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Thank you LegAEI and CraigV for detailed responses.
I am using both Veeam (Trial) and BE 2014 (Purchased) versions and here is my experince of using both.
Veeam is quite easy to setup and the interface is more user friendly. New users can easily adopt Veeam without any previous experince of using Veeam. At my end, It appears that Veeam GRT support is better than BE2014. Veeam does not complain about "agents not properly installed" or any GRT issues, it simply works straight away.
BE 2014 dashboard is just like an aeroplane cockpit with full of options, ofcourse that gives more granular options to manage and troubleshoot backup jobs. So if you are new like me, then you have to go through few learning curves to fly BE2014 high in backup skies. So far I have experienced few GRT errors releated to SQL and File Servers, which were backed up through Host-Backup job. BE has it's trust established with those Guest VMs. BE2014 appears to be slightly better than Veeam, when its comes to creating a customised backup job. There are loads of job settings that can be tweaked to meet your requirement.
In our case, we alraedy had previuolsy purchased backup Exec 2014, so I decided to use backup Exec instead of investing into Veeam.
Not sure if I am right in concluding that if you want easy and quick solution, one shoud go for Veeam but if you are familiar with Backup Exec 2012 or previous versions and happy to go through few learning curves, BE 2014 is the correct option.
Can I ask another questions please? Using BE 2014, shall I create single backup job for VMHost, so that will backup the Host and all Guest VMs ? or shall I make a seprate backup job for each individual Guest VM and a seprate backup job for VMware Host?
Many Thanks
Syed Mazhar
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