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.

Introduction to Veeam Enterprise Manager Rest API’s

The Web Service API for Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager, which is built on the REST (Representational State Transfer) architecture, exposes its objects. Developers may interact with Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager utilizing the HTTPS protocol, REST principles, and the Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager REST API to query data about Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager objects and carry out simple activities with them.

See, REST API WorkFlow to know about accessing Veeam Enterprise Manager API’s.

Introduction to Veeam Service Provider Console Rest API’s

The Web Service API built on the REST (Representational State Transfer) architecture is used by Veeam Service Provider Console to expose its entities. The client-server architecture is utilized by the Veeam Service Provider Console REST API. The server receives a request from the client. With the help of the Veeam Service Provider Console REST API, developers may interact with Veeam Service Provider Console to make simple queries for information on Veeam Service Provider Console entities and carry out basic operations on them using HTTP requests and standard HTTP methods.

See, Service Provider Console Rest API to know about accessing Veeam Service Provider Console Rest API’s.

Key Use Cases

Discovery Use Cases

• Provides resource visibility to the administrator to view and manage resources available (Ex: Enterprise Manager, Backup Server, Jobs and Repositories) 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

OpsRamp supports both Enterprise Manager REST API and Service Provider Console REST API’s. The Resource Hierarchy is different for both the API’s.

The following is the Resource Hierarchy while using Veeam® Enterprise Manager REST API’s

Veeam Enterprise Manager

      → Veeam Backup Server

               → Veeam Jobs

               → Veeam Repositories

The following is the Resource Hierarchy while using Veeam® Service Provider Console REST API’s

Veeam ServiceProvider Console

      → Veeam Enterprise Manager
      → Veeam Backup Server
      → Veeam Jobs
      → Veeam Repositories
      → Veeam BackupProxy

Pre-requisites

• OpsRamp Classic Gateway 13.0.1 and above.
• To access Veeam Enterprise Manager API the user should have Portal Administrator access.

Default Monitoring Configurations

Veeam application has default Global Device Management Policies, Global Templates, Global Monitors, and Global metrics in OpsRamp. You can customize these default monitoring configurations as per your business use cases by cloning respective global templates and Global Device Management Policies. OpsRamp recommends performing the below activity before installing the application to avoid noise alerts and data.

1. Default Global Device Management Policies

   OpsRamp has a Global Device Management Policy for each Native Type of Veeam. You can find these Device Management Policies by navigating to Setup -> Resources -> Device Management Policies, search with suggested names in global scope. Each Device Management Policy follows below naming convention:

   {appName nativeType - version}

   Ex: netapp-ontap NetApp Cluster - 1 (i.e, appName = veeam, nativeType = Veeam Enterprise Manager, version = 1)

2. Default Global Templates

   OpsRamp has a Global Template for each Native Type of Veeam. You can find those templates by navigating to Setup -> Monitoring -> Templates, search with suggested names in global scope. Each template follows below naming convention:

   {appName nativeType 'Template' - version}

   Ex: veeam Veeam Enterprise Manager Template - 1 (i.e, appName = veeam, nativeType = Veeam Enterprise Manager, version = 1)

3. Default Global Monitors

   OpsRamp has a Global Monitors for each Native Type which has monitoring support. You can find these monitors by navigating to Setup -> Monitoring -> Monitors, search with suggested names in global scope. Each Monitors follows below naming convention:

   {monitorKey appName nativeType - version}

   Ex: Veeam Enterprise Manager Monitor veeam Veeam Enterprise Manager 1 (i.e, monitorKey = Veeam Enterprise Manager Monitor, appName = veeam, nativeType = Veeam Enterprise Manager version = 1)

Configuration and installation

1. From All Clients, select a client.
2. Go to Setup > Integrations and Apps > Integrations.
3. Click Manage Apps.
   Notes:
   • If there are already installed applications, it will redirect to the INSTALLED APPS page where all the installed applications are displayed.
   • If there are no installed applications, it will navigate to the ADD APP page.

4. 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.

5. Click ADD in the Veeam application.
   Note: Select the version from the drop down menu.
6. In the Configurations page, click + ADD. The Add Configuration page appears.
7. Enter the below mentioned BASIC INFORMATION:

Notes:

• Veeam Service Provider Console: if turned on, you can provide the Veeam Service Provider Console Access Token.
• 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.

8. Select the below mentioned Custom Attribute:

Note: The custom attribute that you add here will be assigned to all the resources that are created by the integration. You can add a maximum of five custom attributes (key and value pair).

9. 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.

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

    • Minutes
    • Hourly
    • Daily
    • Weekly
    • Monthly

11. Click ADD.
    

12. 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.

13. Click NEXT

14. 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.

Resource Filter Input keys

Note: The above keys can be used in alert description while cloning the dmp.

Supported Metrics through Veeam Enterprise Manager

Supported Metrics through Veeam Service Provider Console

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.
• This application supports only Classic gateway. Not supported with Cluster gateway.
• Component level thresholds can be configured on each resource level.
• No support of showing activity log and applied time.
• No support for the option to get Latest snapshot metric.
• There is a chance of creating duplicate resources for certain resources like Veeam Enterprise Manager and Veeam BackupServer, due to lack of information like mac address, serialnumber, ip address from the Veeam API’s.