Pleasant transition from a cludgy agent only Data Protection solution to Veeam Data Platform
April 08, 2025
Pleasant transition from a cludgy agent only Data Protection solution to Veeam Data Platform
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Veeam Backup & Replication
Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform
Use Veeam Data Platform for both on-prem and offsite data protection.
Pros
- Backup of virtual infrastructure.
- Backup of physical servers and end user machines via installed agents.
- Remote backup via Veeam Data Platform Vault.
Cons
- Would like to see a more intuitive way to recover individual files.
- Self service recovery for end users.
- Virtualized workloads
- Endpoints and physical servers running Windows & Linux
- NAS filers
- Capacity Tier to store data within object storage for longer term retention
- 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)
- Capacity Tier to store data within object storage for longer term retention
Currently Veeam Data Platform manages data protection for all of our virtual infrastructure to include EHR, File Servers, AD Servers, and legacy 2003 servers that competitive products no longer support. We performed quite a bit of due diligence and deployed POCs in advance of the final deployment and the product met/exceeded every metric that we had.
- Data protection is not one of the sexy workloads in the environment that has a ROI contributing to the bottom line but if you don't have it and something catastrophic happens the cost is devastating.
- We transitioned from a proprietary Unitrends appliance requiring unstable agents for all backups and an unintuitive interface that was difficult to troubleshoot often requiring a support call to resolve issues . Veeam Data Platform is stable, largely intuitive, allows non-proprietary inexpensive backup targets, and I have yet to need to make a support call to resolve any issues.
Unitrends frequently failed for us at the installed agents. More often than not resolution would require creating a service ticket and having an engineer remote in to resolve it by getting into the command line to review logs and editing scripts.
We have long used competitive cloud based backups. When we transitioned to Veeam Data Platform Vault we have been impressed with the ease of use and how cost effective it is compared to competitors.
Night and day...Veeam Data Platform is intuitive, stable, reliable, and cost effective.
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
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