Veeam Data Platform Reviews

• 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.

The replication features and data recovery technology.

We were able to turn the data recovery process over to technicians instead of allowing only engineers to recover customer data. Another big bonus, is that the data recovery process was fairly simple and fast.

Cost. At the time this was one of the most expensive backup software available. Compared to StorageCraft that was more than half the cost for a virtual machine agent.

I did trying to get the initial backups to run on for a SQL Server. It was stopping a service for some odd reason when trying to run the backup. Also had some speed issues due to running multiple jobs at once.

Not really. Just your typical growing pains of a new technology.

The cost of adding additional sockets. It was a lot more than just purchasing an additional agent like you would for Backup Exec or StorageCraft.

The customer service with Veeam is great. One of the best I have ever had to deal with.

The technical support is great. I have had to turn to them a few times for some very complex issues. They were very patient and knowledgeable.

Previously my customers were using tapes and Backup Exec. Tapes are just a disaster waiting to happen, and backup exec did not provide an image based backup solution.

The setup for me was pretty straight forward. Install the software on a dedicated server, configure the jobs and leave it alone.

This solution was setup in house. We did not use a vendor to configure it, since my company acted as an IT provider for the company we were implementing it for.

Varied by client and their infrastructure needs.

Yes. Storage Craft, Datto, UniTrends

The file level restore and the instant restore of a whole VM from a snapshot.

With this product we are able to drastically reduce our backup and restore times. We are able to have a true DR site with Veeams replication jobs.

It needs to be able to backup physical servers.

I have used this solution for 3 years.

No deployment issues.

No stability issues.

No issues with scalability, it is very easy to deploy an additional proxy server.

5/5.

5/5.

We previously used Backup exec and when we implemented virtualization, Veeam had a good price point and seemed logical.

The initial setup was pretty straightforward.

We implemented in-house.

We have saved a lot on not having to buy additional licenses.

I believe we initially spent 10k on implementation.

Veeam is definitely a must for virtualized environments.