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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

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

7. 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

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

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Growing amount of Data
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