Usage of Job in Capacity tier

[obroni]

Is there anyway to find out the object usage (in GB/TB) of a single job in the scenario where multiple jobs are targeting a single SOBR? I'm thinking of the figure of actual usage after the deduplication due to hashing.

[Gostev]

@Shestakov does Veeam ONE have such a report?

[Shestakov]

There are reports, such as Job History, showing how much data each job transfers to scale-out repository.
However, none of them shows how much backups data created by those jobs is moved to the object storage later on.
Could you clarify your goal, please? Do you need to know size of backups on the object storage or you want to know amount of transferred data?

[dalbertson]

@Shestakov A couple of scenarios pop into my head on this request.

1. VCSP - reporting tenant usage across a SOBR with multiple tenant jobs.
2. Enterprise - reporting usage from jobs linked to departments/divisions. - I know that they could setup individual SOBRs and then report a bit differently but most would probably be setup in a use case where multiple jobs are going to a single sobr.

@obroni Can you confirm what your specific use case is?

[obroni]

#1 is exactly my use case.

Want to understand how much capacity a customer is using in terms of archive storage.

[Gostev]

In that case @Vitaliy S. also needs to be summoned here as VAC PM.

[Vitaliy S.]

This is not possible today (planned for next updates of VAC), however, @chris.arceneaux has created a script that allows reporting on capacity tier usage per tenant.

[obroni]

Just to clarify this is for a normal Veeam B&R installation being used in a multi tenant IaaS scenario, so in my head, not sure VAC would be where I would expect to see it.

I was more thinking it would be shown when right clicking on the backup under Backups->Object Storage. The current reported size seems to be based on the total logical size of the full backup files stored in S3, where I want to understand how much actual space is being used.

[Vitaliy S.]

Ok, then it seems like we need to have this reporting in Veeam ONE (for the IaaS scenario).

[obroni]

Vitaliy that sounds more like what I was expecting. Or if this information could be generated via powershell that would probably also be fine for my requirements.

[Shestakov]

Noted for future updates of Veeam ONE. Thanks

[chris.arceneaux]

@obroni As Vitaliy mentioned, I currently have two scripts for reporting Capacity Tier usage.

• VBR - Per Jobs usage numbers (what you're looking for)
• VCC - Per Tenant usage numbers

I'll DM you a link to the code shortly so you can test it out.

[obroni]

Thanks @chris.arceneaux . Did you send the scripts? I couldn't see anything when I looked.

[chris.arceneaux]

No problem. Please check your private message again.

[dalbertson]

@chris.arceneaux Why dont you put them in the veeamhub repo?

[obroni]

Thanks.

I've run the script but not convinced the numbers are correct? The 3 jobs that copy to object storage are showing as:
UsedObjectGB : 78246.91
UsedObjectGB : 69476.83
UsedObjectGB : 45113

But total object usage on repository is: 41.7TB

Are these pre-compression or something like that, or am I confusing the numbers?

[chris.arceneaux]

Values are being pulled from Backup Job metadata. Please check the numbers shown in your console (see screenshots) to see how they match up and let us know.

Console view:



Script output:



Here's another POV showing actual usage from the object storage itself:

[obroni]

Ah ok, that might explain it then. That's what originally prompted this thread, that object storage total for each job, seems equal to the logical size of all the compressed full backups, rather than after object deduplication and thus the actual underlying storage being consumed?

[chris.arceneaux]

If that is the case, can you please open a support case on this for visibility? The backup job metadata should have the correct numbers to be used for usage reporting.

Please post the case number as well so I can assist.

[obroni]

Case ref 04057065 raised

[AlexHeylin]

Did this get resolved so the script can report the actual usage of the S3, and if so please will you consider adding the scripts to Github @chris.arceneaux?
Thanks

[obroni]

As far as I can tell this is still an issue

[Vitaliy S.]

There were no changes in how Veeam B&R calculates usage since there were no major releases yet. I've asked our QA team to review this in v11. Once I have more information, I will update the thread.

[Ci2Group]

Was this script added to the veeam hub or is it possible to get it via different means ?

[chris.arceneaux]

The script in question was never released publicly as it used undocumented API calls that are no longer valid using the latest version of our product.

Starting with Veeam Service Provider Console v5, Performance/Capacity/Archive Tier usage is now accessible via:

• Web UI by generating a Quota Usage Report
• RESTful API: GET - /api/v3/organizations/companies/usage

[obroni]

I believe the new Service Provider Console handles scenario #2 which was highlighted near the top of the thread.

Has any progress been made towards scenario #1, calculating usage of a "tenant" in a shared SOBR repository in VB&R, as you would find in a MSP's IaaS platform?

[Vitaliy S.]

Actually, the Service Provider Console resolves the 1st case (reporting tenant usage across a SOBR with multiple tenant jobs), but not yet the 2nd where SOBR is used remotely/on-premises and is not part of the VCC infrastructure.