Veeam Backup & Replication Reviews

Our primary use case of Backup & Replication is for Linux systems. We are partners of Veeam and I am the CDO.

This is a good solution for the virtual environment; it's easy to use with a simple restore feature. 

Unfortunately, the software only runs on Windows and can't take backups of Linux or other operating systems. It would be helpful if it would run on Linux. There are also some issues with support response times. 

I've been using this solution for four years. 

This is a stable product, it works well. 

We haven't yet tried to scale.

The customer service is good although there can be a delay in response times. 

The initial setup is straightforward. 

In comparison with other solutions, licensing costs are fair although still a little high. Veeam is not as expensive as Commvault or other backups.

Micro Focus Data Protector has the advantage of supporting legacy operating systems like HP-UX or IBM X. Veeam doesn't have that. I prefer Veeam in terms of its VMware.

I highly recommend this solution and rate it nine out of 10. 

We primarily use the product for backup and replication purposes. 

The manageability is very easy. It's one console and you can see all of the backups and the replication. The restore processes, the RTO and RPOs, are very low.

The best feature is the CDP - the snapshot integration into sand storage. 

The new feature for ransomware protection has been great.

We have found the solution to be stable.

The scalability is good.

Pricing is fairly reasonable and not overly expensive.

The deployment process can be quite complex. 

I can't speak to any features that are missing. It has everything we need.

If you upgrade too quickly, you may have issues. 

Technical support could be better.

I've been using the solution since 2013.

The solution is very stable. That said, upgrades can give you problems if you upgrade too fast. 

It's very scalable, however, it can be complex to execute.

We have ten people who use it on a daily basis. It's pretty much used 24/7. It's a mission-critical product in our organization.

We do have plans to increase usage in the future.

Sometimes it can be a bit slow to get assistance as we don't have production support. We just have the normal standard support, which makes sense. They can sometimes point fingers. For example, they might try to say "It's EMC or it's NetApp. It's not our product." That can be a bit of a problem.

We used to use Symantec prior to 2013.

The initial setup and deployment were a while back. However, from my experience, I've deployed it three or four times. It's about a day to deploy and it can be complicated. It's not that easy if you don't know what's going on.

We just need one person to maintain the solution. 

We did not use a consultant from the vendor side. Everything was handled by our team. We did it in-house.

We pay a yearly licensing fee.

We've found the pricing to be very reasonable. It's not overly expensive. 

There are different tiers available, including Standard, Enterprise, and Enterprise Plus. We have the standard license. 

We are customers and end-users.

I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten. We've been pretty happy with its capabilities. 

We moved to Veeam to have complete virtualization. It's perfect for us. It virtualized our workflows. Veeam is used to support only virtual machines and does not back up to our physical machines.

The best feature of Veeam is, first and foremost, the support they provide. They are at the top in support. The support is excellent. 

It's got a very good user-friendly interface. It's easy to use.

The training is excellent. of Veeam. I'm from the Middle East. Veeam is very accurate out here and they have very good training facilities over here. On my team, everybody's trained on Veeam.

I'm really happy with Veeam. As of now, we have never had any issues with Veeam. It has performed perfectly.

It's a very mature product.

The only thing which was lacking was the support, some years back, for the cloud connect. It's matured now and has become a very reliable product.

I would like to have is better documentation. Veeam documentation is something that needs to be worked on. The training program is very good, however, they need to have better work documentation.

Also, very few third parties have courses on Veeam. Veeam only provides co-courses. For example, everybody has got courses about Cisco or Microsoft. Veeam is very closed on that factor. If they want to really popularize the software, they need to have more training, and the training should be more widely available via third parties.

The cost is a hindrance towards learning for certifying in Veeam. They need to make it more open and less expensive to open it up for more companies and users.

On individual user backups, there are certain people who have got individual PCs and they have data on them. Veeam is not up to that mark. There is other software we use which is much better than Veeam when it comes to individual data protection. I would like to have them come up with more robust features when it comes to individual endpoint protection.

