Veeam Data Platform Reviews

My primary use case is as a backup for VMware Hypervisor and SAP HANA.

Veeam communicates with the vCenter in VMware, which means it's very smooth and doesn't interrupt production on VMware and you can backup or restore anytime, anywhere.

The most valuable feature is the virtualization backup - Veeam is the best for this.

The deduplication feature could be improved by changing to global deduplication. I am also concerned about the master server landing on Microsoft Windows only, which means that if there is a ransom attack on the Veeam server, all the backup features will go down, and the data will be lost.

I've been using this solution for over seven years.

This solution is very stable, including its support for Hyper-V and Nutanix.

This solution is scalable - you can backup to several locations without additional cost.

I previously used IBM TSM, but the IT environment in Thailand changed from Linux to Intel, which TSM did not support, so I switched to Veeam.

The initial setup is very easy, it takes about one to two hours and requires only one person.

The license can be expensive if you have a lot of VMs, as that's what the cost is calculated from, but it's also flexible in terms of what kind of backup you can use.

Veeam is really easy to deploy and easy to use. I would rate this solution nine out of ten.

We use Veeam in our company for demo purposes to present to our clients and our customers. We have some keys in production implementation in the production environment, in our clients' infrastructure.

The solution is a very convenient instant crypto machine. It's great for virtual machine recovery, mass storage, data immigration, restoring backups of physical service to mutual environments, et cetera.

Some features of Veeam will work in cloud environments, such as Azure. 

The solution is extremely user-friendly.

Overall, the product has proven to be quite stable.

The solution has extensive documentation.

The initial setup is pretty straightforward.

I just started working with version 11 in January and I am still looking at the changes. I haven't come across areas of the solution that are lacking just yet. I still need to explore it more.

Although the solution offers documentation, it has it only in English, which doesn't help us much in Belarus. It would be much more helpful if they provided their documentation in multiple languages.

The backup jobs and the scheduled tuning are not as convenient as compared to a solution such as Data Protector. They should work on these aspects to make them more convenient.

Veeam can not do some backup jobs. yOu can only arrange it on a daily basis and no more than that. You can't, for example, do a backup twice in one day, even if you need to.  

I've been working with the solution for a while. I just started using the latest version in January.

The stability of the solution is good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's excellent.

The solution is scalable. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so.

We've never had to open a ticket for Veeam. I've never dealt with technical support directly. I can't speak to how knowledgable or responsive they are.

Up until two years ago, I worked with Micro Focus Data Protector, version 9.5. It's more for enterprises and has more capabilities for working with tape libraries, replication between the sites, data trends, or working with virtual tape libraries, and so on. It is more expensive, however, in comparison to Veeam.

The initial setup is not overly complex. It's rather straightforward. Specifically, when it comes to small environments, deployment is very easy. You don't have to be overly skilled to do an implementation.

I don't know the exact pricing of the software. I can't speak to its direct costs.

I haven't properly evaluated Commvault, however, I've attended webinars on the solution and have a bit of familiarity with it.

I'm an integrator. Our organization is a Gold Partner with Veeam.

Overall, I would rate the solution at an eight out of ten. It's pretty good.

The overall backup tools, as we use this to prevent data loss.

Coming from tape backup environment to using Veeam and cloud upload dramatically changed and improved our backup process. The increase in backup speed was truly amazing, backup windows shrunk, we can also perform more frequent backups if more protection is required. There is obviously also the integration with VMware (which we utilize) and administration via PowerShell. All this, together with CloudBerry allowed us to fully automate our backup and offsite upload process. Reporting via PowerShell is extremely useful too i.e. for our daily checks.

Below, you’ll find various suggestions from both my admins and myself that would improve Veeam Backup

• Built in upload to external storage. Using apps like Cloudberry, even though it can be automated, just adds unnecessarily complexity and one more point to break
• Integrated and intuitive orphaned snapshot management. When things go wrong during backups, you can be left with orphaned snapshots consuming more space on your storage than is immediately visible. This can be very problematic under certain conditions. Integrated visibility into this would be very helpful in these cases.
• Ability to shrink VRB files as servers are removed from jobs
• Ability to reconnect VRB’s in the chain
• Ability to attach and backup physical servers
• Better visibility of deduplication percentages

Only issues were with licensing. Mixed versions across sites made licensing a bit difficult. Also, having to use Cloudberry to upload to AWS S3 is not ideal, although it does work OK.

The product is very stable.

