Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] Reviews

We use the solution to function as our backup infrastructure.

The solution is straightforward to use.

They should improve the solution's automation features.

We have been using the solution for a year.

It is a stable solution.

It is a scalable solution. We have implemented it on around 1000 servers. We have plans to increase the licenses, but it depends on the infrastructure and usage.

I used NetBackup earlier. I found its license assessment, setup process, and infrastructure more complicated than Veeam.

The initial setup process of the solution is more accessible than other products. It takes a few hours to deploy it. The process consists of setting up the infrastructure and deploying the solution to the endpoint.

Our in-house administrator executes the deployment and maintenance of the solution.

It is easier to generate ROI for other products compared to Veeam.

We purchase a yearly license for the solution. It is less expensive than Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365.

I rate the solution as an eight.

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

It's a simple way to back up the database. 

The initial setup, if it is error-free, is very simple. 

The solution is inexpensive.

We've had several issues with Veeam and one of our customers. For the last three to six months, the client had to deploy all of their VMs on both sides. After the redeployment, it's been easier. The initial implementation was not so easy.

There need to be more error codes to help us understand when something is going wrong. 

The VM databases can be a bit difficult as there are not enough error codes available to understand what is going on. It would help us resolve customer issues if there was more visibility on errors. 

Troubleshooting is very hard. 

It would be nice to have some sort of GUI interface as opposed to dealing with the CLI or PowerScripts. 

We've used the solution for a while. We've used it for the last six months. 

The stability is good. I'd rate it seven out of ten. Troubleshooting I'd rate at zero out of ten. When you run into issues, it's complex. 

This is a physical solution. It doesn't scale per se, although it comes in different sizes. 

We have three to four people using the solution. 

Our customer does not have an active technical support contract. Therefore, we do not deal with support.

The installation is not the simplest. We've had issues and had to redeploy our client's VMs.

The initial setup is very easy. The problems start when you run into errors. 

The ease of setup, without issues, is ten out of ten. 

The deployment takes several hours. We had one person on our side and one person on the customer side to handle the deployment. Only one person is needed for maintenance. 

We handle the deployment of our customers. They supervise the process. 

The solution is very cheap. I'd rate the affordability ten out of ten. 

A customer might use the product for up to five years before having to replace it. 

We previously were partners with Veeam.

Aside from troubleshooting issues, which are difficult, the solution is good. 

I would rate the solution seven out of ten overall. 

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.

The compatibility of Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows with other solutions is good. Its integration with other solutions is also good. I also find the product user-friendly.

Everything is good with the solution. The only thing that's not as good with Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is the compression ratio and the application ratio.

They should also offer better reports, for better monitoring.

We've been dealing with the Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows for a few years now. We've been more focused on the Windows version of the Veeam Agent compared to the Linux version, so we've been selling it longer.

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows has good stability.

The scalability of Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is very good.

The support for Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is quite good, as what I've heard from our technical team. Support can always be faster and more knowledgeable, but it's working fine currently, so that is not an issue.

The initial setup for the product was straightforward.

For the licensing of the product, it will be your choice as a customer, e.g. if you want to pay monthly for it, or pay yearly, it's up to you.

We were able to evaluate Veeam Cloud Connect.

We've been dealing with Veeam Cloud Connect. We're also dealing with Veeam One and all the other products there, and it depends on what the customer needs. We've been selling all of those solutions, including the Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows.

We have under 1,000 users of the Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows.

I absolutely can recommend the product to other people.

I'm rating the Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows an eight out of ten.

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. 

It works fine. I don't have any major problems with the agent connectivity with Microsoft applications or Microsoft Azure. It's working fine for the local and the cloud application for backups.

The product is stable.

I have found the solution to be scalable.

My understanding is that the initial setup was a straightforward process.

The solution could always offer a bit more. 

With the currency exchange, the solution ends up being quite expensive. It would be ideal if they could make it so that it was cheaper for users in our region.

I started working with the solution about two to three years ago.

The stability is good. The solution offers good performance There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable and we haven't had any problems with it at all so far. 

