Veritas Enterprise Vault Reviews

The product is very useful for archiving emails. I didn't use the file archive solution much, but it's a very useful tool for emails because it keeps all the emails on each site and Exchange's usage. If one has a large environment for Exchange, they can keep their emails on Enterprise Vault because it is singularly used for emails.

Enterprise is a user-friendly product. It's a bit of a hard product on the technical side rather than the end user side, but if they understand how it works, it's a very easy solution.

The stability could be improved.

I worked with Enterprise Vault for almost six years.

I rate Enterprise Vault's stability a six or seven out of ten because it's not an "install and forget" product. We have to do the maintenance daily.

Enterprise Vault is scalable. The previous company I worked at that used Enterprise Vault was small, and we were Veritas partners.

When customers had a problem we couldn't solve, we opened vendor tickets. I spoke to Veritas engineers. Customers did not communicate with them because they didn't want to, because some users do not speak English, for example. In those cases, I needed to do the translation. Veritas gives support for 100 users to 10,000 users.

Enterprise is a very easy product to set up, but I find it easy because I've used it for almost six years as a consultant and handled many installations and technical problems.

We can use this product if we use an Exchange server or a Domino server. But we cannot have mail archives without another server, such as Zimbra or any other email solution. We can only use it for journal archives.

Enterprise Vault is a little bit expensive. Normally, our customers renew their licenses yearly.

I rate Veritas Enterprise Vault an eight out of ten.

If you want to manage your emails and analyze them, it's a good product. It is good for analyzing because you can use the GTPR solution and track who wrote emails to whom, seeing if anyone is sending secret information through email. You can also track communication between all-time users. If someone sent a mail five years ago and needs to find it, you 100% find it with Enterprise Vault. It's a good product.

We have deployed Enterprise Vault's latest version on our on-premises servers. We use it to migrate the existing data from another version to the newest version.

The features that we really like are SMTP archiving, and classification. The solution performs indexing very well.

In version 12, we can search for a text on the image. This is one of the new features on Enterprise Vault 12. It's great that we can search for text, for the purposes of image archiving.

The integration capabilities are second to none.

The solution has great compatibility with many different types of storage.

In version 11, there aren't many features about SMTP archiving or giving it support. 

There was one earlier version, Enterprise Vault 10, that was 32-bit indexing. Enterprise Vault from 11 onwards is 64-bit indexing.

The file-level archiving is very important in Enterprise Vault 12 and this doesn't really exist in early versions.

In the future, it would be ideal if it could be integrated with the cloud at high availability. Enterprise Vault is an Active/Passive node. It doesn't provide high availability with Active/Active. In future versions, if Active/Active could be achieved, we could consider it capable of high availability and load balancing as well.

I have been using this for more than 10 years, for different clients within my company.

The stability is great. In terms of server hardware, performance, and the load, it's quite reliable.

The scalability depends on a few different factors, such as the data, and it's requirements. We need to figure out if the customer wants the data to be stored for five years or ten years and we need to figure out how much storage will be needed now and into the future. It's possible to scale, however.

We have about 5,000-10,000 users within our organization. They would all need to have their mailboxes archived, for example.

Our organization provides technical support for Enterprise Vault. We have the ability to work on any Enterprise Vault issues from level One to Four. In a worst-case scenario, we may need to go into SQL scripts to gather more information.

We have complex environments, where the clients have the data of more than 100 terabytes. We deployed successfully, and we migrated data successfully. That said, due to the fact that our environment is complex, the initial implementation wasn't necessarily straightforward.

The maintenance requirements depend upon the features of Enterprise Vault. If it is using for end-user mailbox archiving, yes, we may have some issues from the end-users, and if it is only for a general archiving data, the maintenance is less.

I handled the implementation myself, from scratch. I did the designing, development, deployment to the servers, configuration, and migration. 

The main cost for the Enterprise Vault is a mailbox cost. For example, we need to know how many mailboxes we need to get archived as there is a charge per mailbox.

We have so many products, including Commvault and other products. That said, we identified Enterprise Vault as the best option for integrating with different products and different features. For example, it's integrated with the other email servers like Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Exchange. It's integrated with other backup servers such as NetBackup and MCT Backup. It's integrated with SQL. So we can't find any other product that has this level of integration capabilities and features.

We're Veritas customers. We don't have a special relationship with the company.

