A number of clients have recently approached me for guidance on including Veeam in their tender specifications. Below is a summary of the key competitive advantages of the Veeam Data Platform to highlight in tender submissions. I hope you find this information useful.
Supported Source Data Platforms
- VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Proxmox VE – Supports agentless backup, enabling data backup without deploying proxy software on virtual machines or hosts.
- Databases – Supports backup for databases such as MSSQL, MySQL, and others.
- NAS – Supports NAS backup and recovery with:
- Complete and permanent incremental backup
- Data deduplication (including deduplication rate)
- Browse-based recovery
- Remote replication
- Microsoft 365 (Email) – Supports backup for Microsoft 365 email data.
Security & Compliance Features
- Support immutable storage to prevent virus tampering and deletion of stored data. The Root/Administrator account cannot access, browse, or delete the RAID, LVM, file system, or disk where the data resides.
Recovery Capabilities
- Supports instant VM recovery, file-level recovery, bare metal recovery, and granular recovery of application items.
Disaster Recovery Orchestration & Drills
- Supports regularly scheduled recovery drills to validate backup data and ensure recoverability.
- Enables unified management of:
- Recovery resources
- Recovery strategies
- Recovery process orchestration
- Disaster recovery and drill management
- Disaster recovery reporting
- Facilitates automated disaster recovery and drills, verifies application system usability, and presents results through comprehensive DR reports.
Recovery Strategy Options
- Supports both one-time and recurring recovery strategies.
- Allows for regularly scheduled automatic recovery or immediate disaster recovery after backup.
Management Interface
- Web-based centralized management – Provides unified monitoring, reporting, and administration through a web interface.
- Monitoring & Alarming – Enables real-time monitoring of backup status, proactively identifies potential issues, and triggers timely alerts to ensure backup data security and reliability.
- Data Management Capabilities – Effectively manages data replicas to ensure integrity and security, preventing data loss and unauthorized access. Also supports data lifecycle management to meet long-term storage requirements.
Remote Site Disaster Recovery
- The solution provides cross-data center disaster recovery and remote replication capabilities, enabling data protection across geographically dispersed sites.
- Replication Topology Visibility: Administrators can view and manage complex replication relationships between backup systems, including:
- One-way and two-way replication
- One-to-many and many-to-one configurations
- Cascading replication topologies
Comparison of Veeam and Other Backup Vendors
| Features/Licenses | Veeam Data Platform | Vxxxxxx Backup | DBxxxxx Solution |
| License model | Number of VM Instances | Number of CPU sockets. Number of VM Instances. | Number of target backup storage. Number of VM Instances. |
| Supported Nutanix Platform Backup | Supported | Not Supported | Supported |
| Supported VMware Platform Backup | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| Supported Proxmox VE Platform Backup | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| Backup Proxy | Supported | Not Supported | Not Supported |
| Immutable storage | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| Granular application item recovery | Supported | Not Supported | Not Supported |
| Disaster Recovery Orchestration & Drills | Supported | Not Supported | Not Supported |
| One-way and two-way replication | Supported | Not Supported | Not Supported |
| One-to-many and many-to-one replication | Supported | Not Supported | Not Supported |
| Recovery Report | Supported | Not Supported | Not Supported |
| Recovery Verification & Validation | Supported | Not Supported | Not Supported |
| Storage Integration | Supported | Not Supported | Not Supported |
| Synthetic full backup | Supported | Not Supported | Not Supported |
* This table compares common features across the backup solutions.
