Hi folks,We have a Dell VxRail in our office.

Dell 'recertification' fee - is this legitimate? Hardware.

When you need more capabilities in your backup program, you'll find that the money for the full Veeam experience will be easy to find because it will justify itself. Failing that, the folks at Veeam support are likely going to shoot you a link to an answer very quickly. All you have to do is search the Veeam community. So, realistically, how much 'support' do you anticipate you're going to need? Everything you want to do has been done before and it's well documented. No, you're probably just backing up a plain vanilla host with some standard VMs. You're not trying to back up synchronized multi-petabyte cloud hosting servers across three continents. If you're looking at a free backup product, it's very likely that you're not doing anything that's cutting-edge.

You've got to inject some common sense into the whole situation. However, usually it's pretty fast and some people can be suprised by this speed:)Īgreed. You can get email support, it's just we don't promise to provide any certain SLA for the support case.

You can't get any support if needed when using free? I'd suggest that instead of thinking about 'backups,' you think about 'availability.' If something failed, how quickly could you restore service? How much data/operating time will you have lost? Those answers will determine your requirements. Today, I wouldn't consider it because I have more work than time. Years ago, I would have built my own system using scripts and free Veeam. The nice thing is how Endpoint integrates into 'big Veeam' to allow us to see job status and do restores right from the main console. I also use Veeam Endpoint extensively to back up workstations, VM hosts, and our mobile workforce.

I kept adding licenses over time until I had my entire company using the same system. I started by getting it rolled into a grant for some law enforcement servers. There is a bit of sticker shock the first time you think about licensing Veeam.

Veeam B&R also gives you scheduling, replication, backup copy jobs, and enough other features that you can customize it to provide availability the way your setup requires it. You don't get incremental backups and all the wonderful that goes along with that. It's great if you need a way to make a backup of a VM. The free version, aka Veeam Zip, allows you to do full backups. But the free version is miles ahead of nothing.

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