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Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] Primary Use Case

Salman Ahmed - PeerSpot reviewer
Salman Ahmed
Senior Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We are using it for Exchange backup.

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Muhammad Ibtehaj - PeerSpot reviewer
Muhammad Ibtehaj
Senior Technical Pre-Sales Manager at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

It's not a big use case. It's just to install and back up the users. 

I recently had a project with a client with 500 users, and they wanted the client to back up from a specific folder or a specific file. I just deployed a backup portal, and then I pushed the agent on the client. I discover it, I install it, and I create a dashboard on the backups. Veeam backups from the client to the backup repository, et cetera.

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David Villota - PeerSpot reviewer
David Villota
EMEA Hosting Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

When we need to back up clusters, we use the agent for Windows. 

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Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL]
January 2026
Learn what your peers think about Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL]. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: January 2026.
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reviewer1053252 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1053252
Technical Presales Consultant/ Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The solution is an agent. It can be used to back up almost from Windows Servers 2008 up to Service Pack 1, up until 2019. It integrates with Veeam Backup & Replication, which can enable you to restore to the cloud or back up a cloud workload as well.

It clearly used to do image-based backups. The main reason Veeam came up with the Agent was that they were mainly focusing on virtual environments before and that was a major challenge for their existing customers. Not everyone is going with a fully virtual environment. Virtualization has many advantages, however, the virtual architecture design will remain physical if an organization's architecture is probably architected.

We had the challenge that Veeam has many VMware customers who have a Microsoft kind of infrastructure set up on VMware. They were basically using shared virtual disks and part of the limitation was that VMware was conducting snapshot full backups.

They created the Agent for these two use cases, to back up VMs that VMware cannot conduct a snapshot for, Windows VMs, and to back up physical servers that any customer would like to do so. At the end of the day, the main is that Veeam is paired with VMware.

We get more customers that want to back up and change it themselves. Veeam created this agent as a VMware-based backup of Windows operating systems.

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reviewer1751496 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1751496
Project Manager and Technical Consultant at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

The solution is used for disaster recovery and replication of data centers. 

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PavelTenitskiy
Engener unix team

We primarily use the solution for the backup of Windows on Oracle machines. We use it for the back on other machines as well. 

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Reinhardt Coetzee
Senior Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We've been providing Veeam solutions to clients. We basically distribute MSP licenses to clients.

Veeam Agent for Windows is basically the mini compared to Backup and Replication, which is like the Mercedes of the two. It's for anything that doesn't require a backup of an application or license. For example, for physical server backups or physical workstation backups. You won't really use it for virtual machines. You'll rather install a backup of the application and use it for that. That's about it.

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Bonno Gaobolae - PeerSpot reviewer
Bonno Gaobolae
Technical director at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

This solution is used for backup and recovery of an entire virtual environment. We're using the latest version of the solution.

Fewer than 100 people are using this solution in our organization.

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Kevin Honde - PeerSpot reviewer
Kevin Honde
Data Solution Architect at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is used for backup, restore, and recovery.

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Tommy Myo Min Aung - PeerSpot reviewer
Tommy Myo Min Aung
Senior System Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

My primary use case is for protection and disaster recovery. We have Hyper-V servers in our offices and when we want to back up the host — the whole Hyper-V server, not the VMs — we use Veeam in case of power failure. That way, we don't have to reconfigure the network and everything from scratch. This is deployed on-premises, but our data centers are in different geographic locations, so you could say it's a private cloud. 

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Chee Leong Go
System engineer at a logistics company with 51-200 employees

We use the solution to function as our backup infrastructure.

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Robert-Nilsson - PeerSpot reviewer
Robert-Nilsson
Business Development Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

If you need to back up a Windows environment, then Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is a good choice, because it works. This is our use case for the solution.

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Amgad Soliman
Senior System & Security Administrator at a retailer with 51-200 employees

The solution is primarily a backup and recovery software, offering data protection and disaster recovery solution for physical virtual machines, for the local virtual machines on the physical servers using the Veeam backup solution. 

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Steve Lowrey
Owner / IT operator at a university with 501-1,000 employees

We primarily use the solution for business continuity and backup and recovery.

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Rudolf Kozdon
IT specialist - Monitoring and security at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We bought the Veeam Enterprise license for Linux and Microsoft backup for the virtual machines running on those operating systems. The reason we bought this software is that I have a lot of experience with Veeam software. When I compare Veeam with the storage manager from IBM or data protocol from HP or Exeter or some backups from Dell, Veeam is superior. I could buy these other products but Veeam is best because it is very user-friendly as well as being a very great solution.  