The solution has been deployed on on-premise and virtual servers as well, both on physical as well as virtual servers. I've been working with a variety of different deployment models. I've worked with the solution from version 9 all the way through to 12.

I'd advise those considering using the solution to look at their requirements in terms of scaling, data compatibility, and data integration. These all need to be considered before choosing a product.

Overall, I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. If it offered high availability, I would rank it higher.

I use the solution to find data loss and restore the data. 

The solution is not user-friendly and the restoration is not fast. It's also tricky to get information from it. 

I have been working with the product for one year. 

The solution's upgradation and maintenance are hectic and painful. 

I would rate the product a seven out of ten. 

We primarily use the solution for email and file archiving. We also use it for the classification of international regulations.

The search feature is the most valuable aspect of the solution.

The solution is pretty scalable.

The stability is good.

The product is quite affordable.

Dealing with personal information, such as documents that contain a personal number, personal ID or something like that should be improved. Sometimes it works poorly in that regard. It depends on the accuracy of the picture, PDF file, or format. Maybe with other OCR tools, the results will be better.

While a lot of this depends on Microsoft, I'd like to see more integration. I'd like more of the product as a feature instead of a second product. In the future, we'd like to have the same structure of folders that we have in Microsoft 365. 

I've been using the solution for around three years.

The stability is excellent. I'd rate it five out of five. There were no bugs or glitches and it didn't crash or freeze. 

I found the solution to be scalable. Expanding it wasn't a problem.

We had about 6,000 people on it in the organization. Our entire company was on it. 

I never personally reached out to technical support and therefore would d not be able to speak on how helpful they would be if you had any issues. 

The initial setup offers a moderate amount of difficulty. It's not overly complex. I'd rate it a four out of five in terms of ease of deployment. The deployment itself takes about two weeks. 

The price for Enterprise Vault is around €100 per user. That is for one license for one year and includes support. I would rate the solution a four out of five in terms of affordability.

I would rate the product nine out of ten. I've been pretty satisfied with its capabilities overall. 

The use cases for Enterprise Vault are data archiving, log backup, mail archiving and saving data space from the current environment.

The main purpose is data archiving: log backups and mail archiving. It can also be used for logs for previous access management and database.

Veritas Enterprise Vault does support object storage usage. Mail archiving is the primary need. You can also explore file archiving if you use a file server.

The data retention policies depend on the corporation and the regulations. Non-governance requires ten years of retention, while other non-regulated sectors typically require five years.

Veritas Enterprise Vault is very user-friendly for accessing mail archives because it is just a shortcut in Outlook or other mail clients. It can be used with an inactive server. User behavior is very smooth.

The troubleshooting process is very hard. If there is a problem, the entire team needs to get involved to solve the issue. It is a very complex product, and Veritas engineers should be more agile in supporting cases.

Nothing is easy to manage. It is very complex. 

I have been using it since 2016. 

It's a very sensitive product. For example, if you restart Enterprise Vault, which is located on different servers, it takes time to activate all system components. 

If you don't touch it, it's working fine.

There are over 250 end users. 

If you want to use best practices, then the setup takes a long time. It's very relevant. The best practice is to use a cluster structure. 

The deploying and implementation phase takes a minimum of two or three weeks to complete.

The deployment phase is very hard because a special client version is needed to plug in on the client side. For example, if a client doesn't access their archive mail, it becomes a crucial issue on the server side, and it takes a long time to resolve. It is a very long process.

The benefit is a reduced database size on your main server. This means you can manage your main server more easily, with less latency.

The pricing is very high. 

There is no competition in the product family like Veritas Enterprise Vault. It runs very well. I would give it an eight out of ten.

My advice would be: If you have 1000 end users and very large mailboxes, and you need to make sure the mail server is always available and working within your SLA claims, Enterprise Vault is really useful. It can also manage this process, but it depends on your users and processes.

I am not an end-user with this product. I'm a technical consultant.

I am responsible for the migration, as well as the upgrades of this product for my customers.

We use this solution in large enterprise companies, with several mailboxes, and are not able to go through the cloud, due to regulation or other similar reasons.

These companies need a reliable archive solution, and I always recommend Enterprise Vault.

This solution performs searches for items very quickly. 

Also, the mailboxes are very small in the on-premises locations. This reduces the time for the IT department for maintenance and improves performance on the Exchange server.

The most used feature of this solution is the search vault.

