Dell Avamar vs Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup [EOL] comparison

Dell Technologies and Nutanix are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Dell Technologies is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.3, while Nutanix is ranked #52 with an average rating of 7.0. Dell Technologies holds a 3.4% mindshare in BRS, compared to Nutanix’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 50% of Nutanix users who would recommend it.

Dell Avamar

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87% willing to recommend

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50% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Dell Avamar and Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup are leading solutions in the data protection space. Dell Avamar is seen as more cost-effective, while Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup is noted for its robust integration and scalability.

Features: Dell Avamar is praised for efficient data deduplication, broad platform support, and cost-effectiveness. Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup stands out for seamless integration with Nutanix HCI, simplified management, and scalability.

Room for Improvement: Dell Avamar users suggest enhancements in reporting, analytics, and documentation. Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup users seek better documentation, more intuitive setup processes, and improvements in user guidance.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Dell Avamar deployment is straightforward but requires expertise for complex environments. Customer service receives mixed reviews with praise for problem resolution. Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup offers deployment simplicity through its tight integration with Nutanix HCI, and its customer support is highly rated for prompt and effective resolutions.

Pricing and ROI: Dell Avamar users find the initial setup cost reasonable with ROI through reduced storage needs via deduplication. Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup users note higher upfront costs, justified by streamlined operations and lower long-term management expenses, offering a higher initial investment that aligns well with modern infrastructure for sustained returns.

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Categories and Ranking

Dell Avamar

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

7th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Deduplication Software (3rd)

Nutanix Mine Integrated Bac...

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

52nd

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Dell Avamar is 3.4%, down from 3.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup [EOL] is 0.6%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Rahul Sarangdhar

Senior Specialist at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech

Works excellently for on-prem backup but not the best for Azure backups

Avamar is not the best tool when it comes to taking Azure backups. Like Commvault, if Avamar can support VM-level backups for the cloud, that would make it a bit better. There is another Dell EMC tool called NetWorker, which is a bit centralized tool. If you deploy a storage node locally, you can use the same UI tool for central management, but in the case of Avamar, it needs to be deployed individually on a site, irrespective of whether it's small or big. So, if I have 10 sites, I have to manage 10 Avamar. That's a bit of a headache. The Dell EMC solution professionals who connect with the clients should suggest NetWorker to clients with multiple sites rather than Avamar. That's because NetWorker gives more centralized control, but they keep recommending Avamar, which isn't the best practice. There are no free or cheaper training plans. Unless your company is a partner with Dell, you don't get the student guide training, etc. Their administrator guide does not have all the information required for a new person. It doesn't cover the basics. The student guide is good, but it's not free. If you are a partner, only then it's free. Otherwise, there is a cost of $2,000 to $3,000. For people who are new to Avamar, there should be some resources to enable them to study on their own at least 50% of the basics. If I want to study Commvault, I get so many documents and resources to study, but in the case of Dell EMC products, there aren't any free resources. Only if you're a partner, the resources are available for you to learn. The user manuals and administrator guides are just for deployment. They aren't good for learning the basics for a fresher.

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Ingvar Ingason

Channel Sales Manager at Arrow Electronics

An affordable product that offers a reasonably good technical support

I rate the product's initial setup phase an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is a difficult setup phase, and ten is an easy setup phase. The product's installation phase took me around two weeks. On average, it usually takes about a week or two to deploy when everything is in place. The solution is deployed on a hybrid cloud from Azure.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It was very simple to deploy the solution to the client that you wanted to backup."

"Dell Avamar has a push upgrade feature that lets you simultaneously push updates to thousands of clients. I also found the self-service part of Dell Avamar helpful."

"The solution is very stable."

"The deduplication feature is the best aspect of the solution."

"Graphically, it's very user interactive. It's got a very nice interface."

"The most valuable feature for me in Dell Avamar is the automation, which is good for completion."

"The most valuable feature for me is the backup functionality."

"Every product is good and bad, but its claim to fame is that it is scalable. We're doing more than 3,000 VMs. Every single night a complete image backup to disks and replication are easily done in under four hours."

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"I like the autofill-over feature and the simplicity of the solution."

"We find the ease of use valuable."

"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...I rate the technical support a nine out of ten."

"Nutanix has its own backup system known as HYCU, as well as its own virtual server."

"We use this solution as an integrated backup solution and it is integrated from the backup provider to the Nutanix solution."

"Nutanix can converge legacy-style rack mount servers, so it is highly scalable."

Cons

"Compared with Cohesity or Rubrik, which have some continuous data protection for backup and replication, this solution tends to lack in this area."

"It would be helpful if the product offered more integration potential."

"The screen design is a bit back-dated."

"Setting up Avamar wasn't so easy, and we had a partner doing the installation for us. Though it was hard at first, it's getting better. The main difficulty was finding plugins for Oracle Database. It took some time to open a ticket with Dell, but everything was fine after that."

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

"We'd like to see something that could also work with Unix servers and physical servers to have a unified solution that works with everything."

"What would make Dell Avamar better is if it can do faster backups because right now, PowerProtect Data Manager is better in this area with its new UI and a new way to implement backups. Customers nowadays also expect more up-to-date solutions, and this is another area for improvement in Dell Avamar. It's not as up-to-date, so I'm counting on PowerProtect Data Manager, but customers who have Dell Avamar don't want to switch because you don't have as many backup problems in Dell Avamar compared to other solutions. What I'd like to see in the next release of Dell Avamar is an updated UI and a different way to manage backups because currently, backup management is a bit heavy for customers using Dell Avamar."

"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."

More Dell Avamar cons

"The solution's setup process should be simplified."

"This solution could be improved with regards to the hosts that integrate with the platform itself. Each of the hosts integrated with the storage and networking only provide one instance of a backup."

"It could be cheaper."

"The price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"Nutanix is not secure enough, and it needs to be more resilient."

"I would like to see the multi-cloud improve."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I'm not sure, but perhaps the pricing could be done better at the moment."

"Dell Avamar, including its virtual add-ons and cloud-based offerings, is cheaper than other solutions, but in the end, the price still depends on your use case. Price-wise, I'm rating Dell Avamar as six out of ten."

"When it comes to competition the price is not what is important, it's not the problem."

"Dell Avamar is a moderately priced solution."

"Licensing was generally on a per VM or terabyte basis. They changed their licensing model a couple of times and turned it into socket-based licensing, which is an improvement in their licensing model."

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

"The solution is expensive."

"This is a fairly expensive solution. It cost approximately 21,000 each year."

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"I rate the pricing a five out of ten because the price is average."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is affordable or low, and ten is expensive or high, I rate the price as two."

"Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup is fairly priced."

"While Nutanix Mine is extremely expensive for small businesses, it is a very cost-effective product for enterprise businesses."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

13%

Government

12%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

12%

Manufacturing Company

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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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What do you like most about Nutanix Mine?

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...I rate the technical support a nine out of ten.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nutanix Mine?

On a scale of one to ten, where one is affordable or low, and ten is expensive or high, I rate the price as two.

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What needs improvement with Nutanix Mine?

The price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required.

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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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Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup is a turnkey solution that makes backup infrastructure simple and invisible by combining the Nutanix Cloud Platform technology with leading enterprise backup software for dedicated data backup and recovery.

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