In addition to my personal experience and opinion, when we bought this software, our virtualization software only had a standard license and it did not have a replication function. Veeam Enterprise has the replication of function. We chose this backup software because Veeam has a backup and replication center which is additional functionality that we needed.  

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Roopesh Mohabeer - PeerSpot reviewer
Roopesh Mohabeer
Senior Systems Support Analyst at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

We use Veeam for backing up our entire infrastructure, which is running on a hyper-converged solution. We back up our Windows servers to disk and to tape.

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reviewer1380465 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1380465
IT Manager - Infrastructure at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We use Veeam for backing up our ESX servers. We back up all of our VMs on a daily basis and we replicate them off-site.

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Saad Khoudali
System Administrator at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

The primary use case of this solution is to back up data.

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JoseVellon
IT Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I use Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows for my VMware environments, all my production workloads, and Unix database boxes. It's for production and developers.

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Thomas Roes - PeerSpot reviewer
Thomas Roes
Director at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We have one solution that is purely on-premise and another where we make the initial backup on-premise but send a copy to the cloud provider.

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.

We currently have between two and three users for this solution and one team member responsible for the maintenance and deployment.

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SunilKumar
Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
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Ben Ndunda
IT Support at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

I primarily use Veeam Agent for backing up data and restoration. 

This solution is deployed on-premises. I'm not sure which version we are using, but it should be the latest one. 

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it_user938022 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user938022
Lead Presales at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

We have one customer that has three or four servers and those are Windows servers. We have to use the agent only.

Any laptop or desktop that is Windows can use it, as well as physical servers. We don't use this with virtual servers.

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Enayat Galsulkar
Senior Information Security Consultant at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

The solution is useful for taking backups for end-user laptops and end-user workstations where data is involved. An example would be that of my CEO's laptop, which contains political business. We simply take a backup of it and store it in an external drive. 

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Wira Chinwong
Service Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We primarily use the solution for backup purposes. 

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reviewer1478235 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1478235
Senior Solution Architect at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

We are using it to back up the physical servers of our customers who are working on-prem. It is deployed in the environment of our customers. We are using its latest version.

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Yogesh (Datamotive) - PeerSpot reviewer
Yogesh (Datamotive)
Founder at a tech company with 11-50 employees

We are customers of Veeam Agent and I'm the VP of technology. 

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reviewer1119891 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1119891
System Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

We are resellers for Veeam Agent and more people are buying it for Microsoft Windows. They are buying Veeam Agent for Windows as a solution for allowing and maximizing the performance of Veeam for Windows and they are also buying Veeam as a product. These agents are very popular. We sell Veeam Agent to 50% of the Windows customers looking for a backup and recovery system and we sell other products to the other 50%.  

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ITmgr5686 - PeerSpot reviewer
ITmgr5686
IT Manager at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use this solution for backing up the machines in our company. It is an on-premises deployment.

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InfoTConsult67
IT Consultant at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We primarily use the solution for backups and VR.

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Giancarlo Ballestracci
System Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

This solution is used for our private clients and customers. It is used for data protection in a data center.

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PhadimaMaruma
IT Technician at a government with 11-50 employees

Our primary use for the product is mostly for backup and associated features.

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RetiredITprof67
IT Professional at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We mainly use this program for web applications.

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Lobna Alkomy
Backup & Recovery Section Head at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

I am a senior backup and recovery administrator and I am concentrating on these solutions.

This solution was deployed in a private cloud environment. We have switched to Commvault from this solution due to problems arising from its use with Hyper-V.

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Webdev678 - PeerSpot reviewer
Webdev678
Web developer at a energy/utilities company with self employed

We primarily use the solution for backup and restore purposes.

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reviewer606297 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer606297
CEO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

We are a solution provider and we supply backup solutions to our clients. This solution is used for backing up Windows Servers. We do not use it in-house.

We are using an on-premises deployment model.

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David Dotan Sofer
CTO at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

I use the Veeam backup solution for our VR infrastructure.

We are using the on-premises deployment model.

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reviewer2100903 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer2100903
Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use the solution for disaster recovery of backups and applications.

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reviewer1405962 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1405962
Backup Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We use this solution in Windows and in Linux, to pick up individual files to create a system image on the server.

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Buyer's Guide
Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL]
January 2026
Learn what your peers think about Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL]. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: January 2026.
881,733 professionals have used our research since 2012.