continue VM-based backup for all kinds of (instant) restore scenarios That could be worked around with SureBackup, but that might or might not be always possible. We have experienced corrupted filesystems in the past with the server running along nicely and VM/block based backup working - until reboot, when the filesystem can not be loaded anymore. We need the normal VM-based backups for normal OS level backup, but also the whole 'OS + NAS-VMDK' for instant recovery purposes. Losts of NAS (~50TB) in virtualized form -> Windows/Linux/Novell OES fileservers already getting backed up by Veeam.

For example, this makes it just $160/TB with our Veeam Backup Starter offering.īut as always, we will monitor feedback closely (and also sales results), and will adjust this ratio if necessary in the following product updates.Ĭan you shed some light on how to treat virtualized fileservers, which are currently already getting backed up via normal VM backups, but now with the NAS-feature, too? I think it's a good start as MSRP, considering our VUL offerings.

But this placed our MSRP fairly close to one of our chief competitors (see my post above), so we decided to get aggressive and doubled that number to 250GB to get significantly cheaper. So, normally it should have been 125GB per VUL. So, it makes sense that the price for protecting this data is about the same. There's no reason to believe that production data on NAS is somehow less important than production data in VMs, especially considering that the customer needs to protect both. In other words, 1 VUL protects 125GB of actual useful production data (when data resides in a VM).ģ. Industry-average VM size is 150GB, among which 25GB is redundant/useless data (OS files). Someone who's selling pretty much every enterprise backup solution out there has shared with me the following pricing data (I'm removing competitors names to be nice, but all these are well known industry leaders):Ģ. And I also saw workloads which were cheaper to lose than to backup.Īlso, I think it's important to put this NAS backup pricing discussion in the context, because Veeam is not alone in the market. I've seen workloads where unstructured data was worth more than your entire NAS farm, while being less than 10TB in total size. The correct question to ask here is how much that data is worth, if it is lost. Regarding how much 'backup' should or should not cost: it's actually a wrong question to ask. so yeah, that's definitely in a whole different league for a more typical Synology/QNAP box most small businesses have, so there's no surprise most people here will see your deployment as an 'incredibly large NAS' I looked up the list price for those 8 Isilons units, and across storage and connectivity that rack looks to be close to USD 1M.

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