Veeam

Course Description:

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

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.

Course program:

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.

Course Description:

The three-day, Veeam® Backup & Replication™ v12.1: Architecture and Design training course is focused on teaching IT professionals how to effectively architect a Veeam solution through attaining technical excellence following the Veeam Architecture Methodology used by Veeam’s own Solution Architects. During the three days, attendees will explore the goals of requirement gathering and infrastructure assessment and use that information to design Veeam solutions within team exercises. Attendees will analyze considerations when turning logical designs into physical designs and describe the obligations to the implementation team that will implement that design. Other topics covered will include security, governance and validation impacts when architecting a Veeam solution and how to build these into the overall design.
Attendees should expect to contribute to team exercises, present designs and defend decision making.

Objectives

After completing this course attendees should be able to:
• Design and architect a Veeam solution in a real-world environment
• Describe best practices, review an existing infrastructure and assess business/project requirements
• Identify relevant infrastructure metrics and perform component (storage, CPU, memory) quantity sizing
• Provide implementation and testing guidelines in line with designs
• Innovatively address design challenges and pain points, matching appropriate Veeam Backup & Replication features with requirements

Prerequisites

Ideally VMCE certified, attendees should have extensive commercial experience with Veeam and a broad sphere of technical knowledge of servers, storage, networks, virtualization and cloud environments.

Audience

Senior Engineers and Architects responsible for creating architectures for Veeam environments.

Certification

Completion of this course satisfies the prerequisite for taking the Veeam Certified Architect (VMCA) exam, the highest level of Veeam certification. VMCA certification proves knowledge of architecture and design concepts, highlighting the level of skill required to efficiently architect a Veeam solution in a range of
real-world environments.

Course Contents

Review the architecture principles

Explore what a successful architecture looks like
Review Veeam’s architecture methodology
Discovery
Analyze the existing environment
Uncover relevant infrastructure metrics
Uncover assumptions and risks
Identify complexity in the environment

Conceptual design

Review scenario and data from discovery phase
Identify logical groups of objects that will share resources based on requirements
Create a set of detailed tables of business and technical requirements, constraints, assumptions and risks
Review infrastructure data with each product component in mind
Create high level design and data flow

Logical design

Match critical components and features of VBR with requirements
Create logical groupings
Determine location of components and relationship to logical grouping
Aggregate totals of component resources needed per logical grouping
Calculate component (storage, CPU, memory) quantity sizing

Physical design

Convert the logical design into a physical design
Physical hardware sizing
Create a list of physical Veeam backup components

Implementation and Governance

Review physical design and implantation plan
Review Veeam deployment hardening
Describe the architect’s obligations to the implementation team
Provide guidance on implementation specifics that relate to the design

Validation and Iteration

Provide framework for how to test the design
Further develop the design according to a modification scenario