Veritas™ Usage Insights for NetBackup - Getting Started Guide
- Veritas™ Usage Insights for NetBackup
- About Veritas NetInsights Console
- About Veritas Usage Insights
- Data protection, privacy, and security standards
- Data types collected and data collection events
- Local repository for telemetry data
- Enable Veritas Usage Insights
- Important customer registration key information
- Data transmission to Veritas
- Manual upload of telemetry information
- Proxy support in Usage Insights
- Frequently asked questions about Usage Insights
- Frequently asked questions about licensing
- Further information
About Veritas Usage Insights
Usage information is used with Usage Insights that is part of the Veritas NetInsights Console to compare backup size data with your capacity, traditional, and NEVC licensing.
Veritas Usage Insights helps you manage your NetBackup deployment more efficiently, spot trends, and plan for the future. With accurate, near real-time reporting, it reveals the total amount of data that is backed up. Usage Insights alerts you if you are close to exceeding your licensed capacity limits. You must be at NetBackup 8.1.2 or later to use Usage Insights.
Usage Insights provides:
Accurate, near real-time reporting of terabytes protected, total number of protected clients or the total storage capacity, and the total number of sockets of a hypervisor whose virtual machines are protected.
A graphical display of usage trends.
Tracking of consumption and alerts before usage against entitlement is exceeded.
Easy planning and budgeting, for each of your accounts.
Identify growth spikes.
View the breakup of usage information based on license type and NetBackup product version.
Primary server level information now available. You can add the primary server name within Usage Insights.
Ability to download tables in excel (.csv), pdf (with watermark), and json formats.
Ability to download and send tables by email. Email ID associated with the Usage Insights login is used for sending emails.
Ability to view the appliances that are registered with Veritas NetInsights - System Health Insights and track the appliance' software usage and available capacity.
Usage Insights supports the following license types:
NetBackup Platform Base Complete Edition with Flexible Licensing
Alta Data Protection for NetBackup Cloud
NetBackup Platform Base Complete Edition
NetBackup Platform Base Limited Edition
NetBackup Platform Base Big Data Workload Edition
NetBackup Platform Base NDMP Edition
NetBackup Enterprise Virtual Client Edition
NetBackup Traditional Licensing Model Edition
NetBackup Flex Scale Edition
NetBackup Data Mover Edition
NetBackup Enterprise Edition
You must have NetBackup 8.2 or later to view all the license types on Usage Insights.
If you have NetBackup 8.1.2, you can only view the NetBackup Platform Base Complete Edition, by default.
If you have downloaded and installed the latest NetBackup 8.1.2 or 8.2 nbdeployutil EEB that introduces the support for all license types, you can view all license types on Usage Insights. Also with this EEB, there is enhanced support for virtual usage reporting as a part of Flexible Licensing. if you install a NetBackup client only inside a VMware virtual machine and protect it using any policy type, the client is considered a virtual workload and the benefit of Flexible Licensing is applicable.
For customers who use Capacity licensing (NDMP, Limited Edition, BigData, or Complete), Traditional licensing, or NEVC licensing, Usage Insights helps accurately measure capacity usage to give total visibility into how each of the protected workloads consume storage, enabling efficient planning. Usage Insights also eliminates the need for these customers to manually upload telemetry data to Veritas.
For Base Complete Edition with Flexible Licensing, the Platform Base Complete Edition licensing usage is converted if you are on NetBackup 8.1.2 or later, if you have purchased the license after 14th April 2019, and if you are sending data to Usage Insights at least once every 90 days. The converted usage is then displayed on the Usage Insights portal.
For customers who have only Alta Data Protection for NetBackup Cloud license, the usage reported for that license is displayed. For customers who have both Alta Data Protection (ADP) and other NetBackup licenses, the usage of cloud policies are reported within ADP and the usage from remaining policies are reported within other license types.
You can access Veritas Usage Insights portal with Google Chrome, or Mozilla Firefox at the following URL:
Veritas does not recommend using Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge, as it does not render all information correctly.
Appliances summary helps you to understand the different appliances you have registered with Veritas NetInsights - System Health Insights and keep a track of the Appliances' software usage and available capacity. Only the appliances that are registered with System Health Insights are available on the dashboard.
With accurate, real-time reporting coupled, you can manage the capacity consumption of your Veritas Appliances and plan for the future.
The appliance summary provides:
Ability to view appliance's software usage vs capacity for all the supported versions of all appliances that are in Active state.
Accurate and real-time data.
Intuitive, easy to use interface eliminating the need to manually search for and consolidate data from multiple sources.
Ability to view only those appliances that are registered in System Health Insights, using role-based access control.
Table: Appliances summary terms
Item | Description |
|---|---|
Represents the number of appliances that are registered in NetInsights - System Health Insights. | |
| Represents the appliances that sent utilization data at least once in the last 90 days. |
| Represents the appliances that did not send utilization data in the last 90 days. |
Represents the consumption data sent by Online appliances. |