VEEAM meaures up

VEEAM provides a number of critical uses to our agency. First, it acts as a backup agent to backup critical machines on a scheduled basis. If these jobs don't complete or complete with errors I am notified. Second, VEEAM creates replicas for critical virtual machines so that in a failure of a host machine, the replica can be quickly failed over and put in use. WHen the original host is restored the replica can be restored back to the original. VEEAM also works very well as a migration tool to move VM's to new hosts.

We have approximately 12 workloads protected by VEEAM. As our server count has remained about the same we have been able to use VEEAM to cover the expanded workload by using the licensing model utilized by VEEAM. We have decreased the usage of individual servers for specific workloads and leveraged VM's as technology has improved.

We were rapidly outgrowing a tape backup solution. Both is size of tapes and timeframes overnight. Additionally, tape ran once per day where VEEAM can run replication or backups in as small a time frame as 15 minutes. We are more assured of less loss of data and quicker restore times.

We have critical workloads that are backed up using the VEEAM cloud. We still have on premise backup and recovery, but the VEEAM cloud assures us of immutable copies of the data. The job is automated and reports follow success of each one.

We have not used the NAS fileshare backup due to complexities in configuration and possible incompatibility or lack of support from the filer vendor.