Veeam Backup & Replication Standard for VMware

Licensing of Veeam Backup & Replication Standard for VMware could get broken. You do need to check the licensing every so often as it maybe missing a host. If you made any host changes, name or IP address. It doesn't know about it, and you could end up not backing up or replicating since that host changed. I think it would work better if it just pointed to the vCenter server and had host CPU licenses. If you have enough, your good. If not, then it should alert you that it can't connect or something along those lines. You may not have an issue for sometime and forget about it until something breaks, and not know what caused it. Fairly simple to use with a VMware environment. Creating backup jobs and configuration was a clean and consistent process. You could pick it up pretty quickly, and if you didn't use it for some time. Not be lost trying to remember how to do something.

It is a good product and not expensive for what it does. If you are totally virtual and want a good solution to backup and replicate your VM's. The UI is intuitive and responsive. The licensing can act strange sometimes if your environment has changes that would affect Veeam Backup & Replication Standard for VMware. Be mindful of any host changes, as it will not automatically change/update on this product.

:We used Veeam Backup & Replication Standard for VMware for backup of course, but not only. Also for disaster recovery plan, and move production environment from one datacenter to another . Firstable, this solution is reliable, we apply the strategy of 3-2-1 for backup, in many sites with different kind of infrastructure, networking, constraints and it just works. The solution is flexible, easy to adapt it according your hardware. In some case we provide application of deduplication for repository and other case it's just NFS share on a Linux, CIFS, or a vmdk disk. Many new components are available with Veeam Backup and Replication that doesn't exist with others backups solution. For exemple if you plan to do a backup copy of your backup archive remotely and your bandwith is slow, you can use the WAN Accelerator component to optimze the data transfer. You have also virtual labs to isolate VMs from your production network, the cloud connect to backup directly in the cloud... This solution is always improving because feedbacks of users on forums are real inputs used by this company. I'm involved on a big project of centralisation of all servers of our Business Unit into 2 datacenters. Some Business Unit have good infrastructure and datacenter but many have just IT rooms with different kind of hardware . So, regarding the hardware heterogeneity I used Veeam backup and Replication to manage the move of many VMs from Spain, Italy, South Africa, Poland, Romania to France and Germany. The fisrt synchronization is more long but then with CDP it's much faster, then you can run the failover Plan. So, I used in many case this software and I always found a solution. The support is also very competent. Monitoring solution VeeamOne is also great to monitore backups but also infrastructure.