Veeam Data Platform Reviews

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.

The backup and blocklevel incremental backup, where daily full backups are done. Also the hotcopy feature is valuable.

It's been an overall improvement many places at our client sites where almost everyone runs vm's or Hyper-V.

Nothing in particular, Veeam launches like a rocket and delves into the featurelist of VMware, for example, and tie their development close together with the devs coming from VMware or Microsoft.

Since early 2008 when Veeam entered the scene.

Never had any issues that couldn’t be dealt with from an admin pov.

Its running rock steady, so there isn’t any issues in my/our end.

It scales 100% its just a matter of licenses pr cpu, so as long as your compliant it runs like it should.

Rating in level from 1-10 where 10 is the best i would rate it 10.

Rating in level from 1-10 where 10 is the best i would rate it 10.

Yes used many different solutions, but no one were as great as Veeam when talking virtual backups.

Yes more or less, its been improved over the years and now version 8 is ready and even more potent.

We are an IT consultancy business doing implemetations ourself, so 100% done by us at N2IT.

ROI is compared to for example running CommVault returned many times, this is due to the flexibility ion license models etc. And also in terms of space utilization. Veeam does full daily backups with whats called synthetic backup streams of some sort, it takes all block changes and stream those into the latest backup and there create a full backup as well as restore pointers.

Setup cost is a variable, but take the number of cpu´s and multiply that with the license cost as well as a target for backup storage and you have the price.

Yes evaluated vRanger and PHP backup and also Symantec. No one met the requirements.

We decided on Veeam because we were much more integrated into VMware core and you didn't have to script yourself out of alot of tideous tasks to get things working.

Veeam worked out of the box and was a tight close match to what we knew Windows-wise.

Nothing beats Veeam when it comes to Backup in a virtual environment. Just go for it, Veeam won’t let you down.

• Efficiency
• Objectivity
• Reliability
• Features

Restores are easier to do.

It would be nice to be able to copy VMs directly to tape drives.

I've been using it for three years.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

10/10.

10/10.

We previously used Backup Exec, but Veeam rules.

It was straightforward.

No other options were considered.

Veeam B&R is a reliable product and is the best disaster recovery I have ever seen. It's very simple to use and all the features are a must-have.

The product is really easy to use.

It has made the VM infrastructure easier to manage, as well as simplifying the backup and restore process.

The tape management is not really efficient and some other products are better. I know that backup on tape is not the the main target of Veeam but, it's important.

I've used it for two years.

Nothing serious.

Sometimes, the memory is not big enough, and I would guess that a leak might be present. Performing a monthly reboot solve this (at the same time as Windows updates).

No issues encountered.

It's good.

It's poor for certain issues (with the Veeam One product, the guys did not talk together and asked the same question several times). We had a loss of production time, and the answers they gave were not efficient.

It was simple and fast.

I implemented it myself.

I also looked at Avamar, Symanted and TSM which are better for tape management and data retention management, but expensive. Veeam however, is the easiest way to manage virtual infrastructure backup, and the cost is better, when compared with some other solutions.

Evaluate your needs before choosing a product. If tape management is required only, then Veeam is not the choice.

I use the backup, replication, and the backup copy features. The most useful one is the backup feature.

I have a backup of my infrastructure every night, and have improved the speed of performing restores.

I think it is a good product but all products could be better.

I've used it for two years.

No issues with deployment, nothing went wrong.

This product has saved a lot of my time, as it’s very stable.

I have only needed to open two tickets in two years.

I have only needed to open two tickets in two years.

Yes, I previously used Microsoft System Center but Veeam is better, faster and easy to use and configure.

It's easy and very straightforward to configure.

It was implemented in-house.

I would recommend you buy this product because it is simple to use and works fine.

It is important that a backup product delivers what it promises. As backup features are important, so are restore features. The ability of Veeam Backup & Replication suite to restore various items in a granular and fast way (RPO & RTO importance) is key for our customers.

Veeam B&R software is transparent and easy to use, which improves usability and manageability for the daily operations a backup/system administrator performs. Setting up a backup application/infrastructure is one thing, but to keep it operational without having to deal with big issues is another. I barely encounter situations where Veeam B&R setup disappoints our customers.

Two months ago, I would have said the integration of Veeam Endpoint Backup with Veeam B&R, but this is covered by now with Veeam 8 U2. The feature that a few customers are waiting is SharePoint item restores via redirected SQL, instead of having to install a staging SQL instance on the Veeam B&R backup server.

I've been installing and configuring it for three and a half years.

Every IT environment has it's specific needs and caveats. Of course I encountered some minor issues when deploying Veeam, but this is mostly related to the IT environment itself. Rare issues are logged with, and solved by Veeam support.

No issues encountered.

No, Veeam B&R provides a flexible way of working and scaling with the breakdown of different functionalities (proxies, repositories etc.).

In all the cases where I had to contact Veeam customer service, a solution was delivered within a short timeframe.

In all the cases where I had to contact Veeam Technical support, a solution was delivered within a short timeframe.

I have experience with Backup Exec. The backup/restore capabilities are far away from the Veeam Suite.

It's straightforward.

We are installing/configuring Veeam in customer environments.

As system integrator we offer various backup/replication products. I have no personal hands-on experience with other products except Backup Exec, and Veeam.

It's important to make a correct design which maps on your IT environment needs. A simple Veeam POC can be setup to validate the product.

I can do a backup of an entire VM or just guest files.

The safety and reliability of data loss and retrieval has been amazing ever since we implemented Veeam.

It would be nice to be able to backup data to two locations.

I've used it for five years.

Nothing serious.

Nothing.

No issues encountered.

9 out of 10

9 out of 10

Not for virtual machines. I've used Symantec Backup Exec.

It was straightforward.

We implemented it in-house.

It's 100%.

It cost $1200 for the initial setup and then $70 per hour in the case of a restore.

We also looked at Carbonite.

Choose the proper solution. Install the 30 day trial version and if it's for you, then purchase it.