Creating Protected VMs Report

To create a Protected VMs report configuration:

  1. At the Name step of the wizard, specify the report name and description.

The report name and description will be displayed in reports generated based on this report configuration.

Specify Report Name and Description

  1. At the Report Type step of the wizard, select report type:
  • To create a report for VMs protected by restore points, select RPO-based report.
  • To create a report for VMs protected by CDP policies, select SLA-based report (CDP policies only).

Specify Report Type

  1. At the Companies step of the wizard, specify which companies you want to include in the report.

  1. In the Report configuration section, select report configuration:
  • To create one report configuration for all companies in the report scope, select Summary report.

With this option selected, the report configuration will include all locations of selected companies.

  • To create a separate report configuration for each companies in the report scope, select Individual reports.

With this option selected, the wizard will include an additional Locations step.

  1. In the Report scope section, select one or more companies for which you want to create the report configuration. Use the search field at the top to find the necessary company.

By choosing companies you define the scope of the report: only workloads that belong to the chosen companies will appear in the report.

If you select more than one company for Individual reports report type, Veeam Service Provider Console will create a separate report configuration for each selected company. If you select more than one company for Summary report report type, Veeam Service Provider Console will include data on all selected company in the report.

  1. [For summary report] To include in the report all existing companies and all companies that will be created after the report configuration is finished, set the All companies, including newly added toggle to On.
  2. To include in the report companies managed by resellers, set the Include companies managed by resellers toggle to On.

Choose Companies

  1. [For individual reports] At the Locations step of the wizard, select one or more company locations. Use the search field at the top to find the necessary location.

By choosing a location you can limit the scope of the report: only VMs that belong to the chosen locations will appear in the report.

Choose Locations

  1. [For individual reports] At the Access Type step of the wizard, select access type for reports generated for client companies:
  • To make the report accessible for service provider, all companies included in the report and resellers managing these companies, select Public.
  • To make the report accessible only for service provider who created the report, select Private.

Select Access Type

  1. At the Parameters step of the wizard, specify parameters for analyzing protected VMs:
  • For RPO-based report:
  1. In the RPO section, specify a period for which protected VMs must have backup or replica restore points.

RPO defines a period between backup sessions, or, in other words, a period for which you can afford to lose data. For example, if protected VMs must have daily backups, specify 1 day or 24 hours as the RPO value.

  1. In the Platform section, specify a platform type for VMs that must be analyzed in the report (All, Virtual Infrastructure, Public Cloud).

If you have selected the Virtual Infrastructure type, you can select which platforms must be analyzed in the report (vSphere, Hyper-V, AHV).

  1. In the Job type list, select what type of Veeam Backup & Replication jobs must be analyzed in the report (All, Backup, Replication, Archive, Snapshot, Replica snapshot).
  2. In the Exclusion mask (names) field, specify a mask for excluding VMs from the report scope.

The mask will be evaluated against the VM names. You can use the ‘*’ (asterisk) and ‘?’ (question mark) wildcards in the mask. The ‘*’ (asterisk) character stands for zero or more characters. The ‘?’ (question mark) stands for a single character. For example, if you want to exclude from the report VM replicas with default names created with Veeam Backup & Replication, you can specify a mask with the ‘*_replica’ name query.

You can specify more than one mask in the field. Separate multiple masks with commas.

  • For SLA-based report:
  1. In the Time period section, specify time period to analyze in the report.
  2. In the SLA field, specify the target SLA value (in percent).
  3. In the VM exclusions rule field, specify a mask for excluding VMs from the report scope.

The mask will be evaluated against the VM names. You can use the ‘*’ (asterisk) and ‘?’ (question mark) wildcards in the mask. The ‘*’ (asterisk) character stands for zero or more characters. The ‘?’ (question mark) stands for a single character. For example, if you want to exclude from the report VM replicas with default names created with Veeam Backup & Replication, you can specify a mask with the ‘*_replica’ name query.

You can specify more than one mask in the field. Separate multiple masks with commas.

[For summary report] Select the Include detailed information to the report check box to include detailed data on individual companies from the report scope to the report body.

Specify Report Parameters

  1. At the Schedule step of the wizard, specify a schedule according to which the report must be generated:

  1. In the Scheduling options section, select the Generate this report automatically check box to enable scheduling and define report scheduling:
  1. To generate the report at specific time daily, on defined week days or with specific periodicity, select the Daily at option. Use the fields on the right to configure the necessary schedule.
  2. To generate the report once a month on specific days, select the Monthly at option. Use the fields on the right to configure the necessary schedule.
  3. From the Time zone drop-down list, select the time zone in which daily and monthly schedule must be run.
  1. In the Notification options section, provide email address at which the report must be sent.

You can specify multiple email addresses separated with commas (,) or semicolons.

To receive the report, the user must configure an email address in the user profile. For details, see Filling User Profile.

Specify Report Schedule

  1. At the Summary step of the wizard, review the report configuration and click Finish.

Review Report Configuration