Veeam Data Platform Reviews

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

The most valuable feature for my organization is the ability to perform replications to a DR site with minimal impact to our bandwidth and production environment. On some systems we run near constant backups and replications on a 24/7 basis.

This product has significantly reduced our backup windows as backup times have been significantly reduced, as well as the speed at which we can recover systems if needed.

There are some features that are lacking compared to other backup solutions, specifically around the use of tape libraries, and this is the largest area for improvement. As it is a fairly new feature, I do fully expect improvement in the future as they continue to refine the ability to backup servers to tape media.

We have had the entire Veeam Backup and Recovery Suite in production for 18 months. Over that time we have continued to transfer more and more jobs from a legacy system to this solution.

We only experienced minor issues with deployment mainly related to permission issue, as we strive to keep account permissions to a minimum. As far as the actual install of the application, and even upgrades, we have had no issues related to either. When we did experience issues, the support was outstanding.

We have had no issues with stability of the Veeam software since the initial deployment. Any minor issues that we have experienced did not affect the ability to perform backups, and they were resolved quickly by support.

To date, this system has been able to scale to all our needs without any noticeable issues. This has been a strength of this solution in the eyes of management since the initial purchase.

The customer service has been outstanding. We typically use a reseller for most purchases,including the Veeam Backup solution, and when needed the sales team has been available for questions or concerns.

The technical support has been phenomenal for this product. All issues we have experienced have been resolved in less than 72 hours. We have not experienced any critical issues, but I would anticipate that they would be resolved in far less time.

We previously used a backup solution from another vendor which was not as focused on the virtual environment. As almost all our systems are virtualized the switch to Veeam made sense as its primary focus is a virtual environment.

The initial setup was fairly straightforward. No issues should be seen if the recommendations in the documentation is followed in regards to server setup and account permissions.

This was deployed through an in-house team with assistance from Veeam support when needed.

$30,000 was the initial investment for purchase and setup, and it has minimal day to day costs.

We did a minimal evaluation of other products as Veeam has been one of the top-rated backup solutions for virtual environments. The field of vendors specializing in virtual environment backups has been limited compared to standard backup solutions which made review of possible solutions much easier as well.

When looking at purchasing this product, I would recommend that you purchase the full suite, which includes Veeam One for monitoring of the environment. The products complement each other and can help ease burdens of administering both the virtual environment and data backup.

-Reliable consistent Backups/Restores

-Ease of use despite doing complex work

-Replication

a. Other than it has saved us from hours of work not having to rebuild servers and the many times it has helped us recover data that was valuable, I don't know how to translate that into money, but it's no small thing.

b. This one is HUGE: We moved our entire data center, from one physical location to another, mind you we are 24 hour operation with sites across the state relying on the systems being up, and we never lost one hour of downtime. We used Veeam Backup and Recovery to migrate our entire Vmware Farm from old location to the new. It was awesome.

Tape support is there, but needs improvement. Netvault beats in that area. But most of our backups are to disk then to tape; but also copy to disk DR (in development). Reporting is lacking unless you get additional product. Very basic reporting. This would an easy area to improve upon.

6 to 7 years.

We have had some hiccups with it once in a great while. Nothing major, and nothing that would stop me from recommending it.

No.

No.

Good to Excellent.

Good.

Yes. We used Netvault (still use it in limited way). Veeam is far more flexible.

Straightforward. We did not have to read volumes and volumes of tech docs. Interface was intuitive.

In-house team.

No sure I have numbers - how about millions?

It is priced per Socket. We have licensed 24 servers, 2 Sockets per server. Enterprise Edition.

Yes. Netvault, Vranger, commvault, and some others. I chose Veeam Backup after evaluating others because of it's reliability, ease of use and features.

Do a test. Have good hardware to run on and to backup to. Best to have SAN aware backups which require you give access to the storage cards to LUNS that you are backing up. Either iSCSI or Fiber. Network backups work, but much faster with SAN aware.