Best in class software for physical and virtual infrastructure backup.
March 31, 2022
Best in class software for physical and virtual infrastructure backup.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Veeam Backup & Replication
Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Backup & Replication
We originally used backup exec. It was painful to use and didn't support the modern technologies we needed. We looked into backup solutions and found Veeam a good candidate. We use Veeam for backup of physical and virtual infrastructure (VMWare), We are a company spanning multiple sites, have a disaster recovery site managed via Veeam, and utilize cloud storage for off-site backups.
- Virtualized workloads
- Endpoints and physical servers running Windows & Linux
- In addition to back up, we also replicate some of these workloads
- Cloud-hosted VMs within AWS or Azure
- Application-centric recovery using Veeam Explorers (for Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, etc)
- License portability as your environment needs change
- Immutable storage to protect against ransomware
- Application-centric recovery using Veeam Explorers (for Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, etc)
- Veeam has built some very useful application-specific tools for recovering exchange server items, emails, etc.
- Veeam is relatively simple to set up, but provides a lot of extended features should the need come one day. Features like replication and backup copy were not originally implemented in our project goals.
- Support is outstanding, their SLAs are clearly outlined, and their engineers are easy to understand and their ticket opening flow is simple enough.
- Veeam keeps us from updating our infrastructure as soon as an upgrade comes out. We usually have to wait for Veeam support. At one point that took several months for Veeam to support our version of ESXi.
- The interface easily gets complicated, a lot of attention needs to be taken to schedule, and conflicts with other jobs.
- Tape library support isn't well documented I feel. It's hard to find example configurations or best practices for my environment.
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 4 virtual, at least 12 endpoints, and at least 10 servers protected by Veeam I really like the central management capability I get with Veeam Backup and Replication. I do not need to remote into each server to configure the backup client. All of it can be done within the Veeam console.
- Significant reduction in time required to manage backups.
- Significant reduction in time required to restore items from Exchange Server and Active Directory.
- Savings on cost over Backup Exec.
We needed cloud support for Backup Exec, most of the solutions were third-party, or hacks. We needed tighter integration, and Veeam offers its own Cloud Connect solution where storage vendors will provide a very easy-to-use repository for backups. No more needing to configure storage spaces, volumes, or partitions. It's all handled by Veeam.
We previously took tapes home as an off-site backup. We can rely on our encrypted backups being stored in the cloud. We don't have to rely on tape server maintenance fees, the cost of tapes, and the cloud allows our backup environment to be highly scalable, especially not needed to upgrade tape servers, drives, and tape media types.
We have always stored our backups on a NAS as the first line of defense from "lost files" and corruption. We use Synology brand NASs on a CIFS repository, no different than a windows server hosting a file share. The benefit with Veeam is we can easily browse file systems and one-click overwrite files back to the affected system.