Case Study: Spring ISD achieves 10x faster VM backups and minute‑speed restores with Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam ONE

Veeam Speed VM Backups and Enable Performance Monitoring

Spring Independent School District (Spring ISD), which supports 38 schools and over 36,000 students, faced slow, resource‑heavy backups for its growing virtual environment—12 VMware ESX hosts and 135 VMs—using a legacy physical backup tool. Daily backups of 6–10 TB were taking hours per VM, impacting performance and prompting the IT team to seek a virtualization‑specific solution that could provide fast restores and real‑time performance monitoring.

Spring ISD deployed Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam ONE, gaining 10x faster backups (from 3–4 hours to 2–3 minutes per VM), Instant VM Recovery for full restores in minutes without disrupting users, and continuous monitoring of performance, disk usage and memory. The result: significantly reduced backup windows, faster recoveries, proactive problem resolution and greater confidence in protection of the virtual environment.

Spring ISD

Chris Kent

Director of Infrastructure