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Veeam Backup & Replication 7 preview: integration with vSphere Web Client

Luca Dell'Oca, March 20, 2013March 19, 2013

The countdown to Veeam Backup & Replication 7 is going on, and its release is scheduled for the third quarter of 2013. As already mentioned in a previous article, Veeam is going to tease us with the 7 main features of the new release, one per month.

Last february the announcement was about vCloud Director support; this month is time for the VMware vSphere Web Client integration.

This feature is really important in my opinion, because it follows the new idea about the management of vSphere ecosystem, as VMware has designed it: to aggregate all the different components (even third party’s ones) inside the Web Client, making it the “single pane” for the overall management.

Today, in order to globally monitor backup status, Veeam offers the Enterprise Manager, a web application that shows in a graphic way many parameters. However, not all the values and elements of Veeam Backup & Replication are available in this console.

Instead, the new plugin offers a more complete vision and most of all some really important informations:

Veeam Backup Web Client Integration

Apart the success percentages of the backup jobs executions, already available in the Enterprise Manager daily report, we can now see a global view of all our repositories, so we can plan their upgrade in advance, and also see how many VMs are beeing saved. This value is really useful, since we can compare it with the total number of VMs inside vSphere, and so check if we missed some of them.

If you also want to know “which” VMs are not beeing saved, you can use this script I wrote (with others) some months ago, it still rocks!

A final note about the links at the bottom of some widgets: they open up several dashboards inside Veeam One, so in order to see those reports you would need to have this product.

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Veeam Backup & Replication 7 preview: integrazione con vSphere Web Client

Luca Dell'Oca, March 20, 2013March 19, 2013

Prosegue il conto alla rovescia verso il rilascio di Veeam Backup & Replication 7, previsto per il terzo trimestre del 2013. Come già anticipato in un precedente articolo, Veeam ha intenzione di svelare le 7 funzioni principali che verranno introdotte nella nuova versione, una per ogni mese.

Lo scorso febbraio è stato annunciato il supporto per vCloud Director; questo mese è la volta dell’integrazione col vSphere Web Client di VMware.

Questa aggiunta è molto importante, perchè si innesta perfettamente nella nuova politica di gestione dell’ecosistema di vSphere, così come è stata pensata da VMware stessa: accentrare tutti i vari sistemi dell’ambiente all’interno del Web Client, che diventa in questo modo la console univoca da cui gestire più o meno tutto.

Ad oggi, per monitorare globalmente lo stato dei backup, Veeam da a dispozione Enterprise Manager, un’applicazione web dove è possible visualizzare graficamente alcuni parametri. Purtroppo, non tutti gli elementi di Veeam Backup & Replication sono disponibili in questa console.

Il nuovo plugin, invece, da una visione molto più completa e soprattutto fornisce alcune informazioni fondamentali:

Veeam Backup Web Client Integration

 

Oltre alle percentuali di successo dei vari job di backup, già disponibile in formato testuale nel report giornaliero di Enterprise Manager, possiamo adesso avere una visione complessiva dei Repository e del loro utilizzo, per poter valutare eventuali espansioni con un minimo anticipo, e in più avere un dettaglio di quante VM sono sottoposte a backup. Questo valore torna utilissimo, quando confrontato col numero di VM presenti in vSphere, per verificare se qualche VM non è sottoposta a backup, e nel caso correggere questa mancanza, se tale è.

Se volete sapere “quali” VM non sono salvate, potete rifarvi allo script che avevo sviluppato mesi fa, è sempre attuale!

Una nota finale sui link presenti in calce ad alcuni dei widgets: rimandano alle corrispondenti dashboard di Veeam One, quindi per poter visualizzare quei report dovrete possedere anche questo prodotto.

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