We like it due to the fact that we can get error messages to alert us to issues. We can get a forecast for our storage and so on. It's really good.
The initial setup is easy.
The solution is stable.
The product is very scalable.
Technical support is helpful and knowledgeable. They respond very fast.
You have several monitors you have to tune. You have several snapshots on the volume and so on, and this is the standard. However, for example, if you have Rezon from VMware, you have much more snapshots on the volume, and yet it's not a problem as Rezon doesn't have these issues with the huge number of snapshots. They should offer more snapshots on Veeam.
The pricing could be reduced.
When you have to renew the licenses you sometimes have some trouble getting rid of the old one and reassigning it to the new one. That's an aspect that could run smoother and could be better.
We've used the solution for the last eight years.
The solution is very stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.
The solution scales very well.
You just put in another license key and you can add some hosts. It's that easy.
We have five people that directly use the solution within our company.
Technical support from Veeam is great. You don't want to have an issue, however, if you do, they can help you really fast, and they know what to do and they ask the right questions to get deep into the problem if you have something complex or difficult. They'll help you install a patch so that everything is fine. It's great.
The price always could be lower, however, compared to others, it's pretty much in line with other options on the market.
I haven't really looked into other solutions. I've compared the open-managed integration for vCenter, and that's a really cheap one - however, it's hard to install and you often have issues. I would say it's a small giveaway from Dell as an add-on to the hardware.
We're a customer and an end-user of the solution.
We have the Veeam plugin from Dell and Veeam ONE. Veeam ONE is in the availability suite we have ordered and we changed our hardware from Dell and for the last five years, we have the open-managed integration.
We're currently on version 11 and we updated the solution in February.
For those considering the solution, I would advise that they deactivate the alarm at first and then run it in a warning mode so that you can learn within the environment. Veeam has some limits, and these limits are often only baselines. You may have other limits as you have faster hosts or you have other storage, et cetera. If you run in warning mode, you can learn and put in the correct baselines. You can tune it and then you won't get so many alerts. Once you have tuned your environment against the Veeam baseline it's really comfortable to work with.
I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten.
My storage is pretty simple, consisting of (2) HP P2000 G3 SANs so I use the email notification feature on the controllers to notify me of storage hardware events. Veeam ONE picks up issues with the datastores so I seem to have the bases covered for storage.