It would appear so: http://hyperv.veeam.com/

- Sean

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Nathan Shelby <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>

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