Quick Tips #2 – VEEAM ONE Business View 10 minutes demo 05222014 Pascal di Marco Solution Architect

VeeamOne Business view quick brief Veeam® ONE™ is a single solution for powerful and easy-to-use monitoring, reporting and capacity planning for Vmware and Hyper-V and for Veeam Backup & Replication™. It provides complete visibility of these virtual and backup infrastructures and affordably delivers the capabilities that matter most to virtualization administrators. Capacity planning 24x7 real-time monitoring Documentation and management reporting Business categorization

A focus on Business View HowTo : Classify VMs by site, based on their names Let’s assume VM name pattern is like ST1-VMName Site coded on 3 first digits We want to dynamically populate our sites to monitor or build dashboards for each one of them ST1  Production Site 1 ST2  Production Site 2 Other  All other sites Let’s see how to create a REGeXP in business view

Step by step On Business View : Configuration / Categories / Add Add a new category « SITE », Dynamic type, Based on Virtual machines Configuration / Groups / SITE (the group you just created) Add a new Grouping expression

Step by step Create the REGEXP Double clic on the logical expression to get a patern Create the REGEXP Highlight the « value » and doubleclick on the « substring » method Highlight the « value » and doubleclick on the « Name » Object property

Step by step Now add all cases, Carriage return for comprehension and you get it You can test your REGEXP against real life objects !!!

Step by step Use your new category Wait a few minutes, and find it in VEEAM Monitor Business View Wait for the next (or manually trigger) collection, and your category is available to build reports

How to do anything you like ? Refer to vCenter guide, or VmWare KB #1005720 You can use vSphere custom attributes in conjunction with VEEAM Business view REGEXP for near infinite possibilities

Enable the Always-On Business 24/7 operations No patience for downtime and data loss Growing amount of Data Enable the Always-On Business High-Speed Recovery Data Loss Avoidance Verified Protection Complete Visibility Leveraged Data Modern Data Center Virtualization Modern storage Cloud