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localzuk

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Veeam is licensed per CPU socket.

 

Lol, that doesn't actually clarify anything. Could mean "CPU socket of the server Veeam is installed on". :D

 

However, I've spoken to a reseller and they've clarified - its by node cpu socket - so, 2 hyper-v nodes with 2 sockets means 4 licenses.

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I am going to be a dissenting voice here and not recommend Veeam. We have recently gone through this process ourselves because DPM is such a :censored: and just doesn't work with anything ever. We have evaluated several products including Veeam and have eliminated it because it just covers virtual infrastructure.

 

Instead, we have decided to go with with Arcserve Unified Data Protection instead. Like Veeam, it can do image based backups of your VMs but it can also do the same for your physical machines as well. It has inline deduplication. It has the same replication features as Veeam and can restore a physical machine to a VM in a couple of clicks. It has full blown tape support and application aware backups for Exchange, SharePoint, SQL, Oracle and AD.

 

The licensing model is simple, you either pay for it per CPU socket or for the amount of data that you need to back up. It looks like a really good product and I'm looking forward to having backups I can rely upon again.

 

I'll second this response!

 

I've been using Arcserve UDP for the past year, it's been absolutely fantastic. It's a lesser known and cheaper alternative to veeam that has all the same functionality of the veeam standard version. It's only been around a year (I was the first customer in the UK to have it installed last April!) so there's more features to come in future updates that will bring it hopefully on par with veeam enterprise for features, while being vastly cheaper than veeam enterprise version.

 

It has been incredibly reliable over the past year (it had a few bugs in it's very first implementation, one patch later, it's been perfect) and very recently got me out of a sticky spot after a power cut broke a few things.

 

EDIT: If you're interested i highly recommend giving these guys a call: https://www.cristie.co.uk/ they're fantastic.

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Millgate

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Was going to suggest @Millgate but they don't mention Veeam on their website so wasn't sure if they did.

 

Yup, we work with Veeam. Feel free to drop me an email or a call and I'll happily help you out :)

 

Luke

aleach2

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We use Veeam and it works really well. It is very easy to use. If you have a fully virtualised server setup I recommend it. Agreed it's not the cheapest product around but we found it to be "value for money".
mrbios

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I am going to be a dissenting voice here and not recommend Veeam. We have recently gone through this process ourselves because DPM is such a :censored: and just doesn't work with anything ever. We have evaluated several products including Veeam and have eliminated it because it just covers virtual infrastructure.

 

Instead, we have decided to go with with Arcserve Unified Data Protection instead. Like Veeam, it can do image based backups of your VMs but it can also do the same for your physical machines as well. It has inline deduplication. It has the same replication features as Veeam and can restore a physical machine to a VM in a couple of clicks. It has full blown tape support and application aware backups for Exchange, SharePoint, SQL, Oracle and AD.

 

The licensing model is simple, you either pay for it per CPU socket or for the amount of data that you need to back up. It looks like a really good product and I'm looking forward to having backups I can rely upon again.

 

@Norphy it may interest you to know that Update 4 has been released today with support for vSphere 6. (Thought i'd point it out personally seeing as you're the only other person i know running UDP)

 

Release notes: Arcserve® Unified Data Protection Version 5.0 Update 4 Release Notes

Download links: https://arcserve.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/204441879

 

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Been running DPM2012 but found it unreliable to say the least, trialling Veeam Essentials Enterprise at the moment and all I can say is wow! took minutes to setup and with a little tweaking we now have 5 restore points for all 20 VMs, slight problem with SQL on one server which I shall hopefully have rectified tonight, SQL VSS Writer is not fully functional although the service is running, when I use the "vssadmin list writers" command from CLI the SQL VSS Writer is not listed.

 

It does look great and a heads up that version 9.5 is to be released shortly so I have been led to believe, 60% discount for small business Essentials in 2 core packs most excellent.

 

Now to get this past finance ;)

Davit2005

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Been using Veeam since version 6 it is improving all the time, although tape support is not quite their up with Backup Exec (or what backup was when I rmember the good times). Using the free version at home.

 

In version 9 they started Implementing Grand Father, Father, Son routines for Tape jobs. Also with Version 9 is the ability to install a local console tool rather than needing to RDP to the server all the time.

 

Yes it does need a bit of help now and again but this is miniscual. Support is also A+.

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