Prerequisites

Students should have fundamental IT experience working with networking, servers, storage, cloud, virtualization and operating systems.

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

Data protection strategies
 - Review of key data protection strategies that ensure the safety of your data.

Analysis of risks to data
 - Explore different risk scenarios, what risks do we face daily within our environment?

What is protected?
 - Review of Veeam Data Platform and introduction to the class scenario.

Security and protection considerations
 - Describe strategies and tools to secure the Veeam backup server to avoid unauthorized access and data leaks.

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.

Unstructured data backup
 - List required components and features available to protect unstructured data.

Optimizing your backups
 - 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.

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.

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.

Incident Response Planning
 - Integrating Veeam Backup and Replication into your incident response plan.

Advanced recovery features
 - Explore some more in-depth recovery features of Veeam Backup and Replication.

Selecting the ideal recovery method
 - 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.

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