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Veeam: A Veeam Gem – Self-service DataLabs on-demand sandbox using Veeam Enterprise Manager

Greetings friends, sometimes we overlook some features that the products include, such as Veeam Enterprise Manager, and all the features that this allows us. Today I come to talk to you about a wonderful hidden and little-known feature, DataLabs on demand using Veeam Enterprise Manager.

Diagram with the use case

The first thing I want to show you is the technical diagram of where this solution can be a good practice, let's imagine:
  • There are several technical groups in an Infrastructure
  • The developers group does not have access to the VMware, Veeam and/or production network infrastructure, only a VPN that gives them access only to the DataLabs Proxy Appliance
  • This group of developers must be able to create DataLabs with a group of applications when they need them on demand from Enterprise Manager
In this way, the group of Developers located in a remote office can access the Enterprise Manager portal via the Internet for example, or via a DMZ, launch their On-demand Sandbox requests as long as they need, and then access those DataLabs using a VPN to the DataLab Virtual Proxy, which will give connectivity to the VMs that are in that on-demand sandbox.
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Veeam: Don’t let your dog eat your blog –Protecting cPanel multi-tenant using Veeam Agent for Linux and Veeam Cloud Connect

Greetings friends, today I bring you a very interesting blog post for Service Providers, but not limited to these. Today I bring you a step further, and it's about taking advantage of the functionality of being able to launch Backups from cPanel users to a Cloud Connect Provider that includes Veeam Agent for Linux 2.0, each backup assigned to its tenant, etc.. As this Blog post has been a little long for me, I leave you the menu so that you can jump to where it is more interesting for you:

1.- Topology and brief explanation of the Infrastructure

As always, I would like to leave you with a diagram of how this Infrastructure and the data flow between cPanel, Veeam Cloud Connect and the tenants will look like: To make this whole environment work we'll have to have the following:
  • A cPanel WHM license, and root access to shell. (We could also extra polarize this to a LAMP server with multiple workloads, etc, but it would be more manual)
  • Veeam Agent for Linux 2.0 Server Edition - We will use the Server version as we want to create multitasks, one for each tenant, and of course make use of the pre-freeze and post-shaw scripts that will generate the backup of each tenant.
  • A provider, or Veeam Cloud Connect providers, you can have a look at the list here - https://www.veeam.com/find-a-veeam-cloud-provider.html
Once we have everything ready, we can move on to the next point.
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Veeam: Backup and restore workloads to Microsoft Azure – Migrate workloads from Microsoft Azure to our Datacenter

Greetings friends, I continue with this very interesting series about Veeam and Microsoft Azure, we have already seen practically all the steps: from interconnecting Microsoft Azure with our Datacenter, deploying the VBR in Azure, launching the copy job jobs, and of course restoring Microsoft Azure, today I bring you how to bring those VM in Azure back to our Datacenter, as you can see in this illustration:
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Veeam – Simple, yet powerful, data sovereignty reports in PDF format on Veeam ONE

Greetings friends, we saw the other day how to configure Veeam Locations in our virtualization environment, Cloud providers and in our Backup elements. Today I bring you the next step, to be able to show you a report of all this that we have configured in a granular and simple way, and in PDF!

Veeam ONE Reporter - Data Sovereignty Overview

The first thing we will do is to go to the URL of our Veeam ONE Reporter, remember https://veeamonefqdn:1239/ if we are in the Veeam ONE itself via RDP we will see an icon for quick access:
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Veeam – Configure Veeam Locations to improve data sovereignty control and reporting

Greetings friends, with the upcoming launch of GDPR, many of the companies that use Veeam or service providers using Veeam are facing many new challenges, in this Blog I will not discuss all the challenges that a regulation like GDPR has, but how Veeam can help. Since the release of Veeam Backup & Replication v9.5 U3, Veeam has included a new feature called Locations, which will help us with the task of marking infrastructure elements and backup elements, so that we can visualize all this later. When we are performing Veeam tasks once we have the Locations configured, we will be able to see a warning in the jobs that will allow us to check if we are not sending backups to sites where the new regulation does not allow. The elements that we can assign Locations are the following:
  • Elements in Virtual infrastructure: vCenter Servers, datacenters, clusters and hosts.
  • Backup infrastructure elements: backup repositories, scale-out backup repositories, tape libraries and tape vaults.
  • Elements in Agent management: protection groups.
  • Veeam Cloud Connect for service providers: cloud repositories and hardware plans.

Configuring Veeam Locations in Veeam Backup & Replication v9.5 U3

As mentioned before, we will need Veeam Backup & Replication v9.5 U3 or higher to configure the Locations. We will go to Home - Inventory and click on Locations:

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Veeam: Backup and restore workloads to Microsoft Azure – Configuration in our Datacenter for backup to Microsoft Azure

Greetings, I continue with the series on Veeam and Microsoft Azure, let's remember the diagram of the introduction where we presented the workflow. What I'm going to show you today, step by step, is the configuration in our Veeam Backup & Replication Server of our datacenter.

Adding the Microsoft Azure repository in our Data Center

The first step of this blog, is to add the Microsoft Azure repository, in our local datacenter, remember that we have configured a new VBR in Microsoft Azure, and that we have inter-connected our datacenter and Azure. We will go to Backup Repositories - Add Repository
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Veeam: Backup and restore workloads to Microsoft Azure – Deploy Veeam Backup & Replication in Microsoft Azure

Greetings friends, I continue with the series about Veeam and Microsoft Azure, if we remember the drawing of the first entry, we will see that in Microsoft Azure we will deploy a Veeam Backup & Replication server, with the purpose of serving as a Backup Repository, and at the same time be able to operate and recover jobs directly to Azure, in case our main datacenter fails:

Deploying Veeam Backup & Replication directly from the Azure Marketplace

Veeam has been offering Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 U3 directly from the Azure Marketplace for some time now, this is very convenient and includes:
  • A fully functional and installed Windows Server 2016.
  • An automatically pre-installed instance of Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5U3, with SQLexpress
From our Microsoft Azure console, click on Create a resource, and search for Veeam, we will see several results, in this case select Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5
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Veeam: Backup and restore workloads to Microsoft Azure – Connectivity between our Datacenter and Microsoft Azure

Greetings friends, if we remember the introduction to this series on how to create a Disaster Recovery plan with Veeam in Microsoft Azure, we had the following diagram: In the diagram we can see how between the two locations we are using Veeam PN for connectivity, in this article today we will see the step-by-step steps to deploy and configure VeeamPN in both locations.

Deploy Veeam PN Network Hub to Microsoft Azure

Veeam Powered Network can be deployed directly from the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, making it very simple and convenient to use. From the Microsoft Azure console, we will go to Create a resource and search for Veeam, among the results we can see Veeam PN for Microsoft Azure, we will select it:
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Veeam: Backup and restore workloads to Microsoft Azure – Introduction

Greetings friends, every day it is more common to move workloads to Microsoft Azure, or at least to have planned a certain level of Disaster Recovery to Microsoft Azure in case of a complete shutdown of our main data center, to be able to restore those most urgent applications for users or customers, reducing service downtime. Veeam has a number of specific products for moving workloads to Microsoft Azure, easily and fully integrated into the Veeam Backup & Replication console itself. The main functionality, available since March 2016, is called Direct Restore to Microsoft Azure, and although it used to come as a separate application it is now available on the Veeam Backup & Replication console itself to help with its integration.

Infrastructure topology

I would like to show you this diagram (thanks to Allan Hammond for his help with the diagram) so that we can understand Veeam's workflow between the local data center and Microsoft Azure and vice versa:
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