Veeam Data Platform is an essential part of our data protection strategy
April 24, 2025
Veeam Data Platform is an essential part of our data protection strategy
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Veeam Backup & Replication
Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform
We use Veeam Data Platform essentials for daily and airgap backups of mission critical data to airgap and scale out file repositories.
The platform is solid to the point of being able to do an annual disaster recovery test rebuild from total disaster loss to getting back online from only a single airgap backup of all physical and virtual machines.
The platform is solid to the point of being able to do an annual disaster recovery test rebuild from total disaster loss to getting back online from only a single airgap backup of all physical and virtual machines.
Pros
- Backups/restores of on-prem physical, virual machines, and cloud
- Data conversion between server platforms, particularly esxi ->Hyper-v.
- Ability to do sandbox restores to verify data integrity.
Cons
- Veeam B&R is service based and requires a lot of services to run so pretty long load time initially.
- When using it with best practices, it is sometimes difficult to get to new, never-installed resources.
- some issues backing up Linux servers with application-aware processing.
- Virtualized workloads
- Endpoints and physical servers running Windows & Linux
- Enterprise UNIX servers running Solaris & IBM AIX
- Enterprise UNIX servers running Solaris & IBM AIX
- Enterprise applications such as Oracle or SAP HANA
- Cloud-hosted VMs within AWS or Azure
- Capacity Tier to store data within object storage for longer term retention
- Automating test restores to validate recoverability
- “Instant” recovery or portability between platforms (physical > virtual > cloud-hosted)
- Capacity Tier to store data within object storage for longer term retention
17. Less than original we went down servers initially had 25, so was able to drop or license count at renewal.
- You never know how good a backup product is until you actually try to restore something. Veeam Data Platform has been rock solid
- We can back up our virtualized workloads and, on restore, can get embedded files out, which is 90% of what we typically do. We don't have to do separate file-level backups to get this functionality.
We'll be able to add on backups of workloads in M365 without difficulty.
We are moving from on-prem to cloud based storage and so will be able to leverage Veeam Data Platform to protect the data after the migration.
- Arcserve Backup, MSP360 Backup and Veritas Backup Exec
Veeam Data Platform was best value, except in the case of MSP360 where it was just a superior product.
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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