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Veeam Data Platform
What Is Veeam Data Platform?
Comprehensive enterprise backup solution for all workloads, combining data protection for backups, replicas, storage snapshots and CDP replicas under one control panel.
Veeam provides backup, restore and replication for virtual machines and cloud-based workloads, as well as physical servers and workstations. VMware, Hyper-V, AWS, Azure, Windows, Linux, Nutanix AHV and Google GCP are supported.
Veeam also delivers multiple integrations with leading storage vendors and service providers.
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Reviews of Veeam Data Platform
Veeam Backup & Replication is our still our go-to backup software in the SMB/SMC customer base.
Comments:
Veeam local support for new business is outstanding.
Renewal support is not local, but is sufficient.
Overall, VBR is a great product, and used in the majority of our customer base.
Pros:
Veeam Ent Plus licensing is an end-to-end solution. Very easy to install, setup and use. Excellent local support.
Cons:
The new licensing model is difficult to migrate to for those customers on STD and ENT existing agreements. Pricing has increased drastically for the "Per VM" model. No agent licensing for small sites with standalone servers.
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Comments: Simple the best backup software for protect Virtual Machines.
Pros:
Easy to use. Most secure backup software for virtual environment
Cons:
Nothing. Absolutally nothing to mentioned.
Great product for backup with a nice support team
Comments: Overall, this is a great product that doesn't only provide great backup and support. It also helps prevent data loss.
Pros:
Veeam makes it simple to back up and replicate data. The support team is incredibly helpful and was always there to assist us when needed.
Cons:
Sometimes the database encounters errors when backing up workstations with changed names, requiring manual deletion of entries to fix.
Veeam Data Platform provides some of the most consistent quality on the market
Pros:
Rock solid software that performed VM Backups to various backup media types all with reliability that is unrivaled. The option for reverse incremental backups helps save time and data transfer amounts by creating an initial backup and then backing up the changes nightly. Very good software and their tech support was always easy to work with.
Cons:
Occasionally we would have configuration issues, but their tech support would always iron out any issues we were having.
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Comments: Easy to setup and then it just works. We've not had any issues. Restores are fast and easy to complete.
Pros:
It is simple to use. The jobs are easy yo manage and in job monitoring and reports are good.
Cons:
It is expensive in comparison to others especially for some the advanced features.
