Course Overview:
The Veeam® Backup & Replication™ v12.1: Configure, Manage and Recover training course is a four-day technical course focused on teaching IT professionals the skills to configure, manage and support a Veeam Backup & Replication v12.1 solution. With extensive hands-on labs, the class promotes situational resiliency in responding to recovery scenarios and 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 v12.1, part of Veeam Data Platform.
Course Description:
Audience profile
This course is suitable for anyone responsible for configuring, managing or supporting a Veeam Backup & Replication v12.1 environment.
At course completion
After completing this course, students will 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
Data protection strategies
- Review of key data protection strategies that ensure the safety of your data.
Risk scenarios
- Explore different risk scenarios, what risks do we face daily within our environment?
Core components
- Review of Veeam Backup & Replication components required in most deployments, their purpose and key system requirements.
Initial security considerations
- Describe strategies and tools to secure the Veeam backup server to avoid unauthorized access and data leaks.
Virtual machine backup
- Efficiently protect VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines based on well-defined SLAs through the creation of backup jobs.
Unstructured data backup
- List required components and features available to protect unstructured data.
Backup data optimizations
- Analyze features and settings that allow backup storage optimization, faster backups and data consistency.
Immutability and hardened repositories
- Describe backup data protection mechanisms to avoid premature deletion and unwanted modifications. Identify characteristics and deployment steps of Linux Hardened Repositories to achieve backup data immutability.
Object storage
- Review why backing up to object storage, which object storage solutions are supported and considerations when using this type of repositories.
Transport modes
- Analyze different ways data can be read from the production environment and their benefits and considerations.
Backup copies
- Ensure recoverability and adhere to the 3-2-1 Rule with backup copy jobs.
Scale-out Backup Repository™
- Describe architecture, placement policies, data tiers and management of Scale-out Backup Repositories.
Backup copy jobs
- Ensure recoverability and adhere to the 3-2-1 Rule with backup copy jobs.
Moving or copying backups
- Identify use cases for workload and backup migrations with VeeaMover.
Replication
- Describe use cases, architectures and features of replication jobs and continuous data protection (CDP) policies.
Move and copy backups with VeeaMover
- Identify use cases for virtual machine and backup migrations with VeeaMover.
Verifying recoverability
- Create automated tests to ensure recoverability from backups and replicas.
Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager
- Describe the use cases for Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager.
Incident Response Planning
- Integrating Veeam Backup and Replication into your incident response plan.
Recovery scenarios and features
- What are the implications of different recovery methods and selecting the correct recovery method.
Enacting a recovery
- Get practice in recovering different recovery types with a variety of data types.
Veeam Data Platform
- Identify and explain the purpose of each core product within the Veeam Data Platform and articulate potential use cases for them.