Veeam
September 07, 2023
Veeam
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Veeam Backup & Replication
Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform
A properly deployed Veeam environment is incredibly powerful. We use Veeam for backup, backup verification/testing (SureBackup), replication, and archival of our physical and virtual server workloads (as well as select critical workstations).
Veeam’s “bring your own hardware” approach allowed us to repurpose existing hardware during our transition to the product, and it’s wide range of supported hardware allowed us to gain features like direct-san without becoming vendor locked.
Veeam’s “bring your own hardware” approach allowed us to repurpose existing hardware during our transition to the product, and it’s wide range of supported hardware allowed us to gain features like direct-san without becoming vendor locked.
- 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
- Cloud-hosted VMs within AWS or Azure
- 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
- Utilizing backup copies for secondary purposes via DataLabs
- Automating test restores to validate recoverability
- Integration with cyber-security tools for SecureRestore
- Immutable storage to protect against ransomware
- “Instant” recovery or portability between platforms (physical > virtual > cloud-hosted)
- Accessing data for data mining or re-use of backup copies via API
- Application-centric recovery using Veeam Explorers (for Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, etc)
- Automating test restores to validate recoverability
- Immutable storage to protect against ransomware
- Diverse supported hardware / vendors
- Excellent support and documentation
- Expanding the product with new features
- Some features are overly complex to get enabled, like SureBackup
- Some features are under-documented, like Hardened Linux Repos (great community content is out there though to fill in the gaps)
- Some issues have persisted for years, like Nimble-generated replicated snapshots failing to associate with the parent / source VM
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
Cloud: 0 (minus 1200 users being protected by Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365)
Physical: 14
Virtual: 280
Physical: 14
Virtual: 280
- DataLab allows cloning of production VMs to a lab environment for upgrade resting.
- SureBackup Malware scanning allows malware scans to hit our secondary array
- DirectSan pulling from our downstream array saves loads of iops
Backups are only valuable if they can be restored. Veeam has let us down rarely-of-ever, where the competition failed to bring VMs back to life with far greater frequency
We don’t use these features
We don’t use these features