Veeam Data Platform Reviews

Application Aware simplifies the backup of applications that are deployed as virtual machines. Treating VMs as VMs. Virtual lab is also another useful feature for verifying backups with SureBackup and also allowing us to deploy test environments for test/dev.

It simplifies the backup process by allowing applications that are virtualized to be treated as virtual machines. Veeam's virtual labs actually takes into account all the required dependencies of testing application servers with ease. Not all solutions have this feature.

There should be additional support for guest base backups.

I have been using this solution for more than 5+ years. I have also looked at and did competitive analysis among all the data protection solutions that are out there. Veeam is very simple and intuitive.

Nope. The solution is very simple and intuitive.

There was no stability issues with Veeam that I had encountered.

I have not encountered any issues with scalability with Veeam.

The level of customer service has actually improved over the years. Rather than a level 1 support who has no idea how to troubleshoot. It seems that the level of support is more knowledgeable these days.

I would rate it as a 4 (with 5 being the highest).

Very straightforward and intuitive for someone who has been in the data protection industry for many years.

In-house because it is very simple and intuitive.

Yes, CA ArcServe, TSM.

Try it out and you'll be very surprised at how easy Veeam is for virtualized environments.

The instant recovery and quick boot of the replicas. Ability to boot replicas from a de-duplication storage device (degraded performance).

During a "zero day" virus outbreak that caused several critical systems to fail, the ability to boot and run a "replica" that hadn't been infected yet kept the business running and productive.

Performance of the replica when booting during an emergency. Only a few critical systems can be booted this way due to the loads on secondary storage appliances. This isn't really a problem, more of a limitation of the hardware devices we used for implementation.

I used this product for Virtual Machine replication to a D/R site and also as a secondary backup and recovery over two years.

Deployment went smoothly and without and major sticking points or issues.

Occasionally, we would experience slowness on our network that would cause Veeam to get "out-of-sync" with the replicas. This was easily corrected, but seemed to be overly sensitive to bandwidth and connection speed.

No issues.

Excellent. Very responsive, patient and professional when needed.

Excellent.

No, this was a new build-out where no previous solution had existed.

Very straightforward and intuitive.

We collaborated with a vendor but did 70% of the implementation with internal personal.

Excellent. The savings to lost work time during the virus outbreak alone saved the company work loss time for 150+ employees for two days.

Initial setup was under $3,000.00 including consultants and employee time. Day to day costs are very minimal with simply adding a new VM to one of the replication folders after deployment.

Yes. Backup Exec and Zerto were considered, but Veeam was chosen for better recoveries and easier administration.

Do your research and comparison studies that are specific for your business. Not all products are best for every business, no matter how good they are. Veeam is an excellent option and was ultimately the best choice for our environment.

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.

Surebackup, reverse incremental, parallel processing for VM and the hdd and many more.

Very smooth backup and restore when required.

As every application has a scope of improvement so the Veeam, there are many areas they can improve on: the CBT errors, in hot add many times it is found that the Veeam proxy do not release the HDD even after the backup, offsite repository is not very stable.

3 years.

Not Much, environment specific.

Not much, it is quite stable.

No.

Good.

Good.

No.

Straightforward but have some complicity in configuring offsite backup.

Vendor Team, team was domain expert.

ROI for backup point of view comes only when you are in a condition that only backup can help, I have been in such conditions many times in which Veeam has proved to be a EXCELLENT ROI for my company.

Yes, Avamar.

Excellent product for medium size datacenter, not sure about the large datacenters.

• File level recovery
• Point in time backup

• Veeam Backup has given us the power to protect the critical VM's that are core to our business. For example we protect our VMware vCenter Server, vCenter MS Sql Server.
• Active Directory Domain Controller. This help us recover the Internal management tools like vCenter Server within 30 minutes from Veeam Backup.

2 years

Haven't had any issues.

I have never seen any issues with the Veeam Backup product personally

This product is very easy to scale, I never had any issues with it.

Good

Good

VMware VDP it was missing file level restore on version 5.0 which Veeam offers.

This is per-CPU, initially we ordered 40 CPU.

Before choosing Veeam we have tested two products Unitrends backup, VMware VDP

We have two types of licenses with Veeam, one is for in-house and the other is for the service provider or your customers. Make sure you have a clear understanding of which license you need in your organization.

• Replication
• Exchange Integration
• Bandwidth Optimization
• File Level Restore
• VM Restore from backup

• Drastically reduce administrative effort
• Friendly User Interface
• Faster backup recovery
• Disaster Recovery Plan
• Decrease amount of backup completion

Retention Policy isn't flexible enough to configure complex retention policy.

2 years - version 7

No deployment problems.

No stability problems.

No scability problems.

Good

Excellent

vRanger

Yes, just follow the Administrative/Quick guide, it's friendly user.

Upgrades, reduce administrative effort to do automation, disaster recovery.

• Acronis
• BackupExec

It's a very straight forward software that does not require technical intervention. Can fully integrate with VMware / Hyper-V without any issues. If your are not sure what is going to be the final decision, try It for free and see the results by yourself.

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.

Get a free download and try it!

Granular restore and Vmware integration.

We are able to restore VM very fast, with 0 downtime.

More APIs with storage from different vendors.

2 years.

Issues with deployment - none.

Issues with stability - none

Issues with scalability - none.

Very good.

Very good.

HP Data Protector, we switched because Veeam was easier to manage and deploy.

Straightforward.

In-house one, my team has excellent expertise.

Almost instantly.

Like 9000€.

None.

Don't hesite to contact a Partner and ask them for a demo, you will love it!

I use both features Backup and the replication for my 2nd Datacentre - Is my DR Solution.

Easy to use product, If you have a virtual environment and also are worried about putting in a DR solution - This is an easy product to get to grips with, Plugs into Vcentre and has the same feel as Vcentre. the replication feature is great - Seamless on enterprise version that I use for my DR solutions.

Standard version is poor - As you need to power Off/On virtual machines when backing up/Restoring where Enterprise edition you don't - If you have a big estate to manage stay away from Standard.

Over 7 years now - Since ver 6.

No - You can have this up and ready in less than half a day.

Veeam is dependant on Microsoft SQL and VMware or Microsoft Hypervisor so no.

Limitations in VMware is 10000 and Citrix is 6600 VDI's, Veeam is charged at physical CPU so very scalable.

I've not really had to deal with Customer service.

Again not really had to deal with technical support.

Veeam Backup and Replication is in its own world - Nothing out there that is even close to this product that I could recommend.

Very simple to install. If you follow VMware Best practice and install a Vcentre on 1 physical and one Virtual, Same again with Microsoft SQL. Remember if you have a virtual farm failure your need to have it installed in a physical to bring back your virtual platforms - I have seen many of big company's also make this school boy error.

I have implemented many times with an in house team.

I have this installed on a 150k user base - My total spend is 3 Mil Us Dollars.

It's the only solution for an enterprise Virtual environment.

Backup, Restore, Replication

Very fast & reliable backup, less management, fast restores

Being able to do both VMware & Hyper-V backups at the same time. At the moment, as far as I know, you can only do one or the other.

3 - 3.5 years

No deployment problems, super easy.

No stability problems, very stable.

No scalability issues, easy to scale.

Very good.

Very good.

Yes, Symantec Backup Exe. It never worked well work virtualization. Backups always failed & spent too much time trying to figure out why it did not work & how to fix it.

Easy, very straight forward using current technologies.

In-House

I think about $8,500

Yes, VMware backup solution, Acronis, Symantec

Go ahead, super easy & good product