Darren, I'm running a Unitrends appliance (an 2013/14 era 822 appliance) and have been very happy with it. We use it for Hyper-V Clusters, and Windows File Services Clusters as well as MSSQL and Sharepoint backups. We use their cloud replication service and replicate ~2TB to them. The only issue we have is the expansion pricing. That appliance allows us to backup 9TB and if we want to expand we either need to archive off to tape/san/nas or buy another appliance. They're very up front about the cost structure of expansion so if you're willing to take that in to account it's a great system, we've never had an issue with a recovery gone bad or anything. The UI is getting massive revamp in upcoming v9 away from the flash interface currently in 8.2 (it also doesn't scale in to 4K well if that's an issue for your management workstations) to a standards compliant HTML 5 based interface.
They support 'instant recovery' of both Hyper-V and ESX based virtual machines (the appliance can host the vm image if needed to in a pinch) it's a neat feature. As of 8.x they also support replication to common block storage providers (Azure, AWS, Rackspace, etc) for archival. The only thing I wish they did was automated backup restoration for verification of restores., but there don't seem to be a ton of backup vendors that support that particular feature without writing some custom scripting yourself. If you have any specific questions I'd be happy to answer them. Nathan Shelby Director of Systems Engineering – Quote Wizard <https://quotewizard.com/> [email protected] / 206-753-2626 Malo Periculosam Libertatem Quam Quietum Servitium On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Darren Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyone using Unitrends for backup? If so have you had any issues? Getting > away from BU Exec 2012 and would rather not upgrade to the latest BU exec > version. Not happy with Symantec right now. Anyone using BU exec 2014+ > successfully? > > > > Thanks for any info… > > > > D > > >