If a company needs to scale the solution, it can do so. It's not a problem.

We have ten customers that use the solution at this time. 

We've dealt with technical support in the past. We asked them two times about an issue, and they were very helpful and helped us to solve our issues. We are satisfied with the level of support they offer.

Another person on my team handles the implementation directly. I simply supervise the process. From my supervisory role, I'd say the implementation process was straightforward. 

We have one person that's able to handle deployment and maintenance tasks. They are an engineer and an implementor. 

We can provide implementation services to our clients. 

Customers need to pay for a license for Veeam Agent for Windows. Typically, it's a yearly licensing fee.

For us here in Egypt, it's very expensive, as the dollar versus the Egyptian pound is at a high rate. When we change the currency from the dollar to the Egyptian pound, we end up with a very expensive license.

We are solution providers.

I would recommend the solution to others. Overall, I'd rate it at an eight out of ten. 

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.

The solution is very stable.

They have already invested a lot of R&D and mainly they're supported on most of the Windows scenarios, even the custom-tailored parts. 

The solution allows for full integration. I can deploy the Agent from the backup server and manage the backups all from the backup server. Or I can use the Agent as a stand-alone and discard the backup server. In terms of restoration, I can restore the entire machine, specific file systems, application actors, et cetera.

Restoring to the cloud is pretty flexible.

Technical support is quite good.

The initial setup has improved quite a bit from version 4 to 5. You don't need to worry about downtime.

If you have windows machine at home and you'd like a backup, you can always download their free edition and plug in an external hard disk, and do a full backup of your laptop.

They just released Version 5 for Version 11 and they released some amazing features with it, such as the backup and restore snapshots features. Before the agent was only able to back up through the network. Now it's even able to back up through the SAN fabric, depending on the customer environment.

I can't think of an area where the solution is lacking in features. Overall, it's quite good, and more money is going into R&D already.

That said, there are many things they can develop for the Linux agent. The Windows agent is quite complete.

Some customers have Oracle databases and Veeam does support back up of Oracle databases. There is a specific setup in Oracle when you have the Oracle databases configured with the ASM - something related to Oracle storage back up. Veeam cannot back up or restore ASM disks as of right now. It could be something they could offer in the future.

Some customers that are in the industrial sector are using legacy systems, systems that are very old and running on Windows 2000 or Windows NT, Windows 2003, and they're physical, they're not even virtual. Veeam here is pretty weak, as Veeam supports 2008 or Service Pack 1 and above. Anything before that, the Veeam Agent for Windows will not be able to back up anything.

I don't expect Veeam to be releasing agents for older editions of operating systems. Veeam itself is a new company. On the other hand, if you go to the competition, like Veritas, you'll see that Veritas is a well-established company in the market since way back and therefore they have these agents that can back up the older versions of Windows.

I've used the solution ever since its first release, since Version 1. That has been since around 2015 or 2016 or so. It's been a few years at this point. 

The solution is very stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.

I'm not sure about the scalability. With the agent, it should be pretty simple. You install it on each and every single server and then you back up. You can deploy it also with servers, however, the Agent will be in use on each and every single operating system which you want to back up. It can be also used for the PC environment, laptops, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10.

It's hard to count the number of users our clients have. There are many.

Technical support is amazing. They're quick to respond and accurate in terms of the support that's provided. You really don't worry about getting stuck in limbo. Regarding the Veeam Agent for Windows team, they're amazing. They are responsive. You don't have to wait a long time for a reply. They are very good.

The difficulty of each deployment depends on which version. They have improved the latest version, however, before, on Version 4, while the installation was straightforward, the problem was that it had a prerequisite requirement, which is the development framework on 4.7.2. This framework is not usually installed on all Windows operating systems. The problem is that it is free, and you can download it at any time and install it, however, it will require the service to be restarted and that means planned downtime.

Fortunately, they fixed that with Version 5. They changed the framework dependency to 4.5.2. so that there is no more forced downtime. 

The time it takes to deploy relies on various factors, however, assuming the prerequisites are all ready, it takes about 15 minutes.

I can handle the installation myself with support from a field-certified architect so there is no downtime.

