Veeam Backup & Replication helped us consolidate backup apps | TrustRadius

Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Backup & Replication

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is being used across our organization [and] is replacing our current tape-based backup exec and disk-based Quest vRanger VM backup system. We are now able to use a single application to backup both our physical, virtual, and file shares across our organization. Before this we needed two applications to do this.

Workloads

Virtualized workloads
Endpoints and physical servers running Windows & Linux
Cloud-hosted VMs within AWS or Azure
NAS filers
In addition to back up, we also replicate some of these workloads

Future Workloads

Enterprise UNIX servers running Solaris & IBM AIX
Enterprise applications such as Oracle or SAP HANA

Key Features

Application-centric recovery using Veeam Explorers (for Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, etc)
Capacity Tier to store data within object storage for longer term retention
License portability as your environment needs change
Automating test restores to validate recoverability
“Instant” recovery or portability between platforms (physical > virtual > cloud-hosted)

Most Used

“Instant” recovery or portability between platforms (physical > virtual > cloud-hosted)

Pros and Cons

Pros

Capacity tiering.
Ease of use.
Instant VM restore.

Cons

Explanation of cloud tiering.

Key Insights

Do you think Veeam Data Platform delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Veeam Data Platform's feature set?

Yes

Did Veeam Data Platform live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Veeam Data Platform go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Veeam Data Platform again?

Yes

Number of Workloads Protected

All of our virtual & physical workloads are now protected by Veeam. The amount is as expected when we acquired the product.

Return on Investment

Resolved our issue with multiple disconnected backup systems
Provided replication of VM backups to our DR location

Needs Assesment

Our tape library and both applications are up for renewal. That is what triggered the search for the next gen backup solution.

Cloud Capabilities

We are having cloud object storage as our capacity tier on top of on-premises storage.

NAS Backup

We are backing up our NAS file shares with Veeam backup, tiering to cloud also.

Likelihood to Recommend

If your environment is mostly virtual, it's a snap to use. Physical servers are just as easy. Veeam also integrates well with vendors of NAS filers.

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