Item: Veeam Data Platform
Rating: 8
Author: Jay Moore

Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Backup & Replication

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Veeam Backup is the platform we use to back up all servers. We mostly have physical machines, while we have a few virtual Linux machines hosted through libvirtd. Linux virtual hosted environment libvirtd is supported within Veeam virtual servers, so it acts as a Linux physical server. Our environment is a mix of Windows and Linux servers.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Linux backups.
Scheduling.
Rotated external drives.

Cons

Reporting (excluding the separate product Veeam ONE).
Understanding the backup process - seems overly complicated.
capacity tier vs performance tier vs backup copy.

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

Provides the platform necessary to ensure backups and their integrity.
Helps to reduce disaster risks.

Likelihood to Recommend

It certainly works and works well. It does not seem to impact the servers much while performing a backup, either the Linux server or windows based servers. The Linux agent works well but can be tricky to install on older versions of distributions. We have done several restores and have not had issues. I like the flexibility the restores options have. Can restore to original file/folder or somewhere else. The virtual machine features look great, but that does not suit our environment currently.

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Veeam Backup & Replication steep learning curve but a solid solution.

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