Veeam Backup

Introduction

Veeam® Backup & Replication™ is a comprehensive data protection and disaster recovery solution.

You can create image-level backups of virtual, physical, and cloud machines, and restore them. Technology used in the product optimizes data transfer and resource consumption, which helps minimize storage costs and recovery time in case of a disaster.

Veeam® Backup & Replication™ provides a centralized console for administering backup, restore and replication operations in all supported platforms (virtual, physical, and cloud). This console allows you to automate and schedule routine data protection operations to integrate with solutions for alerting and generating compliance reports.

Key functionality of Veeam® Backup & Replication™:

• Backup: Creating image-level backups of virtual, physical, cloud machines, and NAS share files.
• Restore: Restore backup files to the original or a new location. Veeam® Backup & Replication™ offers a number of recovery options for various disaster recovery scenarios, including instant recovery, image level restore, file level restore, restore of application items and so on.
• Replication: Creating an exact copy of a virtual machine and maintaining the copy in sync with the original virtual machine.
• Continuous Data Protection (CDP): Replication technology that helps you protect mission-critical virtual machines and reach recovery point objective (RPO) up to seconds.
• Backup Copy: Copying backup files to a secondary repository.
• Storage Systems Support: Backing up and restoring virtual machines using capabilities of native snapshots created on storage systems.
• Tape Device Support: Storing copies of backups in tape devices.
• Recovery Verification: Testing virtual machine backups and replicas before recovery.

Discovery Use Cases

• Provides resource visibility to the administrator to view and manage resources available (Ex: Enterprise Manager, Backup Server, Jobs and Machines) under the resource type Server.
• Publishes relationships between resources to have a topological view and ease of maintenance.

Monitoring Use Cases

• Provides metrics related to job scheduling time and status etc..
• Concern alerts will be generated for each metric to notify the administrator regarding the issue with the resource

Resource Hierarchy

Veeam Enterprise Manager

    → Veeam Backup Server

         → Veeam Jobs

         → Veeam Repositories

         → Veeam Machines

Pre-Requisites

• The OpsRamp Gateway must be installed.
• To access Veeam Enterprise Manager API the user should have Portal Administrator access.

Configuration and installation

1. Go to Setup > Integrations and Apps.
2. Click + ADD on the INSTALLED APP page. The ADD APP page displays all the available applications along with the newly created application with the version. Note: You can even search for the application using the search option available. Also you can use the All Categories option to search.

3. Click ADD in the Veeam application.
4. In the Configurations page, click + ADD. The Add Configuration page appears.
5. Enter the below mentioned BASIC INFORMATION:

Notes:

• By default the Is Secure checkbox is selected.
• App Failure Notifications: if turned on, you will be notified in case of an application failure that is, Connectivity Exception, Authentication Exception.

6. In the RESOURCE TYPE section, select:

   • ALL: All the existing and future resources will be discovered.
   • SELECT: You can select one or multiple resources to be discovered.

7. In the DISCOVERY SCHEDULE section, select Recurrence Pattern to add one of the following patterns:

   • Minutes
   • Hourly
   • Daily
   • Weekly
   • Monthly

8. Click ADD.
   

9. Now the configuration is saved and displayed on the configurations page after you save it.
   
   Note: From the same page, you may Edit and Remove the created configuration.

10. Click NEXT

11. In the Installation page, select an existing registered gateway profile, and click FINISH.

The application is now installed and displayed on the Installed Integration page. Use the search field to find the installed application.

Modify the Configuration

• See Modify an Installed Integration or Application article.

  Note: Select the Veeam application.

View the Veeam details

The discovered resource(s) are displayed in Infrastructure > Resources > Server, with Native Resource Type as Veeam Job. You can navigate to the Attributes tab to view the discovery details, and Metrics tab to view the metric details for Veeam.

View resource metrics

To confirm Veeam backup, review the following:

• Metric graphs: A graph is plotted for each metric that is enabled in the configuration.
• Alerts: Alerts are generated for metrics that are configured as defined for integration.

Risks, Limitations & Assumptions

• Application can handle Critical/Recovery failure notifications for below two cases when user enables App Failure Notifications in configuration
  • Connectivity Exception
  • Authentication Exception
• Application will not send any duplicate/repeat failure alert notification until the already existing critical alert is recovered.
• Using metrics for monitoring the resources and generating alerts when the threshold values are breached.
• Application cannot control monitoring pause/resume actions based on above alerts.
• No support of showing activity log and applied time.
• No support for the option to get Latest snapshot metric.

Supported Metrics