Does what is says on the tin "if it came in a tin"
Updated July 02, 2024
Does what is says on the tin "if it came in a tin"
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Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Software Version
Veeam Backup & Replication
Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform
Veeam has proven to be a fairly intuitive backup software that is much easier to use than some competing products. The software is user-friendly and is incredibly helpful in file recovery situations that require fast resolution. Our company replaced an outdated software with Veeam and are pleased with the results that we have seen even in just a few months we have been using their service. Veeam Back & Replication is our enterprise-wide backup product. We use it to backup all of our production servers, running Windows and Linux. We also use it to backup Oracle and SQL Databases and a number of other applications that are critical to our organization's needs. Both locally and at our remote sites. We have recently implemented Cloud storage in which the ability to do so was included within our current pricing model
Pros
- Quick Backups
- Easy to configure
- Good Support & Training modules
Cons
- Better reporting for all jobs
- Endpoints and physical servers running Windows & Linux
- Enterprise UNIX servers running Solaris & IBM AIX
- In addition to back up, we also replicate some of these workloads
- In addition to back up, we also snapshot some of these workloads
- Cloud-hosted VMs within AWS or Azure
- NAS filers
- Application-centric recovery using Veeam Explorers (for Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, etc)
- Capacity Tier to store data within object storage for longer term retention
- License portability as your environment needs change
- Utilizing backup copies for secondary purposes via DataLabs
- Immutable storage to protect against ransomware
- “Instant” recovery or portability between platforms (physical > virtual > cloud-hosted)
- Failover or recovery scripts/plans for orchestrated recovery
- Immutable storage to protect against ransomware
approx 500 servers This is about what we expected when we purchased the product which has changed incrementally over the last few years as we move to a cloud based environment and decommission old servers, we have had to increase our licencing number on 2 occasions previously The compression of jobs has allowed us to increase this amount with our existing hardware
- quick recovery model to recover critical systems
- Application recovery such as Exchange, Active directory allows us to recover incorrectly deleted or quick returned staff
We used to use a couple of other solutions prior to veeam, these were direct to server or tape backups, they were clunky, slow and difficult to manage and took a lot of time to manage Under Veeam the process is automated, the feature set has improved significantly over each version without additional costs Experience before and after is night and day, Veeam has made backups managable and controllable
We have recently implemented our cloud functionality and will be looking to expand this to more devices in the coming weeks/months Overall setup was easy to do, however, on Blob storage having to use scale-out repositories rather than a standard copy over off a job seems an overly complicated and unnecessary way to do it, however once implemented the backup works well
File share backup solution is quick/simple however rarely used since we have implemented other tools such as shadow copies File restores in the past have recovered critical data due to accidental deletion or on one occasion a malware attack on our file server We were able to recover files quickly and efficiently to minimise loss of work for our staff
Overall Veeam is a much better product, however Azure Backup is included in the prize of the azure subscription
Do you think Veeam Data Platform delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Veeam Data Platform's feature set?
Yes
Did Veeam Data Platform live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Veeam Data Platform go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Veeam Data Platform again?
Yes
Veeam Data Platform Feature Ratings
Using Veeam Data Platform
1 - Platform and Infrastructure
1 - General knowledge of the product
- backup
- security
- piece of mind
Evaluating Veeam Data Platform and Competitors
- Scalability
- Integration with Other Systems
- Ease of Use
Veeam Data platform was the market leader with a number of features and more importantly a very easy to follow and understand gui
look at a few more competitors
Veeam Data Platform Implementation
- Implemented in-house
Change management was minimal
Veeam Data Platform Training
- No Training
Yes, most if not all of the functions and features are self intuitive and can be learnt via guides over training
Configuring Veeam Data Platform
Don't run too many jobs at once, we stagger them to complete one after the other
No - we have not done any customization to the interface
No - we have not done any custom code
Veeam Data Platform Support
Pros | Cons |
---|---|
Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved Kept well informed No escalation required Immediate help available Support understands my problem Support cares about my success Quick Initial Response | None |
no, price
On most occasions if there was a major issue with the software they would respond to a support call within the hour, often talk through over the phone or via a zoom call and issues were resolved quickly and efficiently
Using Veeam Data Platform
Pros | Cons |
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Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Technical support not required Well integrated Consistent Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using Familiar | None |
- setting up backups
- sending backups to the cloud
- restoring from a backup
- health checks
- grouping backups
Veeam Data Platform Reliability
Integrating Veeam Data Platform
Relationship with Veeam Software
Upgrading Veeam Data Platform
- new features
- product improvements
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