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BasemIsmail - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Development Specialist at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Top 5
A comprehensive solution for protecting virtual machines and physical servers

What is our primary use case?

We use the solution for protecting virtual machines and physical servers, as well as backing up data. The data platform mainly focuses on virtualization and physical environments, including database backup.

How has it helped my organization?

Veeam recently enhanced some features related to ransomware. Within these updates, its built-in protection feature or cybersecurity features included in the Veeam data platform now provide added protection for all customers. The solution effectively safeguards data, particularly against ransomware. This benefits Veeam, although it may rely on other third-party solutions for business continuity and data protection.

What is most valuable?

The solution focused on on-premises data and covered all virtualized environments, including physical servers. This product offers scalability, flexibility, and a simple user interface.

What needs improvement?

The licensed schema needs to be simple because it is more complicated than the previous one.

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For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the Veeam Data Platform for six years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The product’s stability is good.

I rate the solution’s stability a nine out of ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution can integrate with Azure storage and other storage vendors. It is more scalable than the cloud version.

10-15 users are using this solution. We cater this solution to small to medium companies.

I rate the solution’s scalability a nine out of ten.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I have been working with the Veritas backup solution for about 20 years. Veeam has gained a significant market share and caters to many customer needs in the backup sector.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is easy and takes a couple of hours to complete.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The solution has affordable pricing for old customers.

I rate the product’s pricing a five out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive.

What other advice do I have?

Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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System Engineer at Global Business Solutions
Real User
Scalable product with a good user interface
Pros and Cons
  • "It provides a much better user experience compared to other vendors. It works faster as well."
  • "Veeam's support services need improvement."

What is our primary use case?

We use the platform to take backups of virtual machines and Office 365 mailboxes.

What is most valuable?

The product's user interface is easy for creating and restoring Windows and File Explorer backups. It provides a much better user experience compared to other vendors. It works faster as well.

What needs improvement?

Veeam's support services need improvement. Whenever we create a ticket regarding production issues with high severity, their team takes a longer time to respond. It could be better.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using Veeam Data Platform since 2022.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate the product's stability an eight out of ten. We encountered a few downtime issues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I rate the product's scalability a ten out of ten.

How are customer service and support?

The technical support team can resolve all technical queries. However, it could be improved in terms of response time.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Neutral

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is easy because the server can be connected to the internet during installation. It downloads all the required features and configures all functionalities automatically. It takes a lot of overhead from the admins and engineers working on the process.

The implementation process takes around two days in our infrastructure as we only have a few workloads and know all the details about the policies to be configured. It requires three engineers, including system and network engineers, to execute the process.

What other advice do I have?

I recommend Veeam Data Platform to others and rate it a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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System Administrator at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
User-friendly, secure, and makes the restoring process simple
Pros and Cons
  • "Initially setting up the product is easy."
  • "The stability for AIX machines could be better."

What is our primary use case?

I'm the system admin, and I'm taking care of backups and every job in Veeam Backup. We have the AIX machines and we are deploying the AIX machine; we are doing the backup and trying to restrain the AIX on them.

What is most valuable?

It's very customer-friendly and user-friendly and we use it mostly to backup an issue. 

We have done a multiple-time restore on Veeam Backup and that is an awesome feature. It's a very critical system, we have to restore it and Veeam makes it easy to do so to protect our system.

Initially setting up the product is easy.

The solution has been quite stable. 

Technical support is good.

It supports the technology and it's actually more secure and has enhanced itself. Veeam is always making itself better in terms of functionality and features.

What needs improvement?

Part of the issue we've had is with the AIX backup. Currently, Veeam has issued version 2.0 for the AIX machine, however, it is not capable of taking the entire machine backup and restoring at the one side. It is only taking the backup of the partitions only. There is a limitation there right now. I'd suggest they improve the functionality in the Veeam Backup agent so that it will take an entire machine backup. That would be more beneficial for the official system for the AIX's.

The stability for AIX machines could be better.

Veeam Backup also needs to be possible in Azure, so that if something goes down Veeam can take care of everything. Our local vendor in India for the Azure environment has found out there is no availability for Azure for Veeam Backup and Replication. If there is an existing Veeam option that supports the Azure environment, they need to relay the message. It's not clear now and it appears there isn't one.

We'd love to see the solution offer more compression in the future to allow us to save more space. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It's stable for the ESXi and other Linux and workstations they've established. In the case of the AIX machine that we are using, the stability needs to be improved.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is totally scalable. That said, one thing I didn't get from local resources is that Veeam Backup cannot perform in the Azure environment. 

How are customer service and support?

