Veeam

The SovLabs vRealize Automation Backup-as-a-Service module for Veeam enables organizations who utilize Veeam for backup and recovery to now have fully automated policy-driven backups and self-service VM and file-level recovery directly within vRealize Automation, reducing the support burden, lowering risk and increasing end-user satisfaction.


Compatibility

Veeam Backup Enterprise Plus 9.x+
VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) 7.x
VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) 7.x
EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud (EHC) 4.x

Highlights

  • Create one or more Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager Endpoints
    • Create one or more SovLabs Backup Profiles with the following features:
    • Associate Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager Endpoint
    • Decouples protection job assignments from blueprints to allow for ease of management at scale
    • Adds VM to selected protection job(s) based on backup profile
    • Backup profile can be pinned to VM component of vRA blueprint or applicable vRA constructs
      • e.g. business group, compute resource, or any supported hierarchy for vRA custom properties
  • Ability to allow the end-user to choose the Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager endpoint and/or protection job at time of request
  • Self-service recovery
    • File/folder-level recovery options
    • Granular permissions using vRA entitlements; can be granted to end-users or administrators
    • VM and file-level recovery resource actions can be entitled separately
    • Restore point selection and filtering
      • None, Latest backup, backup since date/time, or select date/time range
      • Allows for requester to select their time-zone, auto-calculating difference to Veeam
    • vRequires OS-level credentials for restore operations, preventing elevated admin access to non-privileged users
  • End-user notifications for self-service recovery
  • Includes SovLabs Notifications Module
  • Pre-configured HTML and text-based notification templates can be customized
    • Includes SovLabs Template Engine to include custom logic or any VM-level vRA custom property
  • Notification scenarios/templates include job started, job completed, job failed
  • Defaults to notifying requester for all recovery notifications
  • Allows requester to specify additional email recipients for recovery notifications
  • Optionally configure additional email-based recipients for all backup and recovery notifications
  • Can be entitled independently, e.g. to end-users or administrators

Quick Start Process

  1. Define Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager Endpoint
  2. Define Veeam Backup Profile
  3. Configure Notification (optional)
  4. Apply Veeam Backup as a Service vRA Property Group to existing blueprint
  5. Provision!