Based on 5 verified reviews published in the last 18 months
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Overview
Synthesised from 5 reviews | Last Published June 4, 2026
Veeam Data Platform is widely adopted by manufacturing organizations to ensure operational continuity and mitigate costly production downtime through robust data backup and disaster recovery capabilities. In TrustRadius reviews, IT teams value its straightforward deployment and management, which allows them to quickly establish data protection across diverse server infrastructures, including physical and virtual environments common in plant operations and corporate datacenters. The platform's ease of configuration and verification of backups directly supports maintaining operational continuity and meeting compliance for critical production data.
Manufacturing firms also leverage Veeam's cloud capabilities for enhanced data protection, with 4 of 5 reviewers highlighting offsite backup storage for resilience against localized disruptions. Its ability to facilitate long-term data retention in the cloud aids in fulfilling specific compliance mandates, such as archiving backups for five years. No significant weaknesses were reported by reviewers in this industry.
Pros
Robust data backup and disaster recovery for critical production systems and operational continuity.
Straightforward deployment and management, minimizing training for lean manufacturing IT teams.
Secures diverse server infrastructures (virtual and physical) across distributed manufacturing facilities.
Effective for meeting compliance standards for long-term data retention of intellectual property and production data.
Leverages cloud for offsite backup storage, enhancing resilience against localized disruptions.
We backup our on-premises VMware server structure. It is a disaster recovery fail safe that gives us peace of mind that we can recover in a reasonable amount of time. Hopefully we don't need it, but backups are one of the most important aspects to consider in keeping ourselves operational.
Pros
Data Resilience Maturity Model
Veeam Data Cloud Vault Integration
Accelerated Change Detection
Cons
Complex Licensing and Pricing Structure
Limited Support for Certain Databases and Platforms
Cloud Integration and Direct Storage Connectivity
Likelihood to Recommend
We run an Enterprise Virtual Environment (VMware). Veeam Data Platform is optimized for virtualized workloads, offering fast, agentless backups, granular recovery, and replication. Ransomware Recovery and Cyber Resilience. We love the immutable backups, threat detection, and integration with security tools. We are a small business on the cusp of big growth. Transitioning from our small business needs to enterprise grade can be concerning in the costs department.
VU
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (51-200 employees)
We use VDP to back up all of our virtual and physical servers at our main corporate datacenter and also at 12 regional facilities. We also replicate critical workloads between datacenters for quick disaster recovery. VeeamOne and Veeam Enterprise Manager are important tools to help us manage all of these backups and provide reporting.
Pros
Backup various workloads across platforms in a consistent manner
Easily configure and maintain
Secures our infrastructure and prevents bad actors from tampering with our backups.
Cons
Veeam seems to work much better with vSphere than it does with Hyper-V. The Hyper-V jobs sometimes leave orphan snapshots and causes other issues.
I would love to see more backup infrastructure hardening guides from official sources, including things like GPOs to implement.
We have some very large VMs that are difficult to replicate because the job runs so long. It would be great if there were ways to resume a partially completed replication job.
Although it does backup oracle databases directly, we ended up giving up on these due very frequent problems. We now use native tools (RMAN) to backup Oracle to disk locally and then use Veeam to backup the entire VM the Oracle databases reside on.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is very easy and reliable in a VMware environment. I have never not been able to restore data from a backup job that had completed successfully. Veeam does a great job backing up Windows and Linux VMs but can be a pain to get working on physical servers, although once you do get the Veeam Agent backups working they seem to be reliable.
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)
We use it for Backup and Replication and it addresses our needs for backing up all our physical and virtual servers. I use it for backing up 25 servers in our environment and it does a great job. I also use it to replicate our servers to a secondary site.
Pros
Backup
Notifications
Easy to Use
Monitoring
Cons
Like most things, more information when setting up would be great but there is a lot of documentation.
tutorial of the proxy server
easier way to find where to go for reviewing the potential malware devices and to mark if it is a false positive or not.
Likelihood to Recommend
I think it well be well suited in both a large and small organization. It's easy to use and manage as well as the notification are clean and explain what the issue is really well. It is well suited for copying data to a local NAS and replicating data to the cloud and replicating servers to a secondary site.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)
We have been using Veeam Data Platform in our company for 4+ years. We chose Veeam Data Platform over competitors as it offered a comprehensive solution for backing up and recovering data across various environments, including virtual, physical, cloud, and SaaS workloads. Veeam Data Platform offers features like backup and recovery, data immutability for ransomware protection, and integration with cloud platforms. We've come to rely on Veeam Data Platform for critical data resilience and fast recovery capabilities.
