Veeam Data Platform Reviews

• 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 file-level recovery option has filled a gap in our system.

• Remote management console
• Physical server backups

I've used it for about three or so years.

No issues encountered.

The product has been 100% stable, but there are a few issues with backup jobs.

No issues yet.

I've not had to contact customer service.

They have very efficient, problem-solving chaps.

I was using Symantec, but it's not as flexible as Veeam if you talk about immediate recovery of file or a whole VM.

It's as simple as installing MS Office.

I was previously working as a project engineer with my company, implementing Veeam at many clients. I am now working as a Resident Engineer and IT Consultant outsourced from my original employer (implementation vendor). Both ways I have had good experiences with Veeam.

Don’t waste your money on Symantec or other tools. Buy a license once for Veeam as it's a lifetime one and the support license can be renewed, as required, on a yearly basis.

We also looked at Symantec Backup Exec.

Just keep in mind its functionality because, as of now, it is limited to VMs. It's taking backup of physical machines as well, but only on a clone level.

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.

As a backup solution, the de-duplication and direct-to-tape functions are very valuable. It also has WAN acceleration, though I've yet to use that feature.

• In various ways, we are using an Active Directory OS-aware backup, and I can recover deleted objects to AD.
• When I need to duplicate a machine for test purposes, it is very easy to restore from a backup.

Managing snapshots during the backup.

I've used it for two years.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

I don't have any experience as I've never needed to contact them.

I don't have any experience as I've never needed to contact them.

I was using a VMware built-in backup solution, but it wasn't at all friendly to operate.

It is straightforward and very easy.

I did it myself.

The price is higher than other similar products.

Only a VMware backup solution.

Go ahead, it is a very good choice and will give you peace of mind. I've found that it's the best backup solution for a virtual infrastructure.

Ease of use, ease of setup, and ease of recovery.

• As long as you are good with your grouping of servers, the dedupe process is wonderful.
• Once installed and configured, it just works. The management dashboard is pretty easy to use and very easy to read.
• On top of the easy to configure and manage, it is also lightning fast during recovery. It took just 20 minutes to recover a 500GB Windows Server.
• Since the product connects directly to your vcenter, most of the traffic stays within your virtual switching environment, making backups run that much faster.

This product is for virtual environments only. Which means it cannot backup physical servers. Most, but not all, software support VMWare and VMWare environments but on the rare occasion (like with us) when a vendor requires a physical machine to operate, it means we have to have a different backup process.

I have used this product for 4 years as my primary backup solution for my VMWare environment.

No. The deployment was very easy and self-explanatory.

One of the great things with this software is that it is designed to do one job: backup virtual machines. It isn’t trying to manage anti-virus, or deploy images, it is strictly a backup process. I have no issues with stability.

As we grew, it handled the workload marvelously. As long as it has enough space to store the backups, it will work without any issues.

Very friendly and very responsive.

I am going to say great, but the truth is, I have never had to use them. They sold me the product 4 years ago, I installed the software, and haven’t had any issues.

Yes. I used the Symantec suite of products. I switched because it became bloated with different items and it tried to manage more things than what I wanted it for.

Very straightforward. You put in your ESX or vCenter information and you are connected and ready to go.

In-house.

The software itself was less expensive than Symantec. But it is kind of hard to put an actual number on it because when you recover a document or a server for someone and it makes you look like a hero, it is priceless.

Management of Veeam is easy. It notifies me everyday of the progress of the backups. The setup costs were normal. Cost of OS, Veeam Software, and shared hardware (virtual environment).

Yes. We also evaluated Barracuda’s cloud product.

I cannot speak highly enough of this product. It has made backup and recovery so much easier. Veeam’s motto of “it just works”, is 100% accurate. It is quite literally a point and click product that doesn’t require special client installs to servers.

Its backup capabilities and also day to day replication.

We wanted to replicate a very old database which is running on VM. We were looking for solution long time and finally using this product we are able to do it.

I think it's fantastic, so none.

2 years.

No issues with deployment.

No issues with stability.

No issues with scalability.

5 out of 5.

5 out of 5.

No, this was our first.

Very straightforward.

In-house.

Yes, we evaluated SRM.

Like I previously mentioned, we are using a very old database and even that database company didn't provide support. I tried to replicate it over WAN, and now by using Veeam, it works great. It was running on my regional site which had standalone VM with local storage and that's why Veeam worked fine compare to SRM.

Instant restore, file level restore, backup, copy/restore to/from cloud, VM replication from one data center to another for DR.

Fast recovery, backup stored in 3 locations: locally, other location, and in the cloud (iLand).

If our primary data center goes down, our VMs are replicated to another data center so we will be up and running in less than 15 minutes.

Backup stored in multiple locations.

The product works perfectly for us. After they added endpoint backup for physical servers the product is 10/10.

4 years

Not at all, and we have a few Veeam servers in different locations.

No, just make sure you not run out of space, that's all.

No.

10, great customer service.

ArcServe, Symantec. I had always problems with the backup until I switched to Veeam.

First, it's agentless for your VMware or Hyper-V VMs, but you need to install an agent if you want to backup physical servers. Second, the backup just works and I get alerts when a backup fails. But the only time when the backup fails is when I run out of space.

I don't need to worry about testing the backups because with SureBackup, Veeam is restoring the backup automatically and is checking if the restore works.

Brilliant.

Very simple-- just download the product and go through the wizard.

In-house.

Maybe Veeam is not the cheapest product, but it is the best backup solution I have ever used. If you want to sleep at the night, don't worry about your data , spend a few more $$ on the Veeam solution, and I guarantee you will love it.

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