Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] Primary Use Case

Salman Ahmed - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at Habib Bank Ltd.

We are using it for Exchange backup.

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Muhammad Ibtehaj - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Solutions Architect at Relacom

It's not a big use case. It's just to install and back up the users. 

I recently had a project with a client with 500 users, and they wanted the client to back up from a specific folder or a specific file. I just deployed a backup portal, and then I pushed the agent on the client. I discover it, I install it, and I create a dashboard on the backups. Veeam backups from the client to the backup repository, et cetera.

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Tommy Myo Min Aung - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at Vantage Drilling

My primary use case is for protection and disaster recovery. We have Hyper-V servers in our offices and when we want to back up the host — the whole Hyper-V server, not the VMs — we use Veeam in case of power failure. That way, we don't have to reconfigure the network and everything from scratch. This is deployed on-premises, but our data centers are in different geographic locations, so you could say it's a private cloud. 

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Buyer's Guide
Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL]
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL]. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
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MA
Technical Presales Consultant/ Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The solution is an agent. It can be used to back up almost from Windows Servers 2008 up to Service Pack 1, up until 2019. It integrates with Veeam Backup & Replication, which can enable you to restore to the cloud or back up a cloud workload as well.

It clearly used to do image-based backups. The main reason Veeam came up with the Agent was that they were mainly focusing on virtual environments before and that was a major challenge for their existing customers. Not everyone is going with a fully virtual environment. Virtualization has many advantages, however, the virtual architecture design will remain physical if an organization's architecture is probably architected.

We had the challenge that Veeam has many VMware customers who have a Microsoft kind of infrastructure set up on VMware. They were basically using shared virtual disks and part of the limitation was that VMware was conducting snapshot full backups.

They created the Agent for these two use cases, to back up VMs that VMware cannot conduct a snapshot for, Windows VMs, and to back up physical servers that any customer would like to do so. At the end of the day, the main is that Veeam is paired with VMware.

We get more customers that want to back up and change it themselves. Veeam created this agent as a VMware-based backup of Windows operating systems.

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David Villota - PeerSpot reviewer
EMEA Hosting Engineer at Yanfeng Automotive

When we need to back up clusters, we use the agent for Windows. 

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AH
Project Manager and Technical Consultant at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

The solution is used for disaster recovery and replication of data centers. 

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RK
IT specialist - Monitoring and security at Operator ICT

We bought the Veeam Enterprise license for Linux and Microsoft backup for the virtual machines running on those operating systems. The reason we bought this software is that I have a lot of experience with Veeam software. When I compare Veeam with the storage manager from IBM or data protocol from HP or Exeter or some backups from Dell, Veeam is superior. I could buy these other products but Veeam is best because it is very user-friendly as well as being a very great solution.  

In addition to my personal experience and opinion, when we bought this software, our virtualization software only had a standard license and it did not have a replication function. Veeam Enterprise has the replication of function. We chose this backup software because Veeam has a backup and replication center which is additional functionality that we needed.  

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RC
Senior Engineer at MRB Secure

We've been providing Veeam solutions to clients. We basically distribute MSP licenses to clients.

Veeam Agent for Windows is basically the mini compared to Backup and Replication, which is like the Mercedes of the two. It's for anything that doesn't require a backup of an application or license. For example, for physical server backups or physical workstation backups. You won't really use it for virtual machines. You'll rather install a backup of the application and use it for that. That's about it.

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Bonno Gaobolae - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical director at Stanbic Bank Botswana

This solution is used for backup and recovery of an entire virtual environment. We're using the latest version of the solution.

Fewer than 100 people are using this solution in our organization.

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PT
Engener unix team at Jet Infosystems Central Asia

We primarily use the solution for the backup of Windows on Oracle machines. We use it for the back on other machines as well. 

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Roopesh Mohabeer - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Support Analyst at WARWYCK PHOENIX PCC

We use Veeam for backing up our entire infrastructure, which is running on a hyper-converged solution. We back up our Windows servers to disk and to tape.

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Kevin Honde - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Solution Architect at Econet Wireless Zimbabwe

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is used for backup, restore, and recovery.

