Veeam Enterprise Manager
What is the Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager?
Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager is an optional web-based management and reporting console for Veeam Backup & Replication. It enables users to manage multiple Veeam Backup & Replication installations from a single web console, providing a convenient and consolidated view of your distributed deployment.
Centralized Management for the Enterprise
What are the benefits of installing Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager?
Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager is an optional web-based management and reporting console for Veeam Backup & Replication. It enables users to manage multiple Veeam Backup & Replication installations from a single web console, providing a convenient and consolidated view of your distributed deployment.
"Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager (Enterprise Manager) is a management and reporting component that allows you to manage multiple Veeam Backup & Replication installations from a single web console. Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager helps you optimize performance in remote office/branch office (ROBO) and large-scale deployments and maintain a view of your entire virtual environment."
"The distributed architecture of Veeam Backup & Replication allows you to create a custom backup infrastructure that meets your company needs. Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager manages backup and replication according to your administrative, business and security requirements and restrictions. With a number of Veeam Backup & Replication instances installed on different servers, Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager acts as a single management point. It allows you to control license distribution, manage backup jobs across the backup infrastructure, analyze operation statistics of Veeam backup servers, perform restore operations, and so on."
"In particular, with Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager you can:
Manage jobs across multiple Veeam backup servers.
View on-going reporting data for all jobs running on these servers, set up email notifications to get information on the status of all jobs.
Search for machines, file shares, and guest files in backups and replicas."
Perform recovery operations for VMs and physical machines, including 1-Click restore, 1-click guest OS file restore and application items restore (for Microsoft Exchange mailboxes, Microsoft SQL Server databases and Oracle databases); perform 1-Click restore for file share backups.
Centrally manage and update licenses to ensure compliance.
Delegate permissions for restore operations to personnel in charge.
Manage VMware vCloud Director organizations and support their administrators with the Veeam Self-Service Backup Portal.
Manage vSphere user accounts and support them with the vSphere Self-Service Backup Portal.
Install vSphere Web Client plug-in on vCenter servers.
Implement data encryption and decryption processes for the Veeam solutions.
Provide operation automation with Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager REST API."
By Melissa Palmer / https://vmiss.net/author/melissa/
Who Uses Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager?
"There are a number of use cases for Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager.
First and foremost, if you have multiple Veeam backup servers, it can be a great starting point for your day to day activities as a Veeam administrator. Instead of bouncing around consoles, you can get a quick view of what is going on, and perform many common tasks right from Enterprise Manager.
If you want to provide operations teams with access to your environment for things like backups and restores, Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager is a great way to do it without handing over the keys to the kingdom.
Finally, Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager has as self service component so you can empower your users to perform backups and restores. Once again, you can get very granular with permissions to enable this in a number of ways, one of which is vSphere Tags. You can read more about how to configure Enterprise Manager Self Service for vSphere here."