Veeam Data Platform Reviews

We develop our own replication solutions for the IBM i platform. Our product is called Maxava. We have 500 customers using that for disaster recovery, data replication. We use Veeam in-house for our Windows replication.

I am not a direct user of this product, but my technical guys tell me that they like the product, and it is easy to use. We don't have any issues with it.

It would be nice if it could be integrated with third-party solutions like ours. It has been supporting just Windows and virtual machines.

I have been using this solution for about five years.

It is stable. I am not aware of any issues.

It is scalable. We're just using it in-house. We have maybe 20 to 23 users that we support on it.

Our guys have probably talked to support from time to time, but I haven't seen any issues raised about it or anything like that. So, I presume it's all pretty good.

It was pretty easy and straightforward.

Its pricing is really good.

I would recommend this solution. From my point of view, I haven't had any issues with it.

I would rate Veeam Backup & Replication a seven out of ten.

We are using it for taking backup from virtual machines, quick migration from one host to another, and instant file restore from the exchange or file server. The most important use is to do the daily backup and have business continuity at the highest level.

The integration with some storage systems like HP or Nutanix and great support are the most valuable features. You get productivity support. You get a response within one hour, even in the evening or night. The functionality of the whole software is good. 

The whole graphical user interface is very easy, but the details are hidden deeply and aren't easily visible. You cannot easily see the details and explore or choose the settings. We should be able to easily explore various settings and options. If you can see more details while choosing the settings or setting it up, it helps in getting the software running easily. For example, in Microsoft Office, you can see much more in the interface than in Veeam Backup & Replication. 

It is a complex software. It is not easy to use, and you must know what to do and where to do. The user manual has more than a thousand pages. They should give some direct information through the software and improve the software. On their website, they can have some videos and step-by-step information to make us come straight to our goals.

I have been using this solution for six years. 

It is stable, and that's the reason for using this software for about six years.

It is scalable. We have only two users, and they are administrators.

Their technical support is great. You get a response within one hour, even in the evening or night.

I have used Acronis.

The installation was straightforward. It was not so difficult. It was done in hours, but it depends on the depth of your installation, number of machines, and what you consider as the installation.

I did it myself because I am a consultant as well as an integrator.

Its software solution has a fee.

I would recommend this solution. I have a good experience with this. I plan to keep using this product, but I am making comparisons with another solution, which provides better and higher performance when you have some synchronizing job for business continuity.

I would rate Veeam Backup & Replication a nine out of ten.

I handle managed backup services for one of my clients. I implement and manage these solutions.

The company has its own Veeam backup infrastructure to offer this service. It manages billing, etc.

The flexibility is the most valuable feature. It is an all-in-one solution for all kinds of infrastructure (physical, cloud, VM).

Provide more integration for cloud providers such as Google Cloud, Azure and AWS.

It is stable. The solution has great potential in the backup and replication domain.

It is highly scalable, and I consider it to be the most important feature. It works on any kind of infrastructure including physical, Hyper-V, VMware, and cloud-based.

The technical support is quite responsive, and very good. Tickets are within their SLA, and the response time is based on the priority of the ticket that you raise.

I have worked with all of the major products. These include Azure Backup, Microsoft Data Protection Manager (DPM), Commvault, Veritas Backup Exec, and others. The product you choose depends on the type of infrastructure and the type of backups you need to have. This one can be used for all kinds of infrastructure.

The setup is straightforward with a very aesthetic graphical user interface. It can take anywhere from one day to a month to fully deploy, depending on the requirements.

I handled the installation and implementation of this product myself.

The pricing and licensing is quite competitive with other products. I would not says that it is much higher, neither is it low.

I am certified with the Veeam Sales Professional (VMSP) accreditation. This qualifies people to demonstrate and sell the product.

I would rate this solution seven out of ten.

It helps with process restoration. With Veeam, we never had backup or restoration issues. It is always good when performing complete backups. It always restores, when needed.