Technical support is good. It's awesome. Still, we can't get the right solution at the right time. If I'm asking about what ports need to be open for the Veeam Backup and Replication and they are just suggesting the link and just showing the port, it's not quite as helpful as we would hope. For example, what can do we to improve from this side? There needs to be more specificity in terms of the level of technical support we get when we have specific concerns. We would be grateful for this.

How was the initial setup?

The setup process was really easy. I've done it so many times, actually and I am quite comfortable with the steps now. However, in the case of AIX, most users don't know about the AIX deployment. They are not seeing exactly what needs to be done. That part needs to be taken care of by Veeam directly.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I can't speak to the exact pricing, however, in our region, in South Asia, pricing is always a concern.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We tried Commvault also, however, it's not user-friendly and it's not as easy compared to Veeam. They have their own benefit, however, they simply are not user-friendly enough for us. Veeam is easier, and it's reassuring. We've saved money with Veeam as we've had to restore a few times now and we've saved so much data using it. That's why it's good. It's proven itself again and again.

What other advice do I have?

We are customers and end-users of Veeam.

I'd rate the solution at a ten out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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Pradeep Kabbur - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at Stratogent
MSP
Top 20
Cost effective backup solution that enables the retention of large volumes of data
Pros and Cons
  • "Veeam Cloud Connect has helped us to reduce the cost of cloud storage for an offsite solution using their archive storage feature."
  • "It would be useful if we could integrate our on-premise VM solution with the Azure workload backup from the existing console. This would assist our customers in reducing the cost of hardware."

What is our primary use case?

We have used this solution to back up our on-premise environment. Currently, we are backing up our VMs VMware.

How has it helped my organization?

Veeam Cloud Connect has helped us to reduce the cost of cloud storage for an offsite solution using their archive storage feature. 

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature this solution offers us is new and allows us to store data in the cloud and works with Azure and AWS Cloud. This is useful for managing the retention of large volumes of data. 

The continuous backup functionality is useful for us to keep all our data up to date. 

What needs improvement?

It would be useful if we could integrate our on-premise VM solution with the Azure workload backup from the existing console. This would assist our customers in reducing the cost of hardware. 

It would be good to have the option to store the data directly to Azure, AWS Cloud or any other cloud solutions. 

We would like to have cloud storage set up as a storage solution instead of local storage and have an integrated console for AWS, GCP and Amazon Azure workloads.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for the last five to six years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

This is a stable solution for a medium-sized environment. We haven't tried it for a large-scale environment but the solution may not perform as well at a larger scale.

How are customer service and support?

The support offered is very good, however, hey recently introduced a ticketing system that requires us to raise a ticket from their portal site and wait for a response. Calling them directly is not possible. 

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We used to use Commvault as our backup solution. We switched because we wanted to avoid having an offsite team and hardware. 

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is straightforward and very simple. It took three to four hours to set up the environment. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

We have like pooled license and act as a seller. We pay approximately $800 per month. There are no additional costs from Veeam directly but the solution does require cloud storage that needs to be paid for. 

What other advice do I have?

It's an excellent product that is simple and easy to setup. If you have a medium-sized environment and infrastructure, this is a good solution. There is an option of a 30-day trial to test all the features the solution offers.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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CEO at a educational organization with 201-500 employees
Real User
Easy to set up with good scalability and helpful technical support
Pros and Cons
  • "The solution is stable."
  • "When you have to renew the licenses you sometimes have some trouble getting rid of the old one and reassigning it to the new one. That's an aspect that could run smoother and could be better."

What is most valuable?

We like it due to the fact that we can get error messages to alert us to issues. We can get a forecast for our storage and so on. It's really good.

The initial setup is easy. 

The solution is stable. 

The product is very scalable.

Technical support is helpful and knowledgeable. They respond very fast.

What needs improvement?

You have several monitors you have to tune. You have several snapshots on the volume and so on, and this is the standard. However, for example, if you have Rezon from VMware, you have much more snapshots on the volume, and yet it's not a problem as Rezon doesn't have these issues with the huge number of snapshots. They should offer more snapshots on Veeam.

The pricing could be reduced. 

When you have to renew the licenses you sometimes have some trouble getting rid of the old one and reassigning it to the new one. That's an aspect that could run smoother and could be better.

For how long have I used the solution?

We've used the solution for the last eight years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is very stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution scales very well.

You just put in another license key and you can add some hosts. It's that easy.

We have five people that directly use the solution within our company.

How are customer service and technical support?

