Name: Veeam Data Platform
Brand: Veeam Software
Rating: 4.3 (432 reviews)

it_user92241

IT Manager with 51-200 employees

Mar 11, 2014

Back up to remote location & ability to handle replication across WAN links are worth their weight in gold

Before I get rolling on this post let me just say this … I love Veeam

I am unapologetic about it, I think Veeam is one of the best applications to come down the pike in a long, long time. And, no, I’m not a Veeam employee, just a very enthusiastic user of the product! OK, now for the meat and potatoes …

One thing we (itgroove) get asked about, a lot, is remote backup. I’ll be honest, to this point in time I have not come across any remote backup system that I can heartily endorse to any customer. Yes, there are a lot of remote backup services out there – some better than others – but they all tend to leave me a bit cold as they usually fall down horribly when it comes to quick recovery. Worse, they usually end up costing way more than most people bargain for. We have also tried things like replicating backup devices (we tried using the RSYNC functions built into QNAP’s, as an example) with less than satisfactory results. Frankly, I was beginning to despair of finding a system that I could trust to recommend to customers, then along came Veeam …

I’ve already waxed poetic about Veeam’s abilities in other posts so I’m going to focus on it’s abilities to both back up to a remote location across WAN links as well as handle replication across WAN links in this post. I believe that these capabilities are worth their weight in gold, specially so to SMB’s that usually don’t have the financial resources to do all the things they should in terms of backup and DR.

With the latest release of Veeam, Veeam v7, the remote backup/replication abilities have been further enhanced over the already very capable abilities of v6. The big addition is the built-in “WAN accelerator” feature available with the Enterprise Plus editions of Veeam. The WAN accelerator feature can provide some fairly impressive reductions in overall bandwidth use for both remote backup and replication as the acceleration is “tuned” specifically for these processes as opposed to general hardware appliance-based WAN accelerators that have to cope with many traffic types. The other big feature in v7 (in my opinion) is the ability to “seed” both remote replication and remote backups with full backups from your main Veeam site. This alone provides a massive jump on the WAN data bandwidth reduction side of things as you can “sneaker net” large amounts of seed data out to your remote site then let Veeam syncronize backups going forward using the seed data to start.

We have two projects underway with two different customers that will leverage these abilities and I’ll be blogging about their progress and results. I think both are of interest to SMB’s as they are both real-life cases that are applicable to many small organizations.

Project A is a project to create a reliable off site backup using Veeam to process backups of a single VMware ESXi 5.1 host and two Windows Server 2008 R2 VM’s. Veeam is currently performing on-site backups of the host with output going to a local, on-site QNAP. The remote backup process will create a second Veeam backup stream via a remote Windows 7 Veeam proxy with the backup data being streamed out to a second QNAP at the remote site. In this particular case the main site and the remote site are both using Shaw as the ISP and both sites have Sonicwall firewalls so the Veeam data is being routed over a Sonicwall site-to-site VPN link. I’ll be blogging the details in a followup post titled Veeam Backup – Project A. The overall goal is to meet the Veeam “3-2-1” backup recommendations and to have reliable backup data living in two separate locations on separate media and eliminate the need to have offsite data having to be copied to USB media and manually taken off site AND keep the costs down to a manageable level.

Project B is a project to create a “poor man’s” DR site for a customer where a critical subset of their systems is to be replicated and available on “hot standby” in case of disaster at their main operations site. I use the term “poor man’s” DR as this site is being put together on a shoe-string budget due to the nature of the customer’s finances. I’m not necessarily advocating for everyone to do something similar but it will serve to illustrate what can be done with a bit of effort and thinking even if the budget is not forthcoming. In this particular case we are repurposing some old servers the customer had along with a “found” SAN that another customer was decommissioning. While the SAN is a nice thing to have there is no reason at all why something like a multi-bay QNAP or other low-cost NAS could not be used in its place. The big enabler, here, is Veeam Enterprise Plus with the WAN accelerator. The customer’s main site has two largish VMware ESXi 5.1 hosts with multiple VM’s on each host as well as a physical SQLserver host that backends their main LOB app. The SQLserver is backed up by BackupExec and there is a weekly backup job that outputs a full VM of the server. We are hoping to incorporate that backup VM into the overall Veeam process. This one is going to be very interesting; I’ll be posting about it as Veeam Replication – Project B. As with Project A, both sites use Shaw as the ISP and both sites have Sonicwall’s and we’ll be leveraging Sonicwall site-to-site VPN connections.

So, I hope you’ll keep an eye for my updates and come along for the ride. This should be very educational, I know I’m going to learn a bunch, I hope you will, too!

Disclaimer: My company is partners with several vendors including Veeam.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

it_user6492

Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

May 13, 2013

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Great tool to learn how to monitor a Virtual Infrastructure

Pros and Cons

"Simplified management"

"No integration with vsphere client"

Valuable Features:

Simplified management Easy to install

Room for Improvement:

No integration with vsphere client Limited metrics to choose from

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

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it_user6492

Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

May 13, 2013

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Easy installation and simple management

Pros and Cons

"Excellent Instant recovery engine"

"The solution is snapshot-based with no vCloud Director integration and a very incomplete knowledge base."

