Our Backup Utility of Choice: Veeam Backup & Replication
August 29, 2023
Our Backup Utility of Choice: Veeam Backup & Replication
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Software Version
Veeam Backup & Replication
Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Backup & Replication
We currently use Veeam Backup & Replication within a supported client environment. This client has roughly 14x total servers, of which 11x are VMs and 3x are host servers. Veeam Backup & Replication is responsible for running nightly backups on all of these servers. We've found that it's an easy-to-manage, out-of-the-box solution for backing up both physical hosts and their associated VMs. We rarely have any issues that require reaching out to the Veeam Support Team and in the few instances that we have engaged their support, we've been impressed with their timely response and ability to assist with the issue at hand. The cost associated with the required Veeam licenses is slightly higher than some of the other backup solutions that we've worked with in the past. Still, we find that we have far fewer issues getting Veeam Backup & Replication to do what we need it to do and the time saved more than makes up for the higher price point that the software itself can carry.
- Virtualized workloads
- Endpoints and physical servers running Windows & Linux
- NAS filers
- In addition to back up, we also snapshot some of these workloads
- Cloud-hosted VMs within AWS or Azure
- In addition to back up, we also replicate some of these workloads
- Application-centric recovery using Veeam Explorers (for Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, etc)
- License portability as your environment needs change
- “Instant” recovery or portability between platforms (physical > virtual > cloud-hosted)
- Application-centric recovery using Veeam Explorers (for Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, etc)
- Physical host backups
- VM Backups and the replication of these to additional physical hosts
- Reporting and alerting of any issues that may arise with the scheduled backup jobs
- Lower cost of entry so we can onboard some of our smaller offices to this solution
- Improved knowledge base article searching as it can be difficult to locate the correct information
- Less nagging from sales team when renewals are approaching
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
14x total physical and virtual workloads are currently using Veeam Backup & Replication. This is what we intended.
- It's allowed us to spend less time reviewing backups and potential issues which in turn allows us more time to focus on other aspects of the IT environment.
When we had a major server replacement project and virtualized several workloads that were previously run on physical servers, we reviewed options and landed on Veeam as our new standard for backups. We spend less time working on Veeam Backup & Replication issues and have a higher level of confidence that our backups are reliably occurring as intended.
We are not presently using any cloud-based featured. We may expand into this area down the road.
We do backup some small NAS shares. This has been easy to accomplish with Veeam Backup & Replication and has given us nearly zero issues since we started doing so a few years ago.