It is highly scalable.

I haven’t dealt with Veeam support, but my team say that tech support is decent and the skill varies significantly from tech to tech. We've discovered more solutions from the user forums than through tech support.

Setup is very straightforward. Creating backup jobs and remote storage learning curve is not intuitive, but a quick scan of the documentation allows for quick study. Difficulty level is low.

However, having to use a separate application (Cloudberry) to upload to AWS S3 is very cumbersome and seems like something that should be integrated into the core product.

We performed it in-house and did not use a vendor team or a consultant.

I wasn’t part of that project, but I believe at the time we also looked at AppAssure and Veeam was more flexible for us and more economical too.

This is perfect backup solution for small to medium businesses that have an onsite VM environment. If you’re using AWS S3 for off-site then look elsewhere. This does not support it natively despite what their marketing might lead one to believe.

Here theyare features that I appreciated:

• Immediate alerting
• Scheduled historical reporting
• Unique enterprise backup console view
• One settings point location
• Infrastructure view
• Business view
• Data protection View
• VM

This product gave us the ability to have a single notification point about global infrastructure.

Veeam console is well integrated with Veeam Backup & Replication so, we can view, at the same time, backup health and disaster recovery replication between different sites. The historical reporting feature, gave us the ability to understand any weakness and possible strange behavior to be investigated.

In any case, we utilized Veeam One and B&R in conjunction with other monitoring software to have a complete and real time situation of our infrastructure (network devices, applicative problems etc).

It would be really appreciated if Veeam One could provide an OS and program monitoring solution for the VM ( exchange monitoring and queue, event viewer, Active Directory, DHCP, DNS etc) and improve grant processes to apply in case of any infrastructure problems.

I started using it since 3 years ago in conjunction with other monitoring solutions (SCOM 2012, OpManager, VirtuaWin, Netwrix, Nagios

I had problems getting Veeam One and Veeam Backup & Replication to coexist on the same server.

Sometimes, I needed to reboot the server if it was on for a long time. I also had some performance problems if it was implemented on an old server.

Scalability wasn't an issue, but I had problems with the license files when we bought new licenses.

It was good.

They were great and well prepared.

About virtual host, I utilized (and I am still using), Nagios, Netwrix, OpManager but I am preferring them only for OS, network devices, bandwidth utilization and application server monitoring.

I liked Veeam One about VMware and HyperV server monitoring

Initial setup was quite straightforward and easy.

I implemented it on my own.

An excellent disaster recovery plan, backup replication, and real time monitoring.

Initial setup was €10,000 in conjunction with Veeam Backup & Replication Enterprise Edition with different sites/hosts to monitor. The day to day cost, is meanly relative licensing and minimal time to maintaining it.

• SCOM 2012
• OpManager
• Nagios
• Netwrix

If you already utilize Veeam Backup & Replication, it would be very important that you utilize this product to manage them together. (Other than essential licenses, the enterprise version gives you a single monitoring/backup console that sounds great).

The file-level recovery option has filled a gap in our system.

• Remote management console
• Physical server backups

I've used it for about three or so years.

No issues encountered.

The product has been 100% stable, but there are a few issues with backup jobs.

No issues yet.

I've not had to contact customer service.

They have very efficient, problem-solving chaps.

I was using Symantec, but it's not as flexible as Veeam if you talk about immediate recovery of file or a whole VM.

It's as simple as installing MS Office.

I was previously working as a project engineer with my company, implementing Veeam at many clients. I am now working as a Resident Engineer and IT Consultant outsourced from my original employer (implementation vendor). Both ways I have had good experiences with Veeam.

Don’t waste your money on Symantec or other tools. Buy a license once for Veeam as it's a lifetime one and the support license can be renewed, as required, on a yearly basis.

We also looked at Symantec Backup Exec.

Just keep in mind its functionality because, as of now, it is limited to VMs. It's taking backup of physical machines as well, but only on a clone level.

Reliability and simplicity.

1. Faster and more reliable backup.
2. SAN Snapshot reduce backup window.
3. Integration of Exchange and SQL granular restore reduce our RTO.

1. Integration with Storage Array.
2. Incremental restore.
3. Improve the support of physical servers and bare metal recovery.

4 years.

No issues with deployment.

No issues with stability.

5/5. Good Pre-sales and sales team. Always available (and fast) when needed.

Yes. We Switched to Veeam because of the complexity and poor reliability of the older solution.

In-house because we are Veeam vendor partner.