Valuable Features:

Easy installation Simple management Simplified backup verification Simplified restore operation Excellent Instant recovery engine

Room for Improvement:

Snapshot-based no vCloud Director integration very incomplete knowledge base

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

it_user3876Database Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees

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May 18, 2013

What is the minimum disk space requirement for the installation of Veeam Backup and Replication?

Dieudonne Nsabimana

Presales Solutions Architect at Win S.A.

Aug 12, 2024

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Has valuable disaster recovery features and good technical support services

Pros and Cons

"The technical support services have always been good."

"The product's initial setup process could be complex for application backup and database agent installations."

What is most valuable?

The platform's most valuable feature is continuous data protection. It is useful for data management and maintaining availability. It helps mitigate points of failure.

What needs improvement?

The product's initial setup process could be complex for application backup and database agent installations.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been working with Veeam Data Platform since 2015.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate the product stability a ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The product is highly scalable in a cloud environment, which I would rate as nine out of ten. However, in a local environment, its scalability is constrained by the existing infrastructure.

How are customer service and support?

The technical support services have always been good.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup process's rating varies depending on specific requirements. For server backup, I rate it a ten. It can be more complex for application backup and database agents, so I rate it around seven. On average, I rate it eight or eight and a half.

It is deployed in both cloud and on-premises environments. A simple agent installation might take an hour, while a full server setup with all features could take up to a week.

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

I rate the pricing a five, depending on the application and environment.

What other advice do I have?

Veeam is highly effective in supporting disaster recovery. It provides detailed configuration options and generally performs better than Acronis.

The product's key features for managing data recovery include performance improvements and backup capabilities for various systems and virtual servers.

Its impact on operational costs and recovery time objectives depends on the defined policies, such as differential or full backups, and recovery time objectives.

AI in Veeam is still developing. I have seen some documentation but still need to engage with it fully.

I recommend it to others and rate it a ten.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Partner

Mohamed Hosni

PhD Research Student at Advanced Computer Technology (ACT)

May 16, 2024

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Used to back up our more than 100 virtual machines

Pros and Cons

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its backup feature."

"Veeam Data Platform should improve its air gap backup features."

What is our primary use case?

We use the solution to back up our more than 100 virtual machines.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature of the solution is its backup feature.

What needs improvement?

Veeam Data Platform should improve its air gap backup features.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Veeam Data Platform for four to five years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate the solution a nine out of ten for stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Around five engineers are using the solution in our organization.

I rate the solution’s scalability ten out of ten.

How was the initial setup?

The solution’s initial setup is very easy.

What about the implementation team?

The solution’s installation was very fast.

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

Veeam Data Platform has very good pricing.

On a scale from one to ten, where one is expensive and ten is cheap, I rate the solution's pricing a nine out of ten.

What other advice do I have?

I work with the updated version of the solution. I would recommend Veeam Data Platform to other users.

Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

Bill Lim

System Engineer at Tarch

Apr 8, 2024

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An user-friendly solution that helps with data backup and replication

Pros and Cons

"The tool is good for VMware environments."

"Veeam Data Platform needs to improve data backup for Oracle admin. It needs to improve its stability."

What is most valuable?

The tool is good for VMware environments. However, it's not very effective for physical servers, payment servers, and libraries.

The solution is very good for backup and replication.

You can use one license for backup without needing additional capacity licenses for backups or updates. It also doesn't require additional licenses to back up to a Git library.

The tool is easy to use and user-friendly. Its data recovery options are good. Veeam Data Platform supports data encryption.

What needs improvement?

Veeam Data Platform needs to improve data backup for Oracle admin. It needs to improve its stability.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been working with the product for 5 years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate the product's stability a seven out of ten.

How was the initial setup?

The product is easy to deploy. It took around 20-30 minutes to complete.

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

Customers require a perpetual license for the product. However, along with the license, they must also subscribe to the support service for one year or three years under a separate contract.

What other advice do I have?

I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten. I have no complaints about its data availability.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

Carlos Arriaga

Technical Manager at GRUPO LOGON, S.A. DE C.V.

Apr 26, 2023

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Helps us understand the infrastructure more by sharing performance insights

Pros and Cons

"The solution's customer service is good."

"Its reporting feature could be better."

What is most valuable?

The solution helps us understand the infrastructure more and gives insights to develop further business plans.

What needs improvement?

The solution's reporting feature could be better. They should provide more insightful reports.

How are customer service and support?

The solution's customer service is good.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

What other advice do I have?

I rate the solution as an eight. It is good but not an essential product.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Partner

reviewer1751481

Product Sales Manager at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

Jan 5, 2022

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Valuable for its internal recovery and flexibility

Pros and Cons

"The most valuable feature is the internal recovery."
"This product is very, very stable."

"In the next release, I would like replication directly to the cloud to be included."
"In the next release, I would like replication directly to the cloud to be included."