Duration
Veeam Backup & Replication v12.1 : Configure, Manage and Recover
4 days
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.
Objectives
After completing this course, attendees 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
Target Audience
This course is suitable for anyone responsible for configuring, managing or supporting a Veeam Backup & Replication v12.1 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 through hands-on experience.
Certification
Completion of this course satisfies the prerequisite for taking Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE™) v12 exam.
Day 1
9:00am-10:30am
Data protection strategies
Review of key data protection strategies that ensure the safety of your data.
10:30am-10:45pm Morning Break
10:45pm-12:30pm
Analysis of risks to data
Explore different risk scenarios, what risks do we face daily within our environment?
12:30pm-1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm-3:30pm
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.
3:30pm-3:45pm Afternoon Break
3:45pm-5:00pm
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.
Day 2
9:00am-10:30am
Unstructured data backup
List required components and features available to protect unstructured data.
10:30am-10:45pm Morning Break
10:45pm-12:30pm
Optimizing your backups
Analyze features and settings that allow backup storage optimization, faster backups and data consistency.
12:30pm-1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm-3:30pm
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.
3:30pm-3:45pm Afternoon Break
3:45pm-5:00pm
Replication
Describe use cases, architectures and features of replication jobs and continuous data protection (CDP) policies.
Day 3
9:00am-10:30am
Backup copy jobs
Ensure recoverability and adhere to the 3-2-1 Rule with backup copy jobs.
10:30am-10:45pm Morning Break
10:45pm-12:30pm
Long-term retention
List different mechanisms for data archiving, including grandfather-father-son retention policies.
12:30pm-1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm-3:30pm
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.
3:30pm-3:45pm Afternoon Break
3:45pm-5:00pm
Recovery verification
Create automated tests to ensure recoverability from backups and replicas.
Day 4
9:00am-10:30am
Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager
Describe the use cases for Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager.
10:30am-10:45pm Morning Break
10:45pm-12:30pm
Incident Response Planning
Integrating Veeam Backup and Replication into your incident response plan.
12:30pm-1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm-3:30pm
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.
3:30pm-3:45pm Afternoon Break
3:45pm-5:00pm
Enacting a recovery
Get practice in recovering different recovery types with a variety of data types.
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.