Veeam Backup & Replication

Veeam Backup & Replication is a comprehensive software application designed for business owners looking to keep their important data safe. To be more specific, it integrates backup and replication features for VMware ESX servers.

Considering the fact that it contains advanced utilities and configurations settings, the program mainly caters to experienced PC users, such as network administrators.

The GUI has a neatly structured look that enables you to easily explore its features. You can get started by registering the virtual infrastructure by adding a server. The tool supports VMware vSphere and vCloud Director, Microsoft Hyper-V, SMB3 and Windows, along with Linux.

In the next stages you can explore its hierarchical tree to identify the virtual machine you're looking for, and create a backup copy for it. It is possible to analyze statistics and reports, clone backup jobs, as well as edit their properties when it comes to the source, destination and scheduler, in addition to administrator credentials. Parallel VM and virtual disk processing is supported.

As expected from such a complex utility, it runs on a considerable amount of CPU and RAM, so be prepared to postpone your usual PC activity while Veeam is carrying out tasks. However, it had a good response time and worked well in our evaluation, without triggering the operating system to hang, crash or pop up error messages.

Taking everything into account, VMware ESX Veeam Backup & Replication proves to be a pretty resourceful security tool for backing up and restoring data on VWware, Microsoft and Linux-based servers. Help documentation is available.