Veeam Backup & Replication v12: Configure, Manage and Recover (VMCE12) – Outline

Detailed 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 storge 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 Repository™
  • 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.