Backup & DR
Veeam v13 — Backup & Replication and Veeam ONE
Master Veeam to protect your virtual and physical machines, guarantee the recoverability of your backups and build a robust recovery strategy. Practical cases on your own architectures.
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- explain the Veeam data protection strategy and its components
- configure the Veeam Software Appliance, backup jobs and backup copy jobs
- protect physical servers with agents and unstructured data (NAS, SMB shares)
- design and operate replication and CDP architectures
- guarantee recoverability through SureBackup and immutable repositories
- implement Veeam security concepts and malware detection
- restore virtual machines, physical servers and application objects
- configure monitoring, alerting and reporting through Veeam ONE
- carry out first-level diagnosis and work with support
Who it's for: backup and disaster recovery administrators, systems engineers, technical support, cloud administrators, security and compliance profiles.
Prerequisites: experience of network, server, storage and virtualisation environments (VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V); familiarity with the basic concepts of Veeam Backup & Replication.
Module 1 — Configure
- Data protection strategies and risk analysis
- Overview of the Veeam platform
- Securing the backup server and preventing unauthorised access
- Protecting VMware and Hyper-V machines according to SLAs
- Deploying agents through protection groups
- Backing up unstructured data
- Backup optimisation and application consistency
- Backup copy jobs and the 3-2-1 rule
- Immutability and hardened Linux repository
Labs
- Console access and user management
- Securing the backup server
- Creating a Scale-Out Backup Repository
- Backing up virtual machines
- Automated agent deployment
- Backing up file shares
- Hardened repository and immutable object storage
Module 2 — Manage
- Optimising the backup infrastructure
- Replication: use cases, architectures and CDP
- Long-term retention and grandfather / father / son policies
- Scale-Out Backup Repository architecture, placement policies and data tiers
- Migrating backups with VeeaMover
- Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager
- Enterprise plug-ins
- Monitoring, alerting and reporting with Veeam ONE
- Veeam sizing tools
Labs
- Backup to a second site and to object storage through PowerShell
- Replication jobs
- Enterprise Manager, decryption and the restore operator role
Module 3 — Restore
- Automated recoverability verification with SureBackup
- Integrating Veeam into the incident response plan
- Advanced restore features
- Choosing the right restore method
- Running a restore by data type
- Malware detection
- Investigation and post-incident process
- Diagnosis and working with support
Labs
- Configuring malware detection
- SureBackup
- Restoring SQL Server and Active Directory application objects
- Guest file restore and disk publishing
- Instant Recovery, full restore and quick rollback
- Bare metal restore of a Windows physical server and Instant VM Recovery on Linux
- Failover and failback from a replica, failover plans
- Restoring file shares
Veeam Recovery Orchestrator available as an add-on on request (+ 1 day).
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