Veeam Data Platform Reviews

Instant recovery of VMs, reliability of backup process are valuable as this is used as a failover migration tool.

We had a vendor screw up a financial accounting program at tax season, a critical time for one of our customers. We were able to roll the VM back in under five minutes, and users were back on the software in under 10 minutes from restore.

The software really needs to expand into physical machines backups. Endpoint Protection is a good start, but physical backups are the missing component to crush the competition.

I've been using it for three years.

We have had no issues with the deployment so far as multi-site WAN acceleration works out of the box, and so far we've been very happy with our experience

There have been no performance issues.

Scalability is all about bandwidth, so the only issue we had was trying to guess how much bandwidth we would need.

It can take a while to get a recovery engineer on the phone, but once you get one the support is excellent. Follow up on issues has been exemplary.

It is simple to setup and the documentation covers just about everything you need to know.

This was all setup in house.

The pricing is reasonable, but tracking and purchase levels are unnecessarily complicated.

I have used and evaluated many backup and recovery solutions. Veeam came out on top for ease of use, reliability of job execution, backup validation, and speed of recovery in virtual environments.

By far it is the best virtualization protection product, but lacking in the physical protection space. It does physical backups, but it fells like an after thought.

• Support for VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols) that allows direct backup from snapshots of storage systems that support VVols and VMware Virtual SAN 2.0
• Granular recovery of objects from MS SQL, Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange
• Backup and replication of Fault Tolerant (FT) VMs
• Cross-vCenter vMotion awareness
• Hot-Add transport mode of SATA virtual disks
• Support for Veeam Cloud Connect that allows customers to backup their offsite backups into the cloud 

This product has really reduced our recovery time objective considerably because we are able to restore entire virtual machines in under 15 minutes whenever that has come up. 

Not just that, though, as we are also able to restore individual objects requested by customers, e.g. deleted messages from an Exchange server. The Veeam product has reduced the time it takes to configure and monitor backups.

Although this product is technically designed for virtual environments, it would be very useful if the same concepts or technology is applied to backup physical servers. 

That is what I would love to see Veeam implement or add as a feature to a future product. 

Veeam is a good product that is easy to deploy and manage and it just really works.

• Ease of use
• Reporting
• Great integration with vCenter
• Dedupe abilities
• No tape

It helps us to restore and backup our data, along with ease of use.

Archive to tape could be better, but the new version might do this, and generally it’s a great product. The landing disk cliff shares could be improved. I don’t believe that it supports it at this time. If you use the edit job function you can’t sort by VM product.

We have been using the solution for about two years.

No issues encountered.

It seems to be quite stable, no issues there.

No issues with scalability, and it seems to scale reasonably well.

We haven't had to use it yet.

We haven't had to use it yet.

We used various backup solutions including NetBackup.

It was easy.

We did it in-house.

I don't know, but we do like it.

Software can always be cheaper, but it's not prohibitively expensive. Veeam seems reasonable for what you get.

We looked at a bunch of stuff, we thought it had the best integration with VMware. Lots of people liked it, and we rely heavily on peer reviews, as well as talking to colleagues and other people we know.

I would advise you to buy it.

The ease of use is valuable.

I've been an end user and deployer of this software as a consultant. It's easy to implement, and easy to spot any issues and resolve them. It slots in great with other virtualization products.

Not sure, but maybe the weakest area is around integration with tape libraries at times.

I've used it for over six years.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

They have some of the best vendor support around. You can get through to an actual engineer who can help you rather than them saying "can you log it with us, send us some logs" and "we need to escalate it" like many do.

We previously used BackUp Exec.

It was straightforward.

We implemented it in-house.

Time is no longer wasted looking at continual backup failures.

Speak to your preferred VAR, and wait until the ends of quarters for some great deals.

• BackupExec
• ArcServe

Read the online documentation as it's easy to follow, watch the videos of the features, and, yes, it's really that easy to use.

Ease of use

Very reliable and fast data recovery

I feel the price is a bit high

5+ years

No issues with deployment of Veeam Backup & Replication.

No issues with stability of Veeam Backup & Replication.

No issues with scalability of Veeam & Replication.

Acceptable

Acceptable

vRanger

Straightforward, clear instructions

In-house

Don't recall, I believe annual support is $2500

Do it! Great, stable, full featured product.

We use Veeam Backup Replication for many purposes, such as emails incidents with our users, full email retrieval, or registration. Additionally, I have restored virtual machines, entire working servers, SQL servers. 

The most valuable feature of Veeam Backup Replication is application awareness. Additionally, the solution is user-friendly and it has been working very well.

I have been using Veeam Backup & Replication for approximately six years.

The solution is stable.

I have found Veeam Backup Replication scalable.

We have approximately 300 users using the solution.

We previously used Symantec Backup Exec. As we moved forward from the physical environment to the virtual environment, we changed products to Veeam Backup Replication. We found that Veeam Backup Replication was the most usable, and fit our companies use case scenario best.

The implementation was straightforward. However, we used an integrator, the process could be easier for us to do it ourselves.

We had a system integrator that implemented the whole solution for us.

The solution does not need a lot of maintenance, the upgraders do not interfere with our systems very much.

We are satisfied with Veeam Backup Replication. It is a safeguard for our daily work and our environment. It has given us a substantial return on investment.

We are on an annual license for Veeam Backup Replication. We could expand or upgrade the license for the Office365 features. Next year we might go to a three-year plan for support on license.

In the next year, we will move to Office365 and could use the cloud features. We will upgrade our license and check the new features of Veeam Backup Replication.

I rate Veeam Backup Replication a nine 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.

We use Veeam in our company for demo purposes to present to our clients and our customers. We have some keys in production implementation in the production environment, in our clients' infrastructure.

The solution is a very convenient instant crypto machine. It's great for virtual machine recovery, mass storage, data immigration, restoring backups of physical service to mutual environments, et cetera.

Some features of Veeam will work in cloud environments, such as Azure. 

The solution is extremely user-friendly.

Overall, the product has proven to be quite stable.

The solution has extensive documentation.

The initial setup is pretty straightforward.

I just started working with version 11 in January and I am still looking at the changes. I haven't come across areas of the solution that are lacking just yet. I still need to explore it more.

Although the solution offers documentation, it has it only in English, which doesn't help us much in Belarus. It would be much more helpful if they provided their documentation in multiple languages.

The backup jobs and the scheduled tuning are not as convenient as compared to a solution such as Data Protector. They should work on these aspects to make them more convenient.

Veeam can not do some backup jobs. yOu can only arrange it on a daily basis and no more than that. You can't, for example, do a backup twice in one day, even if you need to.  

I've been working with the solution for a while. I just started using the latest version in January.

The stability of the solution is good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's excellent.

The solution is scalable. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so.

We've never had to open a ticket for Veeam. I've never dealt with technical support directly. I can't speak to how knowledgable or responsive they are.

Up until two years ago, I worked with Micro Focus Data Protector, version 9.5. It's more for enterprises and has more capabilities for working with tape libraries, replication between the sites, data trends, or working with virtual tape libraries, and so on. It is more expensive, however, in comparison to Veeam.

The initial setup is not overly complex. It's rather straightforward. Specifically, when it comes to small environments, deployment is very easy. You don't have to be overly skilled to do an implementation.

I don't know the exact pricing of the software. I can't speak to its direct costs.

I haven't properly evaluated Commvault, however, I've attended webinars on the solution and have a bit of familiarity with it.

I'm an integrator. Our organization is a Gold Partner with Veeam.

Overall, I would rate the solution at an eight out of ten. It's pretty good.