Technical support from Veeam is great. You don't want to have an issue, however, if you do, they can help you really fast, and they know what to do and they ask the right questions to get deep into the problem if you have something complex or difficult. They'll help you install a patch so that everything is fine. It's great.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The price always could be lower, however, compared to others, it's pretty much in line with other options on the market.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I haven't really looked into other solutions. I've compared the open-managed integration for vCenter, and that's a really cheap one - however, it's hard to install and you often have issues. I would say it's a small giveaway from Dell as an add-on to the hardware.

What other advice do I have?

We're a customer and an end-user of the solution. 

We have the Veeam plugin from Dell and Veeam ONE. Veeam ONE is in the availability suite we have ordered and we changed our hardware from Dell and for the last five years, we have the open-managed integration.

We're currently on version 11 and we updated the solution in February.

For those considering the solution, I would advise that they deactivate the alarm at first and then run it in a warning mode so that you can learn within the environment. Veeam has some limits, and these limits are often only baselines. You may have other limits as you have faster hosts or you have other storage, et cetera. If you run in warning mode, you can learn and put in the correct baselines. You can tune it and then you won't get so many alerts. Once you have tuned your environment against the Veeam baseline it's really comfortable to work with. 

I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten.

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Director of Professional Services | Senior Solution Architect | Trainer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
 Veeam provides a single platform for modernizing backup, accelerating hybrid cloud and securing your data. Simple to install and run, flexible enough to fit into any environment and always reliable.
Pros and Cons
  • "Veeam Is very useful for most environments and can scale up in most environments - such as Amazon or Azure."
  • "I cannot recall coming across any features that were lacking."

What is our primary use case?

Veeam Backup & Replication delivers dependable availability across all cloud, virtual and physical workloads with a simple, flexible and reliable solution. You can protect your data no matter the location or workload type with powerful backup and instant recovery options.

We are a system-integrator company and have a platinum sales-partnership with Veeam Software in Turkey. And also we are giving professional services to our customers on behalf of Veeam within the framework of the global VASP program. We take advantage of this experience to integrate many different environments as an output.

Regarding to this exprerince I can say these ;  Some of our customers use Veeam Cloud Connect platforms for off-site backups and VM replicas, in order to copy and handle disaster recovery scenarios. Some of them are just using the backup infrastructure in their on-premise platforms. And some customers have multiple sites by their own.  They are doing disaster scenarios on their own sites and they are not using any other cloud infrastructure. If you have a Veeam product, there are many scenarios you can consider. 

How has it helped my organization?

Today’s rapid pace of technological innovation is forcing your digital and physical worlds to collide – and it’s also transforming the way you operate, regardless of your industry. This digital transformation can either make or break your business. Because, in the digital world, your customers expect 24/7/365 Availability.

For today’s enterprises, this means that expectations for SLAs for data and application uptime can be revolutionized. You no longer need to be constrained by the RTPOs of hours or days of legacy solutions – you can think in minutes or seconds instead – for all applications, data, and workloads on-premises or in the cloud. 

Veeam Backup & Replication provides an improvement in this framework

What is most valuable?

It's good for backup performance management and backup window management. 

There are a lot of features to choose from. 

Veeam provided different advantages in many categories in cloud, virtual and physical workloads. With the CDP and Linux Hardened Repository components that came in the latest version, it started to provide serious innovations in terms of business continuity and backup data accessibility.

Veeam customers have the confidence knowing their data is always available, on any app, any data in  any cloud.

It' has user-friendly GUI and customers can easily manage this software on their own. 

The initial setup is easy. The stability is good. The solution can scale. Technical support is helpful.

What needs improvement?

Our customers seem to be quite happy with the solution. I cannot recall coming across any features that were lacking.

We were waiting for two years for the continuous data protection features and it was released with this last version in February. And in v11 there are so much improvements made. They all are useful. There is no other feature request from our side. While continuing to use v11, additional requests may of course occur.

For how long have I used the solution?

It's been a while. I've been using the solution for about eight years.I have a good amount of experience with the product.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

There is a sure backup feature to check backup data is stable and accessable or not . SureBackup is the Veeam technology that lets you test VM backups and check if you can recover data from them. You can verify any restore point of a backed-up VM. During a SureBackup job, Veeam Backup & Replication performs “live” verification: scans the backed-up data for malware, boots the VM from the backup in the isolated environment, runs tests for the VM, powers the VM off and creates a report on recovery verification results.


What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution offers very good scalability, both on-premises and on the cloud. Small, medium or large enterprises can easily use the solution and scale it to meet their needs.

There's a proxy usage mentality regarding Veeam resources and regarding an increased ratio. You can add an additional proxy to Veeam platforms and you can follow a parallel tasking process. There is no off time or maintenance schedule needed to scale out this environment.

