A Flexible and Capable Solution for Backup and Disaster Recovery
September 21, 2022
A Flexible and Capable Solution for Backup and Disaster Recovery
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Veeam Backup & Replication
Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Backup & Replication
We've been using Veeam Backup & Replication for over a decade to back up both our multi-host VMware environment as well as a few bare-metal hosts and output to tape. While the solution is clearly targeted at virtualized workloads, the ability to include physical machines is a handy benefit, albeit with a few caveats. The flexibility and features available for backing up virtual machines and their associated application workloads have surpassed our requirements, although organizations with high-security and least privilege requirements (like ours) may find there is additional configuration required for some application solutions (SQL, for example).
Veeam Backup & Replication has proven to be a consistent, reliable solution for our on-premise backup needs. That said, we turned first to Veeam when we started looking for a solution to backup Office 365. Veeam's offering was simple to implement and operate but was unable to backup all the required workloads (Teams). It has been a few years now since we looked into this, so this likely has changed. We will be reassessing this capability soon, as well as the Cloud Connect offerings.
Veeam Backup & Replication has proven to be a consistent, reliable solution for our on-premise backup needs. That said, we turned first to Veeam when we started looking for a solution to backup Office 365. Veeam's offering was simple to implement and operate but was unable to backup all the required workloads (Teams). It has been a few years now since we looked into this, so this likely has changed. We will be reassessing this capability soon, as well as the Cloud Connect offerings.
- Virtualized workloads
- Endpoints and physical servers running Windows & Linux
- Enterprise applications such as Oracle or SAP HANA
- In addition to back up, we also replicate some of these workloads
- In addition to back up, we also snapshot some of these workloads
- Application-centric recovery using Veeam Explorers (for Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, etc)
- Capacity Tier to store data within object storage for longer term retention
- Capacity Tier to store data within object storage for longer term retention
- Tiered backups
- Tape support
- Consistent, reliable performance
- Tape Inventory Management
- Implementation following high-security best practices
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 three production VMware hosts running some 24 VMs. We also protect two physical hosts, including a dedicated physical Domain Controller. We do not yet utilize any cloud capabilities (we found the Office 365 functionality to be lacking) but will be reassessing this capability soon. As a tiny enterprise, Veeam Backup & Replication's capabilities far exceed our capacity requirements.
- Consistently low administration costs
- Consistent performance and adherence to backup objectives
- Consistent and predictable operational costs
It's been so long we've been using Veeam Backup & Replication that I can barely remember the enterprise before it. We had been using a leading small business favorite at the time, Symantec (Veritas) BackupExec. I believe we outgrew that solution, and Veeam Backup & Replication offered a compelling value/incentive for us to change, which is very important for small businesses with tight budgets. My experiences with that solution are now so old as to be irrelevant.
We have not yet extended into the cloud capabilities with Veeam Backup & Replication as we had invested in a different solution (Zerto). However, with Veeam Backup & Replication's continued development on this front, the product has matured to a point where we are now expecting to move to Veeam Backup & Replication shortly.
We do not utilize the NAS/File-share backup capabilities.