We provide virtual course about Veeam Backup & Replication v12: Configure, Manage and Recover. This is a 3-day technical course focused on teaching IT professionals the skills to configure, manage and support a Veeam Backup & Replication v12 solution.
Course description:
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.
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
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.
Recovery scenario - explorer recovery:
• 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
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.
Recovery scenario - instant NAS recovery:
• List steps and considerations to instantly recover an entire file share from its backup
Target audience:
This course is suitable for anyone responsible for configuring, managing or supporting a Veeam Backup & Replication v12 environment.
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.
Language:
• English course material, english speaking instructor
Certification:
Completion of this course satisfies the prerequisite for taking Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE™) v12 exam