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You couldn't pay me to use Veeam.
One of the most over-rated POS software I've ever had the misfortune to use.
Go on...
Any of you tried vranger apparently that is quite good for replication?
Have installed, configured, and maintained Veeam at many sites across the UK.
Whilst it is ridiculously easy to set up, it does a damned good job of falling over on a regular basis. In a home environment that's not as much of a problem, but for an enterprise product it is unforgivable. Some of the issues:
- Up until a couple of releases ago it was absolute pot luck as to whether a DC replica would come up cleanly. It was further pot luck as to whether DSRM would bring it up. (Fixed in 6.5)
- I've seen countless live servers performance drop off the scales because of failed Veeam snapshots.
- Upgrading ESX can result in duplicate hosts that cannot be removed without editing the SQL db. (Fixed in 6.5)
- Deleting replicas in the wrong way resulted in orphaned replica entries that could only be resolved via hefty SQL db edits. (Fixed in 6.5)
- Countless different errors for failures on replica jobs... the majority of which Veeam support will blame everything else apart from Veeam for.
- Had countless VM's fail to properly remove snapshots resulting in said VMs needing reconverting to consolidate them. Veeam is too stupid to realise this.
The list goes on and on and on.
It does have its good points too, especially with 6.5 - the file restore functionality hammers BEs into the ground, and the speed of jobs is absolutely superb.
I also find that the product is generally mis-sold as a DR solution, which it quite clearly is not. If you want a cheap DR solution, use Site Recovery Manager - it's better, and much less of a risk to production environments.
We just deployed acronis vmprotect at one of our sites and that was creating snapshots in 10-20 mins on to Teralytes backup solution. We had arcserve backup at the site but that was going much slower. The new CA product is the d2d and that is meant to be as fast as the vmprotect but did not test it as my colleague had a personal preference for the Acronis.
Does acronis vmprotect allow you to run scripts pre/post job? I still have many customers who want to write the backups to tape or removable disk and currently use scripts to kick off these jobs on a third party product such as Backup Exec.