively monitor backup statuses. These features have greatly improved our reporting efficiency and data protection oversight.