Veeam Data Platform Reviews

The functionality available with Veeam enterprise licenses, allow a VMware vSphere snapshot to be integrated and transferred to HP 3PAR storage snapshots; this effectively off-loads all backup traffic to the storage network. The Original VMware snapshot is then released (this process takes less then a minute), and Veeam continues the backup operation directly form the 3PAR storage. This operation ensures minimal impact on the VM, VM network and Host hypervisor, while ensuring backups are performed at storage network speeds (8Gb fibre).

Reverse incremental backups with block level changes - Following the initial seed backup, only block level changes are captured in the following daily backups. This ensures backup times are kept to a minimum and reduces the amount of data that is replicated to additional disk off-site.

50x WAN optimisation - With the enterprise licence option you get WAN optimisation. this reduces the amount of bandwidth required to replicate VMs or backup copies off-site. I use this to transfer all VM backups to a co-location storage device at a dedicated DR site.

Instant recovery - this allows a Veeam protected VM to be instantly booted direct from the backup image. Veeam creates an NFS Datastore and presents this to the selected Esxi host. This can be used to test backups are being taken correctly, to recover a live VM or as a low cost DR solution. Once a VM is booted, this can be migrated live using vMotion back to production storage.

By using Veeam, backups times for the entire virtual environment have been reduced, and backup windows now have no impact on production VMs.

Instant recovery has revolutionised client DR plans, reducing recovery time objectives (RTO) and improving available recovery point objectives (RPO).

Also as Veeam "just works" less time is spent troubleshooting backup technologies and failed backups.

The amount of disk space required for the long term storage of backups (archiving Weekly / Monthly / yearly backups) can be higher then expected if you have a large daily change rate in your VM. This needs to be planned for when considereing long term arciving of backup files.

I have been working with Veeam for 18 months since the initial pilot.

If using off-site replication with WAN optimization, the initial Seed backups of VMs need to be taken locally and then transferred to off-site. Attempting to transfer these over the WAN can cause bandwidth saturation.

No issues.

No issues, additional physical or backup servers can be added using existing hardware or VMs to distribute the backup load as the envirnmnet grows.

Very good support from account manager and on-line portal.

Very good support, however as Veeam is simple to deploy only limited technical support was required during deployment.

Backups of VMs were previously taken using i365 data vault this added additional load to ESXi hosts and VMs during backup windows, switching to Veeam removed this load and enhanced recovery options for all VMs; i365 also provides block level incremental forever backups and replicates to our DR site, we continue to use this for the remaining physical machines.

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.

• Capacity to start a VM directly from the backup repository (Instant VM Recovery)
• The explorer for restoring items (Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, MS-SQL and Oracle (soon)).

I am a specialist in Veeam, and my clients optimized their recovery procedure, and it now requires less time to restore services. They love how easy it is to operate.

• Tape support - more options for retention
• Backup for physical servers (Microsoft at least)

I've used it for two and a half years.

No, but is important to read all the requirements for the explorer to avoid problems before finishing the implementation.

No, in fact the stability is great. No halts are present, even when it has low memory.

No issues have been encountered so far.

In Latin America (my area) it could be better.

Great service. I only use the web support and it is accurate.

We previously used HP Data Protector. It was very complex to work with, and susceptible to fails, so we switched.

It is very easy to configure, and start up.

We are a vendor.

It offers a good cost-benefits balance.

We are partners of HP and Symantec, but we prefer to offer Veeam to our virtual environment customers.

Watch the demos online, watch the YouTube channel, and use the trial version to learn about the product. It is the way to get to know the product.

Able to backup virtual servers and setup and DR for critical applications.

File recovery could be better.

Two years.

No issues with deployment.

No problems with stability.

No issues with scalability.

I would rate the customer service as a 4/5.

I would rate technical support a 5/5.

Yes, Veeam was easier to setup and use.

Easy to setup without any complexities. Finding the area to insert your license was a bit challenging.

In-house.

Between $500-1000.

No.

Very good product for a mid-range company. Backup and recovery is made easy. DR snapshots are great and easy to restore when needed.

The backup and instant recovery features are the most valuable to me.

