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1. On each hypervisor, deploy a placeholder VM

   • Name the VM to show that it is a placeholder VM so that it will not get accidentally deleted

2. In Veeam create a new job for the hypervisor

   • The default names that the Abiquo backup plugin will detect are Abiquo placeholder dummy VMWare Job for ESXi and Abiquo placeholder dummy HyperV Job for HyperV

3. Add the placeholder VM

4. DO NOT set a schedule for the job

5. Save the job

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1. Log in to the Abiquo Remote Services server

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

   • This is the default file and folder, to configure a new one, use abiquo.properties as described below

   • Ensure that the file owner is the tomcat user in the tomcat group.

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 backup server reference, which may be the host IP or FQDN.  You must use the same backup server reference/s that the Veeam manager uses to identify the host/s

   1. Get the datacenter name with one of these options:

      1. Abiquo UI: Infrastructure → Datacenter

      2. API: Get datacenter names and IDs: https://wiki.abiquo.com/api/latest/DatacentersResource.html#list-datacenter-names-and-ids, and List public cloud regions: https://wiki.abiquo.com/api/latest/PublicCloudRegionsResource.html#list-public-cloud-regions

   2. Get the Veeam host value with one of these options to find the backup server reference:

      1. Veeam Enterprise Manager UI: Dashboard → Summary → Backup servers

      2. CLI: To find the Veeam host value, run these commands on the Abiquo Remote services server.

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         # Set variables export APIUSERNAME=administrator && export APIPASSWORD='XXXXXXXXXX' && export APIIP=10.10.X.X # Obtain authentication token export APISESSIONHEADER=$(curl --insecure --verbose --user ${APIUSERNAME}:${APIPASSWORD} --request POST "https://${APIIP}:9398/api/sessionMngr/?v=latest" --header "Content-Length: 0" 2>&1 | grep --only-matching --extended-regexp 'X-RestSvcSessionId: ([[:alnum:]])*') # Obtain hierarchy roots curl --silent --insecure --header "${APISESSIONHEADER}" --request GET "https://${APIIP}:9398/api/hierarchyRoots?format=Entity" | xmllint --format - > hierarchyRoots.xml

         In the response, look for the Link entity with a Type of BackupServerReference. In this case it is veeam01.london.example.com

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         <Link Href="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" Name="veeam01.london.example.com" Rel="Up" Type="BackupServerReference"/>

4. So as an example, consider two Abiquo datacenters, called London and Frankfurt. The London Veeam host has a backup server reference of veeam01.london.example.com. And the Frankfurt Veeam host has a reference of veeam02.frankfurt.example.com. So the properties file would look as follows.

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   veeam.infrastructure.datacenter.1=London veeam.infrastructure.veeamhost.1=veeam01.london.example.com veeam.infrastructure.datacenter.2=Frankfurt veeam.infrastructure.veeamhost.2=veeam02.frankfurt.example.com

5. 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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   language js
   ## 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 policy, e.g. "mypolicy", ## with preference over other properties veeam.maxrestorepoints.policycode.mypolicy = 5

7. Set the name of the placeholder 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 placeholder job (disabled) on each Veeam ## host in order to clone it to create new jobs. veeam.placeholderdummy.vmware.name=Abiquo placeholderdummy VMWare Job

8. Set the name of the backup repository for the placeholder 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.placeholderdummy.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 backup repositories in the veeam.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 placeholder 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.placeholderdummy.vmware.name=Abiquo placeholderdummy VMWare Job veeam.placeholderdummy.vmware.repository=Default Backup Repository #veeam.placeholderdummy.hyperv.name=Abiquo placeholderdummy HyperV Job #veeam.placeholderdummy.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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1. On the Veeam Backup and Replication server for the Abiquo datacenter, clone the original Abiquo dummy placeholder job

2. Rename the new job to a name that will exactly match the policy Code of policy Code of an Abiquo backup policy in the Abiquo datacenter

3. To set how many backups should be kept on the server, go to Job → Edit → Storage and set Restore points to keep on disk

4. Note the code and details to enter in your backup policy in Abiquo

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