Veeam is a powerful and flexible backup solution
October 05, 2023
Veeam is a powerful and flexible backup solution
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Veeam Backup & Replication
Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform
We use Veeam Data Platform to perform out of band hybrid backups of our IT server infrastructure and end-user endpoints. The thing I value most about Veeam as a solution is how flexible it is to backup practically anything (Windows, Linux, Mac, physical, virtual (HyperV and VMware) and cloud) and restore to practically anything in a similar fashion. We use it to perform continuous and scheduled backups, as well as for performing migrations (physical to physical, physical to virtual, physical to cloud, HyperV to VMware, HyperV/VMware to cloud and vice versa).
I also like that it is aware of some of the database products we use (MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL) and can automate certain tasks like truncating logs, etc.
- 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
- Application-centric recovery using Veeam Explorers (for Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, etc)
- License portability as your environment needs change
- Automating test restores to validate recoverability
- Immutable storage to protect against ransomware
- “Instant” recovery or portability between platforms (physical > virtual > cloud-hosted)
- Failover or recovery scripts/plans for orchestrated recovery
- Immutable storage to protect against ransomware
- backing up and restoring on-prem virtual and physical hosts
- automatically orchestrating the backup infrastructure (backup proxies and transports)
- automating the restoration workflow (being able to restore in place without having to perform additional manual operations)
- Reporting and logging
- Licensing: allow the use / merging of perpetual and subscription licenses. We have permanent per socket licenses, and subscription licenses to backup desktop workstations. This currently forces us to have 2x Veeam servers.
Do you think Veeam Data Platform delivers good value for the price?
Not sure
Are you happy with Veeam Data Platform's feature set?
No
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 3x VMware physical hosts with ~50 virtual machines. We also backup ~30 Windows 10 desktops.
- Quick recovery despite initial costs, still beats rebuilding infrastructure manually.
With my current employer, they were using a legacy file based backup software, which I urgently encouraged the company to move to a solution that could backup the entire machines, whether physical or virtual, as file based backups can't be used to quickly restore in case of a disaster.
Our cloud costs had significantly increased in costs due to vendors increasing costs to customers and charging for silly metrics such as local disk I/O, so we used Veeam to migrate our cloud virtual machines back on-premises, helping us realize immediate cost savings.
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