Overview:
Veeam Reporter Enterprise
is the first reporting solution specifically
designed for large VMware Infrastructure
(VI) virtual environments. Veeam Reporter
Enterprise for
VMware Performance, Storage,
Capacity reporting provides
unattended data collection and scheduled or
ad hoc reporting, as well as centralized
data storage to help you discover, document
and report on all the objects within your
VMware virtual infrastructure right now, and
at any point in the past.
Reporter Enterprise collects information
about your VI environment, its components
and configuration settings, on an ongoing
basis. Using this data, it provides
comprehensive and easy-to-understand reports
for analysis, documentation and change
control.
Automated reporting and change management for your VI3 and vSphere
Veeam Reporter Enterprise is the first reporting
and change management solution specifically designed
for large VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3) virtual
environments. Whether you need to document your
virtual environment for executive management, to
comply with internal or external requirements for IT
documentation, or just to track and document
changes, Veeam Reporter Enterprise can help you
create management reports and detailed documentation
on your virtual environment. In addition, Veeam
Reporter Enterprise provides a fully automated way
of integrating virtual infrastructure information
into your enterprise’s configuration management
database (CMDB).
Designed for virtual infrastructure
administrators, system integrators and datacenter
managers, Veeam Reporter Enterprise is fully
integrated with VMware vCenter and supports both ESX
and ESXi servers, including standalone hosts and the
free version of ESXi.
What’s New in Veeam Reporter Enterprise 3.5:
Veeam Reporter Enterprise 3.5 is an update to Veeam’s leading-edge reporting solution for VMware Infrastructure.
As a result of innovative ongoing research and development efforts, and in response to customer feedback, version
3.5 includes both new features and enhancements to
previously added features. Improvements in version
3.5 have been made in the following areas:
Windows PowerShell Access
You can now use a Veeam PowerShell Extension to
run custom queries against Virtual Infrastructure
data gathered by Reporter Enterprise 3.5 and get
datails about the current state or earlier points in
time. The new Veeam PowerShell Extension is fully
compatible with the standard VMware PowerShell
Extension and uses the same data structures,
allowing you to run your existing PowerShell scripts
against the Reporter Enterprise database with few,
if any , modifications. Running your PowerShell
scripts against the Reporter Enterprise server
insted of vCenter allows you to offload all script
processing activities from vCenter, providing for
better availability of this critical Virtual
Infrastructure element.
Custom Report Templates
You cna now create custom templates for your Raw
Data Analysis reports by including any custom
branding or even custom reports to meet your daily
reporting requirements. The Veeam Report Viewer will
then use your template when creating the Raw Data
Analysis report, and output the results exactly as
you have designed them in your custom report
template.
New Reports
Veeam Reporter Enterprise 3.5 adds the following
new pre-defined reports to the Raw Data Analysis
Excel report:
- VM operating systems by type -- identifies
the types and counts of operating systems
running on your virtual machines for licensing
and other purposes.
- VM by storage - shows how your virtual
machines are distributed across your storage to
better understand if some storage is over or
under utilized compared to the recommended
number of VMs per spindle.
- Storage load - shows the load on each
storage device (used and free disk space), and
how these loads compare to each other.
- Datastore utilization - shows an at-a-glance
view of all your storage devices grouped by disk
space utilization.
Revised Reports
Many existing reports have new, re-designed
layouts to better display large VMware environments.
For example, the VMotion report has been completely
re-designed according to customer feedback, and now
also reflects any issues preventing successful
VMotion of specific virtual machines.
Additional Networking Data Collection
In response to customer requests, Reporter
Enterprise 3.5 now collects and displays in the
reports a number of additional Virtual
Infrastructure settings, including virtual NIC
settings.
Improved Performance
Report generation performance has been
improved significantly (by up to 10 times, depending
on the specific report). Performance improvements
are especially notable when creating reports from
larger object scopes.
Features and Benefits:
Executive management reporting
Executive management needs reports and diagrams
on the VMware environment. However, documenting it
takes a lot of time and effort. And by the time you
create a report it is already outdated. Veeam
Reporter Enterprise provides comprehensive and
easy-to-understand reports in Visio, Excel, PDF or
Word formats automatically and right when you need
them - avoiding the time loss, delays and errors
associated with manually creating such reports.
CMDB integration
Many enterprises have implemented IT
configuration management processes through a
centralized configuration management database (CMDB).
