So, I've just been informed by Symantec that our PureDisk implementation is running on unsupported hardware (Equallogic SANs) and they're unwilling to resolve our outstanding issues. Now I find my self scrambling to find an enterprise class backup solution to cover a dozen ESX-i servers, a hundred VMs, consuming about 10TB of storage. I've heard good things about Veeam, but I have some questions and was hoping that the Veeam folks and/or community here would answer for me. Your input is much appreciated!
So, here are a few questions:
1) How large is your implentation? e.g., how many servers, VMs, and storage are you protecting? How's it performing?
2) Are you using tape? This is a big must for me for long term (up to 7 years) data retention requirements.
3) Are you augmenting Veeam with another product for application level backups? I'm thinking of using Netbackup for AD, Exchange, Sharepoint, SQL, Oracle, etc... and Veeam for VM level backups.
4) Have you had any DB/Exchange corruption issues when restoring? I saw a thread on this and that has me worried.
5) When does 5.0 come out?

6) What's your biggest complaint about the product?
7) Any other comments?
I'd really appreciate any and all comments. Thanks for your help!