I would like to see a storage application in the next version of the product. 

The stability depends upon your configuration. 

I don't have a problem with Veeam's scalability.

As long as you have enough storage and CPU, they know how to resolve it.

The price is slightly higher than its competitors.

Veeam is what it is supposed to be.

No time has to be spent on debugging backups. We know everything works just fine and we can focus on our business.

• Backup from storage snapshots. We are using 3PAR full flash arrays. This allows us to have nearly no impact on our production workloads.
• Backup Copy Job integrated to HPE Catalyst to copy our backups to our third Datacenter with the best timeframe
• Replication Job base on a source HPE Catalyst store to perform a full reconstruction of our production systems on our third datacenter, which is our DRP Site.
• SureReplica jobs which allow us to fully test our DRP with really minimum effort and in a timely manner.
• Item-level recovery for Active Directory

We would like to have the ability to perform more things on the web interface. The heavy client is still needed to perform advanced tasks.

There were minor stability issues that were quickly solved by the support team.

We had no scalability issues.

We started with Veeam since the beginning. We are a startup.

It is very straightforward and easy setup. Kind of Next, Next, Next, and finish. You need some time to plan the architecture (sizing and role placement) and then it is easy to deploy.

We did not evaluate other options. We knew what we wanted.

The Availability Suite is a good choice because of Veeam ONE, which gives you visibility on the whole infrastructure stack as well as reporting about how backups are doing.

Just try it with the free trial license key to form your own opinion. Each business has specific needs, so you need to evaluate the product by yourself. Since the setup is very easy for a PoC, you should definitively give it a try. It out performs our expectations.

All of the explorers, bitlooker, scale out backup repository, and backup appliance integration.

Veeam drastically lowered the strain on our hosted environment during backup windows all while decreasing the amount of time the backups require for completion. Upgrades to the backup environment take considerably less time to complete.

The endpoint(agent) backup to be fully included/supported as part of the licensed product.

Update: this functionality should be included sometime between Q4 2016 - Q1 2017

2+ years.

No.

No.

No.

The customer service staff are always willing to provide any information or support that they can.

They have the best backup support in the industry our time to resolution regarding any issue has been resolved in an expedited manner.

Yes, we used EMC Avamar before and switched primarily due to cost however the Veeam/DataDomain offering is more robust.

Update: We are now looking to move off of DataDomain due to restore speeds.

Setup is simple however to achieve best performance and results there are added design considerations.

We implemented the solution in house. We are a Veeam service provider but went to VeeamOn for additional training, not that the software is complicated but there is so much functionality that meeting the engineers provided great insight.

We were seeing ROI within a year.

Go for the availability suite which includes Veeam One. It can be had for an incremental cost and it provides very actionable alerts.

Arcserve, Symantec, Unitrends, and VMware.

The main feature we're currently using is the replication function that allows us to provide high availability in all of our company's retail sites throughout Europe & Asia. Backup is also a good tool, but we mainly use it in our HQ.

First of all, it has provided us with much needed HA for our retail sites. Until Veeam, the servers from stores were backed up, and in case of disaster with the production hypervisor, we would have faced a far too long restore time that would seriously impact the business.

Second, it allowed us to replace the older, slower, and much pricier backup solution in our virtual environment.

It still doesn't feel like a fully mature solution because it's not exactly ready for very large scale and complex environments with more than 1000 VMs.

Personally I've been using it for almost a year-and-a-half, but I'm part of a team that started implementing it in our infrastructure three years ago. Currently, the product is providing availability to almost 80% of our company's Windows & Linux virtual infrastructure and we're looking forward to the day when it will be doing this 100%. I've been using it since v6. Currently, our environment is fully updated to v8 with the latest patches, and we're looking forward to trying out v9 when it's released and confirmed by the community as a stable version.

The only issues we encountered until v8 was the fact that we couldn't automate the patching and upgrading of our environment. Starting with v8, Veeam optimized their silent install procedure, and now we're working on automating the whole process of keeping the product up to date with major releases and patches.

