Item: Veeam Data Platform
Rating: 9
Author: Christopher Shaw

Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Backup & Replication

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have used the actual backup suite to fully back up Vmware VM's for a external site which has always been a simple and straightforward procedure. I have recently used Veeam Backup & Replication to transfer vms from an old 5.5 vSphere to a new esxi platform and that was a breeze. Not having to use WinSCP saved me a ton of time and I would recommend to use Veeam for this use case or to backup small sites as it makes it simple and easy to use!

Pros and Cons

Pros

It can create backups quickly and restoring vms seems to be a very straight forward process
Veeam can be used to migrate vms from old bare metal hypervisors to new cloud/or new metal hypervisors.
Alerting admins on failed backups is easy to read and understand and give direction on how to fix for most issues I have seen.

Cons

Needs to be able to backup linux and mac instances as we have some use for that
I have heard nightmares for the cloud based backups and due to that I have steered from that attempt and went with a different company.
License costs could be better as the market has gotten more competitive in recent years.

Key Insights

Do you think Veeam Data Platform delivers good value for the price?

Are you happy with Veeam Data Platform's feature set?

Yes

Did Veeam Data Platform live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Veeam Data Platform go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Veeam Data Platform again?

Yes

Return on Investment

Veeam has made backing up a site that has limted IT support easy and nice to manage
I wasn't involved in purchases but when we purchased I knew it was at a good price
I use the platform to help make other sites up to date using the vm transfer which is just an additional piece of the suite that Veeam offers.

Other Software Used

Barracuda Backup

Likelihood to Recommend

I would say if you have a small company 20 vms or less this product is great to use, but I feel if I were to use it for a larger 100-500 vm scale it could be quite daunting. I feel that the ability to use a free software to move vms from older platforms to newer vmware versions is a great extra addition.

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