Veeam is cheaper than our older solution and more reliable. We spend less time to check and/or relaunch daily backup in error.

If you’re > 80% virtualized environment (Hyper-V or VMware) and no need of complex tape rotation, this is a good product.

Be careful of having installed integration services or VMware tools.

Both backup and replication, simple to read reports.

Allowed simple backup and restore of virtual machines as well as granular restore of files and Exchange databases.

Most of the features I wanted was addressed in version 6 and 7 (i.e. backup to tape) allowing my clients to finally get rid of backup Exec to copy backups to tape. I'm not sure if there's a way to back up physical servers with Veeam but that would be a good feature to help customers transition into a fully virtualized environment OR maintain some physical servers in the environment.

3 years (version 7 and older versions).

Issue when licenses files (.lic) are downloaded from OWA which would render it unusable. Also had issues in earlier version where snapshots weren't deleted properly but that can be attributed to a mix of the ESXi version and Veeam.

Veeam 6 and 7 has been very stable.

Our customers have not run into any scalability issues.

Excellent. Calling tech support and getting routed to a tech is quite fast.

Excellent and responsive.

Backup Exec was previously used but their early attempt to backup VMs were cumbersome and Veeam stepped in to address that problem. The only reason why Backup Exec was kept in the environment was to backup to tape and, in the earlier days, backup Exec databases.

Very straight forward. The console is extremely simple to use and intuitive.

In-house.

Veeam is definitely one of the market leaders and is the preferred choice.

Definitely one of the simplest ways to backup a virtualized infrastructure but you may not be able to fully get rid of your regular backup software if you have physical servers or specialized applications that required specific plugins that Veeam does not support.

Seamless Replication/ Switch ON of the VM from Backup/ Faster Response on cancellation of a Job/ Fast Backup and Replication Result time/ Reverse Incremental Backup Provisioning/ SureBackup is the kickass feature. Zero failure on restoration of the backups is the best part and you don’t have to use Surebackup for being assured of the restoration.

Licensing cost model/ Faster data transfer rates from SSD Drive Datastores and Faster cancellation of a Job if done, sometimes you need to reboot your veeam server because the job is stuck upon cancelling, this is all I can think of. There were some initial issues with ports communication when used with Microsoft HyperV 2012/2012 R2, but now with this stable release of Veeam software, issues have been eliminated.

Veeam Backup and Replication 7.0.0.871, for the past 2-3 years.

Deployment of the software is very very simple and anyone can do it. Just a simple wizard to get started and you need not dedicate a server for this and any computer (physical/virtual) with good resources can handle this job. The install support documents are well elaborated and anyone who can read English and knows basics of computer networking can deploy this software in their Infrastructure.

No, there are no issues with the software. You only face issues if you have less space/ less resources being provisioned for your Veeam Proxy servers.

You can scale the setup to any level, you just need to provision and add more backup repositories or refresh spaces for the existing repositories. The system can be scaled up to multiple hundreds of TBs space and works completely flawless.

The customer service is good, the response time is also good. Support is provided from Russia and other countries around. The support staff is concerned about the issues of the customer and I will give them 9/10.

The technical support is good, the response time is also good. For known issues, you will find good support articles available on their KB sites. A lot of people rely on Veeam, so you will find good discussions if you face any issues with the product and it is very easy to figure of the issues. Most of the times you need not contact their support, but even if you do, they are helpful and good.

I have used VMware VDP, the earlier version and there were multiple issues with the indexing and backups failed multiple times with random issues. This was not experienced inly by me, but with all other System Administrators as well. VMware support had to be contacted multiple times. They were supportive, but the product was not stable and reliable. VDP Advanced is much stable and I might test the software in next few months.

Initial setup is simple. Just install Veeam software. Add Infrastructure in Backup Infrastructure. If you have a SAN to be backed up, you can add it. Create Veeam Proxy servers, add them to the list. Add Infrastructure to be backed up and create jobs for backup/ replication.

I implemented the solution in-house.

Backup software cannot give you ROI. Replication tool has helped so far in migration of the virtual infrastructure across multiple geographical locations, hence proving vital.

VMware VDP was evaluated and the product was not stable, unreliable, came with multiple limitations in terms of space and physical/virtual infrastructure size and not fit for scalability. There were issues while restoration.

When used with VMware, have good Backup infrastructure and add Cluster in the backup job and all your VMs will be backed up, even if you have DRS enabled on the Cluster and VMs migrate to different hosts.