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.
Duration: 4 DaysPrerequisites:
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
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.
This course is suitable for anyone responsible for configuring, managing or supporting a Veeam Backup & Replication v12.3 environment.