Veeam Backup & Replication Review

I retired Backup Exec, and added Veeam in place of it. This increased the backup scope and reduced tape usage.

What is most valuable?

The ability to perform exchange restores.

How has it helped my organization?

Surebackup allows verification of the backup. This provides a higher level of confidence.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've used it for two years.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

No issues encountered.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

If there is a communication interruption (ping drops) between the proxy and the Veeam server, the backup fails.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

No issues encountered.

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

It's excellent.

Technical Support:

It's just below excellent.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We previously used Backup Exec and ArcServe. These companies are too big to care even for their own products.

How was the initial setup?

It depends on the organizations structure and level of optimization.

What about the implementation team?

It was an in-house implementation.

What was our ROI?

Just recently, I retired Backup Exec, and added Veeam v8. This increased the backup scope by 30% and reduced tape usage by 70%

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

No, but the pricing was key.

What other advice do I have?

Try it. Spend maybe one hour a week on the phone with their engineer to tweak things before buying. The product practically sells itself.

Which version of this solution are you currently using?

7.5
**Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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author avatarChris Childerhose
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Not sure why your backups fail with the Proxies but I have never had that issue. We have a physical Veeam server and 1 Proxy per host which works great for SAN based backups. Check with Support on that.

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Before Veeam, we had backup infrastructure sprawl. Veeam was able to reduce our overall backup windows while reducing our dedicated backup infrastructure.
Vendor integration for many of the enterprise features have allowed for us to have greater performance from our storage vendors further improving on our commitments to protect our clients' data.
Features with the most value are Instant VM Recovery, SQL Explorer and Exchange Explorer.
Veeam is the gold standard for backup and recovery. The ease of use and reliability of this solution are real assets. Also, it has an ease of use to work with a third party vendor.
It helps with process restoration. With Veeam, we never had backup or restoration issues.
It has helped us transfer the solution in two days instead of working for a minimum of one week to ten days.
We get a lot of features with Veeam and we are happy to use this solution. After shutdown, the servers here automatically turn off and Veeam is keeping up all this. It's tension free work.
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