Veeam is extremly simple to use
May 01, 2022
Veeam is extremly simple to use
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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Veeam Backup & Replication
Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Backup & Replication
We rely on Veeam to create and manage backups for all production databases and application servers. In the past, before using Veeam, we once lost 2 months' worth of production data that had to be reworked. Thanks to Veeam, we're able to achieve a recovery time of fewer than 15 minutes on our most critical production databases. We have proprietary data that has been generated and maintained over the last 40 years, and Veeam helps ensure that data is protected at all times. As the head of the IT department, Veeam helps me stay confident that our data is safe, even in the worst-case scenarios.
- Virtualized workloads
- Endpoints and physical servers running Windows & Linux
- Enterprise applications such as Oracle or SAP HANA
- NAS filers
- In addition to back up, we also replicate some of these workloads
- Cloud-hosted VMs within AWS or Azure
- License portability as your environment needs change
- Automating test restores to validate recoverability
- “Instant” recovery or portability between platforms (physical > virtual > cloud-hosted)
- “Instant” recovery or portability between platforms (physical > virtual > cloud-hosted)
- Backup storage management/inventory
- Replication
- Backup Chain Migration
- Success/Fail Reporting on completed backup jobs could provide more information
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 10 total workloads protected by Veeam. This is the number that was expected when the product was acquired and is a mixture of physical and virtual hosts. We had a previous backup vendor/software that failed to restore critical data, but no infrastructure changes were made, so when planning Veeam deployment, it was rather simple to develop a proper backup and replication strategy, and timelines for retention on each workload based on business needs.
- We went from a 6 hour restore time, to 15 minutes.
- Our previous provider was costing over $12,000 annually, Veeam is costing us $400
- With a dramatically lower restore time, Veeam generates an ROI greater than the licensing cost simply by allowing us to get production workers back on a task that much faster.
- Security has been able to be enhanced, removing the need for users to keep local backups of critical data.
Our previous vendor was not able to achieve the target recovery time we needed. They had stated it would be impossible to achieve a daily backup for a particularly old production server, and that twice-weekly would be the utmost that could be done. In addition, they failed to monitor their backup jobs' success or failure, and when a critical failure happened, two months' worth of transactional data was lost as a result. We cut off the $12,000/yr we were spending with them, and implemented Veeam at a much lower rate, taking the onus of backup and replication in the house to ensure it is performed correctly. A similar critical failure occurred post-implementation, not only was no data lost, the recovery time was under 15 minutes to go from a physical host to a virtual machine. I have that same production server on an hourly backup job and it has been validated numerous times without error. We went from a nightmare vendor to a perfect use case.
We have not yet implemented cloud replication of our backups, but we are working towards that currently.
We have used the NAS/File-Share backup to replicate the user's network storage folders to a redundant machine. This creates redundancy in an area where most organizations lack it.