Sean, Indeed. I really wish more vendors did what Veeam does for VM backups. It's a very nice solution. Last time I looked though it was pretty much an ESX product and the Hyper-V side of the solution was a version or two back in feature set. Perhaps that's changed since 2013?
Nathan Shelby Director of Systems Engineering – Quote Wizard <https://quotewizard.com/> [email protected] / 206-753-2626 Malo Periculosam Libertatem Quam Quietum Servitium On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Sean Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > "The only thing I wish they did was automated backup restoration for > verification of restores., but there don't seem to be a ton of backup > vendors that support that particular feature without writing some custom > scripting yourself." > > Veeam does this very well. It's a pretty thorough solution for virtual > environments. They do have a free agent for physical servers but it doesn't > provide deep application integration. > > - Sean > > On Oct 27, 2015, at 10:14 AM, Nathan Shelby <[email protected]> wrote: > > Darren, > > I'm running a Unitrends appliance (an 2013/14 era 822 appliance) and have > been very happy with it. We use it for Hyper-V Clusters, and Windows File > Services Clusters as well as MSSQL and Sharepoint backups. We use their > cloud replication service and replicate ~2TB to them. The only issue we > have is the expansion pricing. That appliance allows us to backup 9TB and > if we want to expand we either need to archive off to tape/san/nas or buy > another appliance. They're very up front about the cost structure of > expansion so if you're willing to take that in to account it's a great > system, we've never had an issue with a recovery gone bad or anything. The > UI is getting massive revamp in upcoming v9 away from the flash interface > currently in 8.2 (it also doesn't scale in to 4K well if that's an issue > for your management workstations) to a standards compliant HTML 5 based > interface. > > They support 'instant recovery' of both Hyper-V and ESX based virtual > machines (the appliance can host the vm image if needed to in a pinch) it's > a neat feature. As of 8.x they also support replication to common block > storage providers (Azure, AWS, Rackspace, etc) for archival. The only thing > I wish they did was automated backup restoration for verification of > restores., but there don't seem to be a ton of backup vendors that support > that particular feature without writing some custom scripting yourself. > > If you have any specific questions I'd be happy to answer them. > > > > > > > > Nathan Shelby > Director of Systems Engineering – Quote Wizard <https://quotewizard.com/> > [email protected] / 206-753-2626 > Malo Periculosam Libertatem Quam Quietum Servitium > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Darren Martin <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Anyone using Unitrends for backup? If so have you had any issues? Getting >> away from BU Exec 2012 and would rather not upgrade to the latest BU exec >> version. Not happy with Symantec right now. Anyone using BU exec 2014+ >> successfully? >> >> >> >> Thanks for any info… >> >> >> >> D >> >> >> > >
