Managing VMware with Veeam
Purvin Vakharwala, EMCPA, VSTP John Dubay – Field Sales Manager
Systems Engineer [email protected] Email: [email protected] Tel: (561) 865-7182 Tel: (404) 409-0945
Dan Warhola – Inside Territory Manager
[email protected] Tel: (614) 339-8233
Who is Veeam Software?
• Founded in July 2006 ( Started as Aelita Software 1999 )
• More than 200 people worldwide
• VMware Technology Alliance Premier Partner
• 2,500+ Veeam ProPartners
• Acquired nworks June 2008
• Powerful R&D investment (more than 80 people)
• Focus on innovation and customer feedback
Today’s Business Challenges
Business Alignment of Resources and host Configuration Management
Maintain standard host configurations as well as align IT assets to the Business
• Manage Host configuration drift• Quickly deploy changes in IT
environment• Align VMs to business function
Data Protection and Business continuity
Maintain a healthy Data Center with minimal downtime
• Provide cost effective protection of assets and applications
• Reduce Downtime and simplify disaster recovery
• Eliminate complexity associated with DR/BC
Enterprise Level Monitoring
How do we integrate Virtualization with our Enterprise Monitoring System
• Leverage existing standard tools by extending capabilities
• Improve service levels with proactive alerting and monitoring
• Single pane of glass to manage physical and virtual
Compliance and DR/BC documentation
Maintain “Blueprints” of IT assets
• Fully document ever changing IT environment
• Ease the rebuild Datacenter build process in event of disaster
• Change management reporting• Provide Compliance based
documentation , SOX, ITIL etc.
Management solutions for VMware
Reporting & Documentation
• Executive-level reports
• Change control
• VM sprawl control
• Reports in Visio, Excel, Word and PDF
• Business View
Performance Monitoring & Alerting
• Performance analysis
• Storage & hardware monitoring
• VMware Management Pack for SCOM
• VMware Smart Plug-in for HP OV
Backup & Recovery
• 2-in-1: backup and replication
• ESXi support, with & without VCB
• Fast file-level recovery for Windows &
Linux
• Built-in de-duplication & compression
Configuration Management
• Automated discovery
• Configuration change management
• Compliance auditing
Enterprise scalability & performanceproven at more than 500 customers
Enterprise scalability & performanceproven at more than 500 customers
Veeam Backup
• 2-in-1: Backup and Replication• Support for ESX and ESXi• No agents to install on Host or inside VM• Synthetic Backup
– Replication Rollback
– Optimized recovery process (Full, VM files, Guest OS files)
• File-Level recovery for Windows & Linux• VM templates backup • Data de-duplication and RLE compression• Accurate VSS Support
– Microsoft Windows 2003 & Windows 2008
Veeam Backup
• vSphere4 Support• Granular scheduling engine• Support for 64-bit Operating Systems• Reporting and Notification
– Automatic e-mail notifications on backup tasks– HTML formatted reports from the console– Real-Time backup statistics– In-depth recovery information during restores– Backup results can be updated into a VM’s Notes
attributes
Veeam Backup
Veeam Backup
vSphere: vStorage API for Data Recovery
• Allows for performing LAN-free backups directly from SAN storage.
• With vSphere, vStorage API is the recommended API for VMware vSphere backup, not VCB
• New features like thin provisioning are only supported with vStorage API by VMware.
• Native support for vStorage API makes Veeam Backup most future-proof solution currently available on the market.
Veeam Business View• Manage your VMs from a business perspective• Prioritize resource allocation and utilization across your
business• "Set & forget" automated VM categorization and workflow• Integration with your existing VM categorization process• Open architecture• Control VM sprawl• Define your chargeback model• Leverage your investments in Veeam
Business View screenshots
Create Custom Reports• Create custom reports using Veeam Reporter Enterprise
based on Business View attributes
Veeam Reporter Enterprise
• Unattended collection and ad hoc reporting• Client/server architecture• Change management reporting• Remote administration• VI environment sprawl control• PowerShell integration
• Custom report templates
• Visio – Excel – Word – PDF
Product Architecture
Web Interface
Storage Capacity - Excel
Raw Data Matrix - Excel
Change Management - Excel
Inventory Report - Excel
Storage - Visio
VMotion - Visio
Datastore Utilization - Visio
Veeam Monitor
• Agentless monitoring
• Scalable to multiple VirtualCenter environments
• Single-screen detailed reporting on your virtual infrastructure in real time or historically
• Easy-to-set-up alerts at varying levels of granularity with new alarm modeling capability
• Trend reporting (HTML and Excel)
• Optional client/server architecture
Dashboard
Guest Performance
Console
Tops
Lowest Load
Alarms
Datastores – Disk I/O
HTML Report
Excel Trend Report
Scheduled Reporting
Veeam Configurator 2.0
• Discover network and storage settings to create host profile templates
• Report on host configuration to manage “configuration drift”
• Apply configuration templates to bring hosts back into compliance
• Organize and group hosts independent of VirtualCenter
• Quickly deploy new configurations to multiple hosts at the same time– Test mode before applying (with report for use in change
management)
– Roll-back capability – in case something goes wrong
Veeam Configurator
Veeam Configurator
Option Four…
The Veeam/nworks Connectors
• The Smart Plug-in for Vmware
( HP Open View )
• The Management Pack for Vmware
( Microsoft MOM & SCOM )
nworks architecture
Leverage your investment in HP
• Use OpenView as your “single pane of glass”– Full visibility of all vSphere components –
• vCenter, ESX Hosts, Clusters, VMs– Enable all standard management functions –
• Performance, events, state• Service Maps• Reporting, auditing• Notifications, responses, automation• End-user customization
HP - SPI - Connect physical, virtual and application
“Join the Dots!” • Monitor your mission-critical
applications – and the vSphere where they run
• End-to-end visibility:– Hardware to hypervisor– Hypervisor to VM– VM to apps & services
Management Pack for VMware
• Agentless Architecture – no agents installed on ESX or ESXi hosts• vCenter events• VI3 specific metrics for Clusters and Resource Pools • VMware ESX & ESXi hosts and VMs as discrete Computer Objects• State Views• Configurable threshold-based state-enabled (dynamic) alerts• Performance metric collection for ESX and ESXi hosts and VMs • Microsoft Integrations
– MOM 2005– Systems Center Operations Manager 2007
• VMware Solutions– ESX & ESXi– vCenter 2.X
Connect physical, virtual and application
“Join the Dots!” • Monitor your mission-critical
applications – and the vSphere where they run
• End-to-end visibility:– Hardware to hypervisor– Hypervisor to VM– VM to apps & services
VM Dashboard
Veeam partnership advantages
• VMware– Premier-level Technology Alliance
Partner– VMware Ready charter member
• Microsoft– System Center TAP member– VMware MP on the
System Center Catalog
• Dell– Certified ISV Partner
• HP– Member of
Developer & Solution Partner Program
– SPI for VMware in HP Software Solution Catalog
Listening to you, Building the tools you need!