Item: Veeam Data Platform
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Backup & Replication

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Veeam Backup & Replication for our on-premise physical servers and our VM infrastructure, including the cloud. Our previous backup software did not have many of the features of Veeam Backup & Replication, including the ease of testing restores thoroughly and effectively. The other important feature is that Veeam Backup & Replication reduced our overall backup time by over 4 hours.

Pros and Cons

Pros

The speed in which backups are completed.
The detailed information about backup success or failure.
The ability to backup SQL databases is very granular and easy to restore.
The addition backing up physical hardware servers was an important feature for us.

Cons

The documentation of the test lab for testing restores should be emphasized more.
Because there are so many features, it is important to have help in initial setup.

Key Insights

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

Return on Investment

As our business hours have expanded to personnel working remotely from all over the US, we have been able to move our backup schedule to later in the evening, reducing impacts on our internal customers.
It used to take me 4 hours or more each week to verify backup logs, verify backup issues, and troubleshoot and resolve any issues related to backups. With Veeam Backup & Replication, I spend less than an hour reviewing the excellent log information sent in email.

Other Software Used

PRTG Network Monitor, VMware vCenter Server, Cisco UCS Manager, Pure Storage FlashArray

Likelihood to Recommend

In the past, when I looked at Veeam Backup & Replication, it did not support physical servers, only VMs. But now that it supports physical servers, we are able to use it. We are using it to send copies of our backups to our cloud for redundancy because it is so fast; our previous backup software was very slow sending backups to the cloud, making it useless for us. The granularity of being able to save SQL backups has really helped us, so we don't have to rely on SQL native backups.

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