Helps me sleep at night
June 13, 2025

Helps me sleep at night

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Veeam Backup & Replication

Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform

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.
  • Much better visibility into our global backup statuses
  • Standardization across facilities increases efficiency and reduces costs.
  • Much better security and control of who has access to our backup infrastructure.
Veeam is much more robust and easy to manage than the competitors that we used in the past. I never got the same feeling of confidence with those backups that I have now with Veeam. The pricing was also similar or better, and less complicated since there is just one type of universal license to purchase.

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

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.

Veeam Data Platform Feature Ratings

Data Center Backup
8.5
Universal recovery
10
Instant recovery
10
Recovery verification
5
Business application protection
7
Multiple backup destinations
9
Incremental backup identification
9
Backup to the cloud
10
Deduplication and file compression
9
Snapshots
Not Rated
Flexible deployment
7
Platform support
8
Retention options
9
Encryption
9

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