Case Study: Grove City College achieves agent-free, 50% faster VM backups and unified Hyper‑V/VMware management with Veeam

Veeam Helps College Protect and Manage Mixed Hypervisor Environment

Grove City College, a private liberal arts and engineering school of about 2,500 students, had virtualized nearly all mission‑critical applications across a mixed Hyper‑V and VMware environment. Their legacy backup tool required agents for Hyper‑V—causing slow backups, limited file‑level recovery—and they lacked unified monitoring, reporting and capacity‑planning, making it hard to diagnose disk I/O and resource issues.

The college deployed Veeam Backup Management Suite (Backup & Replication plus Veeam ONE) to provide agentless backup, replication, real‑time monitoring and single‑pane reporting for both hypervisors. Backups became about 50% faster with easier granular recovery, alerts and historical metrics enabled them to fix disk‑latency issues and optimize VM placement, and storage‑agnostic deduplication plus per‑socket licensing delivered a cost‑effective, easy‑to‑manage solution.

Grove City College

Vincent DiStasi

Vice President and Chief Information Officer