Veeam Data Platform Review
March 14, 2024
Veeam Data Platform Review
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Veeam Backup & Replication
Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform
We use it to back up all of our VMWare Virtual Machines to 3 separate backup repository. This allows up to restore files that have accidentally been deleted. The main business problems the product addresses, though, is disaster recovery and ransomware protection. We have also used Veeam Data Platform to migrate VMs from 1 set of VMWare hosts to another.
- Ease of recovery with file level restores.
- Application aware backups for Exchange and SQL servers.
- Ability to set backup windows and schedule backups based on other backups finishing.
- Slightly confusing license management.
- Sometimes has delays when loading file level backups.
- No ability to update from within the software.
- Virtualized workloads
- Endpoints and physical servers running Windows & Linux
- In addition to back up, we also replicate some of these workloads
- In addition to back up, we also snapshot some of these workloads
- Application-centric recovery using Veeam Explorers (for Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, etc)
- License portability as your environment needs change
- Immutable storage to protect against ransomware
- Application-centric recovery using Veeam Explorers (for Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, etc)
23 - That is slightly more than we expected. We were able to backup all the anticipated Virtual Machines that we planned. We later had use cases to backup several bare metal servers as well and ended up added those.
- Incredibly easy to restore full VMs to new servers for testing.
- Reduced the time of recovery by a day over old backup solution due to being able to fully restore servers.
- Much easier to train new staff in recovery process.
We implemented Veeam Data Platform when moving to a new hyperconverged virtualization platform as the cost could be rolled in to the whole project budget. One main difference up front was the cost as our previous backup solution was free, open-source software. However, there was significant value to be had with ease of operation and the ability to do immutable backups that made the cost worth it.
We have not used the cloud backup features.
We have not used the NAS/File-share backup feature.
We were actually using the open-source version of Bacula. We switched because with Veeam Data Platform we could do full VM backups, and it was easier to train new staff on the backup procedure. However, Bacula did a great job for what it was and saved us money.
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