Prerequisites
- Students should have fundamental IT experience working with networking, servers, storage, cloud, virtualization and operating systems.
- To get the most out of this course, students should be familiar with the core fundamental concepts of Veeam Backup & Replication either through hands-on experience or by taking Veeam Backup & Replication Fundamentals free online training.
Course objectives
After completing this course, attendees should be able to:
- Describe Veeam security concepts
- Given a scenario, configure a backup job and a backup copy job
- Explain network-attached storage (NAS) backups and configuration
- Describe Veeam’s replication capabilities
- Determine appropriate use case for backups, replicas and/or continuous data protection
- Configure backup infrastructure components, including proxy and repository servers
- Given a scenario, evaluate when and how to apply immutability settings
- Given a scenario, recover data from backups
Course outline
What can be protected?
- Review of Veeam Data Platform and introduction to the class scenario
Secure your backup server
- Describe strategies and tools to secure the Veeam backup server to avoid unauthorized access and data leaks
Application consistency with secure authentication
- Achieve application-consistent backups of virtual machines while maintaining operating system secure authentication
Protecting workloads
- Efficiently protect VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines based on well-defined SLAs through the creation of backup jobs
Deploying agents
- Identify the use of protection groups to automate the installation of Veeam Agents and protecting workloads with agent backup jobs
Protecting NAS
- List required components and features available to protect NAS solutions
Optimizing your backups
- Analyze features and settings that allow backup storage optimization, faster backups and data consistency
Immutability
- Describe backup data protection mechanisms to avoid premature deletion and unwanted modifications
Linux Hardened Repository
- Identify characteristics and deployment steps of Linux Hardened Repositories to achieve backup data immutability
Object storge repositories
- Describe use cases, advantages and considerations to implement object storage solutions as Veeam backup repositories
Backup infrastructure optimization
- List deployment options and additional settings to improve general backup solution performance.
Replication
- Describe use cases, architectures and features of replication jobs and continuous data protection (CDP) policies.
Backup copy jobs
- Ensure recoverability and adhere to the 3-2-1 Rule with backup copy jobs.
Long-term retention
- List different mechanisms for data archiving, including grandfather-father-son retention policies
Scale-out Backup Repository™
- Describe architecture, placement policies, data tiers and management of Scale-out Backup Repositories (SOBRs)
Move and copy backups with VeeaMover
- Identify use cases for virtual machine and backup migrations with VeeaMover.Recovery verification
- Create automated tests to ensure recoverability from backups and replicas
Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager
- Describe the use cases for Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager
Recovery scenarios
- Recovery scenario — Virtual machine failure
- Choose from different methods to recover a virtual machine from the backup
- Choose from different methods to recover a virtual machine from the backup
- Recovery scenario — Ransomware attack
- Securely restore a server after a ransomware incident with malware scanning of volumes directly from the backup and as part of the restore process
- Recovery scenario — Agent recovery
- Explore available options to restore data from agent backups.
- Explore available options to restore data from agent backups.
- Recovery scenario — Explorer recovery
- Use Veeam Explorers™ to recover application items directly from image-level backups
- Use Veeam Explorers™ to recover application items directly from image-level backups
- Recovery scenario — Guest file recovery
- Restore guest operating system files directly from image-level backups and from diverse guest file systems
- Restore guest operating system files directly from image-level backups and from diverse guest file systems
- Recovery scenario — Recovery from replica
- Describe virtual machine states available when recovering a virtual machine from its replica and mechanisms to avoid data loss and interdependent services recovery
- Describe virtual machine states available when recovering a virtual machine from its replica and mechanisms to avoid data loss and interdependent services recovery
- Recovery scenario — Instant NAS recovery
- List steps and considerations to instantly recover an entire file share from its backup
Test certification
Completion of this course satisfies the prerequisite for taking Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE™) v12 exam.
This course is provided in association with our learning partners at Global Knowledge