IT Director at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Easy to operate and restore
Pros and Cons
  • "It is a stable and scalable solution that's easy to operate and restore."
  • "Could be improved with hybrid cloud integration backup."

What is our primary use case?

It's used for all of our virtual environment backups. We use it in all kinds of IT, with over 3000 employees.

What is most valuable?

I like that it's easy to operate and restore.

What needs improvement?

For additional features, I'd say having integration backup through hybrid cloud.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using the solution for more than five years.

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It's a stable solution.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is scalable.

How are customer service and support?

If we need support, we call the Veeam branch office in our country.

How was the initial setup?

Initial setup is straightforward. 

What about the implementation team?

It was deployed by the reseller.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

We have a yearly license.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We were approached by Commvault and Veritas solution vendors, but for now, Veeam is good enough.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.  

Maintenance is done with the SI (System Integrator). 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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Assistant Manager-Network/Systems at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
Real User
Affordable and good for small businesses, but needs more technical depth
Pros and Cons
  • "Veeam Backup has many valuable features and every feature is different. I have created backups for file-level backup, VMware or hypervisor virtual machines, physical machines, and workstations as well. Every time, I learn something new."
  • "I think Veeam needs to improve the file installation process, as well as more technical things like snapping feature issues. Sometimes during backup, when it's taking the scan snaps on the ESXi, it started and didn't remove the snapshot from there, which consumed storage on the EXSi. It could be improved with more technical depth. The response time for Veeam's technical support could also be improved."

What is our primary use case?

We use Veeam Backup for setting up backups, according to our directives and policies, such as encryption and high contention policies. We then do the backup to Wasabi or any other cloud area. We use these directives to configure the backups. 

This solution is deployed on-premises. 

What is most valuable?

Veeam Backup has many valuable features and every feature is different. I have created backups for file-level backup, VMware or hypervisor virtual machines, physical machines, and workstations as well. Every time, I learn something new. 

What needs improvement?

I think Veeam needs to improve the file installation process, as well as more technical things like snapping feature issues. Sometimes during backup, when it's taking the scan snaps on the ESXi, it started and didn't remove the snapshot from there, which consumed storage on the EXSi. It could be improved with more technical depth. 

The response time for Veeam's technical support could also be improved. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been working with Veeam Backup for about four to five years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Veeam Backup is stable. There is an issue, where if you lost the VBR machine that was taking the backups, it's a long process to reconfigure the VBR, attach the repositories with the new VBR machine, and restore things. It is a difficult process, but with Datto, they also contain the backup in the cloud—you can manage your cloud to the portal and then you can store the machines on their cloud. 

Maintenance is required from time to time, basically whenever you're upgrading your servers, workstations, or endpoint. According to that, you might need to improve your version of Veeam. I started working with VBR versions 8 and 9, and then upgraded to 10, and then 11. Different restoration features and backup features are available in different versions. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

This solution is easy to scale. You can scale it up—you just need to give it a repository and then assign the backup to those repositories. It is a little difficult moving the old backup change from one repository to another, and is not as simple as with Datto. Datto has a very simple process and when you continue with the Datto machine with a higher amount of space, they always have their pool containing all the previous backups. They also move all those backups to new storage, so their process is very easy, whereas it's a little difficult with Veeam. 

Veeam Backup is mostly suitable for small organizations. For large organizations, I recommend Datto because they're more reliable, in terms of the restoration process. Small organizations may have time to recover things or provide a solution. Basically, it depends on the queue scalability or the RPU and RTO, so you must plan the solution according to that. 

How are customer service and support?

I'm satisfied with Veeam's technical support. Normally, we are able to solve issues ourselves, but if we have any issues that are unresolvable and we can't find a solution on the internet or on forums, then we contact the support team. 

They take a little bit longer to resolve issues because they often have call loads on the support, so you either need to wait one or two hours for someone to call you back or you need to wait on the phone. The other support teams are busy on other calls, so you have to wait for them or leave your number. 

In one scenario, different issues were occurring and we discussed them with the support team. I was working on license utilization of all the VBRs, which were integrated with my Veeam Service Provider Console. We identified that the license utilization was not generating properly through the Veeam Service Provider Console and it also wasn't integrating through to my PSA integration tools. So, he worked with me and they improved the database tables to get the proper report from the VBR. From time to time, these issues are identified and we resolve them. 

How was the initial setup?

If you are installing it for the first time, you might feel that it's a little bit complex. I think that if you are using a backup product, it's easier to configure the backup through Datto, Acronis' business solutions, or Synology NAS. To me, those are the easiest ways to configure the backups. 