Besides this we've only experienced minor setbacks, such as proxy servers not being able to upgrade or uninstall properly due to the older local installer/uninstaller kits being overwritten in time by constant updates.

Anyone who's used Veeam in large or very large environments knows you can get a lot of errors from it. In time, you learn how to mitigate most of them fast or even optimize the environment to not get some of them at all.

Some design flaws, such as the fact that it automatically deletes replica's if it finds that the VM's disk sizes have been changed, can be pretty frustrating sometimes

But overall, I think "It just works!"

The main issue we're still facing with scalability is the fact that the EM (Enterprise Manager) is not designed to handle a very big number of Backup & Replication servers (some of which having hundreds of jobs). As so, we've been recently forced to deploy an EM in each of our HQ locations so that the Veeam infrastructure in the country is managed by it and not by a single unique EM server like we had until now. Automatic upgrades and patches were also an issues, but, as stated above, we seem to have found a solution thanks to the guys from Veeam.

Opening an incident to them is quite easy and fast, and their initial response times are pretty decent.

Previously, we used IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. Besides costing a lot more, it was also outdated, having very high upgrade costs. Also, it was a lot more complex (especially for the needs of a virtual environment). Besides this, it didn't provide us with the much needed Replication function for VMs. Currently, Tivoli Storage Manager is still being used in some of physical environment but since a year ago, we've slowly started to replace it with another backup product.

It definitely doesn't get more straightforward than Veeam when it comes to setup (and operating it, too). GUI is user-friendly and well designed. Installation process is simple and very fast. The Backup & Replication architecture itself is easy to understand and implement.

The entire implementation was done in-house by the team of which I'm a part.

For what it's capable of providing, I think pricing for this product is pretty decent both in functional and support licensing. Regarding licensing, all I can advise is that you either get the Standard version or the Enterprise Plus for the advanced features. There aren't that many reasons to get the Enterprise version.

For what it's designed to do, providing high availability and backup for virtual environments, it's definitely a jewel. I still think there's room for improvement on things like stability & scalability; it doesn't quite feel like a fully mature product yet that's capable of being implemented on very big and complex enterprise environments. And of course, I don't even want to think about the ripples it will send if they decide to implement support for physical environments in the same product.

Before contacting the support team, remember that the Veeam Community forum is a small treasure chest, spend a little time getting to know it, and it will get you out of the majority of issues or setbacks you encounter.

Virtual Machine replication between sites.

It has provided a higher level of reliability to core company systems and services.

Better reporting of replication job details in order to provide better insights when troubleshooting.

I've used Veeam Availability Suite for eight months.

No issues encountered.

Replication delta sizes have been inconsistent with Windows VMs, but we are working with Veeam Support to resolve the issue.

No issues encountered.

Very good, no particular issues.

Very good, with fast communication, follow ups from the support team and consistent. Still need to see how long it takes to fix our main issue in order to evaluate how timely the support calls are resolved.

No, it is our first implementation of a replication solution.

The initial setup was very straightforward, installation and set-up of VM replication took just two to three hours.

We implemented through a vendor team. They have been very responsive and cooperative, as well as very informed as to how the solution works and the best practices that are to be followed.

This product will provide availability of core services in case of a disaster scenario, which will enable our company to continue operating normally. It also provides another recovery point in our backup & recovery strategy. Estimated ROI on this project is calculated at 40% ±5 in case of such scenario.

The original setup cost included purchasing hardware on which to replicate the VMs, as well as the license and support fees for Veeam. On a day-to-day basis, the only additional overhead needed was an increase of our WAN bandwidth in order to accommodate the replication between sites. Overall, we managed to keep the costs at a very reasonable amount.

We had considered other solutions, Symantec and VMware, but eventually decided to go with Veeam due to their very good reputation on this segment.

I would highly recommend it, since the solution is very simple to implement, monitor and manage.