> You can not call MS if you have a problem with a backup solution of another vendor
VEEAM CERTIFICATION SOFTWARE
Is there no Microsoft certification program for backup software for products like Windows 2012 R2, Exchange, SharePoint or SQL, that certify that MS products are correctly backed up? I think there is no certification program from Microsoft for VSS Requestors. > Basically Veeam B&R start an VSS Requestor on the fly. I am unsure, whether the mentioning of VBR in Gartner's Magic Quadrant and a plain certification for Windows Server 2012 R2 (with VBR 7.x) is sufficient enough. In the end, I am just looking for some official and Independent clarification or facts about the rumours, that VBR is perfectly making backups of Windows Servers, specially the ones with Exchange, SQL and Active Directory or SharePoint. I fully understood your last Posts and that even MS did contact you about the way how you backup files with your own VSS Integration. There is talk about the way how the central Symantec NetBackup solution can control the backup of each site location with a central console (yes, I read about VBR 9.x upcoming features).Īnd yes, there was talk about some Symantec NetBackup specialist talking about Veeam B&R not making consistent backups of Windows Servers, specially the ones, that use Exchange, SQL and Active Directory, because of its own VSS Integration and the fact, that VBR is not agentless, because it copies Veeam B&R files (or DLL's) to each virtual machine to make its backup. Reliable, but outdated and slow, specially since we completely transitioned to virtual machines for the complete site locations since a couple of years, but budget didn't allow new backup products up to now. Now there is talk about the forthcoming backup product for all our site locations, which still use the traditional Symantec Backup Exec software. The fact is, that Symantec NetBackup has been implemented in a much bigger environment lately here, specially for backup to disk to tape tasks with a very big tape library, consisting of over 200 tape medias and 4 tape drives in the complete enclosure. You or Veeam do not need to persuade me, as I already sucessfully use Veeam B&R 8.x in one of our VMware Cluster Environment and VBR does its job reliably and pretty fast! I am still excited about VBR and its abilities.
VEEAM CERTIFICATION FULL
Is that really true or does Veeam B&R really lack full support or certification for MS products, specially when it comes down to the way, how Veeam B&R makes Backups with VSS or their own proprietary integration and backup techniques for MS FileServers, MS Exchange, MS SQL, MS Active Directory.Īre there any reasons, why big companies might choose competitor products instead of VBR, because of a lack of certification from the MS side? I am constantly confronted with the fact, that Veeam Backup & Replication has no full certification for MS products, whereas Symantec NetBackup has full certification for the upper mentioned products. I was unable to find clear facts regarding the certification of B&R with Microsoft Products, specially with B&R under vSphere and VM's with running applications, like MS Exchange, MS SQL, MS Active Directory and the forthcoming support for Oracle databases. Unfortunately, I don't have a case ID for this question, so please bear this in mind.