We love Veeam Data Platform!
September 19, 2023
We love Veeam Data Platform!
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 and the free version of O365 to backup all of our physical and Hyper-V servers. We also replicate between sites for DR. We archive backups at each site for addition gap protections against ransomware etc. Exchange backups are also a part of the deployment.
- Virtualized workloads
- Endpoints and physical servers running Windows & Linux
- In addition to back up, we also replicate some of these workloads
- Application-centric recovery using Veeam Explorers (for Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, etc)
- Utilizing backup copies for secondary purposes via DataLabs
- Automating test restores to validate recoverability
- Immutable storage to protect against ransomware
- Failover or recovery scripts/plans for orchestrated recovery
- Application-centric recovery using Veeam Explorers (for Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, etc)
- Whole server image backups
- Exchange granular backups
- Site repliction for DR
- Make image management a little easier to manage
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 are protecting 10 physical servers along with 30 VMs. We are also protecting a Linux VOIP box along with an Exchange environment and a small Microsoft Office 365 deployment. We are replicating workloads over MPLS for two different geographic sites and plan to use replication to migrate our main datacenter to a new physical location in the coming months.
- Protection of physical assets for DR
- File server protection against ransomware and accidental data loss
- server restore after failures
Company was using Barracuda appliance when I started which, in my opinion, was an ugly system. I brought my previous employment experience using Veeam Data Platform to replace this bad expensive Barracuda system and also implemented an in house replication DR which I think was a 1000% improvement over the previous Barracuda system. In my experience, the previous system was expensive, slow and cumbersome with very few granular options. It was also very dependent on cloud access which I do not care for. I prefer to have internal control of all systems and data.
We do not use cloud features, prefer internal control.