Module 1: Data Protection Strategies

• Review of key data protection strategies that ensure the safety of your data

Module 2: Analysis of Risks to Data

• Explore different risk scenarios, what risks do we face daily within our environment?

Module 3: What is Protected?

• Review of Veeam Data Platform and introduction to the class scenario

Module 4: Security and Protection Considerations

• Describe strategies and tools to secure the Veeam backup server to avoid unauthorized access and data leaks

Module 5: Protecting Workloads

• Efficiently protect VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines based on well-defined SLAs through the creation of backup jobs

Module 6: Deploying Agents

• Identify the use of protection groups to automate the installation of Veeam Agents and protecting workloads with agent backup jobs

Module 7: Unstructured Data Backup

• List required components and features available to protect unstructured data

Module 8: Optimizing Your Backups

• Analyze features and settings that allow backup storage optimization, faster backups, and data consistency

Module 9: 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

Module 10: Backup Infrastructure Optimization

• List deployment options and additional settings to improve general backup solution performance

Module 11: Replication

• Describe use cases, architectures and features of replication jobs and continuous data protection (CDP) policies

Module 12: Backup Copy Jobs

• Ensure recoverability and adhere to the 3-2-1 Rule with backup copy jobs

Module 13: Long-term Retention

• List different mechanisms for data archiving, including grandfather-father-son retention policies

Module 14: Scale-out Backup Repository™

• Describe architecture, placement policies, data tiers, and management of scale-out backup repositories

Module 15: Move and Copy Backups with VeeaMover

• Identify use cases for virtual machine and backup migrations with VeeaMover

Module 16: Recovery Verification

• Create automated tests to ensure recoverability from backups and replicas

Module 17: Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager

• Describe the use cases for Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager

Module 18: Incident Response Planning

• Integrating Veeam Backup and Replication into your incident response plan

Module 19: Advanced Recovery Features

• Explore some more in-depth recovery features of Veeam Backup and Replication

Module 20: Selecting the Ideal Recovery Method

• What are the implications of different recovery methods and selecting the correct recovery method?

Module 21: Enacting a Recovery

• Get practice in recovering different recovery types with a variety of data types

Module 22: Malware Detection

• Using Veeam’s malware detection capabilities

odule 23: Post-incident Processes

• Investigate post-incident activities

Lab 1: Secure Veeam Backup Server

• Lab 1.1: Secure the Veeam backup server

Lab 2: Protect Virtual Machines

• Lab 2.1: Add the virtual infrastructure to the Veeam Backup & Replication inventory
• Lab 2.2: Protect virtual workloads

Lab 3: Veeam Agent Backup Capabilities

• Lab 3.1: Automate deployment of Veeam Agents
• Lab 3.2: Protect physical workloads

Lab 4: Unstructured Data Backup Capabilities

• Lab 4.1: Prepare Veeam infrastructure for file share backups
• Lab 4.2: Protect file share workloads

Lab 5: Backup Infrastructure Optimization

• Lab 5.1: Deploy a dedicated VMware backup proxy
• Lab 5.2: Deploy a Veeam Hardened Repository
• Lab 5.3: Deploy immutable object storage

Lab 6: Second Site Backup and Backup Management

• Lab 6.1: Create a backup copy job
• Lab 6.2: Create a Scale-out Backup Repository (SOBR)
• Lab 6.3: Create a dynamic backup job
• Lab 6.4: Migrate virtual machine backups to another job

Lab 7: Building Replication Capabilities

• Lab 7.1: Prepare Veeam infrastructure for virtual machine replication
• Lab 7.2: Working with replication jobs
• Lab 7.3: Working with CDP policies

Lab 8: Testing Virtual Machine Backups

• Lab 8.1: Create a SureBackup job to verify backups
• Lab 8.2: Create a SureBackup job to verify replicas

Lab 9: Working with Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager

• Lab 9.1: Connect the backup server with Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager
• Lab 9.2: Decrypt an imported encrypted file
• Lab 9.3: Create a restore operator user

Lab 10: Application Items Recovery

• Lab 10.1: Perform a Microsoft SQL Server instant database recovery
• Lab 10.2: Restore an Active Directory user

Lab 11: Recovering a Guest OS File

• Lab 11.1: Restore a guest operating system file
• Lab 11.2: Restore a guest operating system file with disk publishing

Lab 12: Full Virtual Machines Recovery

• Lab 12.1: Recover a virtual machine with Instant Recovery
• Lab 12.2: Recover a virtual machine with full VM recovery and quick rollback

Lab 13: Restore a Physical Machine from an Agent backup

• Lab 13.1: Perform a bare metal recovery of a Windows physical machine from an Agent backup
• Lab 13.2: Perform an instant VM recovery of a Linux physical machine from an Agent backup

Lab 14: Restore from a Replica

• Lab 14.1: Disaster failover to a VMware vSphere® replica and failback to production
• Lab 14.2: Working with replica failover plans
• Lab 14.3: Planned failover to a Microsoft Hyper-V replica

Lab 15: Restore from a File Share Backup

• Lab 15.1: Recover a file share folder from backup
• Lab 15.2: Recover an entire file share with instant file share recovery