I've been working with data protection for 15 to 20 years. I recently moved to Veeam. We've used it now for seven or eight years. 

As of now, it has never given us any issue, in my personal experience. Veeam is a very robust product. There has never been any problem and there have not been any downtimes, so we have absolutely nothing to complain about. It's a good product.

We are a hundred-person virtualized shop. We have close to 250 users. We have continuous data protection.

Veeam has been extensively used in our company as all our servers are getting backed up. We have some six to seven ESXi hosts. Between all our servers, we have some 30 to 35 VMs. Veeam is a very integral part of our data strategy out here.

They have different tiers - from a free tier to an enterprise tier. With the new updates, it's very scalable. 

Technical support has always been great. They're the best in the business and are very helpful and supportive.

We don't directly deal with Veeam. We have an MSP who supports us on our network. However, we have never had any issues with Veeam. If there are any issues, it's sorted out immediately.

I started with Symantec and have recently moved to Veeam. I'm also familiar with Commvault.

When you're really looking at enterprise, I personally would go for Commvault. That's a product that is built for the enterprise. Veeamis aimed t smaller businesses. 

The initial setup is very simple. It's just a user-driven thing. It's very, very simple.

It's not as complicated as Commvault. Commvault is a little complicated. However, with Veeam, when it comes to user-friendliness, it's a brilliant product.

Maintenance is easy. It's not a problem at all. It's handled by a third-party provider that is a partner of Veeam.

We currently have ten to 15 different licenses. I can't speak to the exact details as it's mostly handled by the IT operations team.

Beyond the licensing, the only cost which we have incurred, which was a little too much, was the training. In our company, people need to be certified as we basically go for internal competence and upscaling our people, as a team. However, Veeam certifications are costly. That is one thing that was a little bit of a pain point for us.

We are just a customer of Veeam.

I recommend Veeam very highly. It's a very mature product.

If you have a virtualized environment, which 99% of the people have virtualized environments now, it's perfect. Veeam is something which is built for virtualization.

I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten.

We use Veeam Backup Replication for our VMware 6.5 and vSphere VMware 6.5 solutions.

The most valuable features are the backup and restoration of our VMs. Additionally, they add features regularly.

I have been using Veeam Backup Replication for approximately 

The pricing of the solution could be reduced.

I sometimes attend Veeam's annual meetings when they have them. Because of COVID, I didn't attend one or two of them, but Veeam seems to be very proactive in adding features.

I rate Veeam Backup Replication a nine out of ten.

The most important feature for me is the security - you can trust that Veeam is working without having to test or check it.

An area for improvement would be the product's high use of resources and memory.

I like Veeam a lot because it solves problems, is stable, and runs very well.

The initial setup is not always easy, and customers often need a lot of help to get Veeam up and running successfully.

Our customers use Veeam for its good price, quality, and performance. I would give this product a score of eight out of ten.

My primary use case is as a backup for VMware Hypervisor and SAP HANA.

Veeam communicates with the vCenter in VMware, which means it's very smooth and doesn't interrupt production on VMware and you can backup or restore anytime, anywhere.

The most valuable feature is the virtualization backup - Veeam is the best for this.

The deduplication feature could be improved by changing to global deduplication. I am also concerned about the master server landing on Microsoft Windows only, which means that if there is a ransom attack on the Veeam server, all the backup features will go down, and the data will be lost.

I've been using this solution for over seven years.

This solution is very stable, including its support for Hyper-V and Nutanix.

This solution is scalable - you can backup to several locations without additional cost.

I previously used IBM TSM, but the IT environment in Thailand changed from Linux to Intel, which TSM did not support, so I switched to Veeam.

The initial setup is very easy, it takes about one to two hours and requires only one person.

The license can be expensive if you have a lot of VMs, as that's what the cost is calculated from, but it's also flexible in terms of what kind of backup you can use.

Veeam is really easy to deploy and easy to use. I would rate this solution nine out of ten.