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1. Log in to the Abiquo Remote Services server.

2. Go to /opt/abiquo/config folder and edit the veeam.properties file.
   

   • This is the default file location, and you can change it and configure the new location in abiquo.properties as described below

   • Make sure that this file is owned by the user "tomcat", group "tomcat".

3. The Abiquo backup plugin is designed to manage one Veeam host for each Abiquo datacenter. To associate a datacenter with its Veeam host, set a property pair for the datacenter name and the Veeam host IP or FQDN. 

   1. Set the datacenter name as it appears in the Abiquo UI and get the Veeam host value from the Veeam Enterprise Manager view. 

      1. If there are hierarchy

   root

   1. 1. roots,

   found

   1. 1. find them with the following command.

   Then, search for the BackupServerReference URL (this would be the veeamhost property)

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         curl --silent --insecure --header "${APISESSIONHEADER}" --request GET "https://${APIIP}:9398/api/hierarchyRoots?format=Entity" | xmllint --format - > hierarchyRoots.xml

      2. Search for the BackupServerReference URL to set the veeamhost property

4. For example, for two datacenters, called London and Frankfurt, and with the London veeamhost at 10.60.1.82 and the Frankfurt veeamhost at 10.60.1.90, the properties file would look as follows.

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   language js
   veeam.infrastructure.datacenter.1=London veeam.infrastructure.veeamhost.1=10.60.1.82 veeam.infrastructure.datacenter.2=Frankfurt veeam.infrastructure.veeamhost.2=10.60.1.90

5. New in Abiquo 5.1.1. If you have hosts in Veeam that are not in Abiquo, and they contain duplicates of VMs in Abiquo, you must set the hypervisor property to define the hosts in Abiquo, as a comma separated list. The Abiquo backup system will manage VMs on the hypervisors on the list only, to prevent critical errors in the backup system. If the property is empty or not supplied, the platform will use Veeam data from all hypervisors.

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   veeam.infrastructure.hypervisor=myvCenter1.example.com,myvCenter2.example.com

6. To control backup expiration times in Veeam, use properties to set maximum restore points. Remember to remove the hash '#' comment mark at the start of the property line.

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   # Set the maximum restore points of a job for each schedule type veeam.maxrestorepoints=3 veeam.maxrestorepoints.schedule.daily=8 veeam.maxrestorepoints.schedule.monthly=3 # Set the maximum restore points for a specific polity, e.g. "mypolicy", with preference over other properties #veeam.maxrestorepoints.policycode.mypolicy = 5

7. Set the name of the dummy backup job for your hypervisor

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   ## Veeam api does not allow us to create new jobs, only clone the ## existing jobs. So Veeam needs a dummy job (disabled) on each Veeam ## host in order to clone it to create new jobs. veeam.dummy.vmware.name=Abiquo Dummy VMWare Job

8. Set the name of the backup repository for the dummy backup job, to match the job's Backup repository configuration on the Veeam server. For example, if you are using a repository called "Default Backup Repository".

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   veeam.dummy.vmware.repository=Default Backup Repository

   If you need to change the backup repository, remember to change this property.

    If you have one Entity Manager for two Veeam servers, the repositories in the properties file must exist on each server. You do not have to use them but they must exist. Otherwise, the repository search could fail if each Veeam server uses a different repository name.
   

9. For Veeam v11, set the API version

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   avbc.veeam.restapi.version=v1_5

10. Optionally set other properties, according to your environment:

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    # JOBS CONFIGURATION ## Since veeam api does not allow to create new jobs, only clone the ## existent jobs. The veeam needs a dummy job (disabled) in each veeam ## host in order to clone it to create new jobs. ## The following properties define the name of the jobs for each ## virtualization type #veeam.dummy.vmware.name=Abiquo Dummy VMWare Job #veeam.dummy.vmware.repository=Default Backup Repository #veeam.dummy.hyperv.name=Abiquo Dummy HyperV Job #veeam.dummy.hyperv.repository=Default Backup Repository # TASK MANAGEMENT ## Some operations in veeam api causes an asynchronous task that needs ## to be tracked to know the result of the operation. All these properties ## are defined in milliseconds ## Time to wait between each task state retrieve operation. ## Min and Max exists because each operation increase the next interval ## in a half of the last one (nextinterval = currentinterval * 1.50) #veeam.request.async.maxinterval=60000 #veeam.request.async.mininterval=5000 ## Maximum of time spent to retrieve the task result #veeam.request.async.totaltimeout=300000 ## Timeout properties for synchronous request to Veeam api #veeam.client.connect.timeout=6000 #veeam.client.read.timeout=10000 ## Cache expiry time in milliseconds #veeam.cache.expire.duration=1800000

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