Managing Virtual Infrastructure with Veeam® ONE™

By Kevin L. Sapp

Veeam® ONE™ virtual system monitoring applications enable IT support teams to proactively discover system issues before they arise, helping companies to sustain their current business needs and predict growth opportunities. Veeam® ONE™ provides effective protection and management of the entire virtual infrastructure that any major company needs in order to protect their hosts, management servers, and failover clusters.

This book will provide you with the skills to quickly dive into how to monitor your Veeam® ONE™ interface and get clients' data and adjust tasks and events, as well as viewing each dashboard user interface and monitoring notification settings. We will also see how to access Veeam® ONE™ reporter and use dashboards to view reports at a glance, and learn how to handle reports. Also covered is application deployment, automation of virtual infrastructure data collection, and e-mail notifications. This book will also equip you with knowledge on how to use alert mechanisms in Veeam® ONE™. You will develop a strong skillset to handle, monitor, and generate reports on your virtual infrastructure.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Release date: Dec 24, 2014
• ISBN: 9781782173809

Kevin L. Sapp

Kevin Sapp graduated from Florida State University with a Bachelors of Science degree in Management Information Systems. He currently works as a Lead Systems Engineer for a Fortune 500 company, which ranks as the highest privately owned grocery retailer chain in the State of Florida. Kevin is inspired to write for other IT professionals, to share his experiences and offer insight. He is also the founder of Code Duet, LLC.

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Managing Virtual Infrastructure with Veeam® ONE™

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Getting Started with Veeam® ONE™

Downloading Veeam® ONE™

The prerequisites for Veeam® ONE™

Installing Veeam® ONE™

Downloads

Summary

2. Configuring Veeam® ONE™ Monitoring

The Veeam® ONE™ Monitor interface

The navigation buttons

The inventory pane

Infrastructure View

Business View

Data Protection View

Alarm Management

Monitoring tasks and events

Viewing the CPU performance charts

The Network performance chart

The Virtual Switch performance chart

The Disk performance chart

Viewing the dashboards when monitoring

Adding dashboards

Deleting dashboards

Editing dashboards

Configuring notifications

Summary

3. Configuring Veeam® ONE™ Reports

Ways to access Veeam® ONE™ Reporter

Viewing the work areas for Veeam® ONE™ Reporter

Changing the default configuration settings

Viewing the server configuration

Scheduling the data collection

Performing a manual data collection

Managing the root object visibility

Changing the extension modules

Viewing the general settings of Veeam® ONE™ Reporter

Adjusting the SSRS server settings

The SMTP server settings

The e-mail notification settings

Using dashboards to view reports

Viewing dashboards

Creating dashboards

Handling reports – saving, viewing, and scheduling

Saving reports

Viewing reports

Scheduling reports

Summary

4. Veeam® ONE™ Business View

Data collection

Scheduling the data collection

Collecting data manually

Model categorization

Creating categories

Creating groups

Configuring the categorization rules

Exporting to Excel

Summary

5. Best Practices

Stopping unnecessary services

Setting up storage optimization

Troubleshooting irregular CPU usage

Turning off unnecessary alerts

Summary

Index

Managing Virtual Infrastructure with Veeam® ONE™

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Managing Virtual Infrastructure with Veeam® ONE™

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Kevin L. Sapp

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About the Author

Kevin L. Sapp has worked in the IT industry for over 5 years. After graduating from Florida State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Information Systems, he started working for a Fortune 100 company as a systems engineer. This helped him gain technical experience in supporting and managing over 15,000 systems in retail and corporate environments. He is the author of the book Instant VMWare Player for Virtualization, Packt Publishing, and the CEO of the company CodeDuet, LLC, which develops mobile applications.

I would like to thank my family and friends who have supported me over the years: the Sapp family (Ashely, Allison, and Adonis), my fiancée Janay, and my friend Emerson Auguste from Lakeland. Without their help, I would not be doing what I do today, and it is because of them and others whom I may not have listed here that I feel compelled to pass my knowledge on to those willing to learn.

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