Dell Avamar vs Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] comparison

Dell Technologies and Veeam Software are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Additionally, 87% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Veeam Software users who would recommend it.

Dell Avamar

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We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Dell Avamar

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (11th), Deduplication Software (6th)

Veeam Agent for Microsoft W...

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

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SamuelThomas

Consultant at Key Information Technology L.L.C.

Have supported critical environments despite room for improvement in legacy backup options

It is very efficient in cyber resilience. Deduplication, automation, and everything is very efficient. It is multi-cloud enabled and has broad protections. The software delivers flexible and efficient backup and recovery options through its cyber resiliency features. Dell PowerProtect Manager provides insights in managing backup processes. Its encryption mechanisms are very efficient, helping to secure sensitive data. Its integration with Dell EMC Data Domain is very good. It is easy to integrate with Data Domain. Multi-cloud options are enabled, and backup in cloud options exist in Dell Avamar.

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Salman Ahmed

Senior Manager at Habib Bank Ltd.

Functional application availability

There are not many options available for AIX backup. They provide the agent for AIX, but it could be more mature, and they should improve that option. They also provide the AIX agent, which is similar to the Windows and Linux agents. Since we use AIX machines, we need to take backups of those machines. However, the options available in that agent are limited. Therefore, the new version should have improvements in that area.

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Dell EMC Avamar has many valuable features. It's very stable and it's easy to manage."

"The function I find most valuable in Dell Avamar is its ability to take differential backups for users. This feature is very effective for both backup and restore operations. We've had multiple cases where we needed to restore files directly from Avamar, and it worked perfectly. The Delta feature, which captures changes in user files, is particularly useful."

"We sell Avamar with Data Domain. Data Domain and Avamar work really well together and their compression ratios are very high compared to Veeam, Commvault, and all the other backup software on the market."

"We've found the product to be stable."

"It is one of the best solutions for backing up Oracle and other servers."

"They are extremely reliable and scalable — they provide the best de-duplication on the market."

"What I found valuable in Dell Avamar is the deduplication feature. I also like that the solution can be integrated with Data Domain."

"We love the instant recovery functionality. It's very useful."

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"This is a reliable system that supports Veeam backup and recovery for Windows."

"The user interface is good. It provides a lot of information."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to navigate inside a backup point to look for a specific folder or data you want to recover."

"Veeam is very useful for the Hyper-V environment."

"This is a good product with a simple environment."

"User-friendly data backup and protection solution for a Windows environment. The Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is very scalable, stable, and has good compatibility and integration."

"To do the actual backup configuration is also not too bad."

"It's powerful and user-friendly."

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Cons

"EMC has discontinued their Avamar hardware version. They only advertise the Avamar virtual edition."

"When we used the solution, it was still new, and so the customer service/technical support was not the best."

"The tool's interface is very much in a spreadsheet format...reporting is an area with shortcomings requiring improvement."

"If there is a need to move the data from one backup solution to another, it might be difficult since there is no option for a straightforward migration."

"Some integrations are not in place, such as the email alerts, which are not compatible with Office 365 SMTP gateway."

"The stability could improve, a lot of scheduled backups failed at one time."

"The user interface needs to be improved. It's not as good as it could be."

"Reporting in Dell Avamar needs improvement. The current reporting tool is very basic, and you have to dig deep into each function to get the information you need. For example, getting the status of failed and succeeded backups is very difficult in Avamar compared to Veeam. As for additional functionality, I would suggest improving WAN optimization. It's very important for getting offline or off-site backups. It should also include a tool to check for ransomware which would be beneficial. If a backup is vulnerable to ransomware, there should be a way to detect it, like using ARR rules to ensure your backup is ransomware-free. I haven't had any experience integrating Dell Avamar with AI solutions. It’s also a good point that Avamar doesn't offer such integrations, which is an area where Dell could improve."

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"There really are no cons. The product simply has to maintain development to keep up with changes in the operating system."

"Updating and configuration can sometimes be a little bit of a hassel, but once you know the product better it is easy to use."

"I would like to have more flexibility in terms of reporting details about the backup."

"The backups can go slow."

"The solution's compression ratio and high speed for backing up can always improve. Aspects that need improvement are less time, better quality, higher security, and more compression. These are continuous requirements for any customer."

"We can't use tape for primary storage on Veeam."

"If you are doing an AIX backup then you have to use the CLI because it doesn't appear on the console, the way that Windows and Linux jobs do."

"We need some sort of security for backups and archives."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Avamar's pricing is quite competitive compared to other vendors."

"It is easy to use."

"Dell EMC needs to lower Avamar's price and add more features to stay competitive."

"It was very expensive before, but after integrating it with Dell EMC Avamar Data Protection suite licensing, we are getting better discounts."

"Licensing fees are paid annually."

"It is expensive. Its cost is the main thing."

