Case Study: University of Melbourne achieves deep VMware monitoring and rapid VM backup & recovery with Veeam

University Gives Veeam an A+ For Deep VMware Monitoring and Management

The University of Melbourne, a leading education institution serving tens of thousands of students and staff, had virtualized about 75% of its infrastructure—over 600 VMs running critical services—but its existing monitoring and backup tools offered only surface-level visibility and slow recovery, risking outages and capacity problems for campus systems. The IT team needed deeper VMware insight and a single-pane view integrated with Microsoft System Center to detect and resolve issues faster.

They deployed Veeam Management Pack for VMware to extend rich, drill-down monitoring into System Center (covering 500+ events and 175+ metrics) and Veeam Backup & Replication for faster, more efficient backups. The result: consolidated virtual/physical visibility, proactive issue resolution, backups twice as fast, full VM restores four times faster, storage for backups cut from ~40TB to 15TB through dedupe/compression, and near-instant recovery options that greatly reduced downtime.

University of Melbourne

Drew Poynton

Team Leader, Microsoft and Virtual Infrastructure Support