Veeam Data Platform Reviews

We replicate data between servers on our site and we back up to external media, which we take offsite.

It really helps secure our data.

It does a pretty good job of what we ask it to. What I find most valuable is probably the virtual machine backup. I can really trust those copies.

Their licensing model could use some improvement. In the version we're using, they license per core and up to six cores, so you can't use the one for small business anymore. You have to upgrade to the enterprise carry-on, it's a bit ridiculous.

I'd like to see more flexible licensing or to be consumed as a service.

I've been using this solution for five years now. 

It's very stable. 

It is very scalable. Just my only issue is from a licensing perspective. If you want to add more servers, they push you up into a much more expensive licensing tier. Technically it's very scalable; financially, it's not that scalable.

The product is so good that I haven't had to call support. 

In the global scheme of things, it's pretty inexpensive software as far as what we spend per year. If you factor in hardware and all sorts of other things, it's probably a good value for your money.

There are no additional costs other than the standard licensing fee per year. It's pretty straightforward. 

i give this solution a nine out of ten. I think it's a good product for small to medium businesses. It serves our needs. Unless your needs are very particular, it probably covers most use cases.

Our primary use case is to back everything up.

The features that I have found most valuable are its back up and recovery. It is a simplified backup because you can do both databases - VM and HyperV. It is a faster backup than the conventional methods because it takes up the bare metal.

In terms of what could be improved, I would say the manageability but not that much else.

In the next release I would like to see a bit more intelligence as far as a solution or troubleshooting - to put it more on the level of resolution and not simply identifying there is a problem.

I have been using Veeam Backup & Replication for a few years.

Veeam Backup & Replication is pretty stable. It has the odd problems here and there, but they are mostly due to snapshot running or things like that.

Veeam Backup & Replication is very scalable.

There are two administrators maintaining it.

In terms of increased usage, all future servers will be running Audit. We don't plan on changing for another one.

Technical support is pretty good. They have a fast response.

The last solution we used was Commvault and we were not satisfied with the results with the backup time, but that was more than 10 years ago.

The initial setup is pretty straightforward.

I'm not the one who installed initially, so I couldn't say for the implementation, but adding any products is very straightforward.

Our license is yearly, but I don't know the cost.

We did brief surveys of other solutions, but Veeam seemed to correspond with our virtual needs because 85% of our servers are virtual.

I am very satisfied with Veeam Backup & Replication.

On a scale of one to ten, I would give Veeam Backup & Replication an eight point five because it solves our problems but it's not perfect, but more than good enough.

I primarily use Veeam Backup for VMware backups—I have one physical agent—and replications to SAN. I use it to copy backups to the cloud, as well as for tape backups. I also use it for restoring Azure backups and replicas to ensure that backup is successful. 

This solution is deployed on-premises, and we are currently using the latest update. 

One of the most valuable features is the integration. Another good feature is the instant recovery. 

I think that Veeam could improve some performance issues when the backup itself is restored. I'm also using HPE StoreOnce, which has deduplication, and when I'm trying to test or run backups, it takes a lot of time. I think they could improve the testing for backup copies. 

I have been using Veeam Backup for more than five years. 

This solution is very stable and reliable. I didn't face any issues with Veeam Backup Replication itself—the whole issue was related to issues with the operating system. 

This solution is easy to scale. 

I have contacted Veeam technical support a few times and was satisfied with the support. I contacted them regarding issues related to the backup copy to cloud and they helped to fix the problem. 

The installation was straightforward and we handled it locally. 

We have one admin using this application and two IT members working as alternative administrators for any issues if the main admin is not available. So we have a team of three handling maintenance. 

We implemented this solution through an in-house team. 

The pricing is on the higher side, so I think they have to think about the price. It's a stable product and there was no requirement to keep in touch with the support team, so the renewal license was too expensive. 

I rate this solution a ten out of ten, and I would definitely recommend this solution to others. 

As a manager, I find Veeam One's reporting service to be very helpful. 

I've never considered what improvements Veeam needs, and I haven't asked our customers if there is any room for improvement. As the manager, I only see the reports. From my side, it's more than enough for me.

I've used Veeam One for about three or four years.

Veeam's stability meets our expectations.

We are a small firm, so we don't use Veeam One ourselves, but it's a scalable solution for our customers. We've deployed it on a large scale. The biggest company had around 3,000 employees.

As a partner, we get Veeam for free through a network service license.

I rate Veeam One 10 out of 10.

We are using Veeam Backup Replication for our virtual environments.

The solution protects our system environment which has helped the company.

The most valuable feature is the ease of use.

Veeam Backup Replication could improve by having better integration with the cloud. Additionally, they do not have direct integration to S3 or Azure storage for the backups of the VMs. This feature would be beneficial because we have to go through the scalable repository which I do not like. 

I have been using Veeam Backup Replication for approximately seven years.

Veeam Backup & Replication is stable.

I have found Veeam Backup & Replication scalable. However, you might need to expand your infrastructure. 

The technical support is good.

The installation is straightforward.

