Veritas NetBackup Appliance Reviews

This solution is for backup and recovery in physical and virtual environments, in data centers or server rooms. We are a solution provider company, and I recommend this product for clients and projects with these needs.

The majority of our deployments are either on-premise or private cloud.

Our clients are able to back up their physical and virtual machines, seated on one of many storage devices from Sun, EMC, HP, IBM, etc.

The most valuable feature of this solution is the backup speed. The traffic made up of backup data is not passed on the slow networks. Rather, it is delivered directly from the network storage solutions.

I offer another feature to my customers, called the Backup Aerial network (BAN). This separates the heavy backup traffic from the service traffic. I use a dedicated data switch or network port to separate the lighter traffic from services such as Exchange, Skype, Active Directory, DNS, etc. 

I would like the ability to recover a single folder within the backup of a virtual machine. As it is now, if I want to retrieve a single folder then I need to first recover the entire VM and then copy that one folder. This takes longer than it should for this operation.

The price of this solution should be lowered by ten or fifteen percent. This would help to compete in an environment where people and companies share licenses, effectively lowering their price. I estimate that our sales would increase by fifty percent if the prices were lowered.

This solution is not as stable as Veeam. When it crashes and you want to cover, it is a complicated procedure.

This is a very scalable solution. We have deployed this product for very big solutions. The Central Administration Console helps to make Veritas more scalable than competitors such as Veeam. 

Installing this solution is very simple and takes perhaps five or ten minutes. It takes a little longer to purchase the license and register the product.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

High available Backup Solution for about 200 Unix Servers (Linux, AIX, SunOS)

We like the simplicity of the solution. You can recover and browse backed up data via CLI (command-line interface). The platform independence of the bare metal restore feature is great.

They could improve the process of installing by not wasting so much local disk space during the process.

The solution's stability is perfect.

The solution is very scalable.

We did previously use a different solution. The change was a management decision because of the pricing.

The initial setup was easy. The only problem that we had occasionally was, when we installed the software, we had to store a big amount of data to disk, because the package included all the operating systems and sometimes the space on the filesystem was not enough. We needed about one and a half gigabyte to install the software.

We use a local high-available backup server version of the solution.

With this solution, we've had perfect support and our use cases were perfectly served. 

I would rate this solution nine out of ten.

We use the solution for backup and disaster recovery.

The tool is easy to use, stable, and performs well, but it depends on the environment where it is deployed. It is leaning more toward huge enterprises where it is positioned. It needs to be as easy as others but addresses more complex requirements.

More licensing options could be introduced to the software. It is currently based on capacity only. Compared to competitors, it is difficult to position it economically everywhere. From the usability point of view, they are making many improvements on new interfaces, the SaaS offering, etc.

I have been using Veritas NetBackup Appliance since its launch date and tested it for over 20 years.

The product is stable. We recommend it to large enterprises because of its stability.

The solution’s scalability is good. We have around ten customers using this tool.

The customer service is good because we deal with business-critical support.

The product is expensive and comes with a yearly license.

Technically, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

Overall, I rate the solution a seven or eight out of ten.

We use Veritas NetBackup Appliance to implement backup solutions.

It is easy to use and the performance is good.

I would like to see it integrate with SaaS, and with appliances in the cloud. It could be better integrated with other platforms.

I have been selling Veritas NetBackup Appliance for one year.

Veritas NetBackup Appliance is a stable solution.

Technical support is good.

I was not involved in the initial setup.

Our system engineers maintain this solution.

Licensing is priced per capacity. The licenses are purchased on appliances with the capacity they require.

License fees are paid yearly.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I would rate Veritas NetBackup Appliance a nine out of ten.