Managing VMware with Veeam

Purvin Vakharwala, EMCPA, VSTP John Dubay – Field Sales ManagerSystems Engineer john.dubay@veeam.com Email: purvin@veeam.com Tel: (561) 865-7182 Tel: (404) 409-0945

Dan Warhola – Inside Territory Manager dan.warhola@veeam.com 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!