3 Years on Veeam and no end in sight.
September 21, 2023
3 Years on Veeam and no end in sight.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Veeam Backup & Replication
Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform
Simple to set up and use. We currently back up our Hyper-V environment, three hypervisors, and about 30 VMs. Separate from the VM jobs, we back up about 10 TB of file servers. We utilize Replication on two mission-critical VMs for failover. We follow the 3-1-1 rule: three copies, one media type, and one off-site backup copy. This is accomplished alongside the GFS retention policy. Automatic weekly reports of job history helps keep everything in line, along with immediate notification of failures.
- 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)
- I don’t know
- None of the above
- Backing up various workloads.
- Backup copies.
- VM replication.
- File-Level or Machine Level restores.
- Instant-restore.
- NA
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
Three physical hypervisors with about 30 virtual machines. Over the past few years, our VM load has shrunk, so it is less than when we first acquired the product.
- Backups are invaluable to any company.
- Previously being on Unitrends, Veeam has more than paid for itself just by replacing them.
- But use what's best for you.
Unitrends backup solution was our last product. With consistent failures, constantly needing to monitor to make sure backups were working, and lacking any trust in its capabilities, we decided to switch to Veeam. Switching to Veeam was probably the best thing for our teams' sanity as well as the business to ensure backups remained intact, available, and easily managed. In conjunction with a Veeam-based hosted cloud infrastructure company, I can confidently show the business that backups are in good shape.
We do not currently back up cloud workloads, but I have done this before, and it is pretty simple. We send backup copies to a cloud provider with 14 days of retention in the event of catastrophic failure.
We back up about 10 TB of file servers (Windows, SMB). While we're making the move away from these file servers, having a backup on them has proven itself worthwhile more than once when something accidentally gets deleted or altered in an unwanted/unexpected way.