Veeam Data Platform Reviews

We just are using it for backup and replication. Only two people at my company are working with it now because it is only a backup area. All the other products in my environment are not integrated with the tool. 

Veeam's biggest limitation is the lack of integration. I can't use the tool because there is no integration between the tool and the environment. Honestly, we can't use it with the rest of the environment— the hardware and software and so on. It's a huge problem.
We are just using it for backup monitoring. 

I've only been using Veeam for few months now.

Veeam is stable.

Veeam is scalable.

Setting up Veeam is easy, and it's portable, too.

Veeam is somewhat expensive, but it's affordable. For a backup and replication program, it might be expensive.

I would rate Veeam four out of 10.

• Monitoring
• Reporting
• Capacity planning

It allows us to proactively monitor of virtual infrastructure, and has reduced downtime.

Reduce the use of dark colors in the product interfaces (GUI).

I have used it for five years.

No stability issues encountered so far.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

Technical support is not so good:

• Communication issues due to language differences
• Slow responses

We previously used IBM & Microsoft solutions.

Initial setup was straightforward.

Licenses are getting costlier whenever there is a new version.

Before choosing this product, we also evaluated VMTurbo & VMware Operations Manager.

It’s a great product.

• CBT technology
• Instant VM Recovery
• Recovery Explorer for Exchange, AD, Oracle
• SureBackup
• Integrated WAN Acceleration

Veeam improved our backup infrastructure to help save backup space. With the integrated WAN acceleration, the data transfer of our backup files to cloud storage sped up.

Instant VM Recovery provides very fast recovery of our critical VMs.

I think it would be great to have the ability to use WAN acceleration as an integrated feature for local backup storage to save a lot more space.

I have used this solution for about five years.

I have not yet encountered any deployment or stability or scalability issues. If the backup doesn’t work, the issue is not with Veeam but rather with the VM.

Customer service works very well.

Technical support also works very well.

I implemented it by myself. My advice for implementation is to install Veeam on a dedicated backup server. It is important to plan a backup strategy like 3-2-1: 3 copies on 2 different medias and 1 offsite.

It is important to count all the sockets of vm-hosts to get the right license.

We also use Altaro Backup for some small customers. Altaro also works great for its price.

Try it and love it.

Application data recovery works great in our environment especially restoring MS Exchange mailbox items. There are cases where emails or attachments which can back date to more than 12 months old are needed by users.

Backup and recovery windows have been significantly improved. By using an adequate number of backup proxies, more jobs can be executed simultaneously. Image replication for DRP and Sure backup to verify data consistency have also met our audit criteria for data protection objectives.

We expect to see more integrations from the software company with storage vendors. Especially on dedupe appliances and non unified storage arrays. This will help us to cut down the storage investment cost and have more flexibility on hardware choices. Also, there are demands to protect data on end user computers and devices. Hope to see more update in this area in near future.

I've been using it for five years.

We have had no issues with the deployment.

We have experienced slow backup performance, however it was been rectified in the latest release, and they have added a feature for processing parallel jobs.

With limited storage space available, we have to use reverse incremental backup to keep only one set of full backup on the latest date. This helps us to manage the free space and make sure fast recovery always available.

The tech support is always there to help out but you need to take note of the time difference. They don't seems to have dedicated resource to cover the APAC time zone from what I have experienced.

Setup is straightforward, so just follow the wizard, but make sure you've got a plan for your storage sizing and backup retention policy. The challenging part will always be the sizing and how you place your backup proxy to make sure backup performance is top.

We performed an in-house setup. You need to make sure there is a proper planning especially if snapshot backup is needed on storage array. This feature makes sure that no VM snapshot committed to a virtual server can cause a ping drop, and this is crucial on sensitive servers. The requirement to make it happen is likely to have the Veeam server running on a physical box with direct connectivity to storage array.

Worth the money especially if you have high consolidation ratio per physical host.

I have tried a few other products, some of them are meant for multi-platform (virtual and physical), or as a native backup solution. We ended up with Veeam as we are a fully virtualized environment and the features and product capabilities have met our requirements.

It suits all the needs for a fully virtualized environment, just make sure you have proper planning on the storage sizing.

Instant recovery of an entire VM, as there are times when I need to do it.

We no longer use tapes. The restoration of files, email and entire servers have been reduced to mere minutes instead of hours or days, which it was at times.

Support for physical servers. Although we are continuing to virtualize all of our servers; there are, at this time, a few physical servers in our organization. They must be backed up as well. Currently, we have to use another vendor to backup these servers.

I’ve been using Veeam Backup and Replication for about two years now.

No issues encountered.

None so far and I don’t expect to have any issues with stability in the future.

For our organization, it has scaled exceptionally well.

They have taken care of our needs, and been there each step of the way for us, so I would rate it as exceptional.

We have not had to place many calls with technical support. You could say this fact says a lot about the stability and ease of deployment. There have been a few times we have called and each time our issue was resolved in a very reasonable time frame. The engineers are very knowledgeable, not only of their product, but also of the platform & hypervisor that we use in our datacenter.

Yes we did. Agents and licensing were getting too cumbersome and performance was not where we felt it should be.

It was straightforward,

We did it in-house.

Lets just say that Veeam B&R met or exceeded what the competition provided.

Do your homework. Run a demo of the software. And for any backup solutions remember the three “P’s”. Plan, Plan and Plan

• Efficiency
• Objectivity
• Reliability
• Features

Restores are easier to do.

It would be nice to be able to copy VMs directly to tape drives.

I've been using it for three years.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

10/10.

10/10.

We previously used Backup Exec, but Veeam rules.

It was straightforward.

No other options were considered.

Veeam B&R is a reliable product and is the best disaster recovery I have ever seen. It's very simple to use and all the features are a must-have.

Instant recovery of a VM, ease of use for item level recovery, ability to also send disk to disk jobs to tape for meeting retention policies.

We have been able to instantly recover VMs from catastrophic failures to point in time and recover files easily without the long wait of searching and restoring from tape.

The ability to back up physical servers from within the same Product and not as a separate module. This would keep Veeam in the front of other competing products that offer both physical and virtual backup solutions.

5 years.

No deployment issues.

No stability issues.

No scalability issues.

Support has been phenomenal when I have needed it and I have always been able to resolve my issue and gain a better understanding of how the product works.

The level of support I have received has been top notch, problems have been escalated as needed and without prodding for the need of additional assistance and the engineers I have worked have been both friendly and easy to comprehend when discussing both the issues and the solutions.

In the past we were using a traditional physical backup solution -Symantec Backup Exec which made restores quite difficult in the event of a complete VM restore. We needed a solution that was more in line with the virtual realm and we discovered Veeam when attending VMworld and we were quick to setup a lab to test the product and were completely satisfied with what we'd found.

It was very straight forward and easy to learn.

We did the install and setup in house with minimal support and once we licensed the product we made calls to support only when trying to understand the best practices for configuration and how to achieve the results we expected.

This product has more than made up for the initial costs of licensing, hardware and support. In more than one occasion we have been faced with what would normally be hours of downtime in the days of tape restores to being backup in minutes.

At the time we had been looking at various solutions that were coming up for backup and restore of virtual environments; WMware's own Backup solution is the first to come to mind. We strongly considered this but were debating pricing and it was at this time we discovered Veeam and it seemed to be the answer both technically and financially.