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VEEAM...it really just works!
October 14, 2015

VEEAM...it really just works!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

V8

Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Backup & Replication

Veeam Backup & Replication is being used to backup all production VMs in our environment. Consistent and seamless backups with Veeam SureBackup makes sure that data integrity is there.
  • It just works
  • Easy set-up and initial configuration
  • Veeam Forum very helpful
  • Backups to tape media still needs some work. Hopefully this gets addressed in V9 that should be coming out any day now.
  • Missing functionalities that should already be there need to be powershell scripted to work.
  • Does not support backing up physical servers.
  • We use VEEAM to backup all File Servers and all our MS SQL servers. The VEEAM SQL Explorer client has been wonderful in restoring and backing up our SQL servers.
  • We haven't had to test this, but if our VMware Host went down, we can quickly spin up a backup from our VEEAM repository and have a temporary VM up and running in minutes.
Veeam Backup & Replication is a software backup that just works. It's simple to set up. Coming from an appliance to a software backup has definitely been different. Our appliance vendor had better support, but I liked that I was not tied down to a specific vendor for my storage options for my VEEAM repository.
As long as your infrastructure is 100% virtualized or at least all your production servers are virtualized, Veeam Backup & Replication is the perfect solution. They are software vendor agnostic and you can buy whatever servers you want for the amount of space you need. If you run out of space on a repository, just buy another repository and point the VEEAM client to use that new repository. Very scale-able.

Veeam Data Platform Feature Ratings

Data Center Backup
10.0
Universal recovery
10
Instant recovery
10
Recovery verification
10
Business application protection
10
Multiple backup destinations
10
Incremental backup identification
10
Backup to the cloud
Not Rated
Deduplication and file compression
10
Snapshots
10

Veeam Backup & Replication Implementation

Just follow the instructions and the software is super simple to install.
  • Implemented in-house
Change management was minimal
  • The setting up of my hardware RAID on my Dell server was the hardest part, which wasn't even very difficult.