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Course Overview
The Veeam® Backup & Replication™ v12: Configure, Manage and Recover training course is a three-day technical course focused on teaching IT professionals the skills to configure, manage and support a Veeam Backup & Replication v12 solution. With extensive hands-on labs, the class enables administrators and engineers to effectively protect and manage data in an ever-changing technical and business environment, bringing tangible benefit to business in the digital world.
This course is based on Veeam Backup & Replication v12, part of Veeam Data Platform.
Who Should Attend
This course is suitable for anyone responsible for configuring, managing or supporting a Veeam Backup & Replication v12 environment.
Course Objectives
- 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
1 - What can be protected?
- Review of Veeam Data Platform and introduction to the class scenario.
2 - Secure your backup server
- Describe strategies and tools to secure the Veeam backup server to avoid unauthorized access and data leaks.
3 - Application consistency with secure authentication
- Achieve application-consistent backups of virtual machines while maintaining operating system secure authentication.
4 - Protecting workloads
- Efficiently protect VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines based on well-defined SLAs through the creation of backup jobs.
5 - Deploying agents
- Identify the use of protection groups to automate the installation of Veeam Agents and protecting workloads with agent backup jobs.
6 - Protecting NAS
- List required components and features available to protect NAS solutions.
7 - Optimizing your backups
- Analyze features and settings that allow backup storage optimization, faster backups and data consistency.
8 - Immutability
- Describe backup data protection mechanisms to avoid premature deletion and unwanted modifications.
9 - Linux Hardened Repository
- Identify characteristics and deployment steps of Linux Hardened Repositories to achieve backup data immutability.
10 - Object storge repositories
- Describe use cases, advantages and considerations to implement object storage solutions as Veeam backup repositories.
11 - Backup infrastructure optimization
- List deployment options and additional settings to improve general backup solution performance.
12 - Replication
- Describe use cases, architectures and features of replication jobs and continuous data protection (CDP) policies.
13 - Backup copy jobs
- Ensure recoverability and adhere to the 3-2-1 Rule with backup copy jobs.
14 - Long-term retention
- List different mechanisms for data archiving, including grandfather-father-son retention policies.
15 - Scale-out Backup Repository™
- Describe architecture, placement policies, data tiers and management of Scale-out Backup Repositories (SOBRs).
16 - Move and copy backups with VeeaMover
- Identify use cases for virtual machine and backup migrations with VeeaMover.
17 - Recovery verification
- Create automated tests to ensure recoverability from backups and replicas.
18 - Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager
- Describe the use cases for Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager.
19 - Recovery scenario - Virtual machine failure
- Choose from different methods to recover a virtual machine from the backup.
20 - 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.
21 - Recovery scenario - Agent recovery
- Explore available options to restore data from agent backups.
22 - Recovery scenario - Explorer recovery
- Use Veeam Explorers™ to recover application items directly from image-level backups.
23 - Recovery scenario - Guest file recovery
- Restore guest operating system files directly from image-level backups and from diverse guest file systems.
24 - 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.
25 - Recovery scenario - Instant NAS recovery
- List steps and considerations to instantly recover an entire file share from its backup.