Veeam Data Platform Reviews

We use Veeam Backup and Replication for the virtual server. 

The documentation is very good. It's also easy to install Veeam Backup and Replication. They have also introduced a Continous Data Protection (CDP) feature, which is very good.

I don't see much room for improvement except that the price could be better. 

I have been in a partnership with Veeam for about four years.

Veeam Backup and Replication is a stable product.

Veeam Backup and Replication is a scalable solution.

Technical support is good.

We use Commvault for the standalone server and VMware for different sites.

The initial setup and implementation are straightforward. 

Two of us can deploy this solution depending on the use case. Usually, one person is enough to maintain Veeam.

The license is a bit expensive.

I would recommend this product to potential users.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give Veeam Backup and Replication an eight.

The VMR is the solution's most valuable aspect.

There is a great catchup backup quality to the solution.

We can have multiple jobs going so long as we have the proper licensing in effect. It's quite helpful.

The initial setup is very easy.

Technical support has been very good. They're helpful.

While we used the cloud and on-premises deployment models, on the cloud we found we had some issues and we moved to everything on-premises to counteract that.

The solution needs to fix its incremental sizing. Currently, we are facing an issue with the incremental backup. For example, with a normal user laptop, it is taking a huge amount of incremental backup on a daily basis - more than two, three DBS it is taking place on a daily basis. Much improvement is needed. Though the compression rate is good, what exactly they are backing up on daily basis for such a great extent is unresolved. We want to understand why this is happening.

The stability could be better, specifically in the cloud. We had bad experiences with the cloud. We were using Azure and we found some security issues in terms of ransomware. We relied on the cloud backup, however, the data in the cloud ended up also getting corrupted due to the ransomware. Data security is a huge concern on the cloud, in our experience. 

The scalability could be more effective.

I've been using the solution for about two years at this point.

The stability is okay, however, it isn't as stable as we would like it to be. There could be some improvement.

We had issues with ransomware getting into the cloud backup and causing troubles for us. It's not as secure on the cloud as it needs to be.

The scalability could be better. It isn't quite where we need it just yet.

We currently have 20 people using the solution. They are backing up the server time and users.

We've been satisfied with the level of support we get from technical support. They are helpful and responsive. They've been good overall.

The initial setup is not complex. It's very easy and very straightforward. A company should have no trouble with the process of deployment.

The licensing is pretty good. If you have it set up correctly, it allows the solution to take on multiple jobs.

We have experience in both on-premises and cloud deployment models.

I'd rate the solution at a seven out of ten. While the on-premises deployment seems to be working well for us, the cloud has given us problems.

We mainly use it for backup. We are using its latest version.

It protects us from losing data and having downtime.

The instant VM recovery feature is the most valuable. It is a very good tool for disaster recovery. It is also easy to manage.

Its licensing needs to be improved. Its licensing has become complex since last December. They have changed the way the product is licensed, and there is a lot of confusion.

Sometimes, when a new version comes, it seems that it has not been tested enough because I usually find some bugs in it. 

It could also have more integration with other virtualization products, such as desktop virtualization products and open-source virtualization products.

I have been using this product for three years.

It is pretty stable.

Its scalability is great. It offers a lot of options from the scalability point of view. 

We have many users of this solution. Most of the workers are using this solution for backup. 
We use it daily, and we are planning to keep using this solution.

Their technical support is really good. Their responses are quick enough, and they are knowledgeable about the solution.

We didn't use any other product.

Its initial setup was pretty straightforward. It took me about four hours to implement everything and configure everything. You just need one administrator for its deployment and maintenance.

We did not evaluate any other product.

I would recommend this product. It is a very good product. 

I would rate Veeam Backup & Replication an eight out of ten.

• Backup
• Replication
• Monitoring
• Reporting

It is fast, reliable and secure.

They need to find better ways for RDMs and to somehow backup physical servers.

I have used it for five years.

I have not encountered any stability issues; the product is very stable.

I have not encountered many scalability issues.

Technical support is very good.

I did not previously use a different solution.

Initial setup was pretty straightforward.

They need to make better offers for SMB customers.

Before choosing this product, I did not exactly evaluate other options.

Simply, if you have a decent virtual environment… Go for it.

Backup and SureLab are this product’s most valuable features to me.

With storage integration, it has improved the backup windows and reduced the impact on the VMs. SureBackup has also come in handy when we are looking at updating applications. We kind of use it as a test environment.

I would like to see the ability to backup to cloud service providers such as Azure.

I have used this solution for four years.

I have not encountered any issues with deployment or stability or scalability.

The level of technical support depends on the agreement.

Pricing-wise, it’s expensive. However, the product is great and does what it says.

We also evaluated Veritas Backup Exec.

It is very easy to implement and by far a better product than any I have seen so far.

U-AIR (Universal Application Item recovery) – This is an important feature as it saves lot of time and offers flexibility to recover anything without wasting too much time on complete image recovery.