Pros
fast recovery
reliable backups
easy customizations
excellent tech support
Cons
granular MS SQL database backups
latest VMware / Nutanix platform compatibility
the installer not ask for DB connection for Entra ID
Likelihood to Recommend
Veeam Data Platform is a mature product w/ many useful features at a reasonable price for a mid-sized company. Veeam Data Platform is a software-only solution. This means that customers need to provide the underlying platform, whether virtual or physical, to run Veeam’s software. We use Veeam Data Platform with our Nutanix/VMware clusters and it It excels in situations requiring data resilience, ensuring business continuity and minimizing downtime.
VU
Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology (201-500 employees)
I utilize the Veeam Data Platform to back up my cloud infrastructure, while Arcserve backs up my on-premises infrastructure. The business problems that Veeam Data Platform addresses allow me to easily back up and restore my cloud and virtual machine environment.
Pros
Back-up Jobs are done well.
The system self-inventories back up tapes well.
I am able to organize my offsite and onsite tape backups well.
Cons
Can make remediating issues within Veeam a lot easier.
If Tech support would communicate better.
If pricing for licensing were a bit more affordable.
Likelihood to Recommend
Veeam Data Platform is suitable for backing up virtual machines and cloud infrastructure. I wish Veeam were better suited to back up an on-premises environment.
VU
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (201-500 employees)
We follow a 3-2-1 backup rule. We have two separate domains in two separate locations that we need to backup.
Pros
The basics of the system are easy to setup
It is reliable, you can trust it to backup your data and that the data will be retrievable
Adding new physical and virtual machines to the backup plans is easy
Cons
It is a very complex system that does require training
Documentation could be better
Sometimes machines don't backup and you aren't notified, you must be vigilant about checking logs
Recoveries can be slow, but this could be us not having things setup correctly
Likelihood to Recommend
It is a great system but for us had a steep learning curve, something I was not expecting out of our backup system. It is reliable, which is what matters when it comes to backups. Support is great, we were able to hop on calls with someone to help us better understand the system and to go over our setup. Sometimes the system has to be rebooted, we will notice we aren't getting notifications on backups and realize the system isn't communicating. We have not been able to determine what is causing this.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (51-200 employees)
We use Veeam B&R to protect VMware, Proxmox, Hyper-V, and baremetal workloads. It is able to meet our RPO and RTO needs with room to spare. Veeam helps us sleep better at night.
Pros
Integrations - building your environment around Veeam offers real benefits (eg DirectSAN)
Flexibility - the new instance based licenses proved to be far more flexible than the older socket based licensing. 1 VM / 1 workstation / 1 instance.
Hardware Agnostic - bring your own Hardened Linux Repo / SAN / compute.
Cons
ProxMox integration - glad they've added what they have, but it is clearly incomplete
Lower priority support cases - high-severity cases still get prompt attention, but lower priority cases draw on for weeks or in some cases months.
Scoped access / RBAC in Veeam B&R. Enterprise Manager offers SOME additional controls, but the B&R thick console is very rigid in its role assignment.
Likelihood to Recommend
VMware shops with compatible arrays ( https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/storage/storage_system_requirements.html?ver=120 ) will get a lot of bang for the buck out of Veeam B&R. ProxMox shops will get minimal value out of B&R compared to ProxMox Backup Server or other offerings.
VU
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)
We use Veeam Data Platform as backup software to back up our virtual environment both to local storage and to the cloud. This solves issues related to data loss and disaster recovery. It does this seamlessly and verifies backups, so we always know we have trusted backups.
Pros
Backs up VMWare.
Local Backups.
Proxy to different networks.
Copy local backups to cloud block storage.
Cons
Forced to use Windows.
Version upgrades have had issues.
Likelihood to Recommend
Veeam provides a platform to back up any platform. It helps us back up all of our on-premise, co-located servers, cloud servers, and even Microsoft 365 data. It has been essential to our business to always know we have backups for every situation and multiple copies of those backups just in case.
VU
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (51-200 employees)
