In this article, by Kevin L. Sapp, author of the book Managing Virtual Infrastructure with Veeam® ONE™, we will have a look at how Veeam® ONE™ Business View allows you to group and manage your virtual infrastructure in business containers. This is helpful to split machines into function, priority, or any other descriptive category you would like. Veeam® ONE™ Business View displays the categorized information about VMs, clusters, and hosts in business terms. This perspective allows you to plan, control, and analyze the changes in the virtual environment. We will also have a look at data collection.

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Data collection

The data required to create the business topology is periodically collected from the connected virtual infrastructure servers. The data collection is usually run at a scheduled interval. However, you can also run the data collection manually.

By default, after a virtual infrastructure server is connected to Veeam® ONE™, the collection is scheduled to run on a weekday at 2 a.m. If required, you can adjust the data collection schedule or switch to the manual collection mode to start each data collection session manually.

Scheduling the data collection

The best way to automate the collection of data is by creating a schedule for a specific VM server. To change the collection mode to Scheduled and to specify the time settings, use the following steps:

1. Open the Veeam® ONE™ Business View web application by either double-clicking on the desktop icon or connecting to the Veeam® ONE™ server using a browser with the URL http://servername : 1340 by default.
2. Click on the Configuration link located in the upper-right corner of the screen.
3. Click on the VI Management Servers menu option located on the left-hand side of the screen.

    
4. Select the Run mode option for the server that you would like to change the schedule for.

    

5. While scheduling the data collection for the VM server, perform the following steps:
   • Select the Periodically every option if you plan to run the data collection at a desired interval
   • Select the Daily at this time option if you plan to run the data collection at a specific time of the day or week
6. Once the schedule has been created, click on OK.

Collecting data manually

The following steps are needed to perform a manual collection of the virtual environment data. Use this procedure to collect data manually:

1. Click on the Session History menu item on the left-hand side of the screen.

    

2. Click on the Run Now button for the server that you wish to run the data collection manually. The data collection normally takes a few minutes to run. However, it can vary based on the size and complexity of your infrastructure.

    

3. View the details of the session data by clicking on the server from the list shown in Session History.

Summary

In this article, we explained Veeam® ONE™ Business View. We discussed the steps needed to plan, control, and analyze the changes in the virtual environment.

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Further resources on this subject:

• Configuring vShield App [article]
• Backups in the VMware View Infrastructure [article]
• Introduction to Veeam® Backup & Replication for VMware [article]