The timeframe for deployment depends on the client environment: how many servers, how many backups need to be configured, the size of the backups, etc. When you configure the backup, initially, you need to take the full backups in, which takes time if the backup size is too big and you need to configure it one by one. So, it depends on the infrastructure, bandwidth, and the size of the backup. 

What about the implementation team?

We implemented this solution through an in-house team. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Veeam products are less expensive than other products. The licensing costs are low and they're pretty affordable. 

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I'm using the Veeam Service Provider Console for centralized management of all VBR, and I created the cloud VBR for taking backups off configuration and managing them through the Veeam Service Provider Console.

I also use Datto, which I recommend for large organizations, because they are more reliable, in terms of the restoration process. You can make a machine available for a client on the Datto machine as well as in the cloud. It also takes a shorter amount of time for recovery, whereas on Veeam, you must have additional space and additional hardware available to restore the full machine. They also have a limitation of file level storage. For example, if you are running VBR on a machine and restoring the file, you have two options: you can either restore the files on the original location first, or you can restore the file on the same VR machine. If you lost your original location and you're restoring files, then you must restore the files on one of those two locations because you can't store files on network parts or any external storage. Small organizations may have time to recover things or provide a solution. 

What other advice do I have?

I rate Veeam Backup a seven out of ten. 

I would recommend Veeam Backup, especially for small businesses. Normally, small business owners have a small budget, so they need to configure Veeam, whereas large organizations have large budgets, so they go to Datto. Small businesses can deploy Veeam if they have four or five backups. Otherwise, I would recommend Datto if they can afford it. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

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Technical Lead at Stratogent
MSP
Cost effective backup solution that enables the retention of large volumes of data
Pros and Cons
  • "Veeam Cloud Connect has helped us to reduce the cost of cloud storage for an offsite solution using their archive storage feature."
  • "It would be useful if we could integrate our on-premise VM solution with the Azure workload backup from the existing console. This would assist our customers in reducing the cost of hardware."

What is our primary use case?

We have used this solution to back up our on-premise environment. Currently, we are backing up our VMs VMware.

How has it helped my organization?

Veeam Cloud Connect has helped us to reduce the cost of cloud storage for an offsite solution using their archive storage feature. 

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature this solution offers us is new and allows us to store data in the cloud and works with Azure and AWS Cloud. This is useful for managing the retention of large volumes of data. 

The continuous backup functionality is useful for us to keep all our data up to date. 

What needs improvement?

It would be useful if we could integrate our on-premise VM solution with the Azure workload backup from the existing console. This would assist our customers in reducing the cost of hardware. 

It would be good to have the option to store the data directly to Azure, AWS Cloud or any other cloud solutions. 

We would like to have cloud storage set up as a storage solution instead of local storage and have an integrated console for AWS, GCP and Amazon Azure workloads.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for the last five to six years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

This is a stable solution for a medium-sized environment. We haven't tried it for a large-scale environment but the solution may not perform as well at a larger scale.

How are customer service and support?

The support offered is very good, however, hey recently introduced a ticketing system that requires us to raise a ticket from their portal site and wait for a response. Calling them directly is not possible. 

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

We used to use Commvault as our backup solution. We switched because we wanted to avoid having an offsite team and hardware. 

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is straightforward and very simple. It took three to four hours to set up the environment. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

We have like pooled license and act as a seller. We pay approximately $800 per month. There are no additional costs from Veeam directly but the solution does require cloud storage that needs to be paid for. 

What other advice do I have?

It's an excellent product that is simple and easy to setup. If you have a medium-sized environment and infrastructure, this is a good solution. There is an option of a 30-day trial to test all the features the solution offers.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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IT Manager/System Admin at Sprague Europe
Real User
Multiple functions, simple to use and install, and well-documented
Pros and Cons
  • "I'm pleased with the ability to search for documents; it's very useful."
  • "Scalability, as well as licensing costs, need to be improved."

What is our primary use case?

This solution is used to backup, restore, and replicate our data.

What is most valuable?

It's an easy-to-use tool with multiple functions.

The replication is easy.

It provides good findability of the missing documents.

I'm pleased with the ability to search for documents; it's very useful.

There is a lot of documentation available online. The Veeam forum is a great place to start because it contains a great deal of information.

What needs improvement?

Scalability, as well as licensing costs, need to be improved.

I like the idea of a web-based version or a web console. That is the top priority for us.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using Veeam Backup & Replication for more than five years.

We are working with the latest version.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Some features are missing, such as web-based versions. 

I only have the software on the machine, and I must log in to use the software. There are some features that are missing in terms of stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Scalability needs to be improved.

In our organization, I am the only user from the IT department.

How are customer service and support?

I contacted technical support in the middle of last year. There was an issue with our Veeam account that was resolved in a matter of days.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is straightforward. 

It is just a small installer. That was all there was to it, we just needed to fill in some options.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The licensing cost needs improvement.

We have a yearly perpetual license. 

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I was comparing Veeam to Dell DPS, and I was looking for information on products other than Veeam or Dell but were somewhere in between.

What other advice do I have?

My advice is to determine whether the version they have is the correct one that they require, as Veeam has three different versions. As a result, you must determine which version is appropriate for your organization. That is a mistake that we have made in the past.

I would rate Veeam Backup & Replication an eight out of ten.

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CTO at NWI Telecom
Real User
A fast and easy-to-use solution that supports incremental backups and allows us to do a rollback and recover our services with a little downtime
Pros and Cons
  • "The peace of mind of the backup is very important. Incremental backups make it fast and easy to use. We can recover from any failures in case of any hardware failures or malware attacks. We can do a rollback and recover our services with a little downtime. We can rollback even in the case of unsuccessful updates."
  • "They have an integration with MS SQL, and you have to license MS SQL. This is something they need to change. They should go for an open-source database or a free SQL because you're already buying this product, and you shouldn't have to buy another product."

What is our primary use case?

We use it to guarantee the uptime of our services and servers. We are using its latest version.

What is most valuable?

The peace of mind of the backup is very important. Incremental backups make it fast and easy to use.

We can recover from any failures in case of any hardware failures or malware attacks. We can do a rollback and recover our services with a little downtime. We can rollback even in the case of unsuccessful updates.

What needs improvement?

They have an integration with MS SQL, and you have to license MS SQL. This is something they need to change. They should go for an open-source database or a free SQL because you're already buying this product, and you shouldn't have to buy another product.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for a little over a year.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is very stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is scalable. It is just a complaint about MS SQL, but with everything else, it is really scalable. You can just add resources and use what you need. It is really flexible. We have six analysts who use this solution.

How are customer service and technical support?

I have never used their technical support.

How was the initial setup?

It is fairly easy to set up the solution. The deployment took just a few hours. Generally, two business days would be enough.

What other advice do I have?

I would advise planning your deployments ahead of time and predicting space refinements so that you can set up everything correctly. If you need to change it later, it is a little more complicated.

I would rate Veeam Backup & Replication a nine out of ten.

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IT Analyst at Deschutes County
Real User
Rock solid, great scalability, and great support
Pros and Cons
  • "It is a rock-solid backup solution. That's all, and that's what we were asking for."
  • "They fixed everything that I was hoping for. It is pretty good. There were a few things in 9.x that I was wishing for, and they came true in version 10. We were looking for retention without having to make a copy job. We're getting ready to migrate m365 to the cloud. I haven't dived into it to make sure, but I wish the m365 backup would integrate into the current console so that we don't have to use two different consoles."

What is our primary use case?

Our use case is about a hundred VMR servers and maybe a handful of agents.

How has it helped my organization?

It has improved our organization. I don't have to spend all day troubleshooting backups, so it has freed up a lot of time.

What is most valuable?

It is a rock-solid backup solution. That's all, and that's what we were asking for.

What needs improvement?

They fixed everything that I was hoping for. It is pretty good. There were a few things in 9.x that I was wishing for, and they came true in version 10. We were looking for retention without having to make a copy job.

We're getting ready to migrate m365 to the cloud. I haven't dived into it to make sure, but I wish the m365 backup would integrate into the current console so that we don't have to use two different consoles.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for maybe two years. I use it daily.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is rock solid. We didn't have any issues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Its scalability is great. They have scale-out backup repositories where you can add more extents, so it'll grow with you. You just buy more space or another server and then add it into the scale-out backup repository.

Primarily, there are six users, and I'm the primary one. We're all in the operation center.

How are customer service and technical support?

Their technical support is great. They're quick, very knowledgeable, and very proficient. I would give them a ten out of ten.

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

We used Unitrends before this, and it was constant babysitting. It worked great for that time period, but once we migrated to VMware, we decided to try one of the industry standards. It has really paid off for us. Unitrends was quite a bit more expensive.

How was the initial setup?

Now that I understand it, it would probably be simple, but initially, it was a kind of interesting concept. It was a little bit complex, and we had a vendor who configured it for us, but we battled it until we got it all configured the way we wanted. The biggest issue was the space for making the backups. We didn't realize how much space we would use.

What other advice do I have?

Don't waste your time. Go ahead and do it.

I would rate Veeam Backup & Replication a ten out of ten.

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Virtualization Consultant at Bahwan IT
Consultant
Easy to use, good support, and the backup and restore features are very fast
Pros and Cons
  • "The user interface is good and it is very easy to use."
  • "I would like to have the capability of backing up a physical machine, as opposed to just a VM."

What is our primary use case?

We are a Veeam distributor and this is one of the solutions that we use, and also implement for our clients. 

We have been using an on-premises deployment. It is installed in our VMs, and we have created a backup repository. It performs a daily incremental backup, and on the weekend it performs a full backup. 

What is most valuable?

The restore option is very fast when restoring the VM, and it is the most valuable feature for me.

The user interface is good and it is very easy to use.

What needs improvement?

I would like to have the capability of backing up a physical machine, as opposed to just a VM.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using this solution for about one month.

How are customer service and technical support?

The support team is very friendly and they have helped us a lot. When we have needed any help or support, we have been able to reach them.

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

I used to use IBM Tivoli, and I find that the backup and restore operations are much faster with Veeam. The price of Veeam is much lower than the IBM solution. In Veeam we can use different kinds of storage, whereas, with IBM, we could only use a tape backup.

How was the initial setup?

Veeam is very easy to implement. The installation is easy, and you do not need a technical person to be present.

The deployment takes approximately two hours, including configuration.

What about the implementation team?

We had some assistance from our contact with Veeam in Dubai.

What other advice do I have?

We are happy that we are using Veeam.

I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.

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reviewer1053252Technical Presales Consultant/ Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Top 5MSP

After sale support should be the most important decision criteria for buying any solution. When it comes to disaster recovery usually people are mentally stressed and challenged in terms of RTOs, that causes a bit of a panic and may affect proper judgement of taking the right decisions at the time, having a simple solution comes handy in such situations. All I can say that according to my 2 year in depth experience of dealing with multiple Veeam products and before that having dealt with other backup vendor's I cannot stop but say the truth that Veeam has an amazing after sales support experience hence their NPS scores and their products are the easiest to use in their field so far. It really just works!

Senior Engineer at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
Real User
Top 20
User-friendly backup of the whole virtual server
Pros and Cons
  • "The most important part is that you actually know you have a backup of the whole virtual server."
  • "I have also been struggling with the storage and in some cases I need to move things due to performance."

What is our primary use case?

We are using Veeam at our college and we have been connected for a while now. We use it for backing up virtual servers in the Hyperwave and it is working very well. It works well for backing up services. We can backup Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Sharepoint and it is actually easy to understand how to restore from it. It has an easy UI.

How has it helped my organization?

The most important part is that we know we have a backup of the whole virtual server. We can restore the whole server if we want, or just take some specific files. I like this duality of the product. That's how I put it on virtualized software.

What needs improvement?

The most important improvement would be for it to be updated to support new servers and we actually are in a situation that we are going to connect our Exchange service to a new one. They have to actually support new software as they are released and I think Veeam has promised to support new Windows upgrades which is important .

If they had some more agents for physical computers, that would also be a nice feature.

I have also been struggling with the storage, and in some cases I need to move things due to performance. We can use replication and we hope that this will help us continue with Veeam.

For how long have I used the solution?

More than five years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

This solution is very stable. I have been struggling with the storage now and that's not Veeam's fault, but sometimes I have problems with it. We are short on storage right now, but because of some performance issues we have to reserve a room at our location and the connection between those two rooms is not great. I hope I found the cause of that problem so in this situation we actually have been struggling with storage. I know that Veeam has support for more storage. If there was a snapshot functionality on Veeam, it would help. I think we cannot use the replication part of the solution but I think we are going to use it more now when they have more of the location sites, and replicate to the different locations.

How is customer service and technical support?

I know they have good support, but I haven't been using them very often. I'd like to try and figure out what the problem is myself. I know that we have a contract to use their help. Mostly I use the support for upgrades to new versions. I don't contact Veeam support very often.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was straightforward. It was easy to install. If you miss some plugins for Windows, you actually can click "okay" and it's on the installation media. The installation is very easy. 

What was our ROI?

It is a cheap solution with the ability to backup for our needs.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The price is great. It's software related, and I know that might be a good thing because it's a cheap solution to buy and we have been looking for a program for backup and they fit the bill. The price of Veeam and its software related products enable you to have your own hardware. You can use your own infrastructure and you can actually buy what you want. This is cost-effective. It might be that if you buy something else and they have media things it's very expensive but it works very well. If your company has pressure to actually get back data very quickly, it might not be possible with this solution. Our college environment doesn't seem to have this problem. There has not been much down time but I think if the server is broken, it just restores within an hour and everything returns back to normal.

What other advice do I have?

You can actually use the infrastructure you already have so you don't have to buy new hardware to actually start using it. That's the most important part about this solution.

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