Case Study: Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust achieves 3-minute recovery and 50% lower disaster recovery costs with Veeam Backup & Replication

Large Health Care Trust Ensures Ongoing Patient Care with Veeam Backup & Replication

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, a large UK NHS teaching trust running clinical systems across four hospitals, had virtualized the majority of its infrastructure (230+ VMs and growing) and found traditional physical‑server disaster recovery processes unsuitable. The Trust needed a cost‑effective, virtual‑specific DR solution that enabled fast replication and quick failover so patient care would not be disrupted.

The Trust chose Veeam Backup & Replication, deploying image‑based replication with Changed Block Tracking and thin‑provisioned disks to enable rapid updates and ready‑to‑start replicas. The solution cut recovery time from up to one day to about three minutes, paid for itself within a week, halved the originally budgeted DR costs to replicate the entire virtual estate, and provided scalable, integrated backup and replication without per‑VM licensing.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust

Kevin Woodley

Data Center Manager