Veeam did a major revamp in their licensing schema over the past three years. A lot of changes have happened within a very short timeframe. They almost then seemed irrational at first. However, now, somehow they figured how to have a great licensing model. It's called the Veeam Universal License.

This Veeam Universal License is meant to be a portable license. Before what used to be the problem is some customers would buy Veeam for VMware in five minutes, but now they've moved to a Nutanix and their license will no longer be valid. Veeam created this license so that you can use this license for the Agent for Windows, or, if you would like for the Agent to be for Linux, or if you would like it for VMware, or the Hyper-V or Nutanix, you can use it there.

Whatever Veeam features in Veeam Availability Suite, which encompasses Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Agents for Windows, Linux, and even Unix and Solaris, if you need to buy plug-ins or you're going to need an environment for SAP HANA, they have the support for SAP on Oracle and their backups. All of that's under the Veeam Universal License. They have unified it on a licensing model which works everywhere. So that makes it a lot simpler.

The only problem is that the license comes in bundles. It's not sold individually; it comes in bundles of 10 instances. Each instance is enough for a physical server.

The pricing is moderate. The solution falls in the middle of a few different options. It's not the cheapest, however, it's not the most expensive either. Comparing it with Veritas or Commvault or Rubik or Cohesity, for example, Veeam will definitely be a lot cheaper, as it's a software that has a very straightforward licensing model. However, solutions like Acronis will always be cheaper.

I've compared the solution with various products in terms of pricing. From my experience, to compare Veeam for example, to a Commvault or Veritas, Veeam is much cheaper. However, if you compare Veeam with Acronis or these small-time vendors, Veeam is very expensive.

We are a distributor, not a reseller.

I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten. It's a great product. The only drawback is the support for the ASM disks and the support for legacy Windows operating systems.

I'd recommend the solution to other companies. It's a straightforward solution. I am mostly a Linux guy, therefore, we're not as focused on Windows. In general, it's worked like a charm. It's helped me do backups and restores and it has never failed me in that perspective, except for the ASM disk issues.

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

Mostly, the solution offers very good peace of mind. We feel safe and secure and know that we are able to recover anything we need to.

I haven't had any disasters, so I haven't had to actually do a full restore.

The solution is extremely stable.

The ability to go into the virtual machine and do a file extraction has been quite useful as I have staff members and teachers that will either misplace or accidentally delete a file. They then rely on me to go get it for them. It's quite useful.

I basically just set it and forget it and use it to check my reports. If my reports look good, I don't even mess with it, I just let it do its thing. It's very hands-off.

The solution is very affordable for small businesses.

I can't think of anything that may be missing. I have basic replication and backup in place and it's doing what I want.

I've been using the solution for 2014. It's been a few years at this point. It's been about six years. I have nine virtual servers and two physical hosts that I am backing up with this.

The solution is very, very stable. It's extremely reliable. There aren't issues with bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash and freeze. We've had it since 2015. I've updated it once, and so far, it's been working great.

I'm unsure of the scalability aspect of the solution. It fits my environment and works great. The solution is very good for smaller entities such as businesses and schools. I haven't however, tried to scale anything.

I would at a K-12 school and all students and teachers benefit from the technology.

I've had to reach out to technical support in the past. They've been great. I'd rate them ten out o ten. The couple of times I've called in, they were wonderful. They were very fast response and resolved my problem quickly.

I didn't previously use a different solution, and I also don't plan to change from this one. I have a quote with me right now that I will fire off in order to start the renewal process.

The initials setup was not complex. It was very straightforward. We didn't face any issues during the setup process.

We've found the solution to be very reasonably priced.

I'm just a Veeam customer and end-user. I don't have a business relationship with the company.

I've got a Veeam agent for Linux and I've got a Veeam agent for Microsoft Windows. I've also got Veeam Cloud Connect and backup for Office 365.

I'm using Veeam Backup Essentials for Enterprise. The two-socket edition is currently what I'm running on this site.

I tend to do an on-prem backup and then I replicate to the cloud.

