Veeam Backup & Replication v12: Configure, Manage and Recover

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 storage 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 RepositoryTM
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 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.