We have some customers who have many items in their mailbox. We want to provide them with a cache for two, three, or six months back.

The archive allows the customers to search any items as far back as five or ten years ago.

The search vault doesn't have the cache on Outlook and doesn't make it slower.

The backup area needs improvement. I cannot perform application backup, and I am not able to repair the license. 

If someone deletes an item from the vault server, I am not able to restore a single license. I would have to restore the complete mailbox and all of the partitions, which is a lot of work.

It is not a very good solution for the backup and restore capabilities.

I have been working with this product for almost four years.

I try to keep the customers up-to-date. Almost all of my customers have the 12.4 or 12.5 version.

I do, however, have a customer who has an older version. But most are up-to-date.

The stability is great. This product is great.

We always have the systems on. I barely see any problems with this product. The issues are normally coming from the SQL server. Or, if the customer is not doing the maintenance.

The problems are from the SQL server, and not from the Enterprise Vault.

At times when there is an upgrade, we can experience a small issue.

Scalability is huge. I archive billions of items with no issues at all. The search is great, especially with this newest version.

I don't have any issues with the scalability of this solution.

The size of the environments that we have deployed this solution to varies. We have customers with 15,000 users, some with 10,000 users and there are some with 100, and 500. The largest deployment is 15,000.

Technical support is very fast. It's great. I always get my answer and I am always able to get an engineer to solve the issues.

One time, I had a case that took three months to fix tables in SQL and they did it. It was on the dark side, but they got the job done.

It took some time but it was resolved.

I haven't had any clients who used another archive solution. They have exchanged on-premises but not to another archive.

I was involved with the design. I installed the product. I upgrade the product and I migrate it to SQL. I do everything.

I start with the step-by-step rule task guide, follow the rule task requirements and the requirements for the SQL server. I install the product, create the policy for the clients, archive a couple of mailboxes to show the clients how is done. Once that is complete the customer takes the lead.

It can take a couple of days to deploy.

After the installation, the maintenance is a couple of hours a week, depending on the company, and how large they are. This does not require full-time work. A couple of times per week is sufficient.

This is an area that is not relevant for me. I am not an end user or a buyer. I don't have this information.

Microsoft Exchange Archive is the largest, but I haven't used it. I always recommend Enterprise Vault because this is the main solution.

Microsoft has many solutions, but they don't work perfectly. It's not the best option.

I recommend to my customers to open a new partition for every year or every six months.

It depends on the company and how many items they archive, how many mailboxes are archived, to keep the backup very fast. When I close the partition, I won't need to backup anymore. When it's closed, it is not changing.

There are many items, billions of them. To maintain, you can create a new partition every six months and back up a little bit more. The backup window is very convenient for the customer.

If you are on-premise and cannot go to the cloud, this is the best solution for easy maintenance of your Exchange server. You can go through many mailboxes with several items without a problem.

This product has done its job very well. I would rate Veritas Enterprise Vault a nine out of ten.

Email archiving is the most valuable because it frees up space in our Exchange servers dramatically. The choice of more than 31,000 customers worldwide, Veritas archiving solutions are used by small to medium-sized businesses (SMB) and the largest enterprises, across key vertical and horizontal industries.

It allows us to keep more of our emails for a longer amount of time because when it archives our old emails, it deletes them and places a small short cut in its place. This also frees up much needed space on our hard drives within our Exchange servers.

I believe it needs better reporting features as well as better way of managing SQL databases and their maintenance.

We have been using this solution for over 10 years now.

No we have not.

No we have not.

No we have not.

9/10

This initial setup was straightforward.

We currently have in-house technicians that are Symantec Master certified that implemented Enterprise Vault.

We currently have and still have a very high investment gains when compared to our investment cost.

The pricing and licensing of this product is very competitive based on Gartner position of Enterprise Vault.

There was no other solution available at the time.

The expertise of the tech support team at Veritas as well as the Gartner position of Veritas Enterprise Vault and the ease of installation makes implementing and using this product a breeze.

We are using the solution for email and file archiving, and compliance.

The most valuable features are ease of use and performance. However, the performance can depend on the workload being used.

The integration needs to improve.

I have been using this solution for approximately two years.

In my experience, the solution has been scalable.

We have engineers that deal with the technical side of this solution.

There is a license required for this solution and it is typically is paid annually.

I rate Veritas Enterprise Vault a nine out of ten.