"I think the interface is straightforward"
"Veeam is highly scalable. In one scenario, we started with 2,000 users and scaled up to 24,000."
"In terms of most valuable features, we are mostly using the Cloud Connect feature. It is flexible because you can use it on-prem and on cloud."
"I have found one of the most valuable features to be the integrity of the backups."
"I consider the solution's technical support to be excellent, perfect."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"Its ease of use for restore is really good. For Exchange, the Exchange Active Directory is great."
"I like all the backup features in Veeam."
"The pricing is very, very good."
"The stability continues to get better and better. It's pretty reliable."
"We enjoy the ease of management since all of the resources are located on one box — one single point of support."
"There are so many features, but if I have to choose, I would go for scale-out upgrades and performance. Scale-out upgrades are very valuable. Typically, when customers engage in virtualization, they're committing themselves to run many virtual machines on a fewer number of hosts. They'll have five or six hosts, and they will run all their virtualization on vSphere. They could be having anywhere from 50 to 100 or even more virtual machines. Once all these go into production, getting downtime or getting planned maintenance windows is extremely difficult. It is something that typically businesses will frown upon. With VxRail, you can just go ahead and add a node without disrupting the existing environment, which works very well. That's why scale-out upgrades are a key feature. Its performance is also valuable. It delivers a very high number of IOPS for a hybrid configuration or an all-flash configuration. The processors that are available in the Xeon family are very powerful. They are multi-core with typically 2 gigahertz, 2.4 gigahertz, or higher frequency, so the performance is very much appreciated."
"VxRail is a simple, efficient solution. It's easy to upgrade and scale the solution. If we increase our user base, we can easily scale it out. We have several thousand using it now."
"VxRail's feature that we found most valuable was its really good performance. That was one of VxRail's advantages."
"The support has been excellent, especially if you compare it to IBM."
"Enterprise is a complete solution that includes performance, backups and disaster recovery."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"The pricing could be improved."
"The implementation of the features can be improved. Currently, there is no segregation of duty. Normally, any backup software or client service software is implemented in a way where one person is responsible for the implementation of the server, and one is responsible for the client, but Veeam Backup & Replication is not implemented in that way. Therefore, restores don't work like that. The backup guys have to do the restores, which is not a good thing. Its pricing should also be improved. It is quite expensive."
"Even though the speed has improved over the years, I think that there are some instances where it still takes a while."
"The solution could improve by having more user-friendly dashboards."
"There are certain solutions, such as Rubrik and Cohesity, that are little by little, taking market share. Veeam needs to be more aggressive to keep their dominance in the space."
"I would like to see the licensing model improved. They have recently changed the model and have made it more complicated."
"There should be better use of the external hard drives."
"When using hybrid nodes, such as VxRail, there should not be compression and deduplication, only in All-Flash nodes."
"We do not use the storage part of VxRail, we use Pure Storage to map out the VxRail because the disk performance from Pure Storage was far better than the performance of the disk on the inside of VxRail."
"All updates are supposed to be done through VxRail, however, the vCenter actually showed that there was an update it needed. I've just started using the product. I didn't know what I was doing. I actually updated my vCenter and that actually threw the VxRail system offline. We had to spend some time trying to get that working again. If possible, they should make the process a bit more clear so we don't make mistakes like this in the future. There should maybe be some sort of pop-up that can direct you."
"We'd like to see more automation capabilities in the future."
"Deployment was not initially straightforward for us. We had an incompatibility issue that was very difficult for Dell Professional Service to solve."
"The version upgrade process should be simplified."
"I would like to see VxRail add duplication features to its hybrid solution."
"I would love to see license migration from one host to another."
Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery Software with 141 reviews while VxRail is ranked 3rd in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 66 reviews. Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.4, while VxRail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Dynamic and reliable backup solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VxRail writes "Good automation makes this solution practical". Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Rubrik, Nakivo, Commvault, Cohesity DataProtect and Acronis Backup, whereas VxRail is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Nutanix Acropolis AOS, Dell EMC PowerFlex and Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes.
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