Item: Veeam Data Platform
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use the community edition in my firm. It works like a charm. It's the easiest way to make backups of my virtual machines.

Future Workloads

In addition to back up, we also replicate some of these workloads
In addition to back up, we also snapshot some of these workloads

Key Features

“Instant” recovery or portability between platforms (physical > virtual > cloud-hosted)

Most Used

Automating test restores to validate recoverability

Pros and Cons

make affordable backups
easy and quick recovery
good api documentation

runs only on windows s.o.
hungry for ram
a bit expensive

Number of Workloads Protected

9 virtual machines. I'm using community edition. It's enough for me.

My boss is evaluating to buy a commercial license because he was very impressed by the speed of restore of a whole MS SQL Server virtual machine. Even the single file search and recover works like a charm.

Whit a commercial license I'll be able to automate and protect all vm of my little datacenter

Return on Investment

When I need to restore data, it simply restore. Invaluable
MS SQL back in production in less than 1 hour
Single file restore in less than a minute

Needs Assesment

I was a Nakivo user for 4 years. They change licensing policy and the upgrade was too expensive.

I tried Veaam and I found a good featured community edition. All previous tested software has less capabilities or less features at the same price.

For what I need is the best choice.

Cloud Capabilities

I've no cloud service at the moment, but my firm is planning a partial migration within a couple of years.

For now our internet connection is slow and the amount of data that has to be trasferred is big, so we need to consolidate our infrastructure before to go on cloud and look for a piece of backup software... In any case I don't need to search... Veema will be my choice.

NAS Backup

I've yet to use this feature.

Other Software Used

Veeam ONE, Windows Server, 7-Zip

Likelihood to Recommend

In little and middle datacenter where windows is a must... Veeam is all a IT manager need.I've tried a lot of competitors, but Veeam B&R wins in almost all of comparisons. I've a Microsoft SQL Server for accounting and product lifecycle management. I restored a replica taken in production environment during work hours without problem of db consistency (data after the replica are gone... but wasn't a big problem) and the software return to function in less than 1 hour.

Users and Roles

2 -

Both of them are account manager, but with a bit of IT skills.

The IT manager is not present full time so sometimes they have to take action.

Those people appreciate the clean interface, the speed for restoring a file and the zero-time needed to learn Veeam capabilities and features.

Support Headcount Required

I'm using community edition, so I've purchased any support.

Business Processes Supported

backup of vm
replica of very important vm
restore of entire vm
restore of single file

Innovative Uses

No. Only in traditional way

Future Planned Uses

Not planned

Pros	Cons
Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Well integrated Consistent Convenient Feel confident using	None

Easy Tasks

job backups
schedule job
file recovering

Difficult Tasks

api integration
upgrade existing install

Backups easily and restore quickly

Software Version

Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Workloads

Future Workloads

Key Features

Most Used

Pros and Cons

Key Insights

Do you think Veeam Data Platform delivers good value for the price?

Are you happy with Veeam Data Platform's feature set?

Did Veeam Data Platform live up to sales and marketing promises?

Did implementation of Veeam Data Platform go as expected?

Would you buy Veeam Data Platform again?