I would advise other organizations to talk to your local rep to get full details on what the product can do for you. That way you can use it to its fullest capability.

I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten. It's functioned well, saved my butt for firewall retrieval and pulling some data that was corrupted and customer service has been great.

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.  

The most valuable feature in Veeam is that it is a very user-friendly and intuitive software.  

The only things that I can think of where Veeam can improve are in very small details. For example, there are some things that I would prefer included in reporting on backups that are currently missing. This is not a problem with the product that needs to be repaired, it is my personal use case that I hope can be addressed.  

We have been using Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows for about one year.  

I think that Veeam helps to create a stable environment with virtual servers. I only restart the windows server after installing Microsoft updates, not because something has become unstable. Veeam is very useful in the installation process and it is useful software. I do not have any problem with this product.  

Veeam's scalability is perfect. I don't have any problems scaling if needed.  

The initial setup is not complex and I find that it is very straightforward. It is also very quick. It only takes maybe three hours.  

Pricing is primarily a concern for my managers and our management team.  

The pricing model for Veeam has changed. I bought an older license and I thought that when I bought one CPU license for a virtual machine that I could use that license for Microsoft or VMware. Now, with the change in the licensing model, I have to choose if this license is for VMware or Microsoft before I buy a new license. It just means that users need to be somewhat more careful when choosing which license they need.  

On a scale from one to ten (where one is the worst and ten is the best), I would rate Veeam on Microsoft Windows as a nine-out-of-ten.  

What I would expect in order to make this product a ten-of-ten is that they will add some details in reporting about the backup jobs. They need to just fill this little hole in the software by adding details in the reports that are not currently included and it is really giving me everything I need as a user.  

I would recommend Veeam to others who are looking into implementing it.  

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.

Originally, we were just using Veeam for replication. Now, we are using it for backup, as well.

The most valuable feature is the ease of use. At one glance of the console, you can see how your backup and replication jobs are being carried out.

Notifications are available for when the backup job is completed or if there are errors.

You can set the number of retry attempts, which is helpful. It gives us comfort because even if the tape drive is being used by something else then you can always retry the job afterward. This is an advantage over some of the other products that I have tried. Rather than retry the job if it fails, you have to wait for the next scheduler to launch.

If you are doing an AIX backup then you have to use the CLI because it doesn't appear on the console, the way that Windows and Linux jobs do. It is something that I was looking for and was told that Veeam supported, but when I tried it, I found that it was not implemented well. This is actually why we are using different backup solutions. One is for the AIX part, whereas the others are for the virtualized environment that includes Windows and Linux servers.

One of the biggest issues that we ran into during our implementation was that you cannot use two solutions for the same tape library.

One handy feature that Infrascale has is that if the server fails then you can boot it up directly from the appliance, rather than having to restore it to a machine, first. That is very helpful.

We have been using the Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows for the past two years.

Scalability-wise, I think that this product will meet our needs for the coming years. I expect that it will last until I either need to change the version or the products that I need to back up and replicate.

Everything on our infrastructure is being backed up, either as a full backup or incrementally. There are approximately 80 virtual machines. We do plan on increasing usage in the future.

On a scale of one to five, I would rate the technical support a four.

We are using several backup solutions that include Veeam, NetBackup, and Infrascale. We use NetBackup with AIX because it has a nice GUI where you can see the jobs that have been launched, whether they succeeded or failed, and so on. With other products, you have to log in to each of the AIX servers, go through the logs, and figure out why the jobs didn't complete.

The initial setup is straightforward. Our deployment was completed in about two hours, during which we even tested out different policies to ensure that it was working properly.

Because only one solution can use our tape library, we had to break it up into zones where NetBackup uses one half and Veeam uses the other. Aside from this, our setup was straightforward.

We had a consultant on-site to assist us with the deployment. They were from a company named Store System, which is one of the companies that we often work with.

The licensing fees are billed on a yearly basis, and the fees are much lower than what I pay for NetBackup.

There are many advantages to using this product. That said, there is still a problem with AIX integration. The native AIX backup client is a really poorly designed system and is unusable. 

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.