HPE StoreOnce vs. Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows

Vm backups are the fastest I've ever had with this unit for any backup software system. Agent backups are the fastest ever to this device too. Veeam supported HPE StoreOnce for file backups way back. However, we discovered you cannot do this for large network drive scenarios. So, we have to have a separate backup system for file based share backups. it would be great to resolve this at some point in the future. Also, replication of a primary SO to a DR SO works amazing now based on the 52x0 series HPE StoreOnce units. The older 5100 series just could not cut it to copy to another backup target fast enough for large data backup consumers.

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Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is an extremely versatile backup software so it can be used in a variety of different ways. We have it running on some user machines that require it as the user deals with sensitive data that cannot be lost and Windows based servers ranging from server 2012 to 2025.

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• We really like the deduplication feature of HPE StoreOnce. It helps reduce storage footprint by 1:3 to 1:10 depending on type of files being stored.
• It's easy to manage files on HPE StoreOnce servers using command line options.
• We use Veeam Backup Server software to manage our backups on HPE StoreOnce.

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• Relatively speedy backups for a traditional backup solution
• Good efficiency solutions used to shrink backup sizes
• Robust synchronization capabilities for offsite backups
• Veeam can perform a full metal restore of a physical server
• If needed, Veeam can convert a backup of a physical server to a virtual server

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• For fastest performance and best dedupe, ISV software supporting Catalyst required
• VTL capability requires more overhead and space due to aging policies, etc.
• Use of CIFS/SMB for backups is significantly slower than Catalyst.

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• Stop the backup job from the console instead of having to stop from the client.
• Don't consume too many resources while taking a backup.

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It just works and the support contract we have is good enough for the company needs

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My team who are currently administering HPE StoreOnce do not come from a storage background. We still didn't had to struggle much configuring and using HPE StoreOnce. Of course, HPE team was very helpful in smooth technology transition. For critical errors, we already have phone home feature enabled and HPE support team has been excellent and their response time in dealing with technical errors/incidents.

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Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is really straightforward to both deploy and use on a daily basis. the high level of successful restores we have experienced is testament to the quality of the file verification processes and encryption Veeam use within their software. Support is simply excellent should you need to engage them. there is nothing they haven't been able to solve either via phone or email.

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We had couple of incidents so far and HPE support team was very proactive through the process until the incident was closed satisfactorily.

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It was pretty smooth, at least smother that a Dell EMC Unity we set it up last week

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NetApp is a great product and very well established in market. But HPE StoreOnce features like scalability using disk based duplication that lowers the backup footprint. It is very well coupled with HPE Recovery Manager Central provides backup protection and backup efficiency. We were also offered a nice discount while choosing HPE StoreOnce.

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I used Clonezilla several times, and while it's very rock solid since it's Linux-based and works very well, it's not for large deployments, and it's more of a one-time use. (You need to take an image before reinstalling something or such.) With Veeam, you can deploy it organization-wide.

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• HPE StoreOnce doesn't require a lot of technical knowledge for day to day administration and management. This helps reducing IT support staff cost.
• It provides an amazing compaction ratio and saves you a lot on the storage side.

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• Allowed us to move from usind two different backup providers to Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows exclusively, improving our costs considerably
• Verified backups - before there was no checks or verification on the backups
• Much more cost effective cloud storage than the provider we moved from

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