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System Administrator with 51-200 employees
Real User
A solution with a good user interface that's stable and quick to set up
Pros and Cons
  • "The user interface is very good. The reporting and monitoring features are also good."
  • "The data tagging feature needs improvement. The solution could be a bit more intuitive in certain aspects."

What is our primary use case?

I primarily use the solution for my documentation projects.

What is most valuable?

The user interface is very good. The reporting and monitoring features are also good.

What needs improvement?

The data tagging feature needs improvement. The solution could be a bit more intuitive in certain aspects. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using the solution for three years.
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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is stable. We've never had any issues.

How are customer service and support?

Technical support is good. We're satisfied with the level of support we get.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is very easy. Deployment takes less than an hour.

What about the implementation team?

We did use consultants to assist with some features.

What other advice do I have?

We use the on-premises deployment model.

Overall, I really like the product. There's not really any feature that is missing.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. it's very user-friendly, and I can do everything I need to do. It's very simple for me to use.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Database Expert with 51-200 employees
Real User
Reliable, but serious issues.

Valuable Features:

Recovery.

Room for Improvement:

Yes: failure of primary; agent resource use.

Other Advice:

I'm afraid I fail to see how the CEO of a 500+ employee company can be a "real user" in any relevant sense. The real hands-on experience with DPM is that it's difficult to set up unless you get it right first time, the agent processes gobble CPU and i/o, and if you're unfortunate enough for your DPM primary to go awol, you're faced with building a complete DPM network again because the secondary/ies will refuse full backups if the primary isn't there.

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it_user6414 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Ultimate tool for great file system savings and fabric administration optimization

Valuable Features:

• Data Protection Manager enables fabric administrators to exercise flexibility and freedom in carrying out live migrations of VMs. As an administrator, it is easier now to handle migration of VMs from standalone to cluster, move them within standalones as well as within and across the cluster. • Offers a perfect solution to redundant data. Data Protection Manager assigns a link to the actual file that connects it to the common area where duplicated cold data is stored. I have found this to be a great saving on file system as file contents are maintained in common chunks.

Room for Improvement:

• Optimization of fabric administrator cause management problem to arise in backup administrator as it leads to the backup software failure in a manner that cannot be foreseen or anticipated finding backup administrators unawares. • In trying to solve the backup issue, Data Protection Manager involves complex connection of DPMs and VMM serves which may pose a challenge to beginners.

Other Advice:

Data Protection Manager provides data protection to your business system which covers every challenge posed by VMs migration. Through efficient use of DPMs or leveraging the situation by applying recovery techniques such as Item Level Recovery, data protection and recovery can be highly boasted. Leaning and understanding the file will enable one to master recovery techniques such as capability to recover directories and small file rather than the whole volume. This make the experience with Data Protection Manager a delight.
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it_user156372Database Expert with 51-200 employees
Real User

So no problems at all then Wissam?

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