It has given me and my customers ease of mind in regards to virtual backup, furthermore it has given us the opportunity to actually test the backup so that we know we can rely on it. With instant recovery you can recover an entire server in minutes. This means you can test if your server can start from backup, in case of a breakdown.

For about 2 years.

None ever. Only in regards to incorrect licensing, but this has been because of mistakes in regards to number of processors or wrong VMWare license.

Minor issues with the snapshop functions of VMWare leading to failed backups of some virtual servers, but this is easily mended. In general, a lot less than with other backup vendors.

The customer service is very good, most of the time they contact you before you even knew you needed to contact them. They are very aware of their product and they service you in a timely and professional way.

I have yet to find a problem that cannot be solved using the community or just googling, so i rate them as high as the scale goes.

Used symantec backup exec, Nordic Backup, IBM TSM, and switched because of the transition to virtual servers.

Everything is pretty straightforward and easy to install, even in an environment that you aren't that familiar with.

Vendor team, and their level is adequate.

I'd say the mere fact that you can test your backups without using numerous hours of own / or consultants time is enough to say there is instant ROI on Veeam B&R. Also the total backup time will probably be way less, like 25-25% faster than the one people are switching away from.

go for it :) you wont regret it.

The solution helps us understand the infrastructure more and gives insights to develop further business plans.

The solution's reporting feature could be better. They should provide more insightful reports.

The solution's customer service is good.

Positive

I rate the solution as an eight. It is good but not an essential product.

Our use case is for doing backup for virtual machines, only for VMware virtual machines.

The most valuable features are the backup, replication application, and the virtual lab.

There are some PowerShell scripts for Veeam, but the product could be improved if they wrote more PowerShell scripts for controlling Veeam.

I've been using the solution for five years.

The solution is very stable, compared to other products. It's very stable and reliable.

Veeam is very scalable; it's suitable for all sizes of companies.

The technical support is excellent. It's one of the best I've met so far.

The initial setup was very simple. Deployment takes one day.

I did the setup myself. We are a system integrator company and we do implementation of Veeam for customers. We have a great experience with Veeam, so it was not a problem for us.

Licensing is very straightforward. Pricing is not the cheapest, but you get a lot of value for your money.

The main difference when comparing this solution to competitors is that Veeam is a company which has a single product, Veeam Backup Replication. Other companies have many products and Veeam can focus on a single product; this is their main advantage. They are pioneers in their domain. They are the leaders.

If you buy Veeam, you have to buy maintenance; if you don't buy maintenance, you cannot do updates, but it's recommended to have maintenance.

If you want to have a small and cheap system, that is not Veeam; but if you want performance, reliability, support, then this solution is best for that.

If you are looking into implementing Veeam Backup, you have to first do anassessment, then make a good plan, and do a pilot to check all the features and to compare the features with your expectations.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

We use the solution for its basic features, such as storage, backup and restoration. 

While I have not made use of the disaster recovery option myself, I know it to be pretty good. 

We encountered a ransomware virus issue, after which we made the environment so that the Veeam server is not in a domain, but a local one, and this helped us resolve the issue. As such, Veeam should state that it's best to have the Veeam server in a non-domain environment, for the preventing of any ransomware issues, with local authentication instead.  

When in a domain, the virus can easily attack the Veeam server, something which happened to us. Even our own antivirus solution - whose name I wish to withhold - failed to detect this. Ultimately, we had to go for the Microsoft scanner, which actually helped us to rid ourselves of the virus. 

While Veeam does provide the latest patches, it states that it is even fine to have a non-domain environment. It should have that frontline statement that the Veeam server should not be part of a domain for best anti-ransomware practices. 

I have been using Veeam Backup & Replication for probably around two years.

While Veeam does provide the latest patches, it states that it is even fine to have a non-domain environment. It should have that frontline statement that the Veeam server should not be part of a domain for best anti-ransomware practices.

I did not have personal dealings with tech support. One of the IT managers did. 

The good thing about Veeam is that its initial setup and usage are straightforward. 

The solution is simple and easy and there is no need to be an IT architect to deploy it. This can even be handled by an engineer.

The maintenance of the solution for pulling updates is not a big deal. It's manual. It only involves the operation of Veeam agents to the latest version. 

I feel the solution's features to be comprehensive, although I did not make use of all of them. 

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