The price of Veeam Backup & Replication is reasonable compared to IBM.

If you have virtual environments or databases, Veeam Backup Replication is a good solution. I would recommend it to others.

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

The solution can be used for backing up data such as virtual machines, data servers, and applications.

We was concern about ransomware attack and with Veeam now we are protected. Thnaks Veeam

I have found one of the most valuable features to be the integrity of the backups. It does a great job at taking backups of physical servers and doing replications. The integration with their storage is done well.

I think backing up from physical servers and ransomware security needs some improvements. However, they have improved in the newer release by encrypting the backup server.

In upcoming releases, I do not want the UI to change, this is important for individuals using the solution. If there are many changes then they have to keep learning the UI over and over again making it difficult.

I have been using the solution for approximately five years.

The solution is stable.

In my experience, I have found the solution to be stable. You are able to scale out to repositories well. You can add all servers together as a bundle and use them as a scale-out repository. 

The technical support is great. They have comprehensive FAQ information that can be searched for whatever your needs are.

I have used Veritas in the past and it does a better job at backing up servers.

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The installation is simple, it takes less than 15 minutes.

This solution requires a license and the organizations I was involved in were using an enterprise license.

I would recommend using this solution to others.

I rate Veeam Backup Replication a ten out of ten.

Until a year ago, this solution was our primary backup and recovery product. We are a cloud connect partner so we provide backups both onsite and offsite as well as replication.  

Veeam has simplified backups for MSPs over the years and is one of the easiest products to deploy.

The most valuable feature has been the integration of physical agents and our cloud connect service.  Using this, we're in the process of replacing one of our legacy backup products and standardizing on two products to handle all of our backup and recovery needs.

I've always found recovery speed to be its downfall.  If you have a very large machine (1TB+) I would not recommend Veeam be the primary recovery product because of the amount of time it would take to recover if you had to do full recovery.  It can absolutely do the job, but I  suggest augmenting Veeam with a solution that can recover more quickly, which would most likely be storage snapshot based.

One of the most important features of Veeam is the excellent self-restart feature. We use Veeam to provide remote backups for us as well as our customers. Many times a communications glitch will occur that will disrupt the backup process during the offsite backup procedure. The product will automatically restart the process and continue self-monitoring and restarting until the backup is complete and also notify our support staff of its status. This self-restart feature also works very well on the local backups should a rare error situation occur.

Another feature that is important to us is Veeams virtual server restart feature. This allows us to quickly restart a virtual sever. This feature provides an almost immediate server restart should a calamity occur.

Another great feature is the ability to backup only the changed files/blocks. This results in very fast backups once the initial backup is done. Compression is also excellent with the Veeam product. This saves space on the target drive and as well as time on the data transmission process. This is very important during offsite backups. Lastly, a great feature is the encryption protection on the backups that protects data during the offsite backup process.

It has greatly reduced the man power required to monitor the backup process. Coupled with the email notification feature, the BDR services that we offer can be managed by one person and subject matter knowledge can easily be transferred to another technician without extensive training.

We would like to see a product that supports Linux, however, we believe that this support is already in the works.

We have used Veeam for about two years at our facility as well as at our customers facilities.

We have had no issues with the deployment so far as multi-site WAN acceleration works out of the box, and so far we've been very happy with our experience

There have been no performance issues.

We currently backup many TBs of data without any problem.

The level of customer support is excellent.

The support personnel are very articulate, knowledgeable, easy to understand, and provide a quick turn around on our questions.

We have tried several other products and none were as good as Veeam. One competing product caught fire. Another product was not reliable on local or remote backups, and the other was extremely overpriced with low quality hardware, buggy software, low quality support, and low reliability.

It should be installed by a IT professional who understands security, backups and bandwidth. However, this applies to any company that wants to establish a rock sold BDR process. Before the implementation is started be sure to map out the data that is to be backed up, calculate the bandwidth, disk space, and time required to do the initial backup. Next, set up the local backup first and get it running properly. Then, set up the first initial offsite backup remembering that the first offsite backup may take several days. After that, the offsite backups will run very quickly.

We provide BDR services so we learned Veeam and installed it ourselves.

Pricing of Veeam is excellent and is an excellent value proposition for both partners and customers.

I have used and evaluated many backup and recovery solutions. Veeam came out on top for ease of use, reliability of job execution, backup validation, and speed of recovery in virtual environments.

Veeam has been the best BDR product that we have ever used. Although it does require some expertise to set it up correctly, once it is set up it runs perfectly. Use an experienced Veeam company or consultant or spend time learning the product. It is very worthwhile

Spend time to plan resources, bandwidth, etc. before installing the Veeam. Watch the Veeam process carefully in the first few weeks in order to learn what it does. It has a wide array of features so make sure you learn how to perform the various types of restores (e.g. virtual server restore, single file restore, etc.). Take advantage of the ability to provide local and remote backups and configure both for the target environment. What is very important, as in all BDR environments, is to regularly do a test restore of a few files to make sure that the backups and restores are working properly.