Lean on Veeam
December 29, 2021
Lean on Veeam
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Veeam Backup & Replication
Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Backup & Replication
Backups are plain and simple. No miss and very little fuss. Veeam allows us to deploy a backup solution to a number of customer environments and integrates well with our VMware hypervisor. Veeam gives us lots of flexibility with who has access and its ease of use allows us to trust our less skilled admins to perform simple tasks.
- Virtualized workloads
- Endpoints and physical servers running Windows & Linux
- In addition to back up, we also replicate some of these workloads
- In addition to back up, we also snapshot some of these workloads
- Cloud-hosted VMs within AWS or Azure
- NAS filers
- Application-centric recovery using Veeam Explorers (for Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, etc)
- License portability as your environment needs change
- Immutable storage to protect against ransomware
- “Instant” recovery or portability between platforms (physical > virtual > cloud-hosted)
- Failover or recovery scripts/plans for orchestrated recovery
- Application-centric recovery using Veeam Explorers (for Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, etc)
- Easy to use and understand interface
- Alerting and monitoring of the backup infrastructure
- Error reports and knowledge base links for troubleshooting.
- More detailed insight into failure reporting. Often I see a job will "fail" but all the objects succeeded.
- We just recently discovered encryption options, wish these were more prominent in the GUI.
- License renewal should be in the B&R software not Enterprise Manager.
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
We have over 200 servers backed up across 10 or so jobs in Veeam. I was not there at the purchasing point, I know they purchased Veeam for its scalability and it definitely has room for growth
- Veeam has enabled us to provide a standard of quality and peace of mind to our customers
- Backups are thankless and in the background, but when they are needed we are glad we have them. Veeam allows us to not think about whether or not we are protected.
- It's paid for itself 100 times over in data restoration and protection.
I was not part of the team when they picked Veeam, but I know that before we were on a product called Backup Exec. I only briefly have had any encounters with the software, but from what I can tell, Veeam is more thorough and effective at providing the service in almost every way.
We have not had a lot of experience with Cloud integration, but currently, we are using Azure's built-in solution for our cloud infrastructure and it is the worst. We are looking to implement Veeam into our Azure solutions and the research we have done so far looks promising.
The file-level restore function is a slam dunk feature for Veeam. We have several clients that we host Windows file servers for, and I can always count on Veeam to have a solid backup for me to restore when users inevitably make a mistake. File-level restoration is super quick too and easy to browse. All I need is the date of restore and the file path and I am good to go.