Instant VM recovery – This feature miraculously reduces the time to recover an entire virtual machine to just a few minutes.

Sure Backup - This feature helps ensure backups are recoverable when required. Backup Drills need not be complex and time-consuming activities.

We are less of an end user than provider. But, yes, I’d like to mention a scenario where we have been able to churn out lost VMs in just minutes for our cloud customers.

This makes life easier for all IT professionals by ensuring a reliable and hassle-free backup and replication solution, and thus it is reliable business IT.

With each new release, this product breaks barriers. We expect to see this completely replace the entire backup solution landscape (supports virtual/non-virtual backup and DR solutions) for heterogeneous environment.

It’s always difficult, complex and expensive to keep different data protection solutions for different systems (physical servers, virtual servers, Windows/non-Windows environments, disaster recovery solution, end-point backup solution, media manager, dedupe box, etc.).

We have been proposing and deploying this solution for the past 5-6 years. We have found this has helped improve data backup and recovery for customers, with predictable and scalable performance. At the same time, it has reduced overall cost for backup infrastructure.

No issues as such with stability and scalability, but from the deployment perspective, we expect it to support a hybrid environment - multiple-edition deployment within one single Veeam Backup Server instance. It should not require having the same edition.

Customer service and technical support is good and prompt.

Veeam deployment and configuration is quite simple. The user interface is designed for ease of use and is intuitive.

We deploy for others and for our own use in a cloud environment.

Being a system integration organization, we work with other backup & replication solutions, but after evaluation, we found Veeam to be a better solution for x86 virtualized environments.

I am rating it as excellent, due to its advance features and functionality for virtual environment backup and replication. But I have left a little room for improvement by including non-virtual environment B&R, to avoid having IT silos in a customer’s environment.

This product can certainly bring value and lot of visibility and control to virtualized IT environments. It fits very well with the virtualization and consolidation story.

Instant Veeam Recovery is invaluable as it has eliminated the need for High Availability as you can bring back up applications within five minutes if needed.

In term of cost saving, it does reflect the justification made to the management to invest on Veeam B&R rather than build a redundant high availability in either Virtualize or physical environment which is costly to manage and maintain. With IVR, you can also improve your recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) by bringing up the VM within a short period of time, thus minimizing the troubleshooting duration.

I'm not sure if others has the same issue as mine but the full recovery file (.VBK) growth is really causing our customer a headache as they have to perform a full backup, and when the disk capacity is getting low, you have to clear the backup disk and then perform the backup. The previous version seemed to have better integration as it removed blocks from the full VBK file during the backup.

I've been working with it for around four to five years.

We have had no issues with the deployment.

You have to plan for a higher disk throughput rate since the Veeam restore target is to disk, and the full recovery time can be a nightmare especially if you're recovering to thin disk which is super slow.

I have noticed in the new version has some issues with VBK growth which I didn't experience in the previous version. The VBK file will keep on growing, and although some features are added to contain the growth such as compaction & BitLocker, I've not seen any improvement yet.

So far they've been excellent except for one case. It was a Sev One incident, and an engineer only called me back eight hours after I logged it.

It's really straightforward and very user friendly.

We're a systems integrator and we deploy it to different environments. Veeam has great documentation for deployment and planning on their website. My only advice to is to include a scenario base during recovery for example, whenever you do IVR, expect throughput to be slow as it will be mounted from backup repository.

For most customers who don't have budget issues, we usually recommend Commvault. One of the reasons that we recommend Commvault is the ability for the corporate division to use it globally. I find Commvault has a better R&D team and can accommodate most hypervisors currently on the market. The latest one that Commvault supports is Nutanix AHV which has added value to its product portfolio. With the growing popularity of hyper converged systems, this decision is timely. However, Commvault price is high, and can be very expensive if you're going with their Capacity license. I just hope Veeam product team will include AHV compatibility in the next release.

Backup is not much of a concern, but for recovery you do have to plan for additional capacity especially when you want to redirect your restore. Veeam's planning recommendation should include for customers to assign a VM as a thick disk for recovery purposes.

I started working with Veeam because of its replication capabilities. Later on when version 7 was released, with the addition of the tape support, I started migrating to pure Veeam environments.

Tape support is still not performing as expected (at least for my opinion) as Veeam relates to tape backup as a repository instead of a long term archive. Schedule options can be improved.

No but you need to pay attention to small things that make a big difference. 

Usually it runs very smoothly.

No, I have one rule regarding Veeam, use proxy!

I used to work with Symantec backup exec / System recovery, IBM FastBack and Arcserve each one of them has its strength and weaknesses. The reason I switched to Veeam was the native support for virtual environments.

Pretty straightforward and intuitive.

I'm an integrator so I can't rate myself.

I've tested CA ARCserve High Availability (formally XoSoft) IBM FastBack (formally FilesX) and Double-Take Availability.