HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery [EOL] vs Veeam Data Platform comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 26, 2025

Veeam Data Platform and HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery [EOL] compete in the data management category. Veeam Data Platform often has the upper hand due to its ease of use and cost-effectiveness, while HPE GreenLake is preferred by those seeking comprehensive features.

Features: Veeam Data Platform offers a user-friendly interface, efficient recovery options, and broad data protection across virtual, physical, and cloud environments. HPE GreenLake provides scalable infrastructure, integrated cloud services, and advanced analytics for resilient data management.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Veeam Data Platform is known for straightforward deployment with an intuitive setup process and responsive customer support. GreenLake’s deployment is more complex due to infrastructure integration, with hands-on assistance more suited for larger organizations.

Pricing and ROI: Veeam Data Platform features a cost-effective pricing model with positive ROI through flexible licensing and lower setup costs. HPE GreenLake involves higher initial investments but offers strong ROI for scalable solutions.

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Categories and Ranking

HPE GreenLake for Backup an...

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Veeam Data Platform

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

434

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (1st), Cloud Backup (1st), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (2nd)

Featured Reviews

SafdarHussain

Network Engineer at Hub of Technology

Good security with useful backup and recovery capablities

The security is very effective. It provides us with a single cloud-based console to manage all our backup and recovery operations. It's easy to use for me. I've used some other clouds and found them hard to understand or to manage things. This platform makes it easy to do so many things all from one place. I like the built-in security features, encryption, and data backup capabilities. The product never gives me an error. It runs smoothly, and I've never had a delay in the backup recovery. It has affected the time we spend managing our backup infrastructure. We've saved a little time. We use the deduplication capabilities. It's helped us reduce the cost of long-term data retention. It's good compared to other solutions we've used. The security and speed of the system are quite helpful to us. The solution does provide automatic updates.

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Munichandra G

Backup Engineer at Cloud4C Services

Backup policies have strengthened security and replication but still need flexible long-term retention

The support and compatibility are areas of concern. When it comes to Azure workloads, Veeam Data Platform has limitations with only MS SQL database and Cosmos, and no other databases are supported by Veeam Backup for Azure. The main challenge I noticed is that enterprise customers may have a requirement to retain backups for 10 years or 15 years with monthly and weekly backups. In Veeam Data Platform, we do not have customization or compatibility to retain specific data backups as monthly and yearly. The retention schedule is fixed. For instance, it is the first Friday of the backup or the last Friday of the month. If it is weekly, it should be one of the weeks. If it is monthly, it should be the last Friday. For yearly, it is the last Friday of that respective month in that year. However, this should not be the case. When a customer confirms, 'Please go and take an EOD backup and retain it for 10 years,' Veeam Data Platform does not support this sort of customization. I even raised a case with Veeam Data Platform and they clearly stated that Veeam Data Platform only accepts the GFS policy according to the retention defined, and there is no customization available. This is a significant limitation. I should have the customization to go and take a backup of a specific date, month, or year, but Veeam Data Platform does not allow this and restricts me to only the policy supported. For example, if I take any backup, I do not have an option to extend the retention. If a customer asks, 'Please take a backup,' and later requests, 'No, it is very critical. Can you please extend the retention for 15 years?' Veeam Data Platform does not support this. Veeam Data Platform does not allow me to extend the retention in the way other tools do. These are limitations I came across in my experience, and I feel these are minimal requirements. The same features are offered by other third-party backup tools available in the market. From the analytics point of view, I personally feel some challenges. Veeam Data Platform has two different products: VBR and Veeam Backup for Azure. As we are running on cloud platforms, if we are in Azure, we must go for Veeam Backup for Azure. If we need to create copy jobs, I must again come to VBR. However, Veeam ONE is not capable enough to integrate both platforms. For instance, if I am taking backup of workloads through Veeam Backup for Azure, I could not find an option to integrate it into Veeam ONE for reports and analytics. It is only limited to VBR. Whatever jobs we created in VBR are displayed there, but Veeam Backup for Azure does not integrate, at least from what I have explored, and it should not be this way. Veeam ONE should support all Veeam Data Platform products.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The always-on deduplication and compression features have helped to reduce the cost of long-term data retention."

"It's easy to use for me."

