Veeam was a great purchase years ago and evolves to continue to make us look smart years later!
January 04, 2021
Veeam was a great purchase years ago and evolves to continue to make us look smart years later!
Score 10 out of 10
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Veeam Backup & Replication
Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Backup & Replication
We use Veeam to protect all production data, including Hyper-V based virtual machines. It is a key part of our disaster recovery planning, malware protection, and as-needed, granular item-level restore capabilities. We also leverage the Veeam Cloud Connect capabilities to work with a 3rd party vendor for offsite replication.
- Virtualized workloads
- In addition to back up, we also replicate some of these workloads
- Endpoints and physical servers running Windows & Linux
- Cloud-hosted VMs within AWS or Azure
- NAS filers
- Application-centric recovery using Veeam Explorers (for Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, etc)
- Utilizing backup copies for secondary purposes via DataLabs
- Automating test restores to validate recoverability
- Application-centric recovery using Veeam Explorers (for Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, etc)
- Unobtrusive, non-performance affecting backups.
- Flexibility for various storage targets.
- Item-level, application specific recovery.
- Cloud connect offsite replication setup and management.
- I would love to have a cloud-hosted console available.
We are currently transitioning to more hosted/public cloud infrastructure, so our on-prem workload has decreased some lately. We are backing up approximately 16 on-site servers now.
- Veeam has delivered everything we bought it to do.
- It continues to expand what it can do, which we have looked to take advantage of.
- Veeam support has been very efficient and responsive when we have needed assistance.
We were converting from physical to virtual servers on-prem around nine years ago, which necessitated a shift in our backup platform. Veeam was already a leader in the space at that point and after looking at several options and working with trusted vendors, we selected Veeam as matching our needs best. Fortunately for us, the product has grown in capabilities on par and in some cases ahead of our growing needs.
We had been wanting to take advantage of the cloud replication to replace our cross-site replication of backups for quite some time, but fortunately, we were able to start leveraging it in the past year to protect our workloads with a vendor that could provide the performance and also the ability to stand up our workloads in the cloud in a DR scenario. That has worked very well and has been a very welcome transition.
While most of our backed up workload is VM based, we do have a couple of large file shares that we do not have virtualized and needed to protect, and Veeam's ability to do that seamlessly alongside the rest of the infrastructure was a huge relief and it has performed very well both for backups and recovery.