Veeam Backup & Replication Essentials - A great alternative to more expensive backup solutions
Updated August 05, 2022
Veeam Backup & Replication Essentials - A great alternative to more expensive backup solutions
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Veeam Backup & Replication
Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Backup & Replication
We migrated to Veeam Backup & Replication v11a from using a third-party backup solution that wasn't really working for us due to cost, system control, and the third-party administrators.
Veeam allowed us to easily configure both on-site and cloud backups for both our server and desktop systems with a minimal amount of research and training. This addresses our need for granular restores and full system restores from local and cloud repositories and integrates easily with our use of virtual machines.
Veeam allowed us to easily configure both on-site and cloud backups for both our server and desktop systems with a minimal amount of research and training. This addresses our need for granular restores and full system restores from local and cloud repositories and integrates easily with our use of virtual machines.
- Virtualized workloads
- Endpoints and physical servers running Windows & Linux
- In addition to back up, we also replicate some of these workloads
- NAS filers
- 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
- Immutable storage to protect against ransomware
- “Instant” recovery or portability between platforms (physical > virtual > cloud-hosted)
- Failover or recovery scripts/plans for orchestrated recovery
- “Instant” recovery or portability between platforms (physical > virtual > cloud-hosted)
- Ease of configuration.
- Works well with Hyper-V and VMware ESXi VMs.
- Simple restore methods allow for easy restore verification or VM replication.
- Very affordable pricing compared to other similar products.
- Sales and technical support are knowledgeable about their product, are not located overseas, and are quite responsive.
- Roadmap for future OS support is not terribly clear.
- Backups require local storage and direct-to-cloud is not supported.
- Bandwidth speed limits are not precise and were somewhat difficult to tune to our specific needs.
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're currently backing up four virtual and two physical workloads. This is about what we expected to be our usage for our organization.
Our IT infrastructure is relatively simple, but as with most businesses, our data is critical to us.
What we wanted out of Veeam Backup & Replication was something that would allow us to reliably back up all of our servers and workstations without needing to involve a third party.
Our IT infrastructure is relatively simple, but as with most businesses, our data is critical to us.
What we wanted out of Veeam Backup & Replication was something that would allow us to reliably back up all of our servers and workstations without needing to involve a third party.
- Our yearly estimated costs for backup and storage have dropped by from around $5000 to around $600.
- We now will not have someone outside the organization to go to if we need to have a restore performed.
- We will not have to deal with unresponsive and unreasonable third-party administrators when we need to perform a restore.
Prior to switching to Veeam Backup & Replication, the company we had hired on to configure, maintain, and store our backups had gone from being a reasonable local business to a company that didn't hesitate to overcharge for the smallest of things.
Backups were being performed, but we had no access to these backups without involving this company who, as a result, had full control over all of our systems and data.
It became a priority to find and implement an alternative backup solution and Veeam came strongly recommended by some other associates.
Once we installed the software and determined how easily we could manage our own backup infrastructure, we cut our ties with the other company and are quite satisfied with how it's been performing.
Backups were being performed, but we had no access to these backups without involving this company who, as a result, had full control over all of our systems and data.
It became a priority to find and implement an alternative backup solution and Veeam came strongly recommended by some other associates.
Once we installed the software and determined how easily we could manage our own backup infrastructure, we cut our ties with the other company and are quite satisfied with how it's been performing.
Veeam Backup & Replication gives us peace of mind by allowing us to store encrypted and immutable copies of our backups in cloud storage so that for any reasonable loss scenario, we'll still be able to recover our servers, workstations, and data and return to business without a significant amount of hassle.
One of our servers performs our file sharing, so we don't actually utilize the NAS / file sharing backup solution that Veeam Backup & Replication offers.