Veeam Data Platform - a great solution for VM protection!
September 06, 2023
Veeam Data Platform - a great solution for VM protection!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Veeam Backup & Replication
Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform
We use Veeam Data Platform for the Backup and Restore and Monitoring and Reporting pieces. We use it for Backups of our entire environment, modeling the 3-2-1 model. We use a Linux hardened repository with Immutability to protect from Ransomware. We have about 220 VMs we protect with our Veeam backup jobs and backup copy jobs. We maintain a 7-year retention. We will be moving the backup copy jobs to the cloud in 2024. We use the Monitoring and Reporting features to troubleshoot alarms and rightsize our systems.
- Virtualized workloads
- In addition to back up, we also snapshot some of these workloads
- Application-centric recovery using Veeam Explorers (for Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, etc)
- Utilizing backup copies for secondary purposes via DataLabs
- Immutable storage to protect against ransomware
- “Instant” recovery or portability between platforms (physical > virtual > cloud-hosted)
- Application-centric recovery using Veeam Explorers (for Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, etc)
- Allows for SQL databases to be restored elsewhere for DEV team to use for testing
- Provides immutability option to protect against Ransomware
- Provides Monitoring and Reporting tools
- Would like to be able to File Level Restores from data stored on a VVOL
- Would like to be able to perform Quarterly backup copy jobs for GFS options
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 approximately 220 VMs being protected by Veeam Data Platform. This is far more than was expected when we first purchased the product more than 7 years ago. We have nothing but good interactions with Veeam Customer Service and Technical Support. Their seminars/webinars are top notch and very helpful.
- We backup over 220 VMs in our environment.
- We have had very few times when we needed to restore a systeme, but when we did we used Instant Recovery and had the VMs back up in about 20 minutes.
- Has been very useful for our DEV team to restore a copy of a database to another place and use it for testing.
Going virtual across all our servers and using SAN rather than tape drives made switching to Veeam the right choice for a new Backup System. Adding the Monitoring and Reporting feature provided us with deeper insight into troubleshooting, monitoring, and capacity planning our environment. We plan to add the Orchestation feature in the future to be able to automate our Disaster Recovery.
We have not utilized the Cloud yet, but that is in the plans for 2024.
Our data is stored on a SAN, so we have not utilized this feature yet.