Veeam Reporter Enterprise integrates your VMware
environment into this standard configuration
management process. Reporter Enterprise provides a
PowerShell Extension to run scripts that
automatically export virtual infrastructure data
(both for the current state and earlier points in
time) into your CMDB. This eliminates the manual
work of creating inventory spreadsheets, and
automatically keeps your CMDB up-to-date. In
addition, running your PowerShell scripts against
the Reporter Enterprise server instead of vCenter
removes a processing burden from vCenter, providing
for better availability of this critical Virtual
Infrastructure element.
Change management
Veeam Reporter Enterprise gathers infrastructure
data periodically, which allows for configuration
change reporting. Administrators can get
point-in-time views of their virtual environment,
and generate reports to analyze configuration
changes over time for configuration drift, security
auditing and troubleshooting. Or, you can simply opt
to receive an e-mail with all changes to the virtual
infrastructure since the last data collection.
Compliance and best practices
When managing a dynamic, large-scale environment,
it is important to have up-to-date reports on the
configuration of all the elements of your virtual
infrastructure. Reporter Enterprise helps you comply
with your internal and external requirements and
regulations, as well as IT best practices.
Unattended data collection
Veeam Reporter Enterprise provides unattended
data collection, as well as centralized data storage
to help you discover, document and report on all the
objects within your VMware Virtual Infrastructure
right now, and at any point in the past. It collects
information about your VI3 environment, its
components and configuration setting, on an ongoing
basis. Reporter Enterprise separates the data
collection and report generation operations, so you
can set automated collection to occur at specific
intervals, ensuring an up-to-date view is ready at
any time.
PowerShell access
Reporter Enterprise provides a PowerShell
Extension to run custom queries against the
collected virtual infrastructure data, both for the
current state and data from earlier points in time.
Running your PowerShell scripts against the Reporter
Enterprise server instead of vCenter allows you to
offload script processing activities from vCenter,
providing for better performance and availability of
this critical Virtual Infrastructure element.
The Veeam PowerShell Extension is fully
compatible with the standard VMware PowerShell
Extension and uses the same data structures,
allowing you to run your existing PowerShell scripts
against the Reporter Enterprise database with few,
if any, modifications.
VM sprawl control
The ease with which VMs can be created leaves
some organizations with a problem called virtual
machine (VM) sprawl. VM sprawl affects storage
requirements, due to backup demands, as well as
infrastructure capacity. With Veeam Reporter
Enterprise, VMware administrators can easily see all
VMs recently added to the infrastructure, so they
can verify the owner of a given VM and confirm if it
is really needed.
Built for enterprises
In large organizations, there are typically
multiple people involved in managing various
elements of the virtual infrastructure. Veeam
Reporter Enterprise’s client-server architecture
provides a web-access interface and SQL Server
database back-end, allowing everyone to generate and
view granular reports on their area of interest.
Reporting content
Network
Discover your virtual network structure, including
ESX/ESXi servers, virtual networks and virtual
machines. Identify possible problems caused by
erroneous network configurations by looking at
simple and easy-to-understand Microsoft Visio
diagrams.
Storage
Discover all existing local and shared datastores,
and the virtual machines that reside on them.
Analyze and plan your storage with detailed
statistics provided by Veeam’s unique Storage
Capacity reports which helps you quickly understand
what virtual machines are running out of free space
on their logical disks.
VMotion
Check the current VMotion configuration from a
specific VM standpoint, or plan your VMotion
strategy by reviewing potential VMotion target
hosts. Understand why specific VM cannot be included
in VMotion by simply reading the reason in a Visio
callout.
Configuration
Check various configuration settings on all the
objects in your virtual infrastructure, such as the
resource pool’s CPU and memory sharing settings.
Inventory
Get the full inventory reports of your VMware
infrastructure in your preferred format: Microsoft
Excel, Microsoft Word or PDF.
Raw data analysis
Easily export many of the common settings of your
infrastructure into an Excel spreadsheet, allowing
you to create your own custom reports using the
pre-defined report templates you supply. With this
data you can also formulate your own charge-back
analysis custom-tailored to your business needs.
Veeam Business View integration
Veeam Business View uses custom attributes to
group, view and manage VMs based on business
criteria such as business unit, department,
location, purpose, SLA etc., instead of their VMware
infrastructure location. Business View helps you
prioritize resource allocation, perform chargeback
and control VM sprawl.
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