Veeam Backup & Replication Reviews

It has very strong and useful features for a virtualized environment such as those based on VMware or Microsoft Hyper-V. The backup software management is user friendly.

Backing up a virtual environment is quicker than our previous solution.

I am expecting better support for physical tape copy. Support for backing up physical servers from the open area such as Windows and Linux servers with bare-metal restore functionality needs improvement. Support for the NDMP protocol for the several NAS devices.

I've been using it for years.

I had some issues at the start of the project with the performance. The problem was solved after analyzing and setting changes. I have not solved an issue with MS SQL Always-on servers with transaction lag backup. The case has so far been opened for half-year.

There have been no performance issues.

It's been able to scale for our needs.

They are very useful.

I am currently also using using HPE Data Protector and Unitrends UEB.

It was very simple, but after deploying the software it needed improvements in the settings to reach the goal.

We did it in-house.

Look at the price for the support. It is very high. Close the deal with -5 years support from the beginning.

There are so many valuable features but my favourites would have to be Instant Recovery especially when you have very demanding RTO's imposed on you. Virtual lab is also a brilliant feature for spinning up a DR/Test environment for your replicas.

It's afforded our organisation peace of mind knowing that we have reliable, fast and a cost effective backup solution for our virtual environment which also allows us to provide our developers with both test and pre-prod environments in hours rather than days.

I am currently running secondary backup jobs (B2Bcopy) for our business critical virtual machines which are located at an offsite repository in addition to replication jobs which are located at our disaster recovery site without any issues.

I have used this product for 5 years or so and will not use any other solution for my virtual environment.

Deploying Veeam was easy and I made sure to take a few minutes to design my solution prior to installing it.

I did not have any issues with stability post installation. I did initially encounter a few errors with my replication testing but these were down to my misconfiguration.

Very good.

I've not had any issues with technical support who are very competent and generally resolve most issues whilst you are on the phone.

I previously used vRanger Pro when it first came out but I found it frustrating.

I had no issues with the initial setup.

I implemented the solution.

I'd say plan your implementation carefully and work out how many proxy servers you require for your virtual estate and take note of resource requirements.

I would rate Veeam a 5 against the competition but it's no contest in my opinion because the rest of the field is playing catchup.

Instant recovery of an entire VM, as there are times when I need to do it.

We no longer use tapes. The restoration of files, email and entire servers have been reduced to mere minutes instead of hours or days, which it was at times.

Support for physical servers. Although we are continuing to virtualize all of our servers; there are, at this time, a few physical servers in our organization. They must be backed up as well. Currently, we have to use another vendor to backup these servers.

I’ve been using Veeam Backup and Replication for about two years now.

No issues encountered.

None so far and I don’t expect to have any issues with stability in the future.

For our organization, it has scaled exceptionally well.

They have taken care of our needs, and been there each step of the way for us, so I would rate it as exceptional.

We have not had to place many calls with technical support. You could say this fact says a lot about the stability and ease of deployment. There have been a few times we have called and each time our issue was resolved in a very reasonable time frame. The engineers are very knowledgeable, not only of their product, but also of the platform & hypervisor that we use in our datacenter.

Yes we did. Agents and licensing were getting too cumbersome and performance was not where we felt it should be.

It was straightforward,

We did it in-house.

Lets just say that Veeam B&R met or exceeded what the competition provided.

Do your homework. Run a demo of the software. And for any backup solutions remember the three “P’s”. Plan, Plan and Plan

Two features are unmatched compared to other products: SureBackup and the possibility of Replication (and Virtual LAB). These are a “must”.

The tool SureBackup allows me to check, once a month in my case, the situation of my backups: I always have the truth about my backups. Regarding the tool Replication, we use it for customers who do not have large financial resources, while allowing us to have the opportunity to restore their ambient edi production in the shortest time possible.

There is always scope for improvement (in fact with the v8 version there will be improvements in fact!), But already it is great!

For 1 year.

The deployment of this product is the most simple there is. Following step by step instructions in 10 minutes is all set.

No problem of stability. At most problems can occur with very large volumes of data (for example, VM that occupy more than 7TB data ... but in this case, do not know how many other products fail to complete this operation).

It depends on the type of license you use.

Currently, we contacted the Customer Service who promptly provided us answers KB related. Little else (and I would say that is a good thing.)

Before using VEEAM, we were using Symantec Backup Exec. Unfortunately, it gave us many problems. Especially for some customers: it signaled the completion of backups, while in fact created only empty files.

