Veeam Data Platform product review
June 20, 2025
Veeam Data Platform product review
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Veeam Backup & Replication
Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform
We use it for vmware backup and replication for all test and production servers. The biggest business problem Veeam Data Platform solves for us is the ability to automatically backup/replicate virtual machines on a schedule without the need to manually delete them. For us, we do daily backups and replicate every 3-4 hours, depending on what kind of server it is (test, production) and how critical the server is.
Pros
- Backup retention
- Incremental backups
- Instant recovery
Cons
- File level restore seems to be too slow to be efficient
- Jobs fail sometimes due to proxy unavailability even though there is no jobs running
- Sometimes replicas get lost during storage
- 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
- Immutable storage to protect against ransomware
- “Instant” recovery or portability between platforms (physical > virtual > cloud-hosted)
- Failover or recovery scripts/plans for orchestrated recovery
- Capacity Tier to store data within object storage for longer term retention
Currently, we have zero cloud virtual servers. We have over 200 virtual servers, which are a combination of Linux and Windows operating systems. When we acquired the product, we had fewer than 50 servers, but as our organization grew, we created more jobs and added more virtual machines to the Veeam Data Platform backup job lists.
- Instant recovery provided less downtime
- File level restore helped with files that were deleted in production
- Frequent replication in the event of production data loss
About a decade ago we did not have any solution for backing up and replicating virtual machines. It was not until we had Veeam Data Platform we were finally able to do so. Basically, during the time we had no solution, we were dead in the water in the event we had any issues with production servers, with no way to restore prior files. Now in any event we can restore within hours at the most.
So we are 100% on prem organization and we currently do not use any cloud services for Veeam Data Platform.
We currently are not using the comprehensive NAS/File-share backup solution with Veeam Data Platform.
Veeam Data Platform is much more vast in terms of features compared to the Veeam Data Platform backup for Salesforce product. Although the Veeam Data Platform backup for Salesforce is pretty good at what it does. It lacks the ability to be able to restore all objects at once. Currently it only works for a time in point for a single object.
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?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Veeam Data Platform go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Veeam Data Platform again?
Yes
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