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Veeam Backup & Replication v12.3: Configure, Manage, and Recover (VMCE-12.3)

The Veeam® Backup & Replication™ v12.3: 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 v12.3 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 v12.3, part of Veeam Data Platform.

Completion of this course satisfies the prerequisite for taking Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE™) v12 exam.

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Duration: 4 Days
About the course

Prerequisites:

The knowledge and skills that the learner should have before attending this course are as follows:

  • 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.

Course Objectives:

Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:

  • 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 content

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.

Malware Detection

  • Using Veeam's malware detection capabilities.

Post-incident processes

  • Investigate post-incident activities.
Who Should Attend

This course is suitable for anyone responsible for configuring, managing or supporting a Veeam Backup & Replication v12.3 environment.