As mentioned in a previous question, is extremely simple and direct.

All the infrastructure of our customers have been fully designed and implemented by us.

Given the simplicity of installation and implementation, its initial cost is very low. Of course, having the ability to automate the verification of backups, having the ability to perform a restore also from the Help Desk group and, finally, having very few problems with backup, keeps management costs remaining low.

We also evaluated the product of StorageCraft but, I would say, is too young.

It is a product with significant potential that can be positioned transversely on many case. The same reply can be made from the same VMware but we will not have a platform to test to see if it works (in VEEAM called Virtual LAb). To get a better solution, you switch to the Site Recovery Manager, but the costs are very high and certainly is a solution for much larger companies. The product is very reliable, easy to manage, and, above all, complete.

Replication, Sure Backup and Instant Recovery; very easy to use.

Real and fast restore and if needed a VM Instant Restore(1/2m).

Speed and more management.

I have used and given support of this product for my clients for around 4/5 years.

No.

Some Speed and data, that we fix along the way.

No.

1 to 10, I give an 8.

1 to 10, I give an 8.

Yes, HP and Symantec. Veeam is a product more specific for Virtual Environments.

Straightforward.

The setup and implementation was done by ourselves.

20k € initial cost.

Yes, HP and Symantec.

Flawless virtual machine backup.

Ability to have disaster recovery site capabilities integrated into our backup solution as well as a backup product that scales along with our needs.

None that I can think of.

5 years. We just upgraded to version 8.

Only one minor Microsoft related configuration issue that easily resolved.

No issues with stability.

No issues with scalability.

Very good. Every support call as been handled quickly and completely.

Just as good.

Symantec Backup Exec. Was not an effective solution for virtual machine backups.

Very simple. More or less just click continue when prompted and then some fairly simple steps to setup the initial backup jobs.

In-house.

The ability to instantly recover a virtual machine as compared to several hours with previous methods.

I don't have the initial cost, but ongoing maintenance is very affordable.

Wasn't anything on the market at the time that really could compare to this.

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Reliability and simplicity.

1. Faster and more reliable backup.
2. SAN Snapshot reduce backup window.
3. Integration of Exchange and SQL granular restore reduce our RTO.

1. Integration with Storage Array.
2. Incremental restore.
3. Improve the support of physical servers and bare metal recovery.

4 years.

No issues with deployment.

No issues with stability.

5/5. Good Pre-sales and sales team. Always available (and fast) when needed.

Yes. We Switched to Veeam because of the complexity and poor reliability of the older solution.

In-house because we are Veeam vendor partner.

Veeam is cheaper than our older solution and more reliable. We spend less time to check and/or relaunch daily backup in error.

If you’re > 80% virtualized environment (Hyper-V or VMware) and no need of complex tape rotation, this is a good product.

Be careful of having installed integration services or VMware tools.

Instant recovery of a VM, ease of use for item level recovery, ability to also send disk to disk jobs to tape for meeting retention policies.

We have been able to instantly recover VMs from catastrophic failures to point in time and recover files easily without the long wait of searching and restoring from tape.

The ability to back up physical servers from within the same Product and not as a separate module. This would keep Veeam in the front of other competing products that offer both physical and virtual backup solutions.

5 years.

No deployment issues.

No stability issues.

No scalability issues.

Support has been phenomenal when I have needed it and I have always been able to resolve my issue and gain a better understanding of how the product works.

The level of support I have received has been top notch, problems have been escalated as needed and without prodding for the need of additional assistance and the engineers I have worked have been both friendly and easy to comprehend when discussing both the issues and the solutions.

In the past we were using a traditional physical backup solution -Symantec Backup Exec which made restores quite difficult in the event of a complete VM restore. We needed a solution that was more in line with the virtual realm and we discovered Veeam when attending VMworld and we were quick to setup a lab to test the product and were completely satisfied with what we'd found.

It was very straight forward and easy to learn.

We did the install and setup in house with minimal support and once we licensed the product we made calls to support only when trying to understand the best practices for configuration and how to achieve the results we expected.

This product has more than made up for the initial costs of licensing, hardware and support. In more than one occasion we have been faced with what would normally be hours of downtime in the days of tape restores to being backup in minutes.

At the time we had been looking at various solutions that were coming up for backup and restore of virtual environments; WMware's own Backup solution is the first to come to mind. We strongly considered this but were debating pricing and it was at this time we discovered Veeam and it seemed to be the answer both technically and financially.