Few realize that Veeam ONE is one of our oldest products. Like every product at Veeam, it continues to evolve based on the needs of our customers and today serves as an important component of Veeam Availability Suite, delivering Monitoring & Analytics for Veeam Backup & Replication, as well as for virtual and physical environments.
Since 2008, Veeam ONE has amassed an impressive arsenal of capabilities through dozens of updates. This has allowed users to leverage the latest monitoring and reporting functionality for any new Veeam Backup & Replication feature and supported infrastructure, ensuring ALL eyes and ears remain fixed on the health state of critical infrastructures, datasets, backup activities, and now, even applications. The list of unique alarms and reports continue to grow with each new release. In fact, did you know that Veeam ONE includes 340 individual Alarms and over 145 pre-built reports? This alone is 485 reasons why you should leverage the power of Veeam Availability Suite, by tapping into the most helpful Veeam ONE alarms and reports for your business. And below, we’ll discuss a number of ways how you can do that as well as outline them in more detail during an informative Veeam ONE webinar, July 25th!
Our customers continue to pave the way to innovation
Part of our on-going effort to enhance existing products is to collect user experience feedback— whether that data comes from customer surveys or from comments logged during technical support calls. Regardless of the source, we take customer needs seriously.
Recently, we asked a number of our customers what they liked most about Veeam ONE and they told us they relied heavily on alarms they receive on the state of their virtual and backup infrastructures. The alarms run in parallel with a handful of pre-built reports that provide periodic data to ensure backups and infrastructure are operating at peak performance. Due to the high quantity of unique alarms and reports that exist, it’s nearly impossible to be familiar with them all. However, we found that a handful of these tools are consistently used and relied upon by a majority of our users on a daily basis.
TOP Veeam ONE Alarms every business should be using
Veeam ONE Alarms are essential in notifying you when part of your virtual, physical or backup environment is not working as designed or as it should be. Pre-built alarms can monitor everything from physical machines running Veeam Agents to VMware, Hyper-V, vCloud Director, Veeam Cloud Connect and other environments. They are designed to keep IT admin up to date on the operations and issues occurring in their environment in real-time. They also help users quickly identify, troubleshoot react to and even fix issues that may impact critical applications and business operations.
The truth is, every Veeam Availability Suite user should be leveraging Veeam ONE alarms to optimize their data center. As mentioned earlier, there are 340 unique alarms, many of which have been disabled by default to avoid spamming users, however, they can also be turned on individually with ease. And while we realize it’s impossible to be an expert on all 340, at a minimum, the following alarms are a great place to start.
Guest Disk Space Alarm
The Guest Disk Space Alarm identifies when a Guest machine is running out of disk space, enabling users to add resources to the machine before performance is negatively impacted. This is important because if guest disk space runs out, the machine may become inactive and inaccessible, which will undoubtedly increase the possibility of downtime. This alarm alerts you before the issue occurs allowing you to proactively manage your environment.
Backup Job State Alarm
Another critical alarm is the Backup Job state alarm. This alarm is beneficial because it will notify you if one or more VMs have failed to backup successfully, allowing you to take immediate action to ensure all your data is secure.
Internal Veeam ONE alarms
In addition to alarms designed to alert you to critical issues with your environment, there are also internal Veeam ONE alarms that help ensure data is being collected properly. This specific “pack” of alarms is important to pay attention to in case Veeam ONE has failed to collect data properly. If this has happened, then there is a chance you are basing decisions on unreliable metrics. To protect against inaccuracies, monitoring internal alarms regularly can ensure Veeam ONE is performing as it should.
These are just two critical alarms and an alarm pack that every Veeam Availability Suite user should understand. During our webinar, we will discuss these and other important alarms, so be sure to register and tune in July 25th.
Reports to start using today
So, what about Veeam ONE’s 145 Pre-built Reports? Where do you start? Veeam ONE offers detailed reports including pre-built and customizable reports that are ready to be used for several critical processes. To start, Veeam ONE includes a number of backup-related reports that our power users mentioned as “must-haves” and “must-check regularly.”
Backup Infrastructure Assessment report
The Backup Infrastructure Assessment report evaluates how optimally your backup infrastructure is configured and offers a set of actions to improve efficiency. This is done by examining a set of recommended baseline settings and implementations, and then comparing these recommendations to your environment. By analyzing factors like VM configuration and application aware image processing to job performance and backup configuration, the report can verify problem areas to help you more effectively mitigate issues.
Job History report
The Job History report has also been proven very useful for users because it provides all job-related data, statistics and performance data in a single package. As you can see from the screenshot below, the Job History report is a great resource to provide you the details you need regarding your data protection jobs.
This report is useful because it provides information on all jobs that are running in your environment. It allows you to easily identify jobs that are taking the longest amount of time as well as the jobs transferring the most data. By providing you with all job-related data, it helps identify performance bottlenecks allowing you to reconfigure jobs as needed.
Not only do Veeam ONE reports analyze backup data, they can also show you how your entire virtual environment is running. A number of reports can additionally assist with capacity planning, managing VM growth in your environment as well as identifying over or undersized VMs. Another report worth highlighting that assists with capacity planning is the Host-failure Modeling report. This report provides resource recommendations to prevent future CPU and memory shortages. And since the Capacity Planning Report is one of our most popular reports, let’s take a closer look.
Capacity Planning report
Capacity Planning reports are available for VMware and Hyper-V, as well as to assist with capacity planning for backup repositories. Specific report that have proven to be especially beneficial for our customers are the Capacity Planning Reports for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V. In the screenshot below, you can see how this report identifies the number of days remaining before the level of resource utilization reaches a specified threshold. The report analyzes historical performance, build trends, and predicts when a defined threshold will be violated. This is very useful as it allows you to be proactive and avoid resource shortages.
Billing and Chargeback Reports
Veeam ONE also includes excellent reports for managing billing and chargeback. These are beneficial in understanding the costs of a virtual infrastructure by analyzing resource usage for CPU, memory, and storage. We’ll discuss this report and others in more detail during the webinar.
Building on Veeam ONE’s Legacy – Our latest capabilities
The second half of our webinar will call out a number of the new capabilities introduced with NEW Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 4. We’ll highlight five new Veeam ONE features that introduce new technologies designed to simplify monitoring and reporting processes and deliver on a number of customer requests. You’ll learn more about our new era of Veeam Intelligent Automation, including Veeam Intelligent Diagnostics, to help quickly address known infrastructure-related issues, as well as new automated Remediation Actions that can be leveraged to automate specific activities. We’ll also discuss our new Heatmaps feature, new Business View groupings, and introduce our highly-anticipated application-level monitoring capabilities, plus more. We promise you won’t leave empty handed.
Register now to join us July 25th
We look forward to sharing these details with you July 25th. Register today!
