Created reliable backup by bring old hosts back up.
September 21, 2023
Created reliable backup by bring old hosts back up.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Veeam Backup & Replication
Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform
We use Veeam for both on-site and off-site backups of our entire in-house VMWare environment data center.
We have Veeam scheduled to back up our database servers every 10
minutes and several of our more important VMs every 2 hours. We also
have a "daily backup" that gets all VMs each night. On top of these, we
have a continuous backup running to an off-site location through a
site-to-site VPN tunnel. Veeam support was fantastic in helping with
some of the issues we encountered when setting things up initially. By using Veeam, we have saved dramatically on our IT spend: 1) After replacing our datacenter SAN and hosts, we were able to add some drives to re-use our old hosts as both on-site and off-site backup servers. 2) Doing this with Veeam allowed us to eliminate managed service and cloud hosting costs we had paid for years and instead implement our own off-site storage 3)
I am now able to manage and prioritize backups, expedite restoring
files or VMs when needed, and have greatly improved visibility into our
backup environment.
We have Veeam scheduled to back up our database servers every 10
minutes and several of our more important VMs every 2 hours. We also
have a "daily backup" that gets all VMs each night. On top of these, we
have a continuous backup running to an off-site location through a
site-to-site VPN tunnel. Veeam support was fantastic in helping with
some of the issues we encountered when setting things up initially. By using Veeam, we have saved dramatically on our IT spend: 1) After replacing our datacenter SAN and hosts, we were able to add some drives to re-use our old hosts as both on-site and off-site backup servers. 2) Doing this with Veeam allowed us to eliminate managed service and cloud hosting costs we had paid for years and instead implement our own off-site storage 3)
I am now able to manage and prioritize backups, expedite restoring
files or VMs when needed, and have greatly improved visibility into our
backup environment.
- Virtualized 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
- Endpoints and physical servers running Windows & Linux
- None of the above
- None of the above
- Backup VM.
- Snapshot VM.
- Replicate continuously to off-site backup.
- The UI could be a bit better.
- The terminology used in the interface could be cleaned up or easier to use.
- The continuous backup data could be better integrated into UI visibility.
- Explanations for errors and failures would sure be nice... "Host discovery failed." What host? What failed? Everything looks fine.
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 protect zero cloud workloads. We support zero physical workloads. We protect more than 20 virtual workloads. This is more than we had expected to protect with Veeam. We did not initially anticipate backing up so many VMs nor did we know we would be able to replicate off-site so easily.
- We eliminated a managed service as well as cloud hosting, a sizable savings.
- We repurposed existing equipment to realize even more savings.
- We have better overall visibility of our backup environment.
We were lucky enough to have a failure that convinced leadership to invest in replacing our aging in-house data center. As we planned for this revamp, we saw an opportunity to make use of existing equipment that would be replaced. At the same time, we had been exploring the idea of replacing a managed service with another managed service (backup), but when we saw the opportunity to reuse existing equipment and completely eliminate the managed service and associated hosting costs, we jumped on it.