Veeam Data Platform Reviews

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

Reliability and simplicity.

1. Faster and more reliable backup.
2. SAN Snapshot reduce backup window.
3. Integration of Exchange and SQL granular restore reduce our RTO.

1. Integration with Storage Array.
2. Incremental restore.
3. Improve the support of physical servers and bare metal recovery.

4 years.

No issues with deployment.

No issues with stability.

5/5. Good Pre-sales and sales team. Always available (and fast) when needed.

Yes. We Switched to Veeam because of the complexity and poor reliability of the older solution.

In-house because we are Veeam vendor partner.

Veeam is cheaper than our older solution and more reliable. We spend less time to check and/or relaunch daily backup in error.

If you’re > 80% virtualized environment (Hyper-V or VMware) and no need of complex tape rotation, this is a good product.

Be careful of having installed integration services or VMware tools.