Veeam - Recommended for highly virtualized and centralized installs
October 14, 2016
Veeam - Recommended for highly virtualized and centralized installs
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Backup & Replication
Veeam is being used to backup all production workloads on a schedule to meet our availability and compliance requirements. It is not being used to backup any user endpoints, like laptops.
- Backups of VMware and Hyper-v were exceedingly easy to set up
- GFS strategy was very easy to build, maintain and report on
- Creating offsite backups and proxies for Veeam was also very easy
- Documentation is not always super clear - often very steeped in its own verbiage without an easy way to find "their definition".
- When we had problems, they were difficult to solve without support.
- Very rarely, we had issues where backups would suddenly fail and support's only solution was to recreate the jobs.
- Veeam was a critical piece of our compliance initiatives - allowing us to have some assurance over data integrity and BC/DR.
- Being able to restore individual files, emails, and accounts was a life saver on multiple instances where mistakes had been made.
Veeam was much simpler and cheaper for us to implement; however we were a very centralized shop. For larger, more diverse workloads, I think HP's solution is a better fit