Since version 7 of Backup & Replication, Veeam has lead the way in regard to the protection of workloads running in vCloud Director. With version 7 Veeam first released deep integration into vCD that talked directly to the vCD APIs to facilitate the backup and recovery of vCD workloads and their constructs. More recently in version 9.5, the vCD Self Service Portal was released which also taps into vCD for tenant authentication.
The portal leverages Enterprise Manager and allows service providers to grant their tenants self-service backup for their vCD workloads. More recently we have seen some VCSPs integrate the portal into the new vCD UI via the extensibility plugin which is a great example of the power that Veeam has with vCD today while we wait for deeper, native integration.
Being able to create custom plugins for vCloud Director is a game changer. Here's a quick look at one I have been working on for Veeam Enterprise Manager@VeeamVanguard pic.twitter.com/HdB9YWqfHJ
— Steven Onofaro (@steveonofaro) June 20, 2019
It’s possible that some providers don’t even know that this portal exists let alone the value it offers. I’ve covered the basics of the portal here…but in this post, I am going to quickly mention an extension to a project I released last year for the vCD Self Service Portal, that automatically enables a tenant, creates a default backup jobs based on policies, tie backup copy jobs to default job for longer retention and finally import the jobs into the vCD Self Service Portal ready for use.
Standalone Map and Unmap PowerShell Script:
From the above project, the job import part has been expanded to include its own standalone PowerShell script that can also be used to map or unmap existing vCD Veeam Backup jobs to a a tenant to manage from the vCD Self Service Portal. This is done using the Set-VBRvCloudOrganizationJobMapping commandlet.
As shown below, this tenant has already configured a number of jobs in the Portal.
There was another historical job that was created outside of the portal directly from the Veeam console. Seen below as TEST IMPORT.
To map the job, run the PowerShell script is with the -map parameter. A list of all existing vCloud Director Backup jobs will be listed. Once the corresponding number has been entered the commandlet within the script will be run and the job mapped to the tenant linked to the job.
Once that has been run, the tenant now has that job listed in the vCD Self Service Portal.
There is a little bit of error checking built into the script, to that it exits nicely on an exception as shown below.
Finally, if you want to unmap a job from the vCD Self Service portal, run the PowerShell script with the -unmap parameter.
Conclusion:
Like most things I work on and then publish for general consumption, I had a request to wrap some logic around the Set-VBRvCloudOrganizationJobMapping commandlet from a service provider partner. The script can be taken and improved, but as-is, provides an easy way to retrieve all vCloud Jobs belonging to a Veeam Server, select the desired job and then have it mapped to a tenant using the vCD Self Service Portal.
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