We performed a comparison between Commvault and Dell PowerProtect DD based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: The two solutions are very comparable and received similar user ratings in all categories.
"Commvault has support for backing up operating systems and servers."
"We now have the capability to recover a virtual machine without relying on the NFS system, but instead are able to use certain features provided by Commvault."
"It integrates redundant storage and preserves jams in a storage area, providing up to 70% compression rate."
"The solution's stability is excellent."
"Among the best features are the BMR (Bare Metal Recovery), Live Sync, and IntelliSnap, which is used for snapshots of hypervisor storage. It's predefined so you only need to enable it and it works. I haven't seen anything like this in other backup tools like Veritas NetBackup or Dell EMC or TSM. We will use snapshotting for all our machines."
"The product is a reliable solution."
"I'm a big fan of the reporting. You can build your own reports; it's very customizable. You can have individual reports going to groups of people or individuals. You can have them go out multiple times a day. It's basically a free-for-all as far as reporting goes. If anybody wants a specific job report every day, you can build it, schedule it, and have it go out and never touched it again. It's pretty nice."
"It's an enterprise product. It's a stable product. We have good support. Almost all databases are in the scope."
"Dell PowerProtect DD is a stable solution."
"The deduplication feature is the most valuable part of the solution."
"The most valuable feature is the performance because you can back up data really quickly."
"Stable and scalable suite of solutions with deduplication, apart from data protection, storage, and backup."
"The tool's performance is very good. DD Boost can improve its performance and backup."
"It is secure, reliable, and has officer support."
"9900 has around 1.5 petabits of capacity in a single rack, and that's huge."
"The initial setup was straightforward. Deployment takes about two weeks."
"What I need is deeper CLI documentation for both QCommand and SQL queries."
"Not everyone has agents for everything and Commvault has agents for most products. It's the most complete."
"The only problem is that some of what we snap most of is the VMs. We found about 10% of the VMs that we can't snap because they're too interactive. It actually causes the application to crash."
"They don't market their products well. They don't do a lot of marketing to enable them to move forward."
"It is a little more complicated than it really needs to be."
"The new HTML5-based management portals are very nice, but do not yet have all of the features of the Java-based client."
"The integration of Metallic could improve. It would be a benefit if Metallic could integrate with multiple applications or platforms."
"Commvault could make the product more cost-effective on the public cloud side. We are using this solution to back up whatever is still on-prem. We are not using it to back up what is on the public cloud because we have a native backup solution for that, which is provided by the vendor. As our footprint gets bigger, we will continue to evaluate this, but the last time that we did a cost analysis, the cost was not comparable to the solution that public clouds are offering."
"The firmware upgrades could be simplified. I'm in the process of struggling to upgrade right now."
"When you use Data Domain, you have to have at least 20% free space so it can work properly. Sometimes we struggle with that, because we wanted to use all the free space, but then Data Domain becomes really slow. I understand that 20% is needed to process all the data, and doing the duplication and compression and all that, but it would be a big improvement if they did not require that 20%, because it is just too much to have available."
"The tool's pricing could be cheaper."
"They still have hardware different from the software."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The usage of this solution is a bit difficult to develop processes, and it takes a long time to market permits."
"It could be more secure."
"First-time integrations are difficult in NetWorker. NetWorker software needs to be simplified. It's very complex."
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Commvault Cloud is ranked 3rd in Backup and Recovery with 104 reviews while Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is ranked 1st in Deduplication Software with 63 reviews. Commvault Cloud is rated 8.6, while Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Commvault Cloud writes "Provides excellent visibility and helps reduce costs and time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) writes "Supports business continuity process but needs improvement in pricing". Commvault Cloud is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Azure Backup and Veritas Backup Exec, whereas Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is most compared with HPE StoreOnce, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, ExaGrid EX Series, Veeam Backup & Replication and Dell NetWorker.
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