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GB
System Manager at Ergon

This solution is used for our private clients and customers. It is used for data protection in a data center.

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CG
System engineer at Jurong Port Universal Terminal Pte. Ltd.

We use the solution to function as our backup infrastructure.

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SL
Owner / IT operator at Fairview Schools

We primarily use the solution for business continuity and backup and recovery.

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Robert-Nilsson - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Development Manager at Gignos

If you need to back up a Windows environment, then Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is a good choice, because it works. This is our use case for the solution.

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EC
IT Manager - Infrastructure at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We use Veeam for backing up our ESX servers. We back up all of our VMs on a daily basis and we replicate them off-site.

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PM
IT Technician at Thaba Chweu

Our primary use for the product is mostly for backup and associated features.

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AS
Senior System & Security Administrator at a legal firm with 51-200 employees

The solution is primarily a backup and recovery software, offering data protection and disaster recovery solution for physical virtual machines, for the local virtual machines on the physical servers using the Veeam backup solution. 

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MH
System Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

We are resellers for Veeam Agent and more people are buying it for Microsoft Windows. They are buying Veeam Agent for Windows as a solution for allowing and maximizing the performance of Veeam for Windows and they are also buying Veeam as a product. These agents are very popular. We sell Veeam Agent to 50% of the Windows customers looking for a backup and recovery system and we sell other products to the other 50%.  

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LA
Backup & Recovery Section Head at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

I am a senior backup and recovery administrator and I am concentrating on these solutions.

This solution was deployed in a private cloud environment. We have switched to Commvault from this solution due to problems arising from its use with Hyper-V.

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WC
Service Director at scsi co.,ltd

We primarily use the solution for backup purposes. 

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SK
Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use the solution for disaster recovery of backups and applications.

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SK
System Administrator at Confidential

The primary use case of this solution is to back up data.

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EG
Senior Information Security Consultant at Future Telecom

The solution is useful for taking backups for end-user laptops and end-user workstations where data is involved. An example would be that of my CEO's laptop, which contains political business. We simply take a backup of it and store it in an external drive. 

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FD
Senior Solution Architect at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

We are using it to back up the physical servers of our customers who are working on-prem. It is deployed in the environment of our customers. We are using its latest version.

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JV
IT Director at UAGM

I use Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows for my VMware environments, all my production workloads, and Unix database boxes. It's for production and developers.

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SK
IT Consultant at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We primarily use the solution for backups and VR.

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BN
IT Support at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

I primarily use Veeam Agent for backing up data and restoration. 

This solution is deployed on-premises. I'm not sure which version we are using, but it should be the latest one. 

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FL
IT Manager at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use this solution for backing up the machines in our company. It is an on-premises deployment.

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Yogesh (Datamotive) - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at a tech company with 11-50 employees

We are customers of Veeam Agent and I'm the VP of technology. 

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DD
CTO at SoferTech

I use the Veeam backup solution for our VR infrastructure.

We are using the on-premises deployment model.

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TR
Director at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We have one solution that is purely on-premise and another where we make the initial backup on-premise but send a copy to the cloud provider.

We use Veeam Agent for security as well as to ensure we have a backup should the server or discs fatally die. We are a small company with just one building, we want to be sure that should a server be gone we have a backup in the cloud so that we can survive.

We currently have between two and three users for this solution and one team member responsible for the maintenance and deployment.

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SK
Manager at Securetech
YS
Lead Presales at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

We have one customer that has three or four servers and those are Windows servers. We have to use the agent only.

Any laptop or desktop that is Windows can use it, as well as physical servers. We don't use this with virtual servers.

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TM
Web developer at a energy/utilities company with self employed

We primarily use the solution for backup and restore purposes.

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AM
CEO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

We are a solution provider and we supply backup solutions to our clients. This solution is used for backing up Windows Servers. We do not use it in-house.

We are using an on-premises deployment model.

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GD
IT Professional at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We mainly use this program for web applications.

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BJ
Backup Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We use this solution in Windows and in Linux, to pick up individual files to create a system image on the server.

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Buyer's Guide
Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL]
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL]. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.