Our company is currently looking into a new backup solution, VEEAM running with EMC's Data Domain were recommended by CDW's "Storage / Backup" Guru, we have also been looking in to AppAssure from Dell and Unitrends. We have 2 DataCenters one in Chicago and the other in Montreal Canada, I do not want to back up to Tape unless it is for archiving I want to be able to do all our backups to disk, I am sick of waiting 40+ hours for BackupExec to run the VM Environment Backup plus other issues I have with backing up to tapes. I would also like the ability to do replication between the 2 sites, bandwidth is not an issue for us. The Chicago DataCenter is 96% Virtual with a few physical servers, and we are planning on getting the Montreal DataCenter a true VM Environment very soon as well, right now they have a couple Free ESXi servers running separately, no vMotion or anything like that. Chicago has round 5-6TB of data, while Montreal has about 2TBs.
I wanted to see what everyone would recommend, or if there are other solutions I should look into besides these. I can listen to Dell's and Unitrends' sales reps all day but I want feedback from my fellow Admin that deal with these products on a daily basis.
I appreciate all the info (good / bad) whatever your opinion is I want to hear it. Before we spend a lot of money on a new solution I want to make sure we are getting the best one.
Thank you everyone
Ryan