Veeam ONE in something provider world

Veeam ONE has been a quiet achiever for Veeam and sometimes doesn’t obtain the airtime it deserves. I recall leveraging certain top features of Veeam ONE in my own company days back, utilizing the free version to monitor our Cloud Connect infrastructure.  The capability to provide monitoring and reporting for Veeam Backup & Replication, vCenter, VMware and hyper-v Cloud Director infrastructures managed to get a useful tool for the providers to leverage.

Put that alongside the new features and enhancements which have been added within the last 2-3 major releases, and Veeam ONE remains one of the better monitoring and reporting platforms from the market. The thing it lacked, that was always a high request and far anticipated by our Veeam Cloud & COMPANY partners recently was an API… until!

RESTful API V2 preview in V11a

With the release of Veeam Backup & Replication v11, we unleashed a fresh modern JSON-based API that has been independent from Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager, and was installed automagically with Veeam Backup & Replication. This is talked about through the V11 launch wave, however, we released V1 of the brand new Veeam ONE API also, though at that time there wasn’t much noise being made about any of it since it only had several methods centered on providing license management and license usage reporting capabilities

With the release of Veeam ONE v11a, there’s been a significant update compared to that API, which is completely preview mode now. That means, that by v11a, customers, partners, and much more from my viewpoint specifically, our Veeam Cloud & COMPANY partners, can start to learn the brand new API with the finish goal to be ready for when full supportability emerges within the next major Veeam ONE release.

Swagger and also a handful of examples

As may be the norm with all Veeam APIs, there’s a Swagger interface that displays all of the V2 endpoints.

There is the capability to pull JSON format data about ESXi hosts in a vCenter

and endpoints that concentrate on grabbing VMware Cloud Director information.

There are lots of more methods and endpoints within this preview release covering virtual infrastructure, Veeam Backup & Replication jobs and infrastructure, data and workload protected by Veeam Backup & Replication, alarm, and business view categories.

Conclusion

Veeam ONE continues to expand its RESTful API coverage, and today offers a preview of the others API endpoints planned to be delivered in the foreseeable future major Veeam ONE version. Having said that, for the Veeam Cloud &amp specifically; Service Provider partners, it really is well worth considering this V2 release to see what information could be extracted and manipulated with the included endpoints. This addition significantly increases the value of Veeam ONE for the services providers to leverage within their service offerings.

To understand what method-implemented operations it is possible to perform with Veeam ONE entities, and how exactly to control and sort the info that the REST API returns, see the  REST API Reference.

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