"There are licensing costs for Dell EMC Avamar and it is paid annually."

"The solution is expensive."

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"The solution is free of cost for end users but for enterprise use, a license per user is required."

"We have the Community Edition and I believe we bought a license for 200 instances. Veeam Agent is mainly used for our branch offices. Those only have one or two Hyper-V servers, so it's covered with the Community Edition. Basically, it's free. I remember Veeam 7.0 or 8.0 wasn't free, but the Community Edition is."

"It is less expensive than one of its variants."

"We are on an annual license to use Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows. There are not any additional fees to use the solution."

"There are costs in addition to the standard licensing fees, and pricing can be a disadvantage or a weakness for this solution."

"The licensing fees are billed on a yearly basis, and the fees are much lower than what I pay for NetBackup."

"The solution is inexpensive, more so than other products."

"Our licensing fees are on a yearly basis."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Government

Comms Service Provider

Photography Company

20%

Performing Arts

18%

Manufacturing Company

Marketing Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	26
Midsize Enterprise	18
Large Enterprise	48

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	19
Midsize Enterprise	12
Large Enterprise	10

Questions from the Community

What's the difference between Dell EMC Avamar and Dell EMC NetWorker?

From the very beginning, Dell EMC NetWorker considers users and those who might potentially become users. In terms of both pricing and setup, this product offers an experience that is significantly...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell EMC Avamar?

The cost is very significant, and it could be lower.

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What do you like most about Dell Avamar?

Easy to configure and highly reliable for backup.

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Overview

Dell Avamar data protection software delivers flexible and efficient backup and recovery operations that can scale from daily backup protection for endpoints to high-performance protection for large enterprises with diverse applications and workloads. With application consistent recovery, automation and fast backup and restores, Avamar can help you meet your SLAs and optimize your backup and recovery processes

If you are deploying all or part of your backup environment to the cloud, Avamar enables you to make the most of your cloud investment, enabling replication, disaster recovery and long-term retention for customers using AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.

Avamar is available as part of Dell Data Protection Suite, which offers comprehensive data protection software applications and tools. Avamar is delivered as software and as a virtual edition.

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What is Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows?

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is a robust, trusted data protection and recovery solution for both physical and virtual machines. This solution can be used to safeguard all kinds of machines and devices, such as desktops, laptops, and mobile devices. Veeam Agent for Windows can easily be installed on all Windows-based physical servers, workstations, desktops, and virtual machines, and works well in either a standalone or managed mode.

It is widely understood that all users should back up all stored data on a regularly scheduled basis to protect all important data. In the event of a data disaster, data can easily be restored from the backup using this solution and one would never have to experience a loss of important information. Users can implement Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows to perform regularly scheduled backups automatically, or manually, as needed. Users can choose to back up individual folders and files, designate particular computer files, or even the entire computer image.

Backups can be saved in several different locations, such as:

Cloud Repository (Veeam Cloud Connect)
Backup Repository (Veeam Backup Server)
Network Shared Folder
Local Computer Drive
Removable Storage Device (USB, CD, DVD, etc)
Microsoft OneDrive

Veeam Agent for Windows users are able to:

Create a Veeam Recovery Media file on an external hard drive, CD/DVD/BD, internal hard drive, or choose to establish an ISO file using Veeam Recovery Media on disk.

Create a comprehensive system image backup and securely back up chosen computer volumes or specific personal folders with files. Users have the option to store backups in a network shared folder on an external hard drive, or use the Veeam backup repository, Veeam Cloud Connect Repository, or Microsoft OneDrive.

Veeam Data restore offers two options:

Volume-level restore: Veeam Agent is able to restore the complete content of the entire volume. The solution retrieves the data blocks pertaining to the designated volumes and copies them to the desired location. A volume can then be restored to a new location or its original location.
File-Level Restore: Veeam Agent will use Veeam’s proprietary driver to publish backup content safely to a user's computer file system. Users can then access the content user Veeam’s Virtual Disk Driver (VDK), which is included with the solution. Users can then easily browse and copy the desired files and folders to use as desired.

Veeam Recovery Media

Veeam Agent for Windows allows users to create a complete recovery image of their computer using Veeam Recovery Media. This image contains all data necessary to run Microsoft Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) while supplying a viable option to run users’ computer systems.

Reviews From Real Users:

“We use Veeam Agent for security as well as to ensure we have a backup should the server or discs fatally die. We are a small company with just one building, we want to be sure that should a server be gone we have a backup in the cloud so that we can survive.” - Director at a tech services company

“The compatibility of Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows with other solutions is good. Its integration with other solutions is also good. I also find the product user-friendly.” - Business Development Manager at a tech services company.

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Dodge County, St Laurence's College, FieldCore (a GE Company), Comanche County Memorial Hospital, Getronics, Lewisville Independent School District, EnvisionRxOptions, Cincinnati Bell Technology Solutions

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