Veeam Questions

[smithson83]

I was wondering if one (or a few) of you could answer a couple of questions about Veeam.

We have 2x Hyper-V hosts and 10 VM's to back up, 5 on each host replicated on to the other.

 

1) Could I just backup one server (10 VM's 5 online, 5 offline), and thus buy Veeam licencing for one Host (2 licences for two CPU's), or is there an issue or limitations to doing this?

 

2) How do you rate Veeam's Replication compared to Hyper-V Replication, we currently just replicated from one local server to another for failover, doesn't have to be automatic, just reliable. We also may extend the replication at some point to a third server.

 

3) How do you guys run the Backup jobs? Currently I have two separate jobs, one full backup to a NAS at far end of school, and a separate full job that backs up to a set of external drives which are taken off site. (so essentially D2D & D2D not D2D2D)

 

Any help or pointers would greatly received.

Edited March 14, 2016 by smithson83