How are customer service and technical support?

We've been in touch with technical support. We find them to be helpful and responsive. They are also kind. We do not have a case that's not resolved in the support section. We are satisfied with their level of service.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is very straightforward. It's very easy to implement. A company wouldn't have any trouble with it.

For large environments, there must be architectured guidelines that must be followed before implementation. For our corporate accounts, that have three physical hosts and are running a VMware cluster with three hosts for a fixed CPU socket environment. It's a basic environment, and there is no additional architectural design needed before the implementation. In that case, the installation steps took two hours, maybe with operating system installations. After two hours the customer could try to get back the servers in his environment. It's good for backup scenarios and also for failover scenarios, like management access issues for Veeam Software. It's also more useful to restore the coniguration database and restore from a backup catalog. If they are all simple processes for customers, they can manage these scenarios very easily.

In large environments 

What about the implementation team?

As product implementation becomes more sophisticated, Veeam recognizes the growing need to identify entrusted and authorized partners who possess the highest expertise level and are able to deliver high-quality services to ensure that our users are completely satisfied. We are the first and only certified professional services partner In Turkey.  Maintenance services is important in enterprise large accounts.

What was our ROI?

It changes for every customer.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The pricing varies considerably. It changes project by project. Some of our customers can get special prices from vendors. Some of them can't. 

There are some environments that change in terms of product support, however, for pricing, there are two models in Veeam. One of them is CPU socket licensing and one of them is Universal (instance-based) licensing. It just depends on the customer environment. 

What other advice do I have?

We strongly recommend this software, due to the IT operations efficiency and data reliability. I'd rate the solution at a ten out of ten. Veeam is the best.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Private Cloud
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: We are a system-integrator company and have a platinum sales-partnership ( value-added reseller) with Veeam Software in Turkey. And also we are giving professional services to our customers on behalf of Veeam within the framework of the global VASP program. We are giving consultancy for veeam products in all cloud (private,public,hybrid,on-premieses) infrastructures
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Backup Administrator at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Good support, stable, and easy to set up
Pros and Cons
  • "The backup and replication capabilities are quite good."
  • "The integration with other solutions should be improved."

What is our primary use case?

In my previous company, this was being used as the backup and replication solution.

What is most valuable?

The backup and replication capabilities are quite good.

What needs improvement?

The integration with other solutions should be improved.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have worked with Veeam Backup & Replication for two years. I stopped using it a few months ago when I changed companies.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

For the entire time that I used it, this product was stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

This a scalable solution.

How are customer service and technical support?

The technical support for Veeam is good.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We currently use Dell EMC Avamar and we also have experience with IBM Spectrum Protect.

These are all specialty tools and are good, although, for the needs of our organization, we prefer Avamar.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is easy.

What other advice do I have?

Overall, this is quite a good product and I recommend it.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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CTO at NWI Telecom
Real User
A fast and easy-to-use solution that supports incremental backups and allows us to do a rollback and recover our services with a little downtime
Pros and Cons
  • "The peace of mind of the backup is very important. Incremental backups make it fast and easy to use. We can recover from any failures in case of any hardware failures or malware attacks. We can do a rollback and recover our services with a little downtime. We can rollback even in the case of unsuccessful updates."
  • "They have an integration with MS SQL, and you have to license MS SQL. This is something they need to change. They should go for an open-source database or a free SQL because you're already buying this product, and you shouldn't have to buy another product."

What is our primary use case?

We use it to guarantee the uptime of our services and servers. We are using its latest version.

What is most valuable?

The peace of mind of the backup is very important. Incremental backups make it fast and easy to use.

We can recover from any failures in case of any hardware failures or malware attacks. We can do a rollback and recover our services with a little downtime. We can rollback even in the case of unsuccessful updates.

What needs improvement?

They have an integration with MS SQL, and you have to license MS SQL. This is something they need to change. They should go for an open-source database or a free SQL because you're already buying this product, and you shouldn't have to buy another product.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for a little over a year.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is very stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is scalable. It is just a complaint about MS SQL, but with everything else, it is really scalable. You can just add resources and use what you need. It is really flexible. We have six analysts who use this solution.

How are customer service and technical support?

I have never used their technical support.

How was the initial setup?

It is fairly easy to set up the solution. The deployment took just a few hours. Generally, two business days would be enough.

What other advice do I have?

I would advise planning your deployments ahead of time and predicting space refinements so that you can set up everything correctly. If you need to change it later, it is a little more complicated.

I would rate Veeam Backup & Replication a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner
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