Veeam Data Platform Reviews

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.

The ease of use of the product and overall confidence in the product and Veeam support are valuable.

We can now perform restores as file level instead of the whole VM.

A better reporting function where we can see all the job statistics as standard rather than buying this feature with Veeam One.

I've been using it for six to eight months.

We have had no issues with the deployment.

Using Synthetic Full Backup caused issues with storage, but since switching to True Full Backup everything seams to be fine.

It's been able to scale for our needs.

It's 10/10.

We used an in house script, which did not address a file level restore.

It was fine, but the current setup process could do with some tweaking. It would be nice to have more advice on domain controller restores.

We performed it in-house.

Try it first and see if it does what you want.

I use the backup, replication, and the backup copy features. The most useful one is the backup feature.

I have a backup of my infrastructure every night, and have improved the speed of performing restores.

I think it is a good product but all products could be better.

I've used it for two years.

No issues with deployment, nothing went wrong.

This product has saved a lot of my time, as it’s very stable.

I have only needed to open two tickets in two years.

I have only needed to open two tickets in two years.

Yes, I previously used Microsoft System Center but Veeam is better, faster and easy to use and configure.

It's easy and very straightforward to configure.

It was implemented in-house.

I would recommend you buy this product because it is simple to use and works fine.

Veeam ONE is used to backup environments, virtual environments, monitoring backups, infrastructure, and virtual and physical infrastructure.

I have found the most valuable feature to be the configuration and ease of use.

Veeam ONE could improve by having capacity planning, intelligent automatization, and ransomware.

I have been using Veeam ONE for approximately six years.

We have approximately 20 customers using this solution.

We have three people in my company that uses this solution.

The support of Veeam ONE is good.

The initial installation was simple, and it took us approximately 30 minutes to do.

We had some consultants help us with the implementation.

Instant Recovery is an amazing feature which reduces the recovery time from hours or sometimes from days to minutes. It enhances the business continuity results.

With the Instant Recovery, you can run the virtual machine from the backup repository at any disaster time. The users can access data and applications within a maximum of two minutes.

I have used this solution for three years.

There were no stability issues.

There were no scalability issues.

I would rate the technical support a a seven out of 10.

We still use other solutions to back up the physical environment, since Veeam only supports virtual machines.

The setup was very easy and straightforward, i.e., without any problems.

I always recommend using all the Veeam features, not only to just create backup jobs.

Veeam is not only a backup software, it helps your organization for business continuity and disaster recovery as well.

• Live monitoring and reporting on the health and performance of the virtual environment.

Identifies issues in real time, does capacity planning, and performs environmental monitoring that allows us to justify the need for additional resources in real time.

I would like to see improvements in the GUI and in navigation.

I have used this solution for four years.

I didn’t encounter any issues with stability.

I didn’t encounter any issues with scalability.

Technical support is excellent.

The installation was straightforward.

We bundle it with Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Availability Suite under the cloud license model. It is very affordable.

I don’t have any negative feedback. It provides a real-time, holistic view of the performance of our environment. It has allowed us to capture resource utilization issues for virtual machines. It allows us to capture information about snapshots, configuration, and performance issues in real-time. It has excellent reporting for capacity planning and management or reporting for customers.

BitLooker: It is an advanced technology designed to reduce backup size. It makes you exclude deleted file blocks, swap and hibernation files, and user files or folders.

Based on my previous experience with different backup products, Veeam is the best one that understands and integrates easily with virtual infrastructure.

Add new features on application backup and recovery. And expand the range of applications supported.

I have used it for about two years.

There was some incompatibility with Windows drivers, but it was fixed by the support team.

Technical support is excellent. I had three cases and they all were solved perfectly. The support team is highly qualified.

I worked with Symantec NetBackup/Commvault and EMC NetWorker. Veeam is the best for virtualization backup.

Initial setup was straightforward and the steps were so simple.

My ROI is 50%.

Pricing/licensing is fair enough. Licensing for this software is per CPU socket.

Consider it if you are running a totally virtualized infrastructure. And try to focus on Veeam as the single reporting tool. It is just very useful and easy.