What is veeam
There is zero complexity in upgrading a Veeam environment. Rubrik will claim that Veeam upgrades are difficult and that their solution can be upgraded more easily. With a proper hardware design, a Veeam solution can be just as failproof as Rubrik - if not more so. Veeam is completely customizable to your individual customers’ environment. There are scenarios (losing nodes in a cluster, losing multiple disks in a cluster) where a customer will lose data or the Rubrik cluster will become unavailable - resulting in missed SLAs and compliance violations. Rubrik is built on commodity hardware that can certainly fail resulting in catastrophic data loss. Rubrik is not immune to failures or data loss. Your customers are likely protecting themselves from a single point of failure for their existing applications and Veeam does not have to be an exception. Veeam can even back itself up! Veeam does rely on a functioning Microsoft SQL Server database just like many other enterprise applications. Backup copy jobs can be implemented to immediately copy backup files to a secondary location in the event of a disaster or failure of the primary backup storage. Multiple proxy servers can be deployed, providing load balancing and failover. As such, it is architected to be fault tolerant. Veeam is a fully-featured enterprise-grade application. Rubrik will claim that their solution has no single points of failure and Veeam has many points of failure due to its design. With Rubrik, your customers may be paying a premium for components that are not customized to their needs. A Rubrik customer is forced to add compute and memory when they simply need more storage, or they are forced to add more storage when they simply need more throughput. Rubrik’s "one-size-fits-all" approach to scale simply does not apply in many enterprise environments. A key difference is that Rubrik does not enable its customers to customize those components. Rubrik has schedulers,ĭatabases and data movers just like most backup products. Something doesn’t require configuration does not mean that the solution is any less complex.
#What is veeam install#
Rubrik is easy to install because all the components are deployed with the physical appliance. This scalable enterprise architecture is what enables Veeam to provide Hyper-Availability to ¾ of the Fortune 500. Typically, larger customers choose to scale out a Veeam solution by adding additional proxies or repositories for additional throughput, capacity or load balancing. All of Veeam’s components can be installed on a single VM or physical server if desired. Once the solution has been properly architected for your customers’ environment, installation is as straightforward as pressing "Next" on the installation wizard.
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Rubrik will claim that Veeam has many components and takes longer to install than their appliance.
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The following section will help you separate the facts from the FUD and respond to concerns that your customers may have. Sometimes, Rubrik makes inaccurate or incomplete claims that suggest their solution is better.