Integration with Veeam Backup & Replication

Veeam Service Provider Console offers integration with Veeam Backup & Replication. The integration allows you to allocate hosted Veeam Backup & Replication resources to client companies. You can also create backup jobs for client companies on hosted Veeam Backup & Replication servers.

The integration offers the following capabilities:

Allocating hosted Veeam Backup & Replication resources. You can allocate Veeam Backup & Replication servers and repositories hosted in your infrastructure to client companies.
Creating client backup jobs. You and client company users can configure client backup jobs on hosted Veeam Backup & Replication servers.
Assigning Veeam Backup & Replication repository labels. You can assign labels to hosted and client Veeam Backup & Replication repositories to configure individual charge rates.

This solution is intended for service providers who:

Use Veeam Service Provider Console to manage and monitor license usage data.
Manage client companies who do not have Veeam Backup & Replication servers in their infrastructure.
Use Veeam Backup & Replication to back up virtual infrastructure workloads.

Before You Begin

To allocate Veeam Backup & Replication resources to client companiesFor details on configuring discovery rules, see Deploying Management Agents with Discovery Rules. , you must deploy Veeam Service Provider Console management agents on hosted computers. You can install management agents as part of the discovery process in the hosted infrastructure or deploy management agents on computers hosting Veeam Backup & Replication servers manually. For details on configuring discovery rules, see Deploying Management Agents with Discovery Rules. For details on deploying management agents manually, see Deploying Management Agents Manually.

Alternatively, you can connect Veeam Backup & Replication servers in the plugin or install Veeam Backup & Replication on hosted computers. For details, see sections Connecting Veeam Backup & Replication Servers and Installing Veeam Backup & Replication.

This section assumes that you have a good understanding of Veeam Backup & Replication.

Note:

Integration with Veeam Service Provider Console is available for Veeam Backup & Replication version 12.1 or later.
Make sure you have enabled Veeam Backup & Replication REST API access.