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 | 9.0, 9.5 (Update 3, Update 4) |
VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) | 7.4, 7.5, 7.6 |
VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) | 7.4, 7.5, 7.6 |
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
- Define Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager Endpoint
- Define Veeam Backup Profile
- Configure Notification (optional)
- Apply Veeam Backup as a Service vRA Property Group to existing blueprint
- Provision!