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The Abiquo integrations supports the following versions of Veeam Backup & Replication with separate plugins.

See also Steps to upgrade Veeam below.

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Prepare and maintain Veeam storage

Abiquo supports the use of retention policies to set the number of backups to keep but does not control how long to keep the backups.

When a user deletes a backup policy from a VM, Abiquo changes the name to disable and remove it from the next run. However, Abiquo does not detach the backup from the disabled job, so the backup will remain on the disk forever.

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Hypervisors

The Abiquo Veeam backup plugins supports the following hypervisors: VMware

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and Hyper-V.

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Install Veeam

1. Install Veeam with the Veeam Enterprise Manager, which is an optional component

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2. During the install

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1. , configure the API ports of the Veeam Enterprise Manager

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1. for the Veeam Backup

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1. RESTful API service

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1. to use. By default, the values are HTTP

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1. port 9399 and HTTPS port 9398.

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1. Ensure that the HTTPS port

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1. is reachable from all of the Abiquo Remote Services servers

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Create base Veeam resources for Abiquo

The Veeam API cannot be used to create backup and replication jobs. This , so this means that that you must create a dummy job placeholder jobs for the Abiquo backup plugin to clone, with a base job for each hypervisor you will be using. A job must contain at least one VM, so you will use. You will also need a placeholder VM on each hypervisor for use in the dummy job. 

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, because each job must contain at least one VM.

1. On each hypervisor, deploy a placeholder VM

   • Choose Name the VM name carefully 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 Dummy HyperV Job" for HyperV and "Abiquo Dummy VMWare Job" for ESXare Abiquo dummy VMWare Job for ESXi and Abiquo dummy HyperV Job for HyperV

3. Add the placeholder VM

4. DO NOT set a schedule for the job

5. Save the job

Do not delete the placeholder VMs and dummy placeholder jobs because this could cause problems in the Abiquo backup plugin.

When you display jobs in Veeam, it displays dummy placeholder jobs with placeholder VMs at the top of the list. Then it displays jobs created by the Abiquo backup plugin by cloning the dummy placeholder jobs below the dummy placeholder jobs.

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Configure Veeam properties

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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 location, and you can change it and configure the new location in and folder, to configure a new one, use abiquo.properties as described below

   • Make sure Ensure that this the file owner is owned by the tomcat user "in the 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 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 by following with one of the below these options:

      1. Abiquo UI: Infrastructure → Datacenter

      2. CLI: In the abiquo.properties file abiquo.datacenter.id propertyAPI: 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 using with one of the below these options to find the backup server reference:

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

      2. CLI: Find To find the Veeam host value with the following commands in , 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” Link entity with a “Type” Type of “BackupServerReference” 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 Veeam host has a backup server reference of veeam01.london.example.com. And the Frankfurt veeamhost 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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   ### Set the default maximum restore points of a job for the system veeam.maxrestorepoints=3 ## Set the maximum restore points for each schedule type veeam.maxrestorepoints.schedule.daily=38 veeam.maxrestorepoints.schedule.dailyweekly=85 veeam.maxrestorepoints.schedule.monthly=3 ### Set the maximum restore points for a specific politypolicy, e.g. "mypolicyMYPOLICY", ## with preference over other properties #veeamveeam.maxrestorepoints.policycode.mypolicyMYPOLICY = 5

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

8. Set the name of the backup repository for the dummy 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.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 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 dummyplaceholder 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 #veeamveeam.dummy.vmware.name=Abiquo Dummydummy VMWare Job #veeamveeam.dummy.vmware.repository=Default Backup Repository #veeam.dummy.hyperv.name=Abiquo Dummydummy 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) #veeamveeam.request.async.maxinterval=60000 #veeamveeam.request.async.mininterval=5000 ## Maximum of time spent to retrieve the task result #veeamveeam.request.async.totaltimeout=300000 ## Timeout properties for synchronous request to Veeam api #veeamveeam.client.connect.timeout=6000 #veeamveeam.client.read.timeout=10000 ## Cache expiry time in milliseconds #veeamveeam.cache.expire.duration=1800000

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Configure all backup jobs with policy codes

For Veeam 9.5u4 and Veeam 10, you MUST create an Abiquo policy Code for each backup. Abiquo ALWAYS uses the backup policy Code attribute to identify the In Abiquo, you will create backup policies for users to assign to their VMs. Abiquo will use the Code of the policy to identify which Veeam job to clone . This enables Abiquo to support retention time but it does not affect previously existing backup jobs of current VMs.

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to create the backup. So create a backup job for each policy that you will create in Abiquo.

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For each backup policy you will create in Abiquo:

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. In Abiquo, check that the backup policy has Note the code and details to enter in your backup policy in Abiquo

Later, in Abiquo, after you create a Backup manager, create your backup policies with the right Code and

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make them available to users. See Backup and Create a backup policy

When users select this a policy with the code, the platform will use the appropriate Veeam job.

See Create a backup policy

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Configure backup properties for Veeam

In Abiquo configure backup policies

1. Go to to Infrastructure → Backup → Backup policies

2. Click the Edit properties button

3. Select the required options.
   We recommend Enable update while deployed

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1. to be able to add a backup policy when a VM is on.

2. Click Save

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Configure Abiquo properties

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1. Log in to the Remote Services server

2. Edit the abiquo.properties file

3. To activate the backup plugin and define the location of the properties file:

   1. Set the abiquothe abiquo.backup.veaam.config.path property in the following format

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      abiquo.backup.veeam.config.path=/opt/abiquo/config/veeam.properties

4. Make sure that the folder "/opt/abiquo/config/" is owned by the tomcat user "tomcat".

5. Optionally, set the other abiquo.properties for your Veeam plugin version .
   These properties are set for "veeam95u4" or "veeam10"of veeam95u4 (Veeam 9.5u4) or veeam10 (Veeam 10, Veeam 11).

   1. abiquo.nars.async.pool.{backupplugin-Version}.max

   2. abiquo.nars.async.pool.{backupplugin-Version}.byvdc

   3. abiquo.virtualfactory.{backupplugin-Version}.backup.openSession

   4. abiquo.virtualfactory.{backupplugin-Version}.backup.openSession.byvdc

   See Abiquo configuration properties for more details.

Remember that you will need to restart the Tomcat server for changes to the abiquo.properties file to take effect.

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Upgrade Veeam version

See See also Upgrade Veeam v9.5u4 to v11 .

To upgrade to the next version of Veeam in Abiquo, follow these general instructions but remember to check for full details in the appropriate documentation:

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