"I am a specialist in Veeam, and my clients optimized their recovery procedure, and it now requires less time to restore services."

"I have previously used many different solutions and choose Veeam for its quick and correct solutions for my problems."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the recuperation of the weaker machines."

"The installation is pretty straightforward."

"The backup and restore features are the most valuable."

"It's a very easy solution to use."

"The product is very reliable, easy to manage, and, above all, complete."

"Try it out and you'll be very surprised at how easy Veeam is for virtualized environments."

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Cons

"The dashboard should be updated."

"If you need to recover an environment and you have suffered from ransomware, it's difficult to start again with the backup and recovery service."

"In the past, Veeam had a host-based license, but now it will be part of Microsoft's core license. I don't like this licensing model. Host-based licensing is better for my system. Maybe so other organizations prefer the core-based."

"Physical workload protection and item level recovery for Linux-based systems."

"CDP also requires a lot of development, because there are a lot of restrictions now for CDP. There is a chance to improve CDP and make it much easier for the customers."

"At this point, my only complaint is about the licensing costs."

"I would want them to improve some technical features that are still missing because we are working with NetApp NVMe and they're not fully supporting it yet. But both NetApp and Veeam know about it and they're working on it."

"Sometimes, when we shut it down, it doesn't properly shut down for us."

"For my client, bandwidth is a problem."

"I have a problem with the VM. When we started doing a backup, it takes a snapshot for our virtual machines, but when we try it two or three times, in some cases, our virtual machines go to a consolidated state. I don't know why this problem happens. But I still think Veeam is a top-ranking solution."

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"It is reasonably very cheap. I would rate the licensing model a one out of ten, where one is very affordable and ten is extremely expensive."

"I find the pricing to be okay."

"Its licensing is very simple. We can make changes very easily."

"Veeam has a ten-license package gives you two physical and two virtual servers you can use on any endpoint."

"It's expensive and costs about 4000 a year."

"The price of Veeam Backup & Replication is reasonable compared to IBM."

"Veeam ONE is cheaper when you compare it with one of its competitors in the ops space, VMware vRealize Operations. There's a separate department that deals with the licensing, but my company is using CSP licensing, which is the service provider licensing, so my company doesn't fall under the normal volume at the Veeam Universal licensing program. The cost is commit-based and depends on what your point commit is. The point commit works differently, and it's similar to your sales provider license. If you commit to using one thousand five hundred points, you get a certain price. If you commit to using the eight hundred points scheme, you get a certain price. As you grow the point scheme, you get a different price range, so it doesn't matter whether you're using Veeam One, Veeam Availability Suite, Veeam Backup and Replication, Orchestrate, or whatever the product is."

"The licensing is based on the number of cores you have in your ESX or Hyper-V environment."

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Overview

HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery is a user-friendly and efficient solution designed to simplify data protection. With easy setup and management, automated backups, and flexible options like full, incremental, and differential backups, HPE GreenLake ensures your data is consistently safeguarded. Offering fast recovery to minimize downtime, this cloud-based solution operates on a pay-as-you-go model, allowing scalability without upfront costs. Enjoy global accessibility, robust security with data encryption and immutability, and disaster recovery capabilities, protecting your data from unforeseen events like fires or floods. HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery goes above and beyond by providing ransomware protection, reinforcing its commitment to comprehensive data security. Elevate your backup strategy with this adaptable and reliable solution that caters to users of all IT expertise levels.

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Veeam Data Platform is a unified data resilience solution that helps organizations recover from cyberattacks and outages, and protect workloads across hybrid and multicloud environments – all without vendor lock-in.

The platform includes built-in security capabilities designed to mitigate ransomware and other data-loss threats, including AI-backed threat detection across a broad range of workload types. This is intended to help teams identify and respond to threats before they disrupt operations.

Veeam Data Platform supports workload portability across hypervisors, cloud providers, and on-premises environments, allowing organizations to move or recover data across infrastructure without being tied to a specific vendor or platform.

For organizations looking to simplify deployment, Veeam Software Appliance provides a pre-built, hardened, and highly available option, reducing the manual setup and maintenance work required from IT teams.

Veeam Data Platform is used by over 550,000 customers worldwide, including 82% of the Fortune 500.

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