Veeam Data Platform Reviews

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.

Inter site backup replication, object level AD restore and complete VMDK level VM backup and restore.

It is helpful in BCP in the event of disaster and human errors on VM infrastructure to reduce MTTR and fast recovery.

Random CBT errors during backup jobs.

More than 3 years.

No, those are related to network not related to product.

No stability issues.

No scalability issues.

It's good but comparing to VMware and Microsoft they lack little behind.

It's good but comparing to VMware and Microsoft they lack little behind.

Net backup and we switched to this considering agent less backup operation by this product that help our operations to run live without performance issues.

It's not complex as all.

An in-house team.

It's great when compared to Net backup and Tivoli. Also. it improves our customer offering as backup operations are independent of resources provided to servers.

YES, Avamar and Tivoli.

Instant recovery of a VM, ease of use for item level recovery, ability to also send disk to disk jobs to tape for meeting retention policies.

We have been able to instantly recover VMs from catastrophic failures to point in time and recover files easily without the long wait of searching and restoring from tape.

The ability to back up physical servers from within the same Product and not as a separate module. This would keep Veeam in the front of other competing products that offer both physical and virtual backup solutions.

5 years.

No deployment issues.

No stability issues.

No scalability issues.

Support has been phenomenal when I have needed it and I have always been able to resolve my issue and gain a better understanding of how the product works.

The level of support I have received has been top notch, problems have been escalated as needed and without prodding for the need of additional assistance and the engineers I have worked have been both friendly and easy to comprehend when discussing both the issues and the solutions.

In the past we were using a traditional physical backup solution -Symantec Backup Exec which made restores quite difficult in the event of a complete VM restore. We needed a solution that was more in line with the virtual realm and we discovered Veeam when attending VMworld and we were quick to setup a lab to test the product and were completely satisfied with what we'd found.

It was very straight forward and easy to learn.

We did the install and setup in house with minimal support and once we licensed the product we made calls to support only when trying to understand the best practices for configuration and how to achieve the results we expected.

This product has more than made up for the initial costs of licensing, hardware and support. In more than one occasion we have been faced with what would normally be hours of downtime in the days of tape restores to being backup in minutes.

At the time we had been looking at various solutions that were coming up for backup and restore of virtual environments; WMware's own Backup solution is the first to come to mind. We strongly considered this but were debating pricing and it was at this time we discovered Veeam and it seemed to be the answer both technically and financially.

Both backup and replication, simple to read reports.

Allowed simple backup and restore of virtual machines as well as granular restore of files and Exchange databases.

Most of the features I wanted was addressed in version 6 and 7 (i.e. backup to tape) allowing my clients to finally get rid of backup Exec to copy backups to tape. I'm not sure if there's a way to back up physical servers with Veeam but that would be a good feature to help customers transition into a fully virtualized environment OR maintain some physical servers in the environment.

3 years (version 7 and older versions).

Issue when licenses files (.lic) are downloaded from OWA which would render it unusable. Also had issues in earlier version where snapshots weren't deleted properly but that can be attributed to a mix of the ESXi version and Veeam.

Veeam 6 and 7 has been very stable.

Our customers have not run into any scalability issues.

Excellent. Calling tech support and getting routed to a tech is quite fast.

Excellent and responsive.

Backup Exec was previously used but their early attempt to backup VMs were cumbersome and Veeam stepped in to address that problem. The only reason why Backup Exec was kept in the environment was to backup to tape and, in the earlier days, backup Exec databases.

Very straight forward. The console is extremely simple to use and intuitive.

In-house.

Veeam is definitely one of the market leaders and is the preferred choice.

Definitely one of the simplest ways to backup a virtualized infrastructure but you may not be able to fully get rid of your regular backup software if you have physical servers or specialized applications that required specific plugins that Veeam does not support.

Ease of use, it's simple to backup and restore.

Backups don't fail often which saves time and data.

Backing up Exchange could be better, particularly Clustered Exchange.

No

No

No

No issues.

Excellent, their support is fast and efficient.

Backup Exec, I was looking for something designed for Virtual Machines.

In VMWare it's really fast. For Hyper V it took some tooling around.

In-House.

I didn't measure it but it saves me tons of time and no data loss so it has likely paid for itself many times over.

Unitrends

Do it, it's a great product and is easy to use.

Ease of use

Very reliable and fast data recovery

I feel the price is a bit high

5+ years

No issues with deployment of Veeam Backup & Replication.

No issues with stability of Veeam Backup & Replication.

No issues with scalability of Veeam & Replication.

Acceptable

Acceptable

vRanger

Straightforward, clear instructions

In-house

Don't recall, I believe annual support is $2500

Do it! Great, stable, full featured product.

There are quite a few features for Veeam which are helpful, but in my mind the ability to take a backup from a week ago and spin up a temporary VM to retrieve files is the feature I use the most. The wizards are extremely user friendly and easy to use. Another very nice feature of Veeam is the ability to seamlessly intergrate with your VM environment. From within Veeam I can browse all of my VMs and choose the appropriate vm I want to add to backup. The low disk warnings are awesome in Veeam, I am alerted well before we run out of space.

Veeam has saved us many hours retrieving deleted files as well as testing backups. Our old backup solution was getting to the point where we could not go more than a couple of days without backups failing. With Veeam we have not had any time where backups did not run. We also have been able to run since January 2014 with no “failed” backups.

The performance is slow when making changes. I am unable to determine if the cause is slow disk that we use for our storage, of if Veeam is slow. When I delete a VM in Veeam it takes about 20 minutes to delete the backups with 83 restore points. With that being said we are getting the “Speed Boost” upgrade that should improve performance. With this being said, the program performs very quick when navigating around the UI. One issue I have ran into is I have been confused at times and added the same VM to multiple backup jobs. I wish there was a “warning” box that would pop up saying this vm is already protected in another job.

We have been on Veeam Backup & Replication 7.0 Enterprise Edition since January 2014. We are updating to the latest version of Veeam late 2014. Previously we were on a HP tape backup for many years.

We had an outside vendor do the initial deployment

Veeam is extremely stable. I have not had to do anything with the Veeam VM since the original install. We get 100% backups every day.

Scalability for me is adding new VMs to be backed up by Veeam. Without much training I am able to create a group and add the new VMs to the group to be backed up by Veeam.

Have not contacted support

Have not contacted support

We used HP Storageworks. We were no longer getting consistent good backups. Every day we had to baby the backup to make it work. As part of the Veeam backup we also we able to get away from the tape backup system.

Setup was completed by an outside consultant.

We used an outside consultant who was extremely familiar with Veeam, they did great.

We did not evaluate any other backup systems, we were on a tight timeline due to too many failing backups. We went with Veeam due to our consultants great experience with Veeam from other clients.

Veeam is a great fit for a seasoned IT pro, of someone who is green. Get a trial of the software and try it. My other advice is to do the math and get a large enough SAN. We currently keep 180days of backups for 50+ VMs.