I have used and evaluated many similar solutions to NetVault in the past, and they were more complex. NetVault is a software-based solution running on the server, and it's the easier one that I have used.

We are, of course, using more than one solution, and this is just one small part of our backup business. We are also using NetWorker. If I'm not wrong, we have only one customer of Quest NetVault. If it was up to me, I wouldn't choose this one, but I am working with what I have at the moment, and it's working fine.

We have several tools that we are able to manage. We offer a solution that meets the needs of our customers. It depends on what they need to back up. The licenses for plugins for backups for Hyper-V, VMware, SAP DB, etc are usually paid by the customers, and it depends on what they need. If a customer requires a backup of SAP databases or SAP applications, we can offer that, and there are licenses for that. Rather than having a simple or basic file backup, it is better to have the backup done in this way. Otherwise, you will have inconsistency, etc. I am glad that these features and licenses are there, and we can at least offer these, but the choice doesn't depend on me.

We have other backup solutions including Veeam and Commvault.

The main difference between NetVault and Veeam is that Veeam is suited for a purely virtualized environment. We had started with a virtualized environment and slowly, we began to need the features from the physical servers.

With NetVault, it started with support for physical servers. As IT grew and VMs were introduced, the features grew to include support for those. This means that for hybrid workloads, where you have VMs, laptops, and physical servers, NetVault and Commvault are very good options. For purely virtualized environments, Veeam is the number one choice.

We used to use Veeam Backup, but only for testing purposes.

I have worked with several backup and recovery solutions such as Commvault and Veeam.

NetVault does not have the feature set that Commvault has.

We never used any other prior solution on that project.

I'm not sure if there were other solutions evaluated before choosing this one. Management makes these types of decisions.