40 Windows VMs protected in a day — entire backup rack retired.
An Australian professional services firm replaced a full rack of on-premises backup storage, servers and Veeam licensing with Backup Experts. Every one of their 40 Windows VMs was deployed and backing up within a day, with copies held in immutable Australian datacenter storage.
40
Windows VMs deployed and backed up
$10k
Saved per year on Veeam licensing
1 day
To full protection
1 rack
Of backup hardware retired
The challenge
The customer ran 40 Windows VMs on a virtualised cluster, protected by an on-premises Veeam setup that occupied a full rack of backup servers and storage. Hardware maintenance, power, cooling and per-VM licensing were an ongoing drain.
They needed a faster, simpler way to protect the VMs without maintaining the rack or renewing Veeam.
The outcome
- $10,000 annual saving on Veeam licensing
- Full backup rack, servers and storage decommissioned
- 40 Windows VMs protected in a single day
- Daily immutable snapshots copied to Australian datacenters
- Automated restore verification every two weeks
How the migration ran
- 1
Scope
We catalogued the 40 Windows VMs, existing Veeam jobs, retention rules, and the rack hardware footprint so we could retire everything cleanly.
- 2
Deploy
Agents were installed across all 40 VMs in a single day. Initial seed backups completed the same evening to Australian datacenters.
- 3
Decommission
Once backups were validated, the backup server rack, storage arrays and Veeam licences were removed — freeing up floor space and budget.
- 4
Verify
Automated restore and verification jobs now run every two weeks, with results reported to the internal IT team. Backups are only useful if they can be recovered.
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