Item: Veeam Data Platform
Rating: 10
Author: Pawel Sokol

Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Backup & Replication

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Veeam Backup & Replication as our main backup solution for the virtualization environment. Even though the community edition comes with only 10 free licenses, we "extend" it using the VeemZip technology combined with PowerShell to support 16 VM or more.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Easy configuration and maintenance
Combine VeeamZip with Powershell to extend funcionality
Easy integration with backup repositories
Encryption of backup
Possibility to send backup to secondary backup repository

Cons

Possibility to install on open source OS, ie. Linux.
Maintenance through web interface.

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

We had few crashes of VM, but everytime veeam let us recover, and all was working fine.
We recovered after crash of physical server to virtual environment.
Lower the cost of buying the backup solution for smaller company is a big plus.

Other Software Used

Ubiquiti Networks UniFi, Cisco 550X Series Stackable Managed Switches, FortiClient

Likelihood to Recommend

I think Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition is well suited to virtual environments where some VM is not that big, so you can use PowerShell script which runs Veeam Backup of smaller VM, and then u can create a schedule in task scheduler so it runs automatically. Keep in mind that VeemZip always makes a full backup copy, so a bigger VM will take a longer time to create a backup.

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