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Veeam Backup: best for virtual infrastructure.
October 23, 2023

Veeam Backup: best for virtual infrastructure.

Marc Weigl | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Veeam Backup & Replication

Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform

We are backing up our whole virtual infrastructure around the world. With Veeam we can use several other devices to save our backups, like tape or external ransomware-proofed storage devices. Even saving backup in the cloud via "Veeam Cloud Connector" is possible and not bad. You can just create real backup jobs to certain devices and then copy the backup over to another media without touching your live infrastructure again.
  • Virtualized workloads
  • Endpoints and physical servers running Windows & Linux
  • 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
  • Utilizing backup copies for secondary purposes via DataLabs
  • Application-centric recovery using Veeam Explorers (for Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, etc)
  • Application-based restores are great & quick.
  • I like the idea of having several states of backups on different devices.
  • Copying existing backups to different types of media without touching the actual infrastructure is great.
  • Creating different types of jobs sometimes gives you a headache.
  • The way of creating a retention policy is very hard to understand at the beginning.

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 started with about 20 virtual machines in Germany, and now we're backing up about 45 VMs in Germany and about 10-15 more all over the globe.
  • We are much safer regarding ransomware which saves us money in other cases.
The old backup application (Backup Exec) was really bad at backing up the virtual environment at the time we started using VMware, so we had to change our backup infrastructure anyway.
We are not saving anything to the cloud at this time due to a lack of great internet speed. We have tried using the cloud connector in the past, but pushing all of the files in the cloud took forever.
We are using NAS in our company but not for live data - they will only be used as repositories in Veeam to store backups on them. So we don't back up them anyway.
I have used some other backup products in the past (like Symantec BackupExec, DELL vRanger, Acronis...) but none of them is as good as veeam is. The guys from Veeam are really doing a great job developing more and more features everytime they release a new major update. So I really like the product and its features (even when its harder to understand as with some other products, because you have way more features here), but I dont like the support. Luckily we have a great IT regional supplier who is helping us everytime we're having issues using Veeam, but every now and then they can't solve issues, so we have to open cases with Veeam. Unfortunately I cant tell one single case which was solved by them... Bottom line: 1. the product is great 2. get a training when starting to use it 3. most important: get a great IT supplier